Fred MacMurray
Birthday: 1908-08-30
Place of Birth: Kankakee, Illinois, USA
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.
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The Apartment
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to ...
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Double Indemnity
A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on he...
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The Caine Mutiny
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first office...
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The Movie Orgy
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloop...
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Pushover
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing....
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The Princess Comes Across
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds...
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Hands Across the Table
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love....
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No Time for Love
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The Happiest Millionaire
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no acc...
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Above Suspicion
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe....
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Follow Me, Boys!
Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle dow...
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Remember the Night
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The Egg and I
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and movin...
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Good Day for a Hanging
As a youth, Eddie came into the town with his gang to rob the bank, but was caught and convicted. Ma...
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The Miracle of the Bells
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There's Always Tomorrow
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Alice Adams
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother ...
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The Shaggy Dog
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inoppo...
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Face of a Fugitive
A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the ...
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Borderline
The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can't ...
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The Rains of Ranchipur
India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in l...
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Dive Bomber
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protec...
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The Swarm
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisibl...
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The Absent-Minded Professor
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible mate...
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The Texas Rangers
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to ...
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Son of Flubber
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of ...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to ...
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The Lady Is Willing
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a bab...
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Singapore
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, h...
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On Our Merry Way
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where h...
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The Gilded Lily
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her bes...
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Maid of Salem
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a sc...
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans....
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The Far Horizons
Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from Fra...
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Gun for a Coward
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation f...
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Family Honeymoon
Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machina...
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New York Town
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City s...
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Honeymoon in Bali
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the...
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Swing High, Swing Low
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees...
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Take a Letter, Darling
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to ...
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Bon Voyage!
The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, ...
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Charley and the Angel
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will b...
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Too Many Husbands
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for ju...
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son a...
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Father Was a Fullback
Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-a...
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The Bride Comes Home
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, ...
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At Gunpoint
A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back....
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Murder, He Says
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opi...
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Inside 'the Swarm'
A behind-the-scenes/Making of documentary short focused on Irwin Allen's all-star disaster flick The...
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC....
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Sing, You Sinners
Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in ...
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The Moonlighter
Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged,...
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Woman's World
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wi...
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True Confession
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an...
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Quantez
A gang of bank robbers with a posse in hot pursuit. Riding into the desert, they take refuge in Quan...
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Flight for Freedom
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles ...
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The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith
Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiti...
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Suddenly It's Spring
A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce....
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Practically Yours
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, an...
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A Millionaire for Christy
Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle ...
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Grand Old Girl
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den....
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Kisses for My President
A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States....
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Pardon My Past
Eddie York is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble....
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Standing Room Only
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the...
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Smoky
Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the own...
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Little Old New York
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize hi...
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Virginia
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMur...
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Exclusive
Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on ...
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Men with Wings
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville an...
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An Innocent Affair
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ...
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And the Angels Sing
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing t...
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Car 99
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men...
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13 Hours by Air
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to Calif...
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Where Do We Go from Here?
Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight ...
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Fair Wind to Java
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American m...
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The Oregon Trail
In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He h...
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The Forest Rangers
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidenc...
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Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
Amiable and unassuming, Fred MacMurray went from small-town boy to one of Hollywood and television's...
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Cafe Society
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get...
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Callaway Went Thataway
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on t...
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Never a Dull Moment
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widow...
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Men Without Names
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory....
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Anthony Quinn: An Original
Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident....
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Beyond the Bermuda Triangle
A retired businessman notices that there has been a rash of ships and planes disappearing off the Fl...
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Rangers of Fortune
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they ...
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Atomic Energy Can Be A Blessing
For most of us, including actor Fred MacMurray who presents the film, the noun atom and the adjectiv...
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One Night In Lisbon
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference f...
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Captain Eddie
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver an...
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Champagne Waltz
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its ...
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kys...
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NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Disney’s Wonderful World, Walt Disney,...
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Day of the Badman
Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and h...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara S...
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Joys
Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of...
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Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....
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The Chadwick Family
A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, als...
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This Is Bob Hope...
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mas...
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest wo...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Fr...
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Gala Day at Disneyland
The gala dedication ceremonies at the opening of three new major attractions at Disneyland—Matterhor...
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Disneyland '59
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consis...
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Breakdowns of 1942
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942....
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It's a Most Unusual Day
A married couple take in a nightclub show starring songwriter Jimmy McHugh and are prompted by his m...
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