Most Recent Role: Himself on Biography
Birthplace: Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Birthday: 8-30-1908
Birth Name: Frederick Martin MacMurray
Date of Death: 11-5-1991
Cause of Death: Died of Pneumonia in Santa Monica, California, USA
Birthplace: Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Birthday: 8-30-1908
Birth Name: Frederick Martin MacMurray
Date of Death: 11-5-1991
Cause of Death: Died of Pneumonia in Santa Monica, California, USA
FRED's father, FREDERICK MACMURRAY was a concert violinist and his mother's name was MALETA MARTIN. He worked his way through Carroll College in Wisconsin by playing the saxaphone and singing. He was with several traveling band and while in California, he was an extra in several 1920's films. He was with the CALIFORNIAN COLLEGIANS in a BROADWAY revue in 1930. In 1933 he was with the same group...
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Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door.
Saturday 23 October 1999 on A&E
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door. Profile of the actor who became the prototype for the genial, well-meaning father. Despite a long film career during which he portrayed several villains, including the cad in "Double Indemnity", Fred MacMurray is best known for his 12-year stint as the devoted...
Fred MacMurray's father was a concert violinist, and young Fred made his stage debut playing alongside his father.
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Fred MacMurray met his first wife, Lillian Lamont, while they were both appearing in the Broadway production of "Roberta" in 1933.
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Walt Disney personally cast Fred MacMurray in The Shaggy Dog, which was Disney's first live-action comedy.
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In 1987, Fred MacMurray was inducted as a "Disney Legend," as recognition for his performances in The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber and other Disney classics.
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From 1930 to 1931, Fred MacMurray played clarinet and tenor saxophone in Gus Arnheim's band. MacMurray was also a vocalist on the band's recording of "All I Want is Just One" in 1930.
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Fred MacMurray: (on working with Preston Sturges) At the end of this shoot, he said "It's been a pleasure working with you" and I said, "I wish I could say the same about you." I don't like to be that way, but he was terrible, very cruel.
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Fred MacMurray: Carole Lombard was a wonderful girl. Swore like a man. Other women try, but she really did.
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Fred MacMurray: A cowboy actor needs two changes of expression - hat on and hat off.
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Fred MacMurray: I take my movie parts as they come. I don't fly into an emotional storm about them. I just do them. I guess I am an offhand comedian in a natural way.
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Fred MacMurray: I was lucky enough to make four pictures with Barbara [Stanwyck]. In the first I turned her in, in the second I killed her, in the third I left her for another woman, and in the fourth I pushed her over a waterfall. The one thing all these pictures had in common was that I fell in love with Barbara Stanwyck - and I did, too.
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My Three Sons
Steve Douglas (1960-72) |
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Disneyland
Charley Appleby |
Disneyland
Dr. Ned Brainard |
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My Three Sons
Fergus McBain Douglas |
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Biography
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door. Himself |
Cimarron City
I, The People |
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December Bride
The Fred MacMurray Show Himself |
Dinah
October 25, 1976 Himself |
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Four Star Revue
March 14, 1953 Guest |
Four Star Revue
April 26, 1952 Guest |
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