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Fred MacMurray
Known for: ActingFredrick 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.
Filmography 45
My Three Sons
as Steve Douglas 
The Apartment
+3
as Jeff D. Sheldrake 
Double Indemnity
+3
as Walter Neff 
The Caine Mutiny
+3
as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer 
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
+2
as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage) 
The Absent-Minded Professor
+1
as Ned Brainard 
The Swarm
+1
as Clarence 
Pushover
as Paul Sheridan 
The Shaggy Dog
as Wilson Daniels 
Son of Flubber
as Ned Brainard 
Remember the Night
as Jack Sargent 
Face of a Fugitive
as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid) 
The Far Horizons
as Cpt. Meriwether Lewis 
There's Always Tomorrow
as Clifford Groves 
The Princess Comes Across
as King Mantell 
The Egg and I
+1
as Bob MacDonald 
On Our Merry Way
as Al 
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as Jack Hale 
Day of the Badman
as Judge Jim Scott 
Good Day for a Hanging
+1
as Marshal Ben Cutler 
The Happiest Millionaire
+1
as Anthony Biddle 
Follow Me, Boys!
as Lemuel Siddons 
Gun for a Coward
as Will Keough 
Above Suspicion
+1
as Richard Myles 
The Gilded Lily
as Peter Dawes 
The Rains of Ranchipur
+1
as Thomas "Tom" Ransome 
Never a Dull Moment
as Chris Hayward 
Dive Bomber
+1
as Joe Blake 
Charley and the Angel
as Charley Appleby 
Kisses for My President
as Thad McCloud 
No Time for Love
as Jim Ryan 
Fair Wind to Java
as Captain Boll 
Maid of Salem
as Roger Coverman 
The Texas Rangers
as Jim Hawkins 
Alice Adams
as Arthur Russell 
Swing High, Swing Low
as Skid Johnson 
The Moonlighter
as Wes Anderson 
Hands Across the Table
as Theodore Drew III 
Quantez
as Gentry 
Bon Voyage!
as Harry Willard 
Anthony Quinn: An Original
as Self (archive footage) 
An Innocent Affair
as Vincent Doane 
Borderline
+1
as Johnny Macklin 
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
as Self (archive footage) 
Practically Yours
as Daniel Bellamy