Fred MacMurray
Acting
Biography
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. MacMurray 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. Fred 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), Fred and fellow GI William Demarest are moving to Beaver Dam, WI to start a mink farm.
Born: August 30, 1908
Place of Birth: Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Known For
New York Town
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith
Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiting execution, he recalls his life at home in the USA.
People's Choice Awards
An American awards show recognizing people in entertainment, voted online by the general public and fans.
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960, and originally served as part of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Its original network title was The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the first season, and The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Presents The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the following seasons. It was the successor to the classic comedy, I Love Lucy, and featured the same major cast members. The production schedule avoided the grind of a regular weekly series. Desilu produced the show, which was mostly filmed at their Los Angeles studios with occasional on-location shoots at Lake Arrowhead, Las Vegas and Sun Valley, Idaho. CBS reran the show under the "Lucy-Desi" title during the summers of 1962-1967, after which it went into syndication.
The Apartment
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Double Indemnity
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
This Is Bob Hope...
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
The Wonderful World of Disney
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
The Wonderful World of Disney
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, most recently on ABC and Disney+. The show is the second longest showing prime-time program on American television, behind its rival, Hallmark Hall of Fame. However, Hallmark Hall of Fame was a weekly program only during its first five seasons, while Disney remained a weekly program for more than forty years.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
as Maj. Clarance Tuttle
as Self
as Self
as Harry Ballinger
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Self
as Ned Chadwick
as Charley Appleby
as Self (archive footage)
as Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
as Lemuel Siddons
as Thad McCloud
as Self - Host
as Ned Brainard
as Harry Willard
as Ned Brainard
as Steve Douglas
as Jeff D. Sheldrake
as Self
as Neal Harris
as Self
as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
as Wilson Daniels
as Marshal Ben Cutler
as Judge Jim Scott
as Fred MacMurray
as Gentry
as Will Keough
as Self
as Self
as Clifford Groves
as Jack Wright
as Thomas "Tom" Ransome
as Peter Terrance
as Peterson
as Cpt. Meriwether Lewis
as Professor Ned Brainerd (archive footage)
as Sid Burns
as Paul Sheridan
as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
as Wes Anderson
as Self
as Richard Elgin
as Harry Wingate
as Captain Boll
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Mike Frye
as Peter Ulysses Lockwood
as Self
as Chris Hayward
as Self
as Johnny McEvoy, aka Johnny Macklin
as Self
as George Cooper
as Grant Jordan
as Vincent Doane
as Self
as William 'Bill' Dunnigan
as Al
as Matt Gordon
as Bob MacDonald
as Peter Morely
as Clint Barkley
as Eddie York / Francis Pemberton
as Pete Marshall
as Eddie Rickenbacker
as Bill Morgan
as Daniel Bellamy
as Walter Neff
as Happy Morgan
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Accepting Award for Best TV Show
as Lee Stevens
as Narrator Prolog (uncredited)
as Richard Myles
as Self
as Randy Britton
as Jim Ryan
as Self
as Don Stuart
as Tom Verney
as Frank
as Corey McBain
as Victor Ballard
as Self (uncredited)
as Joe Blake
as Dwight Houston
as Stonewall Elliott
as Gil Farra
as Bill Cardew
as Charles Brownne
as Jack Sargent
as Bill Burnett
as Albert 'King' Cole
as Crick O'Bannon
as David Beebe
as Pat Falconer
as Johnny Prentice
as Kenneth Bartlett
as Ralph Houston
as Skid Johnson
as Roger Coverman
as Buzzy Bellew
as Jim Hawkins
as King Mantell
as Jack Gordon
as Jack Hale
as Cyrus Anderson
as Theodore Drew III
as Arthur Russell
as Agent Dick Grant, alias Richard Hood
as Trooper Ross Martin
as Peter Dawes
as Sandy
as Rancher
as Extra (uncredited)