Fred MacMurray
Acting
Born 1908-08-30
Died 1991-11-05
Kankakee, Illinois, USA
137 credits
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Fredrick Martin '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.
He 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. He 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), he and fellow GI William Demarest are moving to Beaver Dam, WI to start a mink farm.
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Filmography
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Golden Globe Awards
What's My Line?
My Three Sons
The Steve Allen Show
The Oscars
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Dinah!
People's Choice Awards
The Bob Hope Show
The Jack Benny Program
This Is Your Life
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Apartment
The 20th Century Fox Hour
December Bride
Lux Video Theatre
The Hollywood Palace
The Wonderful World of Disney
Screen Director's Playhouse
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Tony Orlando and Dawn
Double Indemnity
The George Gobel Show
The Swarm
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
The Caine Mutiny
The Movie Orgy
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Pushover
The Absent-Minded Professor
The Happiest Millionaire
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Remember the Night
Breakdowns of 1942
The Shaggy Dog
Son of Flubber
Face of a Fugitive
Pardon My Past
The Far Horizons
Bon Voyage!
Follow Me, Boys!
General Electric Theater
Joys
Quantez
There's Always Tomorrow
The Egg and I
No Time for Love
Above Suspicion
Dive Bomber
The Forest Rangers
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
On Our Merry Way
The Princess Comes Across
The Texas Rangers
Disneyland '59
Day of the Badman
Gun for a Coward
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
The Miracle of the Bells
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