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Fred MacMurray

Known for: Acting

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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Mytteriet på Caine 1954Movie Apple TV StoreBlockbusterSF Anytime as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
Bogart Junior 1982Movie SkyShowtimeAllenteViaplay +3 as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
The Shaggy Dog 1959Movie as Wilson Daniels
Pushover 1954Movie as Paul Sheridan
På flugt over prærien 1959Movie as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
Indianernes Krigslist 1955Movie Amazon Video as Cpt. Meriwether Lewis
The Egg and I 1947Movie as Bob MacDonald
Og regnen kom 1955Movie as Thomas "Tom" Ransome
Maid of Salem 1937Movie as Roger Coverman
19 år 1935Movie as Arthur Russell
Bon Voyage! 1962Movie as Harry Willard
Anthony Quinn: An Original 1990Movie as Self (archive footage)