Profile
Fred MacMurray
Actor
Male
Born
Aug 30, 1908
Hometown
Kankakee, Illinois
Died
Nov 5, 1991
Death Place
Santa Monica, Cal...
Other Names
Frederick Martin ...
Frederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray 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… Read More
Romance
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Lillian LamontMarried 1936 - 1953
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1908
Birth
Born on August 30, 1908.
TWENTIES
1930
21 Years Old
In 1930, MacMurray 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.
1934
25 Years Old
Before he signed on with Paramount Pictures in 1934, he appeared on Broadway in Three's a Crowd (1930–31) and alongside Sydney Greenstreet and Bob Hope in Roberta (1933–34).
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1936
27 Years Old
MacMurray was married twice. He married Lillian Lamont, his first wife, on June 20, 1936, and the couple adopted two children, Susan (b. 1940) and Robert (b. 1946).
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THIRTIES
1944
35 Years Old
Despite being typecast as a "nice guy," MacMurray often said his best roles were when he was cast against type by Wilder. In 1944, he played the role of Walter Neff, an insurance salesman (numerous other actors had turned the role down) who plots with a greedy wife Barbara Stanwyck to murder her husband in Double Indemnity (1944).
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FORTIES
1954
45 Years Old
In another turn in the "not so nice" category, MacMurray played the cynical, duplicitous Lieutenant Thomas Keefer in 1954's The Caine Mutiny.
1958
49 Years Old
In 1958, he guest starred in the premiere episode of NBC's Cimarron City western series, with George Montgomery and John Smith.
FIFTIES
1959
50 Years Old
MacMurray's career was revitalized in 1959, when he was cast as the father in the popular Disney Studios comedy, The Shaggy Dog.
1960
51 Years Old
From 1960 to 1972, he starred in My Three Sons, one of the longest-running television series in the United States.
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1968
59 Years Old
He was a staunch supporter of the Republican Party. He joined Bob Hope and James Stewart to campaign for Richard Nixon in 1968.
LATE ADULTHOOD
MacMurray suffered from throat cancer in the late 1970s and it reappeared in 1987; he also suffered a severe stroke at Christmas 1988 which left his right side paralyzed and his speech affected, although with therapy he was able to make a 90% recovery.
1991
83 Years Old
After suffering from leukemia for more than a decade, MacMurray died from pneumonia in November 1991, aged 83 in Santa Monica.
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