Biography
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 wo...
Known For
Complete Filmography

This Is Bob Hope...
2017
as Self (archive footage)
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the ent...

Inside 'The Apartment'
2008
as Self (archive footage)
A 2007 documentary on the making of "The Apartment."

Shadows of Suspense
2006
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary featuring film historians, directors and authors discussing the making of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity."

The Shaggy Dog Kids
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Reminiscences by the kids from the original 1959 Disney film.

Fred MacMurray: With Fondness
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Actors remember the great Fred MacMurray.

Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity (archive footage)
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen ...

Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
1996
as Self (archive footage)
Amiable and unassuming, Fred MacMurray went from small-town boy to one of Hollywood and television's most enduring stars.

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
1991
as Self (archive footage)
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907-90), a Hollywood legend.

Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990
as Self (archive footage)
Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident. Thus began the story of a man who had a thousand ...

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
as Self (archive footage)
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist...

NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
1978
as Self
Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Disney’s Wonderful World, Walt Disney, The Disney Sunday Movie, The Magical World of Dis...

The Swarm
1978
as Maj. Clarance Tuttle
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have...

Inside 'the Swarm'
1978
as Self
A behind-the-scenes/Making of documentary short focused on Irwin Allen's all-star disaster flick The Swarm.
A Thanksgiving Reunion with the Partridge Family and My Three Sons
1977

Joys
1976
as Self
Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies t...

Beyond the Bermuda Triangle
1975
as Harry Ballinger
A retired businessman notices that there has been a rash of ships and planes disappearing off the Florida coast, and he starts to investigate.

The Chadwick Family
1974
as Ned Chadwick
A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, also consists of two sons-in-law and his youngest dau...

Charley and the Angel
1973
as Charley Appleby
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be...

The Movie Orgy
1968
as Self (archive footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov...

The Happiest Millionaire
1967
as Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, ...

Follow Me, Boys!
1966
as Lemuel Siddons
Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle down, he finds a job as a stockboy in the general sto...

Kisses for My President
1964
as Thad McCloud
A hapless husband takes a back seat to his wife, the first female president of the United States.

Son of Flubber
1963
as Ned Brainard
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hope...

Bon Voyage!
1962
as Harry Willard
The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Harry Willard believes that the greatest p...

The Absent-Minded Professor
1961
as Ned Brainard
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a har...

The Apartment
1960
as Jeff D. Sheldrake
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apart...

Gala Day at Disneyland
1960
as Self
The gala dedication ceremonies at the opening of three new major attractions at Disneyland—Matterhorn Bobsleds, Submarine Voyage, and the new Monorail...

The Oregon Trail
1959
as Neal Harris
In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He hopes to confirm a rumor that President Polk is sen...

Disneyland '59
1959
as Self
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disn...

Face of a Fugitive
1959
as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. But he cannot sett...

The Shaggy Dog
1959
as Wilson Daniels
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an...

Good Day for a Hanging
1959
as Marshal Ben Cutler
As a youth, Eddie came into the town with his gang to rob the bank, but was caught and convicted. Marshal Ben helped him to become a honorable citizen...

Day of the Badman
1958
as Judge Jim Scott
Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee.

Quantez
1957
as Gentry
A gang of bank robbers with a posse in hot pursuit. Riding into the desert, they take refuge in Quantez, a small town they find deserted. Their horses...

Gun for a Coward
1956
as Will Keough
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion...
It's a Most Unusual Day
1956
as Peter Terrance
A married couple take in a nightclub show starring songwriter Jimmy McHugh and are prompted by his melodies to relive their past.

There's Always Tomorrow
1956
as Clifford Groves
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back ...

At Gunpoint
1955
as Jack Wright
A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.

The Rains of Ranchipur
1955
as Thomas "Tom" Ransome
India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in love with an indian doctor, Dr. Safti. She also mee...

The Far Horizons
1955
as Cpt. Meriwether Lewis
Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and ...

Woman's World
1954
as Sid Burns
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto indus...
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954
as Self
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Acade...

Pushover
1954
as Paul Sheridan
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.

The Caine Mutiny
1954
as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial ...

The Moonlighter
1953
as Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged, but, since Wes always worked at night, they don't...

Fair Wind to Java
1953
as Captain Boll
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vesse...

