Fred MacMurray

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Kankakee, Illinois, USA, 1908-08-30

Died: 1991-11-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1929	Tiger Rose	Rancher	0
2	1935	Grand Old Girl	Sandy	65
3	1935	The Gilded Lily	Peter Dawes	65
4	1935	Car 99	Trooper Ross Martin	50
5	1935	Men Without Names	Richard Hood	60
6	1935	Alice Adams	Arthur Russell	67
7	1935	Hands Across the Table	Theodore Drew III	69
8	1935	The Bride Comes Home	Cyrus Anderson	48
9	1936	The Trail of the Lonesome Pine	Jack Hale	64
10	1936	13 Hours by Air	Jack Gordon	43
11	1936	The Princess Comes Across	King Mantell	61
12	1936	The Texas Rangers	Jim Hawkins	64
13	1936	Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)	Self	60
14	1937	Champagne Waltz	Buzzy Bellew	0
15	1937	Maid of Salem	Roger Coverman	59
16	1937	Swing High, Swing Low	Skid Johnson	51
17	1937	Exclusive	Ralph Houston	60
18	1937	True Confession	Kenneth Bartlett	58
19	1938	Cocoanut Grove	Johnny Prentice	0
20	1938	Men with Wings	Pat Falconer	50
21	1938	Sing, You Sinners	David Beebe	67
22	1939	Cafe Society	Crick O'Bannon	60
23	1939	Invitation to Happiness	Albert 'King' Cole	0
24	1939	Honeymoon in Bali	Bill Burnett	62
25	1940	Remember the Night	Jack Sargent	73
26	1940	Little Old New York	Charles Brownne	40
27	1940	Too Many Husbands	Bill Cardew	63
28	1940	Rangers of Fortune	Gil Farra	50
29	1941	Dive Bomber	Joe Blake	63
30	1941	Virginia	Stonewall Elliott	0
31	1941	One Night In Lisbon	Dwight Houston	0
32	1941	Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1	Himself	0
33	1941	New York Town	Victor Ballard	100
34	1942	The Lady Is Willing	Corey McBain	66
35	1942	Star Spangled Rhythm	Frank	59
36	1942	Take a Letter, Darling	Tom Verney	64
37	1942	The Forest Rangers	Don Stuart	0
38	1942	Breakdowns of 1942	Self	60
39	1943	No Time for Love	Jim Ryan	66
40	1943	Flight for Freedom	Randy Britton	54
41	1943	Show-Business at War	Self	70
42	1943	Above Suspicion	Richard Myles	65
43	1943	The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith	Narrator Prolog (uncredited)	100
44	1944	Standing Room Only	Lee Stevens	50
45	1944	And the Angels Sing	Happy Morgan	70
46	1944	Double Indemnity	Walter Neff	81
47	1944	Practically Yours	Daniel Bellamy	0
48	1945	Where Do We Go from Here?	Bill Morgan	53
49	1945	Captain Eddie	Eddie Rickenbacker	60
50	1945	Murder, He Says	Pete Marshall	66
51	1945	Pardon My Past	Eddie York / Francis Pemberton	60
52	1946	Smoky	Clint Barkley	52
53	1947	Suddenly It's Spring	Peter Morely	43
54	1947	The Egg and I	Bob MacDonald	70
55	1947	Singapore	Matt Gordon	61
56	1948	On Our Merry Way	Al	55
57	1948	The Miracle of the Bells	William 'Bill' Dunnigan	59
58	1948	An Innocent Affair	Vincent Doane	38
59	1948	Family Honeymoon	Grant Jordan	57
60	1949	Father Was a Fullback	George Cooper	60
61	1950	Borderline	Johnny McEvoy, aka Johnny Macklin	54
62	1950	Never a Dull Moment	Chris Hayward	54
63	1951	A Millionaire for Christy	Peter Ulysses Lockwood	64
64	1951	Callaway Went Thataway	Mike Frye	51
65	1952	Atomic Energy Can Be A Blessing	Self - Presenter	50
66	1953	Fair Wind to Java	Captain Boll	49
67	1953	The Moonlighter	Wes Anderson	57
68	1954	The Caine Mutiny	Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer	72
69	1954	Pushover	Paul Sheridan	65
70	1954	A Star Is Born World Premiere	Self	80
71	1954	Woman's World	Sid Burns	71
72	1955	The Far Horizons	Cpt. Meriwether Lewis	62
73	1955	The Rains of Ranchipur	Thomas "Tom" Ransome	49
74	1955	At Gunpoint	Jack Wright	63
75	1956	There's Always Tomorrow	Clifford Groves	71
76	1956	It's a Most Unusual Day	Peter Terrance	0
