Person Details

Birthday: 1908-08-30 06:15:31

Death: 1991-11-05 06:15:31

Aliases: Fred Mac Murray , Frederick Martin MacMurray

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Kankakee, Illinois, USA

Homepage:

Movie Involvements: 59

TV Involvements: 6


Most Famous Work

Biography

Born to Maleta Martin and Frederick MacMurray (concert violinist). Fred sang and played in orchestras to earn tuition. He was educated at Carroll College, Wis. Fred 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.

Most Famous Work

What's My Line?
Average
7

What's My Line?

(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Average
2
This Is Your Life
Average
6

This Is Your Life

(1952) Self
Double Indemnity
Average
8

Double Indemnity

(1944) Walter Neff
The Swarm
Average
5

The Swarm

(1978) Maj. Clarance Tuttle
The Caine Mutiny
Average
7

The Caine Mutiny

(1954) Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
The Oscars
Average
7

The Oscars

(1953) Self
Pushover
Average
6

Pushover

(1954) Paul Sheridan

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2017 Self (archive footage)
2008 Self (archive footage)
2006 Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
2004 Walter Neff in Double Indemnity (archive footage)
1996 Self
1991 Self (archive footage)
1988 Self (archive footage)
1985 N/A
1982 (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
1978 Maj. Clarance Tuttle
Self
1976 Self
1975 Harry Ballinger
1974 Self
Ned Chadwick
1973 Self
Charley Appleby
1968 Self (archive footage)
1967 Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
1966 Lemuel Siddons
1964 Thad McCloud
Self - Host
1963 Self (archive footage)
Ned Brainard
1962 Harry Willard
1961 Ned Brainard
1960 Steve Douglas
Jeff D. Sheldrake
Himself
1959 Neal Harris
Self
Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
Wilson Daniels
Marshal Ben Cutler
1958 Judge Jim Scott
1957 Fred MacMurray
Gentry
1956 Will Keough
Self
Self
Clifford Groves
1955 Jack Wright
Thomas "Tom" Ransome
N/A
Cpt. Meriwether Lewis
1954 Self
N/A
Fred MacMurray
Self
Sid Burns
Self
Paul Sheridan
Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
1953 Wes Anderson
Self
Harry Wingate
Richard Elgin
Captain Boll
1952 Self
1951 Mike Frye
Peter Ulysses Lockwood
1950 Self
Chris Hayward
Johnny McEvoy, aka Johnny Macklin
Self - Mystery Guest
1949 George Cooper
1948 Grant Jordan
Vincent Doane
Self
William 'Bill' Dunnigan
Al
1947 Matt Gordon
Bob MacDonald
Peter Morely
1946 Clint Barkley
1945 Eddie York / Francis Pemberton
Pete Marshall
Eddie Rickenbacker
Bill Morgan
1944 Daniel Bellamy
Walter Neff
Happy Morgan
Lee Stevens
1943 Narrator Prolog (uncredited)
Richard Myles
Self
Randy Britton
Jim Ryan
1942 Self
Don Stuart
Tom Verney
Frank
Corey McBain
1941 Victor Ballard
Himself
Joe Blake
Dwight Houston
Stonewall Elliott
1940 Gil Farra
Bill Cardew
Charles Brownne
Jack Sargent
1939 Bill Burnett
Albert 'King' Cole
Crick O'Bannon
1938 David Beebe
Pat Falconer
Johnny Prentice
1937 Kenneth Bartlett
Ralph Houston
Skid Johnson
Roger Coverman
Buzzy Bellew
1936 Self
Jim Hawkins
King Mantell
Jack Gordon
Jack Hale
1935 Cyrus Anderson
Theodore Drew III
Arthur Russell
Richard Hood
Trooper Ross Martin
Peter Dawes
Sandy
1929 Rancher
Clifford Groves, himself
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
1945 Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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