Fred MacMurray
Born: 1908-08-30 in Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Died: 1991-11-05
Known For: Acting
Biography
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. MacMurray 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. Fred 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), Fred and fellow GI William Demarest are moving to Beaver Dam, WI to start a mink farm.
Filmography
2017
- This Is Bob Hope... as Self (archive footage)
2008
- Inside 'The Apartment' as Self (archive footage)
2006
- Fred MacMurray: With Fondness as Self (archive footage)
- The Shaggy Dog Kids as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Los Angeles Plays Itself as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity (archive footage)
1996
- Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self (archive footage)
1990
- Anthony Quinn: An Original as Self (archive footage)
1988
- Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC as Self (archive footage)
1986
1982
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
1978
- The Swarm as Maj. Clarance Tuttle
- NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney as Self
- Inside 'the Swarm' as Self
1976
- Joys as Self
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy as Self (archive footage)
1975
- People's Choice Awards as Self - Presenter
- Beyond the Bermuda Triangle as Harry Ballinger
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- Tony Orlando and Dawn as Self
- The Chadwick Family as Ned Chadwick
1973
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- Charley and the Angel as Charley Appleby
1968
- The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
1967
- The Happiest Millionaire as Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
1966
- Follow Me, Boys! as Lemuel Siddons
1964
- The Hollywood Palace as Self - Host
- Kisses for My President as Thad McCloud
1963
- Son of Flubber as Ned Brainard
1962
- Bon Voyage! as Harry Willard
1961
- The Absent-Minded Professor as Ned Brainard
1960
- My Three Sons as Steve Douglas
- The Apartment as Jeff D. Sheldrake
- Gala Day at Disneyland as Self
1959
- The Shaggy Dog as Wilson Daniels
- Disneyland '59 as Self
- Face of a Fugitive as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
- Good Day for a Hanging as Marshal Ben Cutler
- The Oregon Trail as Neal Harris
1958
- Day of the Badman as Judge Jim Scott
1957
- The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour as Fred MacMurray
- Quantez as Gentry
1956
- The Steve Allen Show as Self
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- Gun for a Coward as Will Keough
- There's Always Tomorrow as Clifford Groves
1955
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Peterson
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Peter Terrance
- The Far Horizons as Cpt. Meriwether Lewis
- At Gunpoint as Jack Wright
- The Rains of Ranchipur as Thomas "Tom" Ransome
1954
- December Bride
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Professor Ned Brainerd (archive footage)
- The George Gobel Show as Self
- The Caine Mutiny as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
- Pushover as Paul Sheridan
- A Star Is Born World Premiere as Self
- Woman's World as Sid Burns
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- General Electric Theater as Richard Elgin
- The Moonlighter as Wes Anderson
- Fair Wind to Java as Captain Boll
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
- Atomic Energy Can Be A Blessing as Self - Presenter
1951
- A Millionaire for Christy as Peter Ulysses Lockwood
- Callaway Went Thataway as Mike Frye
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Self
- Borderline as Johnny McEvoy, aka Johnny Macklin
- Never a Dull Moment as Chris Hayward
1949
- Father Was a Fullback as George Cooper
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- On Our Merry Way as Al
- The Miracle of the Bells as William 'Bill' Dunnigan
- Family Honeymoon as Grant Jordan
- An Innocent Affair as Vincent Doane
1947
- The Egg and I as Bob MacDonald
- Suddenly It's Spring as Peter Morely
- Singapore as Matt Gordon
1946
- Smoky as Clint Barkley
1945
- Where Do We Go from Here? as Bill Morgan
- Murder, He Says as Pete Marshall
- Captain Eddie as Eddie Rickenbacker
- Pardon My Past as Eddie York / Francis Pemberton
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- Double Indemnity as Walter Neff
- And the Angels Sing as Happy Morgan
- Standing Room Only as Lee Stevens
- Practically Yours as Daniel Bellamy
1943
- Above Suspicion as Richard Myles
- No Time for Love as Jim Ryan
- Show-Business at War as Self
- Flight for Freedom as Randy Britton
- The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith as Narrator Prolog (uncredited)
1942
- Star Spangled Rhythm as Frank
- Breakdowns of 1942 as Self
- The Lady Is Willing as Corey McBain
- Take a Letter, Darling as Tom Verney
- The Forest Rangers as Don Stuart
1941
- One Night In Lisbon as Dwight Houston
- Dive Bomber as Joe Blake
- New York Town as Victor Ballard
- Virginia as Stonewall Elliott
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 as Self (uncredited)
1940
- Remember the Night as Jack Sargent
- Little Old New York as Charles Brownne
- Too Many Husbands as Bill Cardew
- Rangers of Fortune as Gil Farra
1939
- Cafe Society as Crick O'Bannon
- Honeymoon in Bali as Bill Burnett
- Invitation to Happiness as Albert 'King' Cole
1938
- Cocoanut Grove as Johnny Prentice
- Men with Wings as Pat Falconer
- Sing, You Sinners as David Beebe
1937
- True Confession as Kenneth Bartlett
- Exclusive as Ralph Houston
- Maid of Salem as Roger Coverman
- Champagne Waltz as Buzzy Bellew
- Swing High, Swing Low as Skid Johnson
1936
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine as Jack Hale
- The Texas Rangers as Jim Hawkins
- Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
- The Princess Comes Across as King Mantell
- 13 Hours by Air as Jack Gordon
1935
- The Gilded Lily as Peter Dawes
- Alice Adams as Arthur Russell
- Hands Across the Table as Theodore Drew III
- The Bride Comes Home as Cyrus Anderson
- Men Without Names as Agent Dick Grant, alias Richard Hood
- Grand Old Girl as Sandy
- Car 99 as Trooper Ross Martin
1929
- Tiger Rose as Rancher
- Girls Gone Wild as Extra (uncredited)