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Frederick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films and a successful television series in a career that spanned nearly a half-century. His career as a major film leading man began in 1935, but his most renowned role was in Billy Wilder 's film noir Double Indemnity.
Fred MacMurray. Actor: Double Indemnity. Fred MacMurray was likely the most underrated actor of his generation. True, his earliest work is mostly dismissed as pedestrian, but no other actor working in the 1940s and 50s was able to score so supremely whenever cast against type. Frederick Martin MacMurray was born in Kankakee, Illinois, to Maleta ...
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- Kankakee, Illinois, USA
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- Santa Monica, California, USA
Fred MacMurray. Actor: Double Indemnity. Fred MacMurray was likely the most underrated actor of his generation. True, his earliest work is mostly dismissed as pedestrian, but no other actor working in the 1940s and 50s was able to score so supremely whenever cast against type.
- August 30, 1908
- November 5, 1991
God was sad on this date in 1991 when Fred MacMurray died of pneumonia in Santa Monica, CA. Fred started out as a musician, playing saxophone in the Coconut Grove Orchestra. Signed a contract with Paramount Pictures in 1934. He appeared in 87 films over a career than spanned 49 years.
Nov 6, 1991 · Nov. 6, 1991 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Fred MacMurray, the dapper and durable leading man in a series of fast-paced film comedies in the 1930s and ‘40s whose career was given a latent boost...
Nov 6, 1991 · Fred MacMurray, the personable, unassuming actor who starred in some of the best film comedies of the 1930's and 40's and was later the protagonist in popular Walt Disney fantasies and the...
May 4, 2024 · Fred MacMurray (born Aug. 30, 1908, Kankakee, Ill., U.S.—died Nov. 5, 1991, Santa Monica, Calif.) was an American film and television actor. The son of a professional violinist, MacMurray learned a number of musical instruments, including violin, baritone horn, and saxophone, and in 1926 began a career as saxophonist-singer-comedian in dance ...
