Fred MacMurray
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Accepting Award for Best TV Show
1944
Series
My Three Sons
Steve Douglas
1960
Series
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
1950
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
Dinah!
Self
1974
Series
The Bob Hope Show
Self
1950
Series
The Jack Benny Program
Fred MacMurray
1950
Series
The Steve Allen Show
Self
1956
Series
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
1956
Series
December Bride
1954
Series
This Is Your Life
Self
1952
Series
People's Choice Awards
Self - Presenter
1975
Series
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Peterson
1955
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
Lux Video Theatre
Self
1950
The George Gobel Show
Self
1954
The George Gobel Show
Fred MacMurray
1954
Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
Professor Ned Brainerd (archive footage)
1954
Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
Self
1954
Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
Wilson Daniels
1954
Series
The Hollywood Palace
Self - Host
1964
Series
Screen Director's Playhouse
Peter Terrance
1955
Series
Tony Orlando and Dawn
Self
1974
Series
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973
Film
The Apartment
Jeff D. Sheldrake
1960
Series
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
Fred MacMurray
1957
Film
Double Indemnity
Walter Neff
1944
Film
The Caine Mutiny
Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
1954
Series
General Electric Theater
Richard Elgin
1953
Series
General Electric Theater
Harry Wingate
1953
Film
Family Honeymoon
Grant Jordan
1948
Film
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
(in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
1982
Film
The Swarm
Clarence
1978
Film
The Absent-Minded Professor
Ned Brainard
1961
Film
The Happiest Millionaire
Anthony Biddle
1967
Film
There's Always Tomorrow
Clifford Groves
1956
Film
Quantez
Gentry
1957
Film
And the Angels Sing
Happy Morgan
1944
Film
Pushover
Paul Sheridan
1954
Film
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
1968
Film
The Far Horizons
Cpt. Meriwether Lewis
1955
Film
Face of a Fugitive
Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
1959
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
(archive footage)
1976
Film
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Self (archive footage)
1990
Film
Breakdowns of 1942
Self
1942
Film
The Egg and I
Bob MacDonald
1947
Film
Remember the Night
Jack Sargent
1940
Film
No Time for Love
Jim Ryan
1943
Film
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Jack Hale
1936
Film
Show-Business at War
Self
1943
Film
The Forest Rangers
Don Stuart
1942
Film
The Shaggy Dog
Wilson Daniels
1959
Film
Gun for a Coward
Will Keough
1956
Film
Pardon My Past
Eddie York / Francis Pemberton
1945
Film
Good Day for a Hanging
Marshal Ben Cutler
1959
Film
Day of the Badman
Judge Jim Scott
1958
Film
Woman's World
Sid Burns
1954
Film
Above Suspicion
Richard Myles
1943
Film
The Lady Is Willing
Corey McBain
1942
Film
Never a Dull Moment
Chris Hayward
1950
Film
The Rains of Ranchipur
Thomas "Tom" Ransome
1955
Film
On Our Merry Way
Al
1948
Film
Singapore
Matt Gordon
1947
Film
The Princess Comes Across
King Mantell
1936
Film
Where Do We Go from Here?
Bill Morgan
1945
Film
Son of Flubber
Ned Brainard
1963
Film
At Gunpoint
Jack Wright
1955
Film
Joys
Self
1976
Film
Charley and the Angel
Charley Appleby
1973
Film
Fair Wind to Java
Captain Boll
1953
Film
Invitation to Happiness
Albert 'King' Cole
1939
Film
Star Spangled Rhythm
Frank
1942
Film
The Miracle of the Bells
William 'Bill' Dunnigan
1948
Film
Hands Across the Table
Theodore Drew III
1935
Film
The Texas Rangers
Jim Hawkins
1936
Film
An Innocent Affair
Vincent Doane
1948
Film
The Gilded Lily
Peter Dawes
1935
Film
Follow Me, Boys!
Lemuel Siddons
1966
Film
Suddenly It's Spring
Peter Morely
1947
Film
Borderline
Johnny Macklin
1950
Film
Kisses for My President
Thad McCloud
1964
Film
The Bride Comes Home
Cyrus Anderson
1935
Film
Bon Voyage!
Harry Willard
1962
Film
Take a Letter, Darling
Tom Verney
1942
Film
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Self (archive footage)
1991
Film
The Oregon Trail
Neal Harris
1959
Film
The Shaggy Dog Kids
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
True Confession
Kenneth Bartlett
1937
Film
Father Was a Fullback
George Cooper
1949
Film
13 Hours by Air
Jack Gordon
1936
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
Self (uncredited)
1986
Film
Alice Adams
Arthur Russell
1935
Film
Swing High, Swing Low
Skid Johnson
1937
Film
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
(archive footage)
1985
Film
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Self
1954
Film
Girls Gone Wild
Extra (uncredited)
1929
Film
Little Old New York
Charles Brownne
1940
Film
Smoky
Clint Barkley
1946
Film
Dive Bomber
Joe Blake
1941
Film
This Is Bob Hope...
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Gala Day at Disneyland
Self
1960
Film
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
Film
One Night In Lisbon
Dwight Houston
1941
Film
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
Self
1978
Film
A Millionaire for Christy
Peter Ulysses Lockwood
1951
Film
The Moonlighter
Wes Anderson
1953
Film
Callaway Went Thataway
Mike Frye
1951
Film
Cocoanut Grove
Johnny Prentice
1938
Film
Virginia
Stonewall Elliott
1941
Film
Maid of Salem
Roger Coverman
1937
Film
New York Town
Victor Ballard
1941
Film
Disneyland '59
Self
1959
Film
Champagne Waltz
Buzzy Bellew
1937
Film
Too Many Husbands
Bill Cardew
1940
Film
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith
Narrator Prolog (uncredited)
1943
Film
Tiger Rose
Rancher
1929
Film
Murder, He Says
Pete Marshall
1945
Film
Exclusive
Ralph Houston
1937
Film
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle
Harry Ballinger
1975
Film
Inside 'the Swarm'
Self
1978
Film
Men Without Names
Agent Dick Grant, alias Richard Hood
1935
Film
Cafe Society
Crick O'Bannon
1939
Film
Sing, You Sinners
David Beebe
1938
Film
Men with Wings
Pat Falconer
1938
Film
Standing Room Only
Lee Stevens
1944
Film
Captain Eddie
Eddie Rickenbacker
1945
Film
Flight for Freedom
Randy Britton
1943
Film
Fred MacMurray: With Fondness
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
Self (uncredited)
1941
Film
Practically Yours
Daniel Bellamy
1944
Film
Honeymoon in Bali
Bill Burnett
1939
Film
Grand Old Girl
Sandy
1935
Film
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
1936
Film
The Chadwick Family
Ned Chadwick
1974
Film
Car 99
Trooper Ross Martin
1935
Film
Rangers of Fortune
Gil Farra
1940
Film
Atomic Energy Can Be A Blessing
Self - Presenter
1952
Film
Inside 'The Apartment'
Self (archive footage)
2008
A Thanksgiving Reunion with the Partridge Family and My Three Sons
1977