Fred MacMurray

Career timeline

1. 1908 · Born

   Born in Kankakee, Illinois, USA

2. 1929 · Screen debut

   Girls Gone Wild (Movie)

3. 1944 · Breakthrough

   Double Indemnity (Movie)

4. 1985 · Latest release

   George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (Movie)

5. 1991 · Died

   November 5, 1991

Career in numbers

1 1920s

13 1930s

24 1940s

24 1950s

8 1960s

3 1970s

2 1980s

• Comedy40
• Drama27
• Romance26
• Western12
• Family8
• Crime8

Highest-rated title The Apartment 1960 8.2 Most popular title The Apartment 1960 8.2

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside Fred MacMurray in our catalogue.

Robert Stevenson

4 titles together

Henry Fonda

3 titles together

Tim Considine

2 titles together

Nancy Olson

2 titles together

Dorothy Malone

2 titles together

Andy Devine

2 titles together

E.G. Marshall

2 titles together

Cecil Cunningham

2 titles together

1. 1985 George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey as (archive footage) Movie
2. 1982 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage) 6.6 Movie
3. 1978 The Swarm as Clarence 5.0 Movie
4. 1976 Bob Hope's World of Comedy as (archive footage) Movie
5. 1973 Charley and the Angel as Charley Appleby Movie
6. 1967 The Happiest Millionaire as Anthony Biddle 6.8 Movie
7. 1966 Follow Me, Boys! as Lemuel Siddons 6.7 Movie
8. 1964 Kisses for My President as Thad McCloud Movie
9. 1963 Son of Flubber as Ned Brainard 6.1 Movie
10. 1962 Bon Voyage! as Harry Willard 5.6 Movie
11. 1961 The Absent-Minded Professor as Ned Brainard 6.5 Movie
12. 1960 My Three Sons as Steve Douglas 6.6 TV
13. 1960 The Apartment as Jeff D. Sheldrake 8.2 Movie
14. 1959 The Oregon Trail as Neal Harris Movie
15. 1959 Face of a Fugitive as Jim Larsen (aka Ray Kincaid) 5.7 Movie
16. 1959 The Shaggy Dog as Wilson Daniels 6.3 Movie
17. 1959 Good Day for a Hanging as Marshal Ben Cutler Movie
18. 1958 Day of the Badman as Judge Jim Scott Movie
19. 1957 The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour as Fred MacMurray TV
20. 1957 Quantez as Gentry Movie
21. 1956 Gun for a Coward as Will Keough Movie
22. 1956 There's Always Tomorrow as Clifford Groves 7.2 Movie
23. 1955 At Gunpoint as Jack Wright Movie
24. 1955 The Rains of Ranchipur as Thomas "Tom" Ransome Movie
25. 1955 The 20th Century Fox Hour as Peterson TV
26. 1955 Screen Director's Playhouse as Peter Terrance TV
27. 1955 The Far Horizons as Cpt. Meriwether Lewis 6.3 Movie
28. 1954 The George Gobel Show as Fred MacMurray TV
29. 1954 Woman's World as Sid Burns 7.2 Movie
30. 1954 Pushover as Paul Sheridan 6.5 Movie
31. 1954 The Caine Mutiny as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer 7.3 Movie
32. 1953 General Electric Theater as Richard Elgin TV
33. 1953 Fair Wind to Java as Captain Boll Movie
34. 1951 Callaway Went Thataway as Mike Frye Movie
35. 1951 A Millionaire for Christy as Peter Ulysses Lockwood Movie
36. 1950 Never a Dull Moment as Chris Hayward Movie
37. 1950 Borderline as Johnny Macklin 5.6 Movie
38. 1949 Father Was a Fullback as George Cooper Movie
39. 1948 Family Honeymoon as Grant Jordan Movie
40. 1948 An Innocent Affair as Vincent Doane Movie
41. 1948 The Miracle of the Bells as William 'Bill' Dunnigan Movie
42. 1948 On Our Merry Way as Al Movie
43. 1947 Singapore as Matt Gordon 6.1 Movie
44. 1947 The Egg and I as Bob MacDonald 7.0 Movie
45. 1947 Suddenly It's Spring as Peter Morely Movie
46. 1946 Smoky as Clint Barkley Movie
47. 1945 Murder, He Says as Pete Marshall 6.8 Movie
48. 1945 Where Do We Go from Here? as Bill Morgan Movie
49. 1944 Double Indemnity as Walter Neff 8.1 Movie
50. 1944 And the Angels Sing as Happy Morgan Movie
51. 1943 Above Suspicion as Richard Myles 6.2 Movie
52. 1943 Flight for Freedom as Randy Britton Movie
53. 1943 No Time for Love as Jim Ryan 7.0 Movie
54. 1942 The Forest Rangers as Don Stuart Movie
55. 1942 Take a Letter, Darling as Tom Verney Movie
56. 1942 Star Spangled Rhythm as Frank Movie
57. 1942 The Lady Is Willing as Corey McBain Movie
58. 1941 Dive Bomber as Joe Blake 6.3 Movie
59. 1940 Too Many Husbands as Bill Cardew 6.4 Movie
60. 1940 Little Old New York as Charles Brownne Movie
61. 1940 Remember the Night as Jack Sargent 7.3 Movie
62. 1939 Honeymoon in Bali as Bill Burnett Movie
63. 1939 Invitation to Happiness as Albert 'King' Cole Movie
64. 1937 True Confession as Kenneth Bartlett 6.1 Movie
65. 1937 Exclusive as Ralph Houston Movie
66. 1937 Swing High, Swing Low as Skid Johnson Movie
67. 1936 The Texas Rangers as Jim Hawkins 6.6 Movie
68. 1936 The Princess Comes Across as King Mantell Movie
69. 1936 13 Hours by Air as Jack Gordon Movie
70. 1936 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine as Jack Hale 6.5 Movie
71. 1935 The Bride Comes Home as Cyrus Anderson Movie
72. 1935 Hands Across the Table as Theodore Drew III 7.0 Movie
73. 1935 Alice Adams as Arthur Russell 6.7 Movie
74. 1935 The Gilded Lily as Peter Dawes Movie
75. 1929 Girls Gone Wild as Extra (uncredited) Movie

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