Atomic Energy Can Be A Blessing
1952
as Self - Presenter
For most of us, including actor Fred MacMurray who presents the film, the noun atom and the adjective atomic are synonymous with devastation, period. ...

Callaway Went Thataway
1951
as Mike Frye
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star is...

A Millionaire for Christy
1951
as Peter Ulysses Lockwood
Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his uncle has died and left him $2 million. Christy, who's i...

Never a Dull Moment
1950
as Chris Hayward
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madiso...

Borderline
1950
as Johnny McEvoy, aka Johnny Macklin
The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can't pin a single piece of evidence on him. After many ...

Father Was a Fullback
1949
as George Cooper
Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup, and...

Family Honeymoon
1948
as Grant Jordan
Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of Grant's former girlfriend Minna. But on t...

An Innocent Affair
1948
as Vincent Doane
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested i...

The Miracle of the Bells
1948
as William 'Bill' Dunnigan
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days...

On Our Merry Way
1948
as Al
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the ...

Singapore
1947
as Matt Gordon
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée...

The Egg and I
1947
as Bob MacDonald
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While...

Suddenly It's Spring
1947
as Peter Morely
A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.

Smoky
1946
as Clint Barkley
Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her ranch...

Pardon My Past
1945
as Eddie York / Francis Pemberton
Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.

Pardon My Past
1945
Producer
Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.

Murder, He Says
1945
as Pete Marshall
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visitin...

Captain Eddie
1945
as Eddie Rickenbacker
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the earl...

Where Do We Go from Here?
1945
as Bill Morgan
Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight problems with his history knowlege, so he sends Bi...

Practically Yours
1944
as Daniel Bellamy
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembe...

Double Indemnity
1944
as Walter Neff
A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance.

And the Angels Sing
1944
as Happy Morgan
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Po...

Standing Room Only
1944
as Lee Stevens
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms....

The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith
1943
as Narrator Prolog (uncredited)
Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiting execution, he recalls his life at home in the U...

Above Suspicion
1943
as Richard Myles
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

Show-Business at War
1943
as Self
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Flight for Freedom
1943
as Randy Britton
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of th...

No Time for Love
1943
as Jim Ryan
An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.

Breakdowns of 1942
1942
as Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

The Forest Rangers
1942
as Don Stuart
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prov...

Take a Letter, Darling
1942
as Tom Verney
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end...

Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
as Frank
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddie...

The Lady Is Willing
1942
as Corey McBain
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep t...

New York Town
1941
as Victor Ballard
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stef...

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
1941
as Himself
Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them.

One Night In Lisbon
1941
as Dwight Houston
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.

Virginia
1941
as Stonewall Elliott
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.

Dive Bomber
1941
as Joe Blake
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a ste...

Rangers of Fortune
1940
as Gil Farra
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his youn...

Too Many Husbands
1940
as Bill Cardew
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

Little Old New York
1940
as Charles Brownne
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

Remember the Night
1940
as Jack Sargent
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone ...

Honeymoon in Bali
1939
as Bill Burnett
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is...

Invitation to Happiness
1939
as Albert 'King' Cole
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.

Cafe Society
1939
as Crick O'Bannon
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.

Sing, You Sinners
1938
as David Beebe
Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thin...

Men with Wings
1938
as Pat Falconer
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. ...

Cocoanut Grove
1938
as Johnny Prentice
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.

True Confession
1937
as Kenneth Bartlett
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she ...

Exclusive
1937
as Ralph Houston
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government C...

Swing High, Swing Low
1937
as Skid Johnson
In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved i...

Maid of Salem
1937
as Roger Coverman
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachuse...

Champagne Waltz
1937
as Buzzy Bellew
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss a...

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936
as Self
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the...

The Texas Rangers
1936
as Jim Hawkins
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.

The Princess Comes Across
1936
as King Mantell
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a band...

13 Hours by Air
1936
as Jack Gordon
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves o...

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936
as Jack Hale
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.

The Bride Comes Home
1935
as Cyrus Anderson
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in h...

Hands Across the Table
1935
as Theodore Drew III
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

Alice Adams
1935
as Arthur Russell
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climb...

Men Without Names
1935
as Richard Hood
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

Car 99
1935
as Trooper Ross Martin
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie...

The Gilded Lily
1935
as Peter Dawes
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly loves...

Grand Old Girl
1935
as Sandy
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.

Tiger Rose
1929
as Rancher
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.