Fred MacMurray
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Fredrick Martin 'Fred' MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor and musician. He was educated at Carroll College, Wisconsin, and played with a Chicago orchestra for more than a year. Then he joined an orchestra in Hollywood where he played, did some recording and played extra roles. He then joined a comedy stage band, California Collegians, and went to New York. There he joined "Three's A Crowd" revue on Broadway and on the road. After this show closed, he returned to California and worked in vaudeville. He played the vaudeville circuits and night clubs until cast for major role in "Roberta". Signed by Paramount in 1935. He was raised in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin from the age of 5, eventually graduating from Beaver Dam High School (currently the site of Beaver Dam Middle School), where he was a 3-sport star in football, baseball, and basketball. He retained a special place in his heart for his small-town Wisconsin upbringing, referring at any opportunity in magazine articles or interviews to the lifelong friends and cherished memories of Beaver Dam, even including mementos of his childhood in several of his films. In 'Pardon my Past' (1945), he and fellow GI William Demarest are moving to Beaver Dam, WI to start a mink farm.
Known for
Credits
The Apartment (1960)
as Jeff D. Sheldrake
Double Indemnity (1944)
as Walter Neff
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
as Ned Brainard
The Swarm (1978)
as Clarence
The Movie Orgy (1968)
as Self (archive footage)
Pushover (1954)
as Paul Sheridan
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
as Clifford Groves
Remember the Night (1940)
as Jack Sargent
Gun for a Coward (1956)
as Will Keough
The Far Horizons (1955)
as Cpt. Meriwether Lewis
On Our Merry Way (1948)
as Al
The Egg and I (1947)
as Bob MacDonald
Day of the Badman (1958)
as Judge Jim Scott
Charley and the Angel (1973)
as Charley Appleby
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as (archive footage)
Son of Flubber (1963)
as Ned Brainard
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
as Jack Hale
Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
as Lemuel Siddons
The Princess Comes Across (1936)
as King Mantell
Good Day for a Hanging (1959)
as Marshal Ben Cutler
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (1988)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Face of a Fugitive (1959)
as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
as William 'Bill' Dunnigan
Little Old New York (1940)
as Charles Brownne
Dive Bomber (1941)
as Joe Blake
Family Honeymoon (1948)
as Grant Jordan
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney (1978)
as Self
No Time for Love (1943)
as Jim Ryan
Fair Wind to Java (1953)
as Captain Boll
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
as Anthony Biddle
The Lady Is Willing (1942)
as Corey McBain
Bon Voyage! (1962)
as Harry Willard
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1985)
as (archive footage)
Hands Across the Table (1935)
as Theodore Drew III
Anthony Quinn: An Original (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
The Gilded Lily (1935)
as Peter Dawes
This Is Bob Hope... (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
as Wilson Daniels
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
as Thomas "Tom" Ransome
Show-Business at War (1943)
as Self
The Bride Comes Home (1935)
as Cyrus Anderson
And the Angels Sing (1944)
as Happy Morgan
Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)
as Self
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood (1986)
as Self (uncredited)
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
Kisses for My President (1964)
as Thad McCloud
Joys (1976)
as Self
Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
as Skid Johnson
Quantez (1957)
as Gentry
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle (1975)
as Harry Ballinger
Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
as Tom Verney
Father Was a Fullback (1949)
as George Cooper
Above Suspicion (1943)
as Richard Myles
Invitation to Happiness (1939)
as Albert 'King' Cole
Woman's World (1954)
as Sid Burns
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) (1936)
as Self
Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
as Mike Frye
The Texas Rangers (1936)
as Jim Hawkins
A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954)
as Self
Never a Dull Moment (1950)
as Chris Hayward
The Oregon Trail (1959)
as Neal Harris
A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
as Peter Ulysses Lockwood
Suddenly It's Spring (1947)
as Peter Morely
Too Many Husbands (1940)
as Bill Cardew
The Shaggy Dog Kids (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Borderline (1950)
as Johnny Macklin
Exclusive (1937)
as Ralph Houston
An Innocent Affair (1948)
as Vincent Doane
13 Hours by Air (1936)
as Jack Gordon
One Night In Lisbon (1941)
as Dwight Houston
At Gunpoint (1955)
as Jack Wright
Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
as Bill Morgan
The Forest Rangers (1942)
as Don Stuart
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
as Frank
Inside 'the Swarm' (1978)
as Self
Pardon My Past (1945)
as Eddie York / Francis Pemberton
The Moonlighter (1953)
as Wes Anderson
Fred MacMurray: With Fondness (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
True Confession (1937)
as Kenneth Bartlett
Practically Yours (1944)
as Daniel Bellamy
Disneyland '59 (1959)
as Self
Alice Adams (1935)
as Arthur Russell
Gala Day at Disneyland (1960)
as Self
Cocoanut Grove (1938)
as Johnny Prentice
Flight for Freedom (1943)
as Randy Britton
New York Town (1941)
as Victor Ballard
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith (1943)
as Narrator Prolog (uncredited)
Singapore (1947)
as Matt Gordon
Men with Wings (1938)
as Pat Falconer
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 (1941)
as Self (uncredited)
A Thanksgiving Reunion with the Partridge Family and My Three Sons (1977)
Actor
Maid of Salem (1937)
as Roger Coverman
Murder, He Says (1945)
as Pete Marshall
Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
as Bill Burnett
The Chadwick Family (1974)
as Ned Chadwick
Champagne Waltz (1937)
as Buzzy Bellew
Captain Eddie (1945)
as Eddie Rickenbacker
Standing Room Only (1944)
as Lee Stevens
Grand Old Girl (1935)
as Sandy
Tiger Rose (1929)
as Rancher
Sing, You Sinners (1938)
as David Beebe
Rangers of Fortune (1940)
as Gil Farra
Smoky (1946)
as Clint Barkley
Men Without Names (1935)
as Agent Dick Grant, alias Richard Hood
Inside 'The Apartment' (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Girls Gone Wild (1929)
as Extra (uncredited)
Virginia (1941)
as Stonewall Elliott
Cafe Society (1939)
as Crick O'Bannon
Car 99 (1935)
as Trooper Ross Martin
Atomic Energy Can Be A Blessing (1952)
as Self - Presenter