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
- NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney as Self
- The Swarm as Maj. Clarance Tuttle
- Inside 'the Swarm' as Self
1976
- Joys as Self
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
- Good Day for a Hanging as Marshal Ben Cutler
- Face of a Fugitive as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
- The Oregon Trail as Neal Harris
- Disneyland '59 as Self
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
- It's a Most Unusual Day as Peter Terrance
1955
- The 20th Century Fox Hour as Peterson
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Peter Terrance
- The Far Horizons as Cpt. Meriwether Lewis
- The Rains of Ranchipur as Thomas "Tom" Ransome
- At Gunpoint as Jack Wright
1954
- December Bride
- Pushover as Paul Sheridan
- The George Gobel Show as Self
- The Caine Mutiny as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
- A Star Is Born World Premiere as Self
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Professor Ned Brainerd (archive footage)
- Woman's World as Sid Burns
1953
- Fair Wind to Java as Captain Boll
- The Oscars as Self
- The Moonlighter as Wes Anderson
- General Electric Theater as Richard Elgin
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
- Atomic Energy Can Be A Blessing as Self - Presenter
1951
- Callaway Went Thataway as Mike Frye
- A Millionaire for Christy as Peter Ulysses Lockwood
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour 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
- Family Honeymoon as Grant Jordan
- On Our Merry Way as Al
- The Miracle of the Bells as William 'Bill' Dunnigan
- An Innocent Affair as Vincent Doane
1947
- Singapore as Matt Gordon
- The Egg and I as Bob MacDonald
- Suddenly It's Spring as Peter Morely
1946
- Smoky as Clint Barkley
1945
- Murder, He Says as Pete Marshall
- Captain Eddie as Eddie Rickenbacker
- Where Do We Go from Here? as Bill Morgan
- Pardon My Past as Eddie York / Francis Pemberton
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- Double Indemnity as Walter Neff
- Practically Yours as Daniel Bellamy
- And the Angels Sing as Happy Morgan
- Standing Room Only as Lee Stevens
1943
- No Time for Love as Jim Ryan
- Flight for Freedom as Randy Britton
- The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith as Narrator Prolog (uncredited)
- Above Suspicion as Richard Myles
- Show-Business at War as Self
1942
- The Lady Is Willing as Corey McBain
- Breakdowns of 1942 as Self
- Take a Letter, Darling as Tom Verney
- The Forest Rangers as Don Stuart
- Star Spangled Rhythm as Frank
1941
- Dive Bomber as Joe Blake
- New York Town as Victor Ballard
- One Night In Lisbon as Dwight Houston
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 as Himself
- Virginia as Stonewall Elliott
1940
- Too Many Husbands as Bill Cardew
- Rangers of Fortune as Gil Farra
- Little Old New York as Charles Brownne
- Remember the Night as Jack Sargent
1939
- Honeymoon in Bali as Bill Burnett
- Invitation to Happiness as Albert 'King' Cole
- Cafe Society as Crick O'Bannon
1938
- Men with Wings as Pat Falconer
- Sing, You Sinners as David Beebe
- Cocoanut Grove as Johnny Prentice
1937
- Exclusive as Ralph Houston
- True Confession as Kenneth Bartlett
- Swing High, Swing Low as Skid Johnson
- Maid of Salem as Roger Coverman
- Champagne Waltz as Buzzy Bellew
1936
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine as Jack Hale
- The Princess Comes Across as King Mantell
- 13 Hours by Air as Jack Gordon
- Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
- The Texas Rangers as Jim Hawkins
1935
- Alice Adams as Arthur Russell
- Car 99 as Trooper Ross Martin
- Men Without Names as Agent Dick Grant, alias Richard Hood
- The Gilded Lily as Peter Dawes
- The Bride Comes Home as Cyrus Anderson
- Hands Across the Table as Theodore Drew III
- Grand Old Girl as Sandy
1929
- Tiger Rose as Rancher