George Murphy
Acting
Born 1902-07-04
Died 1992-05-03
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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George Murphy was an American dancer and stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a United States Senator. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first notable U.S. actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is the only United States Senator represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In movies, Murphy was known as a song-and-dance man and appeared in many big-budget musicals such as Broadway Melody of 1938, Broadway Melody of 1940 and For Me and My Gal. He made his movie debut shortly after talking pictures had replaced silent movies in 1930, and his career continued until he retired as an actor in 1952, at the age of 50. During World War II, he organized entertainment for American troops.
In 1951, he was awarded an honorary Academy Award. He was never nominated for an Oscar in any competitive category.
He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946. He was also a vice president of Desilu Productions and of the Technicolor Corporation. He was director of entertainment for presidential inaugurations in 1953, 1957 and 1961.
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Filmography
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The Merv Griffin Show
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
MGM Parade
The Thin Man
Show Business
Battleground
They Died with Their Boots On
That's Entertainment!
That's Entertainment! III
That's Dancing!
Step Lively
Woman Trap
Border Incident
It's a Big Country
Bataan
Broadway Melody of 1940
Ringside Maisie
Frank Capra's American Dream
Twenty Years After
Broadway Melody of 1938
This Is the Army
The Powers Girl
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Kid Millions
Tenth Avenue Angel
Cynthia
Letter of Introduction
Little Miss Broadway
London by Night
Big City
The Navy Comes Through
Talk About a Stranger
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
You're a Sweetheart
Show-Business at War
Up Goes Maisie
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
After the Dance
Walk East on Beacon
For Me and My Gal
The Hoaxters
Hollywood Hobbies
Little Nellie Kelly
The Women Men Marry
Public Deb No. 1
Rise and Shine
I'll Love You Always
No Questions Asked
The Mayor of 44th Street
Having Wonderful Crime
Top of the Town
Two Girls on Broadway
Tom, Dick and Harry
Hold That Co-ed
Risky Business
Broadway Rhythm
Jealousy
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine
The Public Menace
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