Biography: life and films
Fred MacMurray was an American actor whose birth name was Frederick Martin MacMurray. He was born in Kankakee, Illinois, USA on 30th August 1908 and died in Santa Monica, California, USA on 5th November 1991, aged 83.His best films as an actor include Wesley Ruggles's Invitation to Happiness (1939), Billy Wilder's crime-thriller Double Indemnity (1944), George Marshall's comedy Murder, He Says (1945), Edward Dmytryk's The Caine Mutiny (1954) and The Apartment (1960).
Fred MacMurray appeared in 88 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Mitchell Leisen (9 films), Wesley Ruggles (6), George Marshall (6), Edward H. Griffith (4), Robert Stevenson (2), Norman Tokar (2), Lloyd Bacon (2), Leslie Fenton (2), Jean Negulesco (2), Harry Keller (2), Charles Barton (2) and Billy Wilder (2).
His most frequent genres include: comedy (36 films), drama (26), comedy-romance (16), romance (13), Western (12), comedy-drama (7), Thriller (7), crime-thriller (4), Biography (4), history (2), comedy-thriller (2), War (2) and Fantasy (2).
Our average rating for Fred MacMurray over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Girls Gone Wild (1929) [a]
Tiger Rose (1929) [a]
Why Leave Home? (1929) [a]
Alice Adams (1935) [a]
Car 99 (1935) [a]
Grand Old Girl (1935) [a]
Hands Across the Table (1935) [a]
Men Without Names (1935) [a]
The Bride Comes Home (1935) [a]
The Gilded Lily (1935) [a]
The Princess Comes Across (1936) [a]
The Texas Rangers (1936) [a]
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) [a]
Thirteen Hours by Air (1936) [a]
Champagne Waltz (1937) [a]
Exclusive (1937) [a]
Maid of Salem (1937) [a]
Swing High, Swing Low (1937) [a]
True Confession (1937) [a]
Cocoanut Grove (1938) [a]
Men with Wings (1938) [a]
Sing You Sinners (1938) [a]
Cafe Society (1939) [a]
Honeymoon in Bali (1939) [a]
Invitation to Happiness (1939) [a]
Little Old New York (1940) [a]
Rangers of Fortune (1940) [a]
Remember the Night (1940) [a]
Too Many Husbands (1940) [a]
Dive Bomber (1941) [a]
New York Town (1941) [a]
One Night in Lisbon (1941) [a]
Virginia (1941) [a]
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) [a]
Take a Letter, Darling (1942) [a]
The Forest Rangers (1942) [a]
The Lady Is Willing (1942) [a]
Above Suspicion (1943) [a]
Flight for Freedom (1943) [a]
No Time for Love (1943) [a]
And the Angels Sing (1944) [a]
Practically Yours (1944) [a]
Standing Room Only (1944) [a]
Captain Eddie (1945) [a]
Murder, He Says (1945) [a]
Pardon My Past (1945) [a]
Where Do We Go from Here? (1945) [a]
Smoky (1946) [a]
Singapore (1947) [a]
Suddenly, It's Spring (1947) [a]
The Egg and I (1947) [a]
An Innocent Affair (1948) [a]
On Our Merry Way (1948) [a]
The Miracle of the Bells (1948) [a]
Family Honeymoon (1949) [a]
Father Was a Fullback (1949) [a]
Never a Dull Moment (1950) [a]
A Millionaire for Christy (1951) [a]
Callaway Went Thataway (1951) [a]
Fair Wind to Java (1953) [a]
The Moonlighter (1953) [a]
Pushover (1954) [a]
Woman's World (1954) [a]
At Gunpoint (1955) [a]
The Far Horizons (1955) [a]
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955) [a]
There's Always Tomorrow (1956) [a]
Gun for a Coward (1957) [a]
Quantez (1957) [a]
Day of the Bad Man (1958) [a]
Face of a Fugitive (1959) [a]
Good Day for a Hanging (1959) [a]
The Oregon Trail (1959) [a]
The Shaggy Dog (1959) [a]
The AbsentMinded Professor (1961) [a]
Bon Voyage! (1962) [a]
Son of Flubber (1963) [a]
Kisses for My President (1964) [a]
Follow Me, Boys! (1966) [a]
The Happiest Millionaire (1967) [a]
Charley and the Angel (1973) [a]
The Swarm (1978) [a]
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) [a]
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984) [a]
The best of American film noir
The brighter side of Franz Kafka
The very best French thrillers
