Fred MacMurray
American actor known for Double Indemnity and My Three Sons.
He became one of Hollywood's top leading men from the 1930s to the 1950s, appearing most often in light comedies.[1] The Disney Legend award was first given in 1987, and MacMurray was its inaugural recipient.[2]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Frederick Martin MacMurray
- Born
- 30 August 1908
- Birthplace
- Kankakee, Illinois, U.S.
- Died
- 5 November 1991
- Place of death
- Santa Monica, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- Actor
- Resting place
- Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
- Years active
- 1929–1978
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
In 1928, he chauffeured his mother to Los Angeles, where he found extra work earning $10 a day and played saxophone with the California Collegians.[3] The band was hired for Broadway's Three's a Crowd (1930–31), leading to a role in the musical Roberta (1933–34).[4] MacMurray appeared with Katharine Hepburn in Alice Adams, with Joan Crawford in Above Suspicion, and with Carole Lombard in four films: Hands Across the Table, The Princess Comes Across, Swing High, Swing Low, and True Confession.[5] Pneumonia caused MacMurray's death on November 5, 1991, in Santa Monica, California; he had also been suffering from leukemia for over a decade.[6]
What the cited sources add
The Mouseplanet account notes that MacMurray called his seven Disney films "the pleasantest times I’ve had in the picture business"[7] The Academy Film Archive holds a collection of around 90 items featuring MacMurray and wife June Haver, donated in 2006 by the Fred and June MacMurray Trust.[1] The Gizmodo article describes MacMurray's role in The Swarm as part of a "sweet elderly love triangle" with Olivia de Havilland and Ben Johnson.[8] The IBDB record confirms MacMurray's Broadway credits in Three's a Crowd and Roberta.[9]
Artist C. C. Beck stated that MacMurray served as the model for the comic book superhero Captain Marvel, a fact noted in a source from 2009.[7]
References
- "Fred MacMurry-June Haver Collection", Academy Film Archive, September 4, 2014. facts only, no text reused. oscars.org
- Wikipedia, "Fred MacMurray" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Fred MacMurray: The First Disney Legend", Mouseplanet.com, August 26, 2009 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Fred MacMurray" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Courier-Journal 05 Jan 1947, page Page 29", Newspapers.com; "The San Francisco Examiner 13 Nov 1934, page 12", Newspapers.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Fred MacMurray" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Cincinnati Enquirer 12 Jan 1947, page 56", Newspapers.com; The Broadway League, "IBDb", IBDb; Watters, "Mr. Un-Modern Fred MacMurray", Los Angeles Times, 2011-10-01 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Fred MacMurray" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Flint, "Fred MacMurray Is Dead at 83; Versatile Film and Television Star", The New York Times, November 6, 1991; "How My Three Sons star Fred MacMurray became one of the wealthiest actors in the biz" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Fred MacMurray" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Flint, "Fred MacMurray Is Dead at 83; Versatile Film and Television Star", The New York Times, November 6, 1991 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Fred MacMurray: The First Disney Legend", Mouseplanet.com, August 26, 2009. facts only, no text reused. mouseplanet.com
- "The Swarm Is a Disaster Movie Only a Murder Hornet Could Love", Gizmodo, 2020-05-11. facts only, no text reused. gizmodo.com
- The Broadway League, "IBDb", IBDb. facts only, no text reused. ibdb.com
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Fred MacMurray (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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