Fred MacMurray
Date of birth: 1908-08-30
Place of birth: Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Fred Mac Murray, Frederick Martin MacMurray, Fredrick Martin "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.
Movie Credits
The Apartment
1960-06-21
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to
Double Indemnity
1944-07-06
A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on he
The Caine Mutiny
1954-06-24
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first office
Inside 'The Apartment'
2008-01-06
A 2007 documentary on the making of "The Apartment."
The Movie Orgy
1968-01-01
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloop
Pushover
1954-07-14
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
The Princess Comes Across
1936-05-22
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds
Hands Across the Table
1935-10-18
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.
No Time for Love
1943-04-09
An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel
The Happiest Millionaire
1967-11-30
A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982-05-21
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no acc
Above Suspicion
1943-05-31
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
Follow Me, Boys!
1966-12-01
Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle dow
Remember the Night
1940-01-19
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter
The Egg and I
1947-05-01
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and movin
Good Day for a Hanging
1959-01-01
As a youth, Eddie came into the town with his gang to rob the bank, but was caught and convicted. Ma
The Miracle of the Bells
1948-03-27
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she
There's Always Tomorrow
1956-01-08
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekin
Alice Adams
1935-08-23
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother
The Shaggy Dog
1959-03-19
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inoppo
Face of a Fugitive
1959-05-01
A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the
Borderline
1950-03-01
The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can't
The Rains of Ranchipur
1955-12-14
India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in l
Dive Bomber
1941-08-30
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protec
The Swarm
1978-06-26
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisibl
The Shaggy Dog Kids
2006-03-07
Reminiscences by the kids from the original 1959 Disney film.
Fred MacMurray: With Fondness
2006-03-07
Actors remember the great Fred MacMurray.
The Absent-Minded Professor
1961-01-20
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible mate
The Texas Rangers
1936-08-28
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to
Invitation to Happiness
1939-06-07
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
Son of Flubber
1963-01-16
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004-07-28
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to
The Lady Is Willing
1942-02-12
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a bab
Singapore
1947-08-13
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, h
On Our Merry Way
1948-02-03
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where h
The Gilded Lily
1935-01-25
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her bes
Maid of Salem
1937-02-12
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a sc
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936-03-13
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
The Far Horizons
1955-07-04
Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from Fra
Gun for a Coward
1956-12-30
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation f
Family Honeymoon
1948-12-06
Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machina
New York Town
1941-10-31
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City s
Honeymoon in Bali
1939-09-29
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the
Swing High, Swing Low
1937-03-12
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees
Take a Letter, Darling
1942-05-06
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to
Bon Voyage!
1962-05-17
The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris,
Charley and the Angel
1973-03-23
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will b
Too Many Husbands
1940-04-03
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for ju
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942-03-05
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son a
Father Was a Fullback
1949-09-30
Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-a
The Bride Comes Home
1935-12-25
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon,
At Gunpoint
1955-12-25
A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.
Murder, He Says
1945-06-23
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opi
Inside 'the Swarm'
1978-01-01
A behind-the-scenes/Making of documentary short focused on Irwin Allen's all-star disaster flick The
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988-05-16
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
Sing, You Sinners
1938-09-02
Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in
The Moonlighter
1953-09-19
Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged,
Woman's World
1954-09-30
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wi
True Confession
1937-12-24
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an
Quantez
1957-09-06
A gang of bank robbers with a posse in hot pursuit. Riding into the desert, they take refuge in Quan
Flight for Freedom
1943-04-14
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith
1943-09-09
Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiti
Suddenly It's Spring
1947-02-13
A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
Practically Yours
1944-12-20
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, an
A Millionaire for Christy
1951-09-02
Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle
Grand Old Girl
1935-01-15
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
Kisses for My President
1964-08-21
A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.
Pardon My Past
1945-12-24
Eddie York is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.
Standing Room Only
1944-01-07
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the
Smoky
1946-06-26
Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the own
Little Old New York
1940-02-09
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize hi
Virginia
1941-01-28
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMur
Exclusive
1937-08-06
Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on
Cocoanut Grove
1938-05-20
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
Men with Wings
1938-07-16
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville an
An Innocent Affair
1948-10-15
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich
And the Angels Sing
1944-04-25
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing t
Car 99
1935-03-02
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men
13 Hours by Air
1936-04-30
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to Calif
Where Do We Go from Here?
1945-05-23
Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight
Fair Wind to Java
1953-01-28
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American m
The Oregon Trail
1959-08-31
In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He h
Tiger Rose
1929-12-21
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
The Forest Rangers
1942-10-21
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidenc
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
1996-12-17
Amiable and unassuming, Fred MacMurray went from small-town boy to one of Hollywood and television's
Cafe Society
1939-03-03
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get
Callaway Went Thataway
1951-11-15
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on t
Never a Dull Moment
1950-08-19
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widow
Men Without Names
1935-06-29
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990-09-10
Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident.
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle
1975-11-06
A retired businessman notices that there has been a rash of ships and planes disappearing off the Fl
Rangers of Fortune
1940-09-27
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they
Atomic Energy Can Be A Blessing
1952-01-01
For most of us, including actor Fred MacMurray who presents the film, the noun atom and the adjectiv
One Night In Lisbon
1941-06-13
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference f
Captain Eddie
1945-06-18
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver an
Champagne Waltz
1937-02-05
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
1941-10-02
Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kys
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
1978-09-13
Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Disney’s Wonderful World, Walt Disney,
Day of the Badman
1958-01-29
Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and h
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991-07-15
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara S
Joys
1976-03-05
Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of
Show-Business at War
1943-05-21
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
The Chadwick Family
1974-04-17
A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, als
This Is Bob Hope...
2017-12-29
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mas
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954-09-28
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest wo
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936-09-11
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Fr
Gala Day at Disneyland
1960-01-21
The gala dedication ceremonies at the opening of three new major attractions at Disneyland—Matterhor
Disneyland '59
1959-06-15
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consis
Breakdowns of 1942
1942-12-31
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
It's a Most Unusual Day
1956-03-14
A married couple take in a nightclub show starring songwriter Jimmy McHugh and are prompted by his m
A Thanksgiving Reunion with the Partridge Family and My Three Sons
1977-11-25
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
1986-11-30