Fred MacMurray
American actor (1908-1991) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 83
Frederick Martin MacMurray was an American actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films and a successful television series in a career that spanned nearly a half-century. His career as a major film leading man began in 1935, but his most renowned role was in Billy Wilder's 1944 film noir Double Indemnity.
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Dead Men Don't Wear PlaidFilm, (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)1975
People's Choice AwardsSeries1974
Dinah!Series1973
Charley and the AngelFilm, Charley Appleby1967
The Happiest MillionaireFilm, Anthony Biddle1964
The Hollywood PalaceSeries1963
Son of FlubberFilm, Ned Brainard1961
The Absent-Minded ProfessorFilm, Ned Brainard1960
My Three SonsSeries, Steve Douglas1959
Face of a FugitiveFilm, Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)1956
The Dinah Shore Chevy ShowSeries
Gun for a CowardFilm, 1956Will Keough1955
Screen Director's PlayhouseSeries, Peter Terrance
The Far HorizonsFilm, 1955Cpt. Meriwether Lewis1953
General Electric TheaterSeries, Richard Elgin1952
This Is Your LifeSeries1950
BorderlineFilm, Johnny Macklin1948
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries1947
SingaporeFilm, Matt Gordon1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries
Double IndemnityFilm, 1944Walter Neff1941
Dive BomberFilm, Joe Blake1937
True ConfessionFilm, Kenneth Bartlett1935
Alice AdamsFilm, Arthur Russell1908Born30 August 1908People around Fred
Walt Disney Produced The Shaggy Dog and Son of Flubber
Wesley Ruggles Directed True Confession and The Gilded Lily
Mitchell Leisen Directed Hands Across the Table (1935)
William Demarest Also in Hands Across the Table (1935)
Buddy DeSylva Produced Double Indemnity and Standing Room Only
Fred Kohlmar Produced No Time for Love (1943)
Porter Hall Also in Double Indemnity (1950)- Bill Walsh Wrote The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
Claude Binyon Wrote The Princess Comes Across (1936)
Billy Wilder Produced The Apartment (1961)
Jean Negulesco Directed The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Lloyd Bacon Directed Captain Eddie and An Innocent Affair
A. Edward Sutherland Directed Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
Tommy Kirk Also in The Shaggy Dog (1959)- Charles Barton Directed The Shaggy Dog and Car 99
Elliott Reid Also in Follow Me, Boys! and Woman's World
Sidney Lanfield Directed Standing Room Only (1944)
Leslie Fenton Directed On Our Merry Way and Pardon My Past
Edward H. Griffith Directed One Night in Lisbon (1941)
Arthur Hornblow, Jr. Produced The Princess Comes Across (1936)- Harry Keller Directed Day of the Badman and Quantez
- Norman Tokar Directed The Happiest Millionaire (1968)
- Ralph Murphy Directed Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
- E. Lloyd Sheldon Produced Hands Across the Table (1935)
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The Apartment 1960
Double Indemnity 1944
Remember the Night 1940
There's Always Tomorrow 1956
The Caine Mutiny 1954
Filmography 40
143 credits on file
Television 24
Media & music
Photos 12
MacMurray with Carole Lombard in Hands Across the Table (1935)
MacMurray with Irene Dunne in a promotional photo for Invitation to Happiness (1939)
MacMurray with Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity (1944)
MacMurray (third from left) with the cast of My Three Sons in 1967
Left to right: James Stewart, MacMurray, Bob Hope and President Richard Nixon playing golf (1970)
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6421 Hollywood Boulevard
MacMurray's second wife, actress June HaverAwards
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From 1959 to 1973, MacMurray appeared in numerous Disney films, including The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor, Follow Me, Boys!, and The Happiest Millionaire. He starred as Steve Douglas in the television series My Three Sons.
