Fred MacMurray 08/30/1908 , (116 years old) in Kankakee, Illinois, USA

Known for department

Acting

Biography

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.

poster The Apartment (1960)

Jeff D. Sheldrake

poster The Caine Mutiny (1954)

Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer

poster Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

(in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)

poster The Shaggy Dog (1959)

Wilson Daniels

poster The Swarm (1978)

Maj. Clarance Tuttle

poster The Happiest Millionaire (1967)

Anthony J. Drexel Biddle

poster The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)

Thomas "Tom" Ransome

poster The Egg and I (1947)

Bob MacDonald

poster Pushover (1954)

Paul Sheridan

poster Alice Adams (1935)

Arthur Russell

poster The Miracle of the Bells (1948)

William 'Bill' Dunnigan

poster Borderline (1950)

Johnny McEvoy, aka Johnny Macklin

poster Follow Me, Boys! (1966)

Lemuel Siddons

poster Face of a Fugitive (1959)

Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid)

poster The Movie Orgy (1968)

Self (archive footage)

poster Good Day for a Hanging (1959)

Marshal Ben Cutler

poster Inside 'The Apartment' (2008)

Self (archive footage)

poster The Shaggy Dog Kids (2006)

Self (archive footage)

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