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Fred MacMurray
Kankakee, Illinois, USA
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…
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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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2017
This Is Bob Hope...
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2008
Inside 'The Apartment'
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2006
The Shaggy Dog Kids
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2006
Fred MacMurray: With Fondness
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1996
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1991
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1990
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1988
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1986
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
Movie Self (uncredited)
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1985
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Movie (archive footage)
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1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Movie (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
- 1978
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1978
The Swarm
Movie Clarence
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1978
Inside 'the Swarm'
Movie Self
- 1977
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1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1976
Joys
Movie Self
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1975
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle
Movie Harry Ballinger
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1975
People's Choice Awards
TV show Self - Presenter
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1974
Tony Orlando and Dawn
TV show Self
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1974
Dinah!
TV show Self
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1974
The Chadwick Family
Movie Ned Chadwick
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1973
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV show Self
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1973
Charley and the Angel
Movie Charley Appleby
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1968
The Movie Orgy
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1967
The Happiest Millionaire
Movie Anthony Biddle
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1966
Follow Me, Boys!
Movie Lemuel Siddons
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1964
Kisses for My President
Movie Thad McCloud
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1964
The Hollywood Palace
TV show Self - Host
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1963
Son of Flubber
Movie Ned Brainard
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1962
Bon Voyage!
Movie Harry Willard
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1961
The Absent-Minded Professor
Movie Ned Brainard
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1960
My Three Sons
TV show Steve Douglas
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1960
The Apartment
Movie Jeff D. Sheldrake
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1960
Gala Day at Disneyland
Movie Self
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1959
The Oregon Trail
Movie Neal Harris
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1959
Disneyland '59
Movie Self
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1959
Face of a Fugitive
Movie Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
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1959
The Shaggy Dog
Movie Wilson Daniels
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1959
Good Day for a Hanging
Movie Marshal Ben Cutler
