Fred MacMurray
Gender: Male
Born: 30th August 1908
Died: 5th November 1991
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: My Three Sons, The Colgate Comedy Hour
Movies: Double Indemnity, Follow Me, Boys!, Pushover, Remember the Night, The Apartment, The Caine Mutiny, The Happiest Millionaire, Callaway Went Thataway, Maid of Salem, The Shaggy Dog, Alice Adams, The Swarm, The Egg and I, The Princess Comes Across, The Bride Comes Home, The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, Sing You Sinners, The Rains of Ranchipur, The Gilded Lily, Above Suspicion, Good Day for a Hanging, No Time for Love, Practically Yours, Hands Across the Table, Family Honeymoon, Father was a Fullback, Too Many Husbands, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Little Old New York, True Confession, Bon Voyage!, Charley and the Angel, New York Town, Honeymoon in Bali, Woman's World, Swing High, Swing Low, Never a Dull Moment, The Far Horizons, Dive Bomber, The Forest Rangers, Thirteen Hours by Air, There's Always Tomorrow, The Miracle of the Bells, The Lady is Willing, Face of a Fugitive, Borderline, My Favorite Blonde, Singapore, Fair Wind to Java, Murder, He Says, Kisses for My President, The Texas Rangers, A Millionaire for Christy, Grand Old Girl
Frederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s.
MacMurray is well known for his role in the 1944 film noir Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder, which he starred in with Barbara Stanwyck. Later in his career, he became better known as the paternal Steve Douglas, the widowed patriarch on My Three Sons, which ran on ABC from 1960–1965 and then on CBS from 1965–1972.
MacMurray was born in Kankakee, Illinois to Frederick MacMurray and Maleta Martin, both natives of Wisconsin. When MacMurray was two years old the family moved to Madison, Wisconsin and several years later settled in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where his mother had been born in 1880. He earned a full scholarship to attend Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. In college, MacMurray participated in numerous local bands, playing the saxophone.
In 1930, he recorded a tune for the Gus Arnheim Orchestra as a featured vocalist on All I Want Is Just One Girl on the Victor 78 label. Before he signed on with Paramount Pictures in 1934, he
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