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FRED MacMURRAY
Fredrick Martin MacMurray was born on August 30, 1908 in Kankakee, Illinois to Frederick MacMurray and Maleta Martin, both natives of Wisconsin. When MacMurray was two years old the family moved to Madison, Wisconsin and several years later settled in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where his mother had been born in 1880. He earned a full scholarship to attend Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. In college, MacMurray participated in numerous local bands, playing the saxophone.  In 1930, he recorded a tune for the Gus Arnheim Orchestra as a featured vocalist on "All I Want Is Just One Girl" on the Victor 78 label. Before he signed on with Paramount Pictures in 1934, he appeared on Broadway in "Three's a Crowd" (1930 to 31) with Sydney Greenstreet and alongside Bob Hope in the original production of "Roberta" (1933 to 34).
Despite being typecast as a "nice guy", MacMurray often said his best roles were when he was cast against type by Wilder. In 1944, he played the role of Walter Neff, an insurance salesman (numerous other actors had turned the role down) who plots with a greedy wife Barbara Stanwyck to murder her husband in "Double Indemnity". Sixteen years later, he played Jeff Sheldrake, a two-timing corporate executive in Wilder's Oscar-winning comedy "The Apartment", with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon. In another turn in the "not so nice" category, MacMurray played the cynical, duplicitous Lieutenant Thomas Keefer in 1954's "The Caine Mutiny".
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Stats:
Height: 6' 2½"


Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: blue

Quote: "The two films I did with Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity (1944) and the The Apartment (1960), are the only two parts I did in my entire career that required any acting."
early days productions: Fred MacMurray  09/03/2010
1908 - 1991  
In his heyday, MacMurray worked with some of Hollywood's greatest names, including directors Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges and actors Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart and Marlene Dietrich. He played opposite Claudette Colbert in seven films, beginning with "The Gilded Lily". He co-starred with Katharine Hepburn in "Alice Adams" and with Carole Lombard in four films, "Hands Across the Table", "The Princess Comes Across", "Swing High, Swing Low" and "True Confession".   Usually cast in light comedies as a decent, thoughtful character ("The Trail of the Lonesome Pine") and in melodramas ("Above Suspicion" 1943) and musicals ("Where Do We Go from Here?" 1945), MacMurray had become one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors; for 1943, when his salary reached $420,000, he was the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, and the fourth highest-paid American.
MacMurray's career got its second wind beginning in 1959, when he was cast as the father figure in a popular Disney comedy, "The Shaggy Dog". In the 1960s, he starred in "My Three Sons", which ran for 12 seasons, making it one of America's longest-running television series. Concurrent with "My Three Sons", MacMurray stayed busy in films, starring in 1961 as Professor Ned Brainerd in Disney's "The Absent-Minded Professor" and in its sequel, "Son of Flubber", in 1964. Using his star clout, MacMurray had a provision in his "Sons" contract that all his scenes be shot first. This freed him to pursue his film work and golf hobby.
He was a staunch supporter of the Republican Party. He joined Bob Hope and James Stewart to campaign for Richard Nixon in 1968. He was also one of the wealthiest and, at the same time, most frugal actors in the business. Studio co-workers noticed that even as a successful actor, MacMurray usually brought a brown bag lunch to work, often with a hard-boiled egg. According to his co-star on "My Three Sons", William Demarest, MacMurray continued to bring dyed Easter eggs for lunch several months after Easter so as not to waste them. Friends and business associates jokingly referred to him as "the thrifty multimillionaire". After the cancellation of "My Three Sons" in 1972, MacMurray made only a few more film appearances before retiring in 1978.

MacMurray died from pneumonia in 1991, at age 83 in Santa Monica.
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Why Leave Home? (1929)
Tiger Rose (1929)
Grand Old Girl (1935)
The Gilded Lily (1935)
Car 99 (1935)
Men Without Names (1935)
Alice Adams (1935)
Hands Across the Table (1935)
The Bride Comes Home (1935)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
Thirteen Hours by Air (1936)
The Princess Comes Across (1936)
The Texas Rangers (1936)
Champagne Waltz (1937)
Maid of Salem (1937)
Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
Exclusive (1937)
True Confession (1937)
Cocoanut Grove (1938)
Men with Wings (1938)
Sing You Sinners (1938)
Cafe Society (1939)
Invitation to Happiness (1939)
Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
Remember the Night (1940)
Little Old New York (1940)
Too Many Husbands (1940)
Rangers of Fortune (1940)
Virginia (1941)
One Night in Lisbon (1941)
Dive Bomber (1941)
New York Town (1941)
The Lady Is Willing (1942)
Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
The Forest Rangers (1942)
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
Flight for Freedom (1943)
No Time for Love (1943)
Above Suspicion (1943)
Standing Room Only (1944)
And the Angels Sing (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Practically Yours (1944)
Where We Go from Here? (1945) 
Captain Eddie (1945)
Murder, He Says (1945)
Pardon My Past (1945)
Smoky (1946)
Suddenly, It's Spring (1947)
The Egg and I (1947)
Singapore (1947)
On Our Merry Way (1948)
The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
An Innocent Affair (1948)
Family Honeymoon (1949)
Father was a Fullback (1949)
Borderline (1950)
Never a Dull Moment (1950)
A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
Fair Wind to Java (1953)
The Moonlighter (1953)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Pushover (1954)
Woman's World (1954)
The Far Horizons (1955)
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
At Gunpoint (1955)
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
Gun for a Coward (1957)
Quantez (1957)
Day of the Bad Man (1958)
Good Day for a Hanging (1959)
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
Face of a Fugitive (1959)
The Oregon Trail (1959)
The Apartment (1960)
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
Bon Voyage! (1962)
Son of Flubber (1963)
Kisses for My President (1964)
Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
Charley and the Angel (1973)
The Swarm (1978)