77	1956	Gun for a Coward	Will Keough	56
78	1957	Quantez	Gentry	54
79	1958	Day of the Badman	Judge Jim Scott	65
80	1959	Good Day for a Hanging	Marshal Ben Cutler	62
81	1959	The Shaggy Dog	Wilson Daniels	61
82	1959	Face of a Fugitive	Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)	55
83	1959	Disneyland '59	Self	65
84	1959	The Oregon Trail	Neal Harris	53
85	1960	Gala Day at Disneyland	Self	60
86	1960	The Apartment	Jeff D. Sheldrake	82
87	1961	The Absent-Minded Professor	Ned Brainard	65
88	1962	Bon Voyage!	Harry Willard	53
89	1963	Son of Flubber	Ned Brainard	59
90	1964	Kisses for My President	Thad McCloud	70
91	1966	Follow Me, Boys!	Lemuel Siddons	66
92	1967	The Happiest Millionaire	Anthony J. Drexel Biddle	68
93	1968	The Movie Orgy	Self (archive footage)	65
94	1973	Charley and the Angel	Charley Appleby	53
95	1974	The Chadwick Family	Ned Chadwick	60
96	1975	Beyond the Bermuda Triangle	Harry Ballinger	48
97	1976	Joys	Self	40
98	1977	A Thanksgiving Reunion with the Partridge Family and My Three Sons		0
99	1978	Inside 'the Swarm'	Self	100
100	1978	The Swarm	Maj. Clarance Tuttle	49
101	1978	NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney	Self	0
102	1982	Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid	(in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)	66
103	1985	George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey	Self (archive footage)	56
104	1988	Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC	Self (archive footage)	60
105	1990	Anthony Quinn: An Original	Self (archive footage)	65
106	1991	Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire	Self (archive footage)	57
107	1996	Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door	Self (archive footage)	0
108	2004	Los Angeles Plays Itself	Walter Neff in Double Indemnity (archive footage)	76
109	2006	Fred MacMurray: With Fondness	Self (archive footage)	0
110	2006	The Shaggy Dog Kids	Self (archive footage)	0
111	2006	Shadows of Suspense	Self (archive footage)	0
112	2008	Inside 'The Apartment'	Self (archive footage)	0
113	2017	This Is Bob Hope...	Self (archive footage)	80

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Accepting Award for Best TV Show	72
3	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
4	1950	What's My Line?	Self	69
5	1950	The Bob Hope Show	Self	70
6	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	68
7	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Self	63
8	1952	This Is Your Life	Self	64
9	1953	General Electric Theater	Richard Elgin	63
10	1953	General Electric Theater	Harry Wingate	63
11	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
12	1954	The George Gobel Show	Self	73
13	1954	The George Gobel Show	Fred MacMurray	73
14	1954	December Bride		55
15	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Professor Ned Brainerd (archive footage)	78
16	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Self	78
17	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour	Peterson	54
18	1955	Screen Director's Playhouse	Peter Terrance	65
19	1956	The Steve Allen Show	Self	56
20	1956	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	Self	60
21	1957	The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour	Fred MacMurray	86
22	1960	My Three Sons	Steve Douglas	65
23	1964	The Hollywood Palace	Self - Host	45
24	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
25	1974	Dinah!	Self	67
26	1974	Tony Orlando and Dawn	Self	35
27	1975	People's Choice Awards	Self - Presenter	88

Fred MacMurray

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Television