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Don Murray

Don Murray

Actor · Born 1929-07-31 · Hollywood, California, USA

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Biography

Donald Patrick "Don" Murray (July 31, 1929-February 2, 2024) was an American actor. Murray was born in Hollywood, California. He attended East Rockaway High School (class of 1947) in East Rockaway, New York where he played football and track, was a member of the student government and glee club and joined the Alpha Phi Chapter of the Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity. From high school he went on to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Murray had a long and varied career in films and television, including his role as Sid Fairgate in the long-running prime-time soap opera Knots Landing from 1979 to 1981. He was nominated for an Academy Award as best supporting actor in Bus Stop (1956) in which he co-starred with Marilyn Monroe. He starred as a blackmailed United States senator in Advise & Consent (1961), a film version of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Allen Drury that was directed by Otto Preminger and cast Murray opposite Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton. He also co-starred with Steve McQueen in the film Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) and played the ape-hating Governor Breck in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972). In addition to acting, Murray directed a film based on the…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Twin Peaks (1990) — Bushnell Mullins
  2. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) — Breck
  3. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) — Jack Kelcher
  4. Murder, She Wrote (1984) — Wally Hampton
  5. Endless Love (1981) — Hugh
  6. Bus Stop (1956) — Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
  7. Wings (1990) — Dad
  8. Matlock (1986) — Albert Gordon
  9. Advise & Consent (1962) — Senator Brigham Anderson
  10. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) — Self
  11. Made in Heaven (1987) — Ben Chandler
  12. Tab Hunter Confidential (2015) — Self
  13. Radioactive Dreams (1986) — Dash Hammer
  14. Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) — Deputy Sheriff Slim
  15. Knots Landing (1979) — Sid Fairgate
  16. Ghosts Can't Do It (1989) — Winston
  17. License to Kill (1986) — Tom Fiske
  18. Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981) — Pimp
  19. The Wonderful World of Disney (1954) — Justin Morgan
  20. How the West Was Won (1977) — Anderson
  21. From Hell to Texas (1958) — Tod Lohman
  22. A Hatful of Rain (1957) — Johnny Pope
  23. What's My Line? (1950) — Self
  24. The Wonderful World of Disney (1997) — Reporter
  25. Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) — Kerry O'Shea
  26. Hotel (1982) — Sam Burton
  27. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
  28. The Viking Queen (1967) — Justinian
  29. These Thousand Hills (1959) — Albert Gallatin 'Lat' Evans
  30. One Foot in Hell (1960) — Dan Keats
  31. Golden Globe Awards (1944) — Self - Presenter
  32. Escape from East Berlin (1962) — Kurt Schröder
  33. Police Story (1973) — Jack Bonner
  34. Deadly Hero (1975) — Edward A. Lacy
  35. Quarterback Princess (1983) — Ralph Maida
  36. The Stepford Children (1987) — Steven Harding
  37. ABC Afterschool Special (1972) — Jack Karpinsky
  38. Studio One (1948) — Biondello
  39. Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1997) — White Dragon / John James / Col. Quentin Shepherd
  40. Daughter of the Mind (1969) — Dr. Alex Lauder

Directed

  1. The Cross and the Switchblade (1970) — Director
  2. Damien's Island (1976) — Director
  3. Breathe (2008) — Director