George Murphy
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George Murphy was an American dancer and stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a United States Senator. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first notable U.S. actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is the only United States Senator represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In movies, Murphy was known as a song-and-dance man and appeared in many big-budget musicals such as Broadway Melody of 1938, Broadway Melody of 1940 and For Me and My Gal. He made his movie debut shortly after talking pictures had replaced silent movies in 1930, and his career continued until he retired as an actor in 1952, at the age of 50. During World War II, he organized entertainment for American troops. In 1951, he was awarded an honorary Academy Award. He was never nominated for an Oscar in any competitive category. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946. He was also a vice president of Desilu Productions and of the Technicolor Corporation. He was director of entertainment for presidential inaugurations in 1953, 1957 and 1961.
Known for
Credits
Show Business (1944)
as George Doane
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ringside Maisie (1941)
as Francis X. 'Skeets' / 'Skeeter' Maguire
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
as Cavalryman (uncredited)
Woman Trap (1936)
as Keat Shevlin
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage)
Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)
Battleground (1949)
as 'Pop' Stazak
This Is the Army (1943)
as Jerry Jones
That's Dancing! (1985)
as From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
Letter of Introduction (1938)
as Barry Paige
Step Lively (1944)
as Gordon Miller
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
as Sonny Ledford
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
as King Shaw
Frank Capra's American Dream (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)
as Tom
It's a Big Country (1951)
as Mr. Patrick Callaghan
London by Night (1937)
as Michael Denis
Bataan (1943)
as Lt. Steve Bentley
The Hoaxters (1952)
as Narrator (voice)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
as Roger Wendling
The Navy Comes Through (1942)
as Lt. Thomas L. 'Tom' Sands
Kid Millions (1934)
as Jerry Lane
Risky Business (1939)
as Dan Clifford
For Me and My Gal (1942)
as Jimmy K. Metcalf
Show-Business at War (1943)
as Self
Broadway Rhythm (1944)
as Johnny Demming
The Powers Girl (1943)
as Jerry Hendricks
No Questions Asked (1951)
as Police Insp. Matt Duggan
Two Girls on Broadway (1940)
as Eddie Kerns
Talk About a Stranger (1952)
as Robert Fontaine Sr.
Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
as Steve Abbutt
Rise and Shine (1941)
as Jimmy McGonagle
Walk East on Beacon (1952)
as Inspector James 'Jim' Belden
I'll Love You Always (1935)
as Carl Brent
The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
as Joe Jonathan
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
as Claudius "Coffee Cup" Cup
The Arnelo Affair (1947)
as Theodore 'Ted' Parkson
Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
as Alan Blake
Hollywood Hobbies (1939)
as Self (uncredited)
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (1940)
as Self
Up Goes Maisie (1946)
as Joseph Morton
Border Incident (1949)
as Jack Bearnes
The Women Men Marry (1937)
as Bill Raeburn
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) (1936)
as Self
Big City (1948)
as Patrick O'Donnell
Hold That Co-ed (1938)
as Rusty Stevens
The Public Menace (1935)
as Edward Joseph "Red" Foster
Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
as Jerry Kelly
Top of the Town (1937)
as Ted Lane
Violets in Spring (1936)
as Charlie Hall
After the Dance (1935)
as Jerry Davis
You're a Sweetheart (1937)
as Hal Adams
Cynthia (1947)
as Larry Bishop
Having Wonderful Crime (1945)
as Jake Justus
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine (2003)
Actor
Jealousy (1934)
as Larry O'Roarke
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga (1939)
as Himself (uncredited)
1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (1955)
Actor