Fred MacMurray
Age: N/A | From: Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Fred Mac Murray , Frederick Martin MacMurray , Fredrick Martin "Fred" 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?
(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
(1956) Self
This Is Your Life
(1952) Self
Double Indemnity
(1944) Walter Neff
The Swarm
(1978) Maj. Clarance Tuttle
The Caine Mutiny
(1954) Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
The Oscars
(1953) Self
Pushover
(1954) Paul SheridanActing
| 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 | ||
| Richard Elgin | ||
| Harry Wingate | ||
| 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 | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |