George Murphy
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1902-07-04 (90 years old)
Deathday
1992-05-03
Place of Birth
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Also known As
George Lloyd Murphy
George Murphy
Biography
George Murphy was an American dancer and stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a United States Senator. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first notable U.S. actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is the only United States Senator represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In movies, Murphy was known as a song-and-da...
Acting
1949
as 'Pop' Stazak
1952
as Narrator (voice)
1942
as Jimmy K. Metcalf
1949
as Jack Bearnes
1947
as Theodore 'Ted' Parkson
1944
as Gordon Miller
1943
as Lt. Steve Bentley
1943
as Jerry Jones
1940
as King Shaw
1940
as Jerry Kelly
1937
as Sonny Ledford
1938
as Roger Wendling
1941
as Jimmy McGonagle
1944
as Johnny Demming
1951
as Police Insp. Matt Duggan
1951
as Mr. Patrick Callaghan
1941
as Tom
1952
as Robert Fontaine Sr.
1940
as Eddie Kerns
1952
as Inspector James 'Jim' Belden
1938
as Barry Paige
1942
as Lt. Thomas L. 'Tom' Sands
1948
as Steve Abbutt
1941
as Francis X. 'Skeets' / 'Skeeter' Maguire
1945
as Jake Justus
1947
as Larry Bishop
1935
as Edward Joseph "Red" Foster
1937
as Bill Raeburn
1944
as George Doane
1941
as Claudius "Coffee Cup" Cup
1946
as Joseph Morton
1942
as Joe Jonathan
1948
as Patrick O'Donnell
1937
as Michael Denis
1938
as Rusty Stevens
1939
as Self (uncredited)
1934
as Jerry Lane
1939
as Dan Clifford
1943
as Jerry Hendricks
1940
as Alan Blake
1937
as Hal Adams
1937
as Ted Lane
1935
as Jerry Davis
1974
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1936
as Keat Shevlin
1939
as Himself (uncredited)
1941
as Cavalryman (uncredited)
1934
as Larry O'Roarke
1935
as Carl Brent
1943
as Self
1936
as Charlie Hall
1994
as (archive footage)
1944
as (archive footage)
1936
1985
as From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Production
1941
as Stunts
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