Fred MacMurray

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-08-30 (83 years old)

Deathday

1991-11-05

Place of Birth

Kankakee, Illinois, USA

Fred MacMurray

Biography

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 ...

Acting

1960

The Apartment

as Jeff D. Sheldrake

1944

Double Indemnity

as Walter Neff

1954

The Caine Mutiny

as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer

2008

Inside 'The Apartment'

as Self (archive footage)

1968

The Movie Orgy

as Self (archive footage)

1954

Pushover

as Paul Sheridan

1936

1935

Hands Across the Table

as Theodore Drew III

1943

No Time for Love

as Jim Ryan

1967

The Happiest Millionaire

as Anthony J. Drexel Biddle

1982

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)

1943

Above Suspicion

as Richard Myles

1966

Follow Me, Boys!

as Lemuel Siddons

1940

Remember the Night

as Jack Sargent

1947

The Egg and I

as Bob MacDonald

1959

Good Day for a Hanging

as Marshal Ben Cutler

1948

The Miracle of the Bells

as William 'Bill' Dunnigan

1956

There's Always Tomorrow

as Clifford Groves

1935

Alice Adams

as Arthur Russell

1959

The Shaggy Dog

as Wilson Daniels

1959

Face of a Fugitive

as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)

1950

Borderline

as Johnny McEvoy, aka Johnny Macklin

1955

The Rains of Ranchipur

as Thomas "Tom" Ransome

1941

Dive Bomber

as Joe Blake

1978

The Swarm

as Maj. Clarance Tuttle

2006

The Shaggy Dog Kids

as Self (archive footage)

2006

Fred MacMurray: With Fondness

as Self (archive footage)

1961

1936

The Texas Rangers

as Jim Hawkins

1939

Invitation to Happiness

as Albert 'King' Cole

1963

Son of Flubber

as Ned Brainard

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity (archive footage)

1942

The Lady Is Willing

as Corey McBain

1947

Singapore

as Matt Gordon

1935

The Gilded Lily

as Peter Dawes

1937

Maid of Salem

as Roger Coverman

1955

The Far Horizons

as Cpt. Meriwether Lewis

1956

Gun for a Coward

as Will Keough

1948

Family Honeymoon

as Grant Jordan

1941

New York Town

as Victor Ballard

1939

Honeymoon in Bali

as Bill Burnett

1937

Swing High, Swing Low

as Skid Johnson

1942

1962

Bon Voyage!

as Harry Willard

1973

Charley and the Angel

as Charley Appleby

1940

Too Many Husbands

as Bill Cardew

1949

Father Was a Fullback

as George Cooper

1935

The Bride Comes Home

as Cyrus Anderson

1955

At Gunpoint

as Jack Wright

1945

Murder, He Says

as Pete Marshall

1938

Sing, You Sinners

as David Beebe

1953

The Moonlighter

as Wes Anderson

1954

Woman's World

as Sid Burns

1937

True Confession

as Kenneth Bartlett

1957

Quantez

as Gentry

1943

Flight for Freedom

as Randy Britton

1943

The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith

as Narrator Prolog (uncredited)

1947

Suddenly It's Spring

as Peter Morely

1944

Practically Yours

as Daniel Bellamy

1951

A Millionaire for Christy

as Peter Ulysses Lockwood

1935

1964

1945

Pardon My Past

as Eddie York / Francis Pemberton

1944

Standing Room Only

as Lee Stevens

1946

Smoky

as Clint Barkley

1940

Little Old New York

as Charles Brownne

1941

Virginia

as Stonewall Elliott

1937

Exclusive

as Ralph Houston

1938

Men with Wings

as Pat Falconer

1938

Cocoanut Grove

as Johnny Prentice

1948

An Innocent Affair

as Vincent Doane

1944

And the Angels Sing

as Happy Morgan

1936

13 Hours by Air

as Jack Gordon

1935

Car 99

as Trooper Ross Martin

1945

1953

Fair Wind to Java

as Captain Boll

1959

The Oregon Trail

as Neal Harris

1929

Tiger Rose

as Rancher

1942

The Forest Rangers

as Don Stuart

1996

Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door

as Self (archive footage)

1939

Cafe Society

as Crick O'Bannon

1951

1935

Men Without Names

as Richard Hood

1950

Never a Dull Moment

as Chris Hayward

1990

Anthony Quinn: An Original

as Self (archive footage)

1975

Beyond the Bermuda Triangle

as Harry Ballinger

1940

Rangers of Fortune

as Gil Farra

1952

1941

One Night In Lisbon

as Dwight Houston

1945

Captain Eddie

as Eddie Rickenbacker

1937

Champagne Waltz

as Buzzy Bellew

1958

Day of the Badman

as Judge Jim Scott

1991

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

as Self (archive footage)

1976

Joys

as Self

1974

The Chadwick Family

as Ned Chadwick

2017

This Is Bob Hope...

as Self (archive footage)

1985

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

as Self (archive footage)

1959

2006

Shadows of Suspense

as Self (archive footage)

1956

It's a Most Unusual Day

as Peter Terrance

Production

1945

Pardon My Past

as Producer

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