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Fred MacMurray
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Fredrick Martin '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.
He was raised in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin fro…
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Fredrick Martin '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. He 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. He 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), he and fellow GI William Demarest are moving to Beaver Dam, WI to start a mink farm.
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Fred MacMurray's Filmography
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This Is Bob Hope...
as Self (archive footage)
Inside 'The Apartment'
as Self (archive footage)
The Shaggy Dog Kids
as Self (archive footage)
Fred MacMurray: With Fondness
as Self (archive footage)
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
as Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self (archive footage)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
as Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
No Poster
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
as Self (uncredited)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
as (archive footage)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
as Self
The Swarm
as Clarence
Inside 'the Swarm'
as Self
No Poster
A Thanksgiving Reunion with the Partridge Family and My Three Sons
No Poster
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
as (archive footage)
Joys
as Self
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle
as Harry Ballinger
The Chadwick Family
as Ned Chadwick
Charley and the Angel
as Charley Appleby
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
The Happiest Millionaire
as Anthony Biddle
Follow Me, Boys!
as Lemuel Siddons
Kisses for My President
as Thad McCloud
Son of Flubber
as Ned Brainard
Bon Voyage!
as Harry Willard
The Absent-Minded Professor
as Ned Brainard
The Apartment
as Jeff D. Sheldrake
Gala Day at Disneyland
as Self
The Oregon Trail
as Neal Harris
Disneyland '59
as Self
Face of a Fugitive
as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
The Shaggy Dog
as Wilson Daniels
Good Day for a Hanging
as Marshal Ben Cutler
Day of the Badman
as Judge Jim Scott
Quantez
as Gentry
Gun for a Coward
as Will Keough
There's Always Tomorrow
as Clifford Groves
At Gunpoint
as Jack Wright
The Rains of Ranchipur
as Thomas "Tom" Ransome
The Far Horizons
as Cpt. Meriwether Lewis
Woman's World
as Sid Burns
A Star Is Born World Premiere
as Self
Pushover
as Paul Sheridan
The Caine Mutiny
as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
The Moonlighter
as Wes Anderson
Fair Wind to Java
as Captain Boll
Atomic Energy Can Be A Blessing
as Self - Presenter
Callaway Went Thataway
as Mike Frye
A Millionaire for Christy
as Peter Ulysses Lockwood
Never a Dull Moment
as Chris Hayward
Borderline
as Johnny Macklin
Father Was a Fullback
as George Cooper
Family Honeymoon
as Grant Jordan
An Innocent Affair
as Vincent Doane
The Miracle of the Bells
as William 'Bill' Dunnigan
On Our Merry Way
as Al
Singapore
as Matt Gordon
The Egg and I
as Bob MacDonald
Suddenly It's Spring
as Peter Morely
Smoky
as Clint Barkley
Pardon My Past
as Eddie York / Francis Pemberton
Murder, He Says
as Pete Marshall
Captain Eddie
as Eddie Rickenbacker
Where Do We Go from Here?
as Bill Morgan
Practically Yours
as Daniel Bellamy
Double Indemnity
as Walter Neff
And the Angels Sing
as Happy Morgan
Standing Room Only
as Lee Stevens
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith
as Narrator Prolog (uncredited)
Above Suspicion
as Richard Myles
Show-Business at War
as Self
Flight for Freedom
as Randy Britton
No Time for Love
as Jim Ryan
Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
The Forest Rangers
as Don Stuart
Take a Letter, Darling
as Tom Verney
Star Spangled Rhythm
as Frank
The Lady Is Willing
as Corey McBain
New York Town
as Victor Ballard
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
as Self (uncredited)
Dive Bomber
as Joe Blake
One Night In Lisbon
as Dwight Houston
Virginia
as Stonewall Elliott
Rangers of Fortune
as Gil Farra
Too Many Husbands
as Bill Cardew
Little Old New York
as Charles Brownne
Remember the Night
as Jack Sargent
Honeymoon in Bali
as Bill Burnett
Invitation to Happiness
as Albert 'King' Cole
Cafe Society
as Crick O'Bannon
Sing, You Sinners
as David Beebe
Men with Wings
as Pat Falconer
Cocoanut Grove
as Johnny Prentice
True Confession
as Kenneth Bartlett
Exclusive
as Ralph Houston
Swing High, Swing Low
as Skid Johnson
Maid of Salem
as Roger Coverman
Champagne Waltz
as Buzzy Bellew
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
The Texas Rangers
as Jim Hawkins
The Princess Comes Across
as King Mantell
13 Hours by Air
as Jack Gordon
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as Jack Hale
The Bride Comes Home
as Cyrus Anderson
Hands Across the Table
as Theodore Drew III
Alice Adams
as Arthur Russell
Men Without Names
as Agent Dick Grant, alias Richard Hood
Car 99
as Trooper Ross Martin
The Gilded Lily
as Peter Dawes
Grand Old Girl
as Sandy
Tiger Rose
as Rancher
Girls Gone Wild
as Extra (uncredited)