Fred MacMurray
Biography
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1908-08-30
Place of birth
Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Images
Cast
The Apartment
1960
8.20
Double Indemnity
1944
8.11
The Caine Mutiny
1954
7.17
Inside 'The Apartment'
2008
0.00
The Movie Orgy
1968
6.50
Pushover
1954
6.50
The Princess Comes Across
1936
6.10
Hands Across the Table
1935
6.80
No Time for Love
1943
6.60
The Happiest Millionaire
1967
6.80
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
6.60
Above Suspicion
1943
6.50
Follow Me, Boys!
1966
6.57
Remember the Night
1940
7.30
The Egg and I
1947
7.00
Good Day for a Hanging
1959
6.20
The Miracle of the Bells
1948
5.93
There's Always Tomorrow
1956
7.10
Alice Adams
1935
6.70
The Shaggy Dog
1959
6.10
Face of a Fugitive
1959
5.50
Borderline
1950
5.40
The Rains of Ranchipur
1955
4.90
Dive Bomber
1941
6.29
The Swarm
1978
4.90
The Shaggy Dog Kids
2006
0.00
Fred MacMurray: With Fondness
2006
0.00
The Absent-Minded Professor
1961
6.50
The Texas Rangers
1936
6.40
Invitation to Happiness
1939
0.00
Son of Flubber
1963
5.90
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
7.60
The Lady Is Willing
1942
6.60
Singapore
1947
6.08
On Our Merry Way
1948
5.50
The Gilded Lily
1935
6.40
Maid of Salem
1937
5.90
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
6.43
The Far Horizons
1955
6.20
Gun for a Coward
1956
5.50
Family Honeymoon
1948
5.70
New York Town
1941
10.00
Honeymoon in Bali
1939
6.20
Swing High, Swing Low
1937
5.10
Take a Letter, Darling
1942
6.42
Bon Voyage!
1962
5.29
Charley and the Angel
1973
5.20
Too Many Husbands
1940
6.28
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
5.89
Father Was a Fullback
1949
6.00
The Bride Comes Home
1935
4.80
At Gunpoint
1955
6.30
Murder, He Says
1945
6.60
Inside 'the Swarm'
1978
10.00
Sing, You Sinners
1938
6.70
The Moonlighter
1953
5.70
Woman's World
1954
7.10
True Confession
1937
5.80
Quantez
1957
5.44
Flight for Freedom
1943
5.43
Suddenly It's Spring
1947
4.30
Practically Yours
1944
0.00
A Millionaire for Christy
1951
6.40
Grand Old Girl
1935
6.50
Kisses for My President
1964
7.00
Pardon My Past
1945
6.00
Standing Room Only
1944
5.00
Smoky
1946
5.20
Little Old New York
1940
4.00
Virginia
1941
0.00
Exclusive
1937
6.00
Cocoanut Grove
1938
0.00
Men with Wings
1938
6.00
An Innocent Affair
1948
3.75
And the Angels Sing
1944
7.00
Car 99
1935
5.00
13 Hours by Air
1936
4.30
Where Do We Go from Here?
1945
5.30
Fair Wind to Java
1953
4.90
The Oregon Trail
1959
5.30
Tiger Rose
1929
0.00
The Forest Rangers
1942
0.00
Cafe Society
1939
6.00
Callaway Went Thataway
1951
5.10
Never a Dull Moment
1950
5.40
Men Without Names
1935
6.00
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990
6.50
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle
1975
4.80
Rangers of Fortune
1940
5.00
Atomic Energy Can Be A Blessing
1952
5.00
One Night In Lisbon
1941
0.00
Captain Eddie
1945
6.00
Champagne Waltz
1937
0.00
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
1941
0.00
Day of the Badman
1958
6.50
Joys
1976
4.00
Show-Business at War
1943
7.00
The Chadwick Family
1974
6.00
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
8.00
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954
8.00
Gala Day at Disneyland
1960
6.00
Disneyland '59
1959
6.50
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
6.00
Shadows of Suspense
2006
0.00
It's a Most Unusual Day
1956
0.00