Fred MacMurray
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.
Acting
Movie
The Apartment
as Jeff D. Sheldrake
1960
Movie
Double Indemnity
as Walter Neff
1944
Movie
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
1982
Movie
The Caine Mutiny
as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
1954
Movie
The Swarm
as Maj. Clarance Tuttle
1978
Movie
The Absent-Minded Professor
as Ned Brainard
1961
Movie
Remember the Night
as Jack Sargent
1940
Movie
The Shaggy Dog
as Wilson Daniels
1959
TV
The Oscars
as Self
1953
Movie
Pushover
as Paul Sheridan
1954
Movie
There's Always Tomorrow
as Clifford Groves
1956
Movie
Son of Flubber
as Ned Brainard
1963
Movie
Alice Adams
as Arthur Russell
1935
Movie
The Egg and I
as Bob MacDonald
1947
Movie
The Happiest Millionaire
as Anthony Biddle
1967
Movie
Above Suspicion
as Richard Myles
1943
TV
My Three Sons
as Steve Douglas
1960
Movie
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
as Jack Hale
1936
Movie
Murder, He Says
as Pete Marshall
1945
TV
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Professor Ned Brainerd (archive footage)
1954
TV
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Self
1954
TV
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Wilson Daniels
1954
Movie
Dive Bomber
as Joe Blake
1941
Movie
Follow Me, Boys!
as Lemuel Siddons
1966
