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 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.
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Movies (40)
This Is Bob Hope...
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Inside 'The Apartment'
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Fred MacMurray: With Fondness
as Self (archive footage)
2006
The Shaggy Dog Kids
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity (archive footage)
2004
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
as Self (archive footage)
1996
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self (archive footage)
1991
Anthony Quinn: An Original
as Self (archive footage)
1990
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage)
1988
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
as Self
1986
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
1982
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
as Self
1978
The Swarm
as Maj. Clarance Tuttle
1978
Inside 'the Swarm'
as Self
1978
A Thanksgiving Reunion with the Partridge Family and My Three Sons
1977
Joys
as Self
1976
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle
as Harry Ballinger
1975
The Chadwick Family
as Ned Chadwick
1974
Charley and the Angel
as Charley Appleby
1973
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
1968
The Happiest Millionaire
as Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
1967
Follow Me, Boys!
as Lemuel Siddons
1966
Kisses for My President
as Thad McCloud
1964
Son of Flubber
as Ned Brainard
1963
Bon Voyage!
as Harry Willard
1962
The Absent-Minded Professor
as Ned Brainard
1961
The Apartment
as Jeff D. Sheldrake
1960
Gala Day at Disneyland
as Self
1960
The Oregon Trail
as Neal Harris
1959
Disneyland '59
as Self
1959
Face of a Fugitive
as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
1959
The Shaggy Dog
as Wilson Daniels
1959
Good Day for a Hanging
as Marshal Ben Cutler
1959
Day of the Badman
as Judge Jim Scott
1958
Quantez
as Gentry
1957
Gun for a Coward
as Will Keough
1956
It's a Most Unusual Day
as Peter Terrance
1956
There's Always Tomorrow
as Clifford Groves
1956
At Gunpoint
as Jack Wright
1955
The Rains of Ranchipur
as Thomas "Tom" Ransome
1955
TV Shows (10)
People's Choice Awards
as Self - Presenter
1975
Tony Orlando and Dawn
as Self
1974
Dinah!
as Self
1974
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
The Hollywood Palace
as Self - Host
1964
My Three Sons
as Steve Douglas
1960
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
as Fred MacMurray
1957
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
The Steve Allen Show
as Self
1956
The 20th Century Fox Hour
as Peterson
1955