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
Pushover (1954)
as Paul Sheridan
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
The Movie Orgy (1968)
as Self (archive footage)
Quantez (1957)
as Gentry
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
as Ned Brainard
Family Honeymoon (1948)
as Grant Jordan
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as Self (archive footage)
The Far Horizons (1955)
as Cpt. Meriwether Lewis
Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
as Lemuel Siddons
Charley and the Angel (1973)
as Charley Appleby
Anthony Quinn: An Original (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
The Forest Rangers (1942)
as Don Stuart
The Swarm (1978)
as Maj. Clarance Tuttle
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
as Anthony Biddle
Invitation to Happiness (1939)
as Albert 'King' Cole
Pardon My Past (1945)
as Eddie York / Francis Pemberton
On Our Merry Way (1948)
as Al
Joys (1976)
as Self
Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)
as Self
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
as Wilson Daniels
Son of Flubber (1963)
as Ned Brainard
Good Day for a Hanging (1959)
as Marshal Ben Cutler
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
as Frank
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
as Clifford Groves
Girls Gone Wild (1929)
as Extra (uncredited)
And the Angels Sing (1944)
as Happy Morgan
The Oregon Trail (1959)
as Neal Harris
An Innocent Affair (1948)
as Vincent Doane
No Time for Love (1943)
as Jim Ryan
Dive Bomber (1941)
as Joe Blake
Woman's World (1954)
as Sid Burns
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (1988)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Borderline (1950)
as Johnny Macklin
Face of a Fugitive (1959)
as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
The Gilded Lily (1935)
as Peter Dawes
Remember the Night (1940)
as Jack Sargent
Bon Voyage! (1962)
as Harry Willard
Alice Adams (1935)
as Arthur Russell
Father Was a Fullback (1949)
as George Cooper
The Egg and I (1947)
as Bob MacDonald
Above Suspicion (1943)
as Richard Myles
Fair Wind to Java (1953)
as Captain Boll
Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
as Bill Morgan
Singapore (1947)
as Matt Gordon
Day of the Badman (1958)
as Judge Jim Scott
This Is Bob Hope... (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Gun for a Coward (1956)
as Will Keough
True Confession (1937)
as Kenneth Bartlett
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
Little Old New York (1940)
as Charles Brownne
The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
as William 'Bill' Dunnigan
Hands Across the Table (1935)
as Theodore Drew III
A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954)
as Self
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
as Jack Hale
Too Many Husbands (1940)
as Bill Cardew
Murder, He Says (1945)
as Pete Marshall
Flight for Freedom (1943)
as Randy Britton
Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
as Skid Johnson
The Lady Is Willing (1942)
as Corey McBain
Maid of Salem (1937)
as Roger Coverman
One Night In Lisbon (1941)
as Dwight Houston
Inside 'the Swarm' (1978)
as Self
Disneyland '59 (1959)
as Self
The Princess Comes Across (1936)
as King Mantell
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
as Thomas "Tom" Ransome
The Shaggy Dog Kids (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Men with Wings (1938)
as Pat Falconer
Inside 'The Apartment' (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Show-Business at War (1943)
as Self
13 Hours by Air (1936)
as Jack Gordon
Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
as Mike Frye
Kisses for My President (1964)
as Thad McCloud
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney (1978)
as Self
At Gunpoint (1955)
as Jack Wright
The Moonlighter (1953)
as Wes Anderson
Practically Yours (1944)
as Daniel Bellamy
Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
as Bill Burnett
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door (1996)
as Self (archive footage)
Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
as Tom Verney
Captain Eddie (1945)
as Eddie Rickenbacker
Sing, You Sinners (1938)
as David Beebe
Grand Old Girl (1935)
as Sandy
New York Town (1941)
as Victor Ballard
Exclusive (1937)
as Ralph Houston
The Texas Rangers (1936)
as Jim Hawkins
Men Without Names (1935)
as Agent Dick Grant, alias Richard Hood
Cocoanut Grove (1938)
as Johnny Prentice
Standing Room Only (1944)
as Lee Stevens
Car 99 (1935)
as Trooper Ross Martin
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle (1975)
as Harry Ballinger
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood (1986)
as Self (uncredited)
Never a Dull Moment (1950)
as Chris Hayward
Rangers of Fortune (1940)
as Gil Farra
Champagne Waltz (1937)
as Buzzy Bellew
The Chadwick Family (1974)
as Ned Chadwick
Cafe Society (1939)
as Crick O'Bannon
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) (1936)
as Self
Smoky (1946)
as Clint Barkley
Suddenly It's Spring (1947)
as Peter Morely
Gala Day at Disneyland (1960)
as Self
Fred MacMurray: With Fondness (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
as Peter Ulysses Lockwood
The Bride Comes Home (1935)
as Cyrus Anderson
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith (1943)
as Narrator Prolog (uncredited)
Tiger Rose (1929)
as Rancher
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 (1941)
as Self (uncredited)
Virginia (1941)
as Stonewall Elliott
A Thanksgiving Reunion with the Partridge Family and My Three Sons (1977)
Actor
Atomic Energy Can Be A Blessing (1952)
as Self - Presenter