Fred MacMurray
Born: 1908-08-30 in Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Died: 1991-11-05
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2017
- This Is Bob Hope... as Self (archive footage)
2008
- Inside 'The Apartment' as Self (archive footage)
2006
- The Shaggy Dog Kids as Self (archive footage)
- Fred MacMurray: With Fondness as Self (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) (uncredited)
1986
- All Star Party for Clint Eastwood as Self (uncredited)
1982
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
1978
- The Swarm as Maj. Clarance Tuttle
- Inside 'the Swarm' as Self
- NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney 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 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
- Face of a Fugitive as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
- Disneyland '59 as Self
- The Oregon Trail as Neal Harris
- Good Day for a Hanging as Marshal Ben Cutler
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
- There's Always Tomorrow as Clifford Groves
- Gun for a Coward as Will Keough
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
- Fair Wind to Java as Captain Boll
- The Moonlighter as Wes Anderson
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
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Jack Benny Program as Fred MacMurray
- The Colgate Comedy Hour 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
- Family Honeymoon as Grant Jordan
- The Miracle of the Bells as William 'Bill' Dunnigan
- An Innocent Affair as Vincent Doane
1947
- The Egg and I as Bob MacDonald
- Singapore as Matt Gordon
- Suddenly It's Spring as Peter Morely
1946
- Smoky as Clint Barkley
1945
- Captain Eddie as Eddie Rickenbacker
- Murder, He Says as Pete Marshall
- Pardon My Past as Eddie York / Francis Pemberton
- Where Do We Go from Here? as Bill Morgan
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
- Above Suspicion as Richard Myles
- Flight for Freedom as Randy Britton
- Show-Business at War as Self
- The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith as Narrator Prolog (uncredited)
1942
- Breakdowns of 1942 as Self
- The Forest Rangers as Don Stuart
- The Lady Is Willing as Corey McBain
- Star Spangled Rhythm as Frank
- Take a Letter, Darling as Tom Verney
1941
- Dive Bomber as Joe Blake
- New York Town as Victor Ballard
- Virginia as Stonewall Elliott
- One Night In Lisbon as Dwight Houston
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1 as Self (uncredited)
1940
- Remember the Night as Jack Sargent
- Too Many Husbands as Bill Cardew
- Little Old New York as Charles Brownne
- Rangers of Fortune as Gil Farra
1939
- Honeymoon in Bali as Bill Burnett
- Cafe Society as Crick O'Bannon
- 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
- Maid of Salem as Roger Coverman
- True Confession as Kenneth Bartlett
- Exclusive as Ralph Houston
- Swing High, Swing Low as Skid Johnson
- Champagne Waltz as Buzzy Bellew
1936
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine as Jack Hale
- The Princess Comes Across as King Mantell
- The Texas Rangers as Jim Hawkins
- 13 Hours by Air as Jack Gordon
- Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
1935
- Alice Adams as Arthur Russell
- The Gilded Lily as Peter Dawes
- Hands Across the Table as Theodore Drew III
- Men Without Names as Agent Dick Grant, alias Richard Hood
- The Bride Comes Home as Cyrus Anderson
- Car 99 as Trooper Ross Martin
- Grand Old Girl as Sandy
1929
- Tiger Rose as Rancher
- Girls Gone Wild as Extra (uncredited)