Birth Day: 1908-08-30
Place of birth: Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Born to Maleta Martin and Frederick MacMurray (concert violinist). Fred sang and played in orchestras to earn tuition. He was educated at Carroll College, Wis. Fred 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. MacMurray 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. Fred 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), Fred and fellow GI William Demarest are moving to Beaver Dam, WI to start a mink farm.
Credits
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As Self (archive footage)
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As Walter Neff in Double Indemnity (archive footage)
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As (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)
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As Self
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As Maj. Clarance Tuttle
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As Self
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As Harry Ballinger
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As Ned Chadwick
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As Charley Appleby
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As Self (archive footage)
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As Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
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As Lemuel Siddons
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As Thad McCloud
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As Ned Brainard
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As Harry Willard
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As Ned Brainard
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As Himself
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As Jeff D. Sheldrake
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As Wilson Daniels
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As Marshal Ben Cutler
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As Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)
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As Neal Harris
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As Self
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As Judge Jim Scott
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As Gentry
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As Clifford Groves
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As Will Keough
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As Thomas "Tom" Ransome
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As Cpt. Meriwether Lewis
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As Jack Wright
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As Sid Burns
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As Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer
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As Self
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As Paul Sheridan
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As Wes Anderson
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As Captain Boll
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As Mike Frye
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As Peter Ulysses Lockwood
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As Johnny McEvoy, aka Johnny Macklin
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As Chris Hayward
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As George Cooper
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As William 'Bill' Dunnigan
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As Vincent Doane
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As Al
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As Grant Jordan
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As Peter Morely
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As Bob MacDonald
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As Matt Gordon
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As Clint Barkley
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As Eddie York / Francis Pemberton
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As Pete Marshall
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As Bill Morgan
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As Eddie Rickenbacker
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As Walter Neff
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As Happy Morgan
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As Daniel Bellamy
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As Lee Stevens
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As Randy Britton
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As Jim Ryan
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As Self
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As Richard Myles
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As Narrator Prolog (uncredited)
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As Corey McBain
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As Frank
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As Tom Verney
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As Don Stuart
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As Self
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As Himself
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As Victor Ballard
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As Dwight Houston
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As Joe Blake
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As Stonewall Elliott
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As Gil Farra
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As Jack Sargent
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As Charles Brownne
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As Bill Cardew
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As Crick O'Bannon
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As Albert 'King' Cole
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As Bill Burnett
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As Pat Falconer
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As Johnny Prentice
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As David Beebe
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As Buzzy Bellew
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As Roger Coverman
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As Kenneth Bartlett
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As Skid Johnson
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As Ralph Houston
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As King Mantell
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As Jack Hale
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As Jim Hawkins
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As Jack Gordon
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As Self
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As Sandy
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As Peter Dawes
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As Cyrus Anderson
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As Theodore Drew III
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As Arthur Russell
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As Richard Hood
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As Trooper Ross Martin
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As Rancher