Fred MacMurray
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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PHOTOS
TV Series
December Bride
5.5
The Colgate Comedy Hour
6.8
My Three Sons
6.5
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
8.643
General Electric Theater
6.25
The Hollywood Palace
4.5
This Is Your Life
6.455
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
6
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
6.3
The Steve Allen Show
5.6
The Oscars
7
Tony Orlando and Dawn
3.5
The George Gobel Show
7.333
General Electric Theater
6.25
Dinah!
6.667
The Bob Hope Show
7
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
People's Choice Awards
8.8
The 20th Century Fox Hour
5.429
Lux Video Theatre
6.333
The Wonderful World of Disney
7.774
The George Gobel Show
7.333
What's My Line?
6.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
7.774
Screen Director's Playhouse
6.5
Golden Globe Awards
7
Golden Globe Awards
7
Movies
The Apartment
8.197
Double Indemnity
8.11
The Caine Mutiny
7.174
Inside 'The Apartment'
0
The Movie Orgy
6.5
Pushover
6.5
The Princess Comes Across
6.1
Hands Across the Table
6.8
No Time for Love
6.6
The Happiest Millionaire
6.8
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.637
Above Suspicion
6.5
Follow Me, Boys!
6.571
Remember the Night
7.3
The Egg and I
7
Good Day for a Hanging
6.2
The Miracle of the Bells
5.929
There's Always Tomorrow
7.1
Alice Adams
6.7
The Shaggy Dog
6.13
Face of a Fugitive
5.5
Borderline
5.4
The Rains of Ranchipur
4.9
Dive Bomber
6.293
The Swarm
4.927
The Shaggy Dog Kids
0
Fred MacMurray: With Fondness
0
The Absent-Minded Professor
6.5
The Texas Rangers
6.4
Invitation to Happiness
0
Son of Flubber
5.9
Los Angeles Plays Itself
7.6
The Lady Is Willing
6.6
Singapore
6.075
On Our Merry Way
5.5
The Gilded Lily
6.4
Maid of Salem
5.9
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
6.433
The Far Horizons
6.2
Gun for a Coward
5.583
Family Honeymoon
5.7
New York Town
10
Honeymoon in Bali
6.2
Swing High, Swing Low
5.1
Take a Letter, Darling
6.417
Bon Voyage!
5.286
Charley and the Angel
5.2
Too Many Husbands
6.3
Star Spangled Rhythm
5.889
Father Was a Fullback
6
The Bride Comes Home
4.8
At Gunpoint
6.3
Murder, He Says
6.6
Inside 'the Swarm'
10
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
6
Sing, You Sinners
6.7
The Moonlighter
5.7
Woman's World
7.1
True Confession
5.8
Quantez
5.438
Flight for Freedom
5.429
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith
10
Suddenly It's Spring
4.3
Practically Yours
0
A Millionaire for Christy
6.4
Grand Old Girl
6.5
Kisses for My President
7
Pardon My Past
6
Standing Room Only
5
Smoky
5.2
Little Old New York
4
Virginia
0
Exclusive
6
Cocoanut Grove
0
Men with Wings
5
An Innocent Affair
3.75
And the Angels Sing
7
Car 99
5
13 Hours by Air
4.3
Where Do We Go from Here?
5.3
Fair Wind to Java
4.9
The Oregon Trail
5.3
Tiger Rose
0
The Forest Rangers
0
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
0
Cafe Society
6
Callaway Went Thataway
5.1
Never a Dull Moment
5.4
Men Without Names
6
Anthony Quinn: An Original
6.5
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle
4.8
Rangers of Fortune
5
Atomic Energy Can Be A Blessing
5
One Night In Lisbon
0
Captain Eddie
6
Champagne Waltz
0
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
0
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
0
Day of the Badman
6.5
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
5.7
Joys
4
Show-Business at War
7
The Chadwick Family
6
This Is Bob Hope...
8
A Star Is Born World Premiere
8
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
6
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
5.6
Gala Day at Disneyland
6
Disneyland '59
6.5
Breakdowns of 1942
6
Shadows of Suspense
0
It's a Most Unusual Day
0
A Thanksgiving Reunion with the Partridge Family and My Three Sons
0