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Fred MacMurray
Birthday: August 30, 1908

Birth Place: Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Height: 6' 3"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Fred MacMurray. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

Given that Fred MacMurray built a successful film career as the quintessential nice guy, it's rather ironic that some of his strongest and best-remembered performances cast him against type. While remaining known as a fixture of light comedies and live-action Disney productions, his definitive roles nonetheless were those which found him contemplating murder, adultery, and other villainous pursuits. Born August 30, 1908, in Kankakee, IL, MacMurray, the son of a concert violinist, was educated at a military academy and later studied at the Chicago Art Institute. His original goal was to become a professional saxophonist, and toward that aim he worked with a variety of bands and even recorded with Gus Arnheim. MacMurray's musical aspirations eventually led him to Hollywood, where he frequently worked as an extra. He later joined the California Collegians and with them played Broadway in the 1930 revue Three's a Crowd, where he joined Libby Holman on a duet of "Something to Remember Me By." He subsequently appeared in productions of The Third Little Show and Roberta. The story behind MacMurray's return to Hollywood remains uncertain — either a Paramount casting scout saw him on-stage, or he simply signed up with Central Casting — but either way, he was under contract by 1934. At Paramount, he rose to fame in 1935's The Gilded Lily, a romantic comedy which pit him against Claudette Colbert. Seemingly overnight he was among the hottest young actors in town, and he quickly emerged as a favorite romantic sparring partner with many of Hollywood's leading actresses. After Katherine Hepburn requested his services for Alice Adams, MacMurray joined Carole Lombard in Hands Across the Table before reuniting with Colbert in The Bride Comes Home, his seventh film in 12 months. He kept up the frenetic pace, appearing in 1936's The Trail of the Lonesome Pine alongside Henry Fonda, reteaming with Lombard in The Princess Comes Across. After settling a contract dispute with Paramount, MacMurray again starred with Colbert in the 1937 swashbuckler Maid of Salem, one of the first films to move him away from the laid-back, genial performances on which he'd risen to success.Along with Colbert, Lombard remained the actress with whom MacMurray was most frequently paired. They reunited in 1937's Swing High, Swing Low and again that same year in True Confession. After starring with Bing Crosby in Sing You Sinners, he also began another onscreen partnership with Madeleine Carroll in 1939's Cafe Society, quickly followed by a reunion in Invitation to Bali. While not the superstar that many predicted he would become, by the 1940s MacMurray had settled comfortably into his leading man duties, developing an amiable comic style perfectly suited to his pictures' sunny tone. While occasionally appearing in a more dramatic capacity, as in the Barbara Stanwyck drama Remember the Night, the majority of his pictures remained light, breezy affairs. However, in 1944 he and Stanwyck reunited in Billy Wilder's superb Double Indemnity, which cast MacMurray as a murderous insurance salesman. The result was perhaps the most acclaimed performance of his career, earning him new respect as a serious actor.However, MacMurray soon returned to more comedic fare, appearing with Colbert in 1944's Practically Yours. After the following year's farcical Murder He Says, his contract with Paramount ended and he moved to 20th Century Fox, where he starred in the historical musical Where Do We Go From Here? His co-star, June Haver, became his wife in 1954. MacMurray then produced and starred in Pardon My Past, but after announcing his displeasure with Fox he jumped to Universal to star in the 1947 hit The Egg and I. During the 1940s and early '50s, he settled into a string of easygoing comedies, few of them successful either financially or artistically. His star began to wane, a situation not helped by a number of poor career choices; in 1950, he even turned down Wilder's classic Sunset Boulevard. In 1954, however, MacMurray returned to form in The Caine Mutiny, where he appeared as a duplicitous naval officer. As before, cast against type he garnered some of the best notices of his career, but this time he continued the trend by starring as a dirty cop in The Pushover. Despite recent critical acclaim, MacMurray's box-office clout remained diminished, and throughout the mid-'50s he appeared primarily in low-budget action pictures, most of them Westerns. In 1959, however, he was tapped by Walt Disney to star in the live-action comedy The Shaggy Dog, which became one of the year's biggest hits. MacMurray appeared as a callous adulterer in Wilder's Oscar-winning 1960 smash The Apartment before moving to television to star in the family sitcom My Three Sons; a tremendous success, it ran until 1972. He then returned to the Disney stable to essay the title role in 1961's The Absent-Minded Professor and remained there for the following year's Bon Voyage and 1963's Son of Flubber. However, after two more Disney features — 1966's Follow Me Boys and 1967's The Happiest Millionaire — both flopped, MacMurray remained absent from the big screen for the rest of the decade, and only resurfaced in 1973 in Disney's Charley and the Angel. After a pair of TV movies, MacMurray made one last feature, 1978's The Swarm, before retiring. He died in Santa Monica, CA, on November 5, 1991.

Movie Credits
Follow Me, Boys!: Part 1 (1981)
Son of Flubber (1980)
[ Keenan Wynn ]
The Absent-Minded Professor: Part 2 (1979)
[ Keenan Wynn ]
The Absent-Minded Professor: Part 1 (1979)
[ Keenan Wynn ]
The Swarm (1978)
[ Michael Caine ][ Henry Fonda ][ Richard Chamberlain ][ Richard Widmark ][ Slim Pickens ]
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle (1975)
The Chadwick Family (1974)
[ Barry Bostwick ]
Charley and the Angel (1973)
[ Kurt Russell ][ Harry Morgan ][ Ed Begley Jr. ]
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
[ Walt Disney ][ Aron Kincaid ]
Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
[ Kurt Russell ][ Walt Disney ][ John Larroquette ]
The First Marriage (1965)
The Teenagers (1965)
Guest in the House (1964)
The Ballad of Lissa Stratmeyer (1964)
[ William Frawley ]
Kisses for My President (1964)
[ Eli Wallach ]
Son of Flubber (1963)
[ Walt Disney ][ Jack Albertson ][ Paul Lynde ][ Keenan Wynn ][ Harvey Korman ]
Bon Voyage! (1962)
[ Walt Disney ][ Michael Callan ]
The Absent Minded Professor (1961)
[ Walt Disney ][ Keenan Wynn ]
The Apartment (1960)
[ Jack Lemmon ][ Billy Wilder ][ Ray Walston ]
The Oregon Trail (1959)
Face of a Fugitive (1959)
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
[ Walt Disney ][ Jack Albertson ][ Strother Martin ]
Good Day for a Hanging (1959)
[ Robert Vaughn ]
Day of the Bad Man (1958)
[ Lee Van Cleef ]
Quantez (1957)
Gun for a Coward (1957)
[ Dean Stockwell ][ Jeffrey Hunter ]
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
The Bachelor's Bride (1955)
At Gunpoint (1955)
[ Walter Brennan ][ Dabbs Greer ]
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
[ Richard Burton ]
The Far Horizons (1955)
[ Charlton Heston ]
Woman's World (1954)
Pushover (1954)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
[ Humphrey Bogart ][ Lee Marvin ][ James Best ][ Van Johnson ][ Claude Akins ]
The Moonlighter (1953)
[ Ward Bond ][ Jack Elam ]
Fair Wind to Java (1953)
Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
[ Howard Keel ]
A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
[ Bing Crosby ]
Never a Dull Moment (1950)
Borderline (1950)
[ Raymond Burr ]
Father Was a Fullback (1949)
[ Maureen O'Hara ]
Family Honeymoon (1949)
An Innocent Affair (1948)
The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
[ Lee J. Cobb ]
On Our Merry Way (1948)
[ James Stewart ][ Henry Fonda ][ Burgess Meredith ]
Suddenly, It's Spring (1947)
Singapore (1947)
The Egg and I (1947)
Smoky (1946)
Pardon My Past (1945)
Murder, He Says (1945)
Captain Eddie (1945)
Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
[ Anthony Quinn ]
Practically Yours (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
[ Billy Wilder ]
And the Angels Sing (1944)
Standing Room Only (1944)
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith (1943)
[ George Reeves ][ Walter Brennan ][ Lionel Barrymore ]
Above Suspicion (1943)
No Time for Love (1943)
Flight for Freedom (1943)
The Lady Is Willing (1942)
The Forest Rangers (1942)
Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
New York Town (1941)
Dive Bomber (1941)
[ Errol Flynn ][ Ralph Bellamy ]
One Night in Lisbon (1941)
Virginia (1941)
[ Sterling Hayden ]
Rangers of Fortune (1940)
Too Many Husbands (1940)
Little Old New York (1940)
[ Ward Bond ]
Remember the Night (1940)
Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
Invitation to Happiness (1939)
Cafe Society (1939)
Sing You Sinners (1938)
[ Bing Crosby ]
Men with Wings (1938)
[ Ray Milland ]
Cocoanut Grove (1938)
Exclusive (1937)
Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
[ Anthony Quinn ]
Maid of Salem (1937)
Champagne Waltz (1937)
[ Billy Wilder ]
True Confession (1937)
The Texas Rangers (1936)
The Princess Comes Across (1936)
[ William Frawley ]
Thirteen Hours by Air (1936)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
[ Henry Fonda ]
The Bride Comes Home (1935)
Hands Across the Table (1935)
[ Ralph Bellamy ]
Alice Adams (1935)
[ Katharine Hepburn ][ Walter Brennan ]
Men Without Names (1935)
Car 99 (1935)
[ William Frawley ]
The Gilded Lily (1935)
[ Ray Milland ]
Grand Old Girl (1935)
[ Ward Bond ]
Why Leave Home? (1929)
Girls Gone Wild (1929)
Tiger Rose (1929)

Trivia

  • Personal friends with Walt Disney.
  • Interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, USA, in the Mausoleum, D1, Room 7.
  • Adopted twin daughters, Kathryn and Laurie (b. 1956), with Haver.
  • Was among several actors considered for the role of Eliot Ness on TV's "The Untouchables". He was also the first choice to play the title role on TV's "Perry Mason".
  • At Fred MacMurray's insistence, all episodes of "My Three Sons" (1960) were filmed out of sequence during the show's entire run. MacMurray would do all of his scenes first, then leave until the next season. All kitchen scenes would be done together, then all scenes in the upstairs hallway would be filmed together, etc. This fact was well concealed until Dawn Lyn joined the cast as Dodie. Her upper front teeth grew in irregularly during the entire 1969-70 season, from being barely visible in scenes with MacMurray to being plainly visible in scenes without him.
  • He was the likeness inspiration for the original Captain Marvel (the one that emerged when Billy Batson said "Shazam") for artist Charles Clarence Beck in 1940. The original publisher of the comic book character was Fawcett Publications.
  • Early in his career, he recorded a song called "If I Had A Talking Picture Of You."
  • Portrayed George Harvey, star reporter for the Hillsdale Morning Star, on NBC Radio's "Bright Star" (1952-1953).
  • Steve Douglas, MacMurray's character on "My Three Sons" (1960), was ranked #7 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue].
  • First person to be named a Disney Legend. [1987]
  • In the 1970s, he was most often seen doing commercials for a video teaching "Chisenbop," a Korean method of doing math on your fingers.
  • His daughter Susan was born in 1942. His son Robert was born in 1945.

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