7.8
7.8
The Borgia Stick
1967
as Tom Harrison
Don Murray
Acting
Born:July 31, 1929
Died:February 2, 2024(aged 94)
Birthplace:Hollywood, California, USA
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CommunityBiography
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 book The Cross and the Switchblade (1970) starring Pat Boone and Erik Estrada, and he scripted two episodes of Knots Landing ("Hitchhike" parts 1 & 2) in 1980. Murray starred with Otis Young in the ground breaking ABC western television series The Outcasts (1968-69) featuring an interracial bounty hunter team in the post-Civil War West. Murray decided to leave Knots Landing after two years to concentrate on other projects, although some sources say he left over a salary dispute. The character's death was notable at the time because it was considered rare to "kill off" a star character. The death came in the second episode of season three, following up on season two's cliffhanger in which Sid's car careered off a cliff. To make viewers off doubt the character would actually die, Murray was listed in the newly created credit sequence for season three; the character survived the plunge off the cliff (thus temporarily reassuring viewers), but died shortly afterwards in hospital. Although he effectively distanced himself from the series after his exit in 1981, Murray later contributed an interview segment for Knots Landing: Together Again, a non-fiction reunion special made in 2005. Murray was the first husband of actress Hope Lange. They had two children, including actor Christopher Murray.
Filmography (80 movies)
7.8
7.8
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
1972
as Justin Morgan
7.7
7.7
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
as Self
7.5
7.5
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986
as Self
7.3
7.3
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015
as Self
7.2
7.2
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
1997
as Self
7.2
7.2
Advise & Consent
1962
as Senator Brigham Anderson
7.0
7.0
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
1999
as Self
7.0
7.0
I Am The Cheese
1983
as David Farmer
6.8
6.8
Quarterback Princess
1983
as Ralph Maida
6.8
6.8
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
1994
as Self
6.8
6.8
A Hatful of Rain
1957
as Johnny Pope
6.6
6.6
The Bachelor Party
1957
as Charlie Samson
6.6
6.6
Made in Heaven
1987
as Ben Chandler
6.5
6.5
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959
as Kerry O'Shea
6.5
6.5
Stillwatch
1987
as Sam Kingsley
6.4
6.4
Daughter of the Mind
1969
as Dr. Alex Lauder
6.4
6.4
These Thousand Hills
1959
as Albert Gallatin 'Lat' Evans
6.2
6.2
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1972
as Breck
6.1
6.1
Bus Stop
1956
as Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
6.1
6.1
Peggy Sue Got Married
1986
as Jack Kelcher
6.1
6.1
Baby the Rain Must Fall
1965
as Deputy Sheriff Slim
6.0
6.0
Crisis in Mid-Air
1979
as Adam Travis
6.0
6.0
Marilyn
1963
as Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
Hearts Adrift
1996
as Lloyd Raines
6.0
6.0
Something in Common
1986
as Theo Fontana
5.9
5.9
From Hell to Texas
1958
as Tod Lohman
5.9
5.9
Escape from East Berlin
1962
as Kurt Schröder
5.7
5.7
Endless Love
1981
as Hugh
5.7
5.7
Deadly Hero
1975
as Edward A. Lacy
5.7
5.7
The Cross and the Switchblade
1970
Writer
5.7
5.7
License to Kill
1986
as Tom Fiske
5.5
5.5
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
1971
as Herb Shuttle
5.5
5.5
Return of the Rebels
1981
as Sonny Morgan
5.4
5.4
The Hoodlum Priest
1961
Producer
5.3
5.3
Radioactive Dreams
1986
as Dash Hammer
5.2
5.2
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
1974
as William Martin
5.1
5.1
One Foot in Hell
1960
as Dan Keats
5.1
5.1
Hollywood Uncensored
1987
as Self
5.0
5.0
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
2017
as Self
5.0
5.0
Breathe
2008
Director
4.9
4.9
Sweet Love, Bitter
1967
as David Hillary
4.8
4.8
The Plainsman
1966
as Wild Bill Hickok
4.7
4.7
The Stepford Children
1987
as Steven Harding
4.7
4.7
A Girl Named Sooner
1975
as Sheriff Phil Rotteman
4.7
4.7
The Viking Queen
1967
as Justinian
4.5
4.5
The Intruders
1970
as Sam Garrison
4.0
4.0
Island Prey
2001
as Parker Gaits
3.9
3.9
Scorpion
1986
as Gifford Lease
3.3
3.3
One Man's Way
1964
as Norman Vincent Peale
3.2
3.2
Mr. Headmistress
1998
as Reporter
2.7
2.7
Mistress
1987
as Wyn
2.7
2.7
Ghosts Can't Do It
1989
as Winston
2.3
2.3
The Sex Symbol
1974
as Sen. Grant O'Neal
2.0
2.0
Hollywood Legenden
2004
as Self
2.0
2.0
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
1980
as Ken Saunders
1.5
1.5
Promise
2021
as Zacharias
1.0
1.0
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
1980
as Sergeant Jack Leland
1.0
1.0
Childish Things
1969
Producer
1.0
1.0
Thursday's Child
1983
as Parker Alden
1.0
1.0
Cotter
1973
as Cotter
Rainbow
1978
as Frank Gumm
If Things Were Different
1980
as Robert Langford
A Touch of Scandal
1984
as Benjamin Gilvey
Shurtleff on Acting
1994
as Self
Gold of Rio Bravo: Sheriff Kelly's Story
2025
Kid Rodelo
1966
as Kid Rodelo
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
1955
as Axel Nordman
Besuch bei Don Murray
2000
as Self
Winterset
1959
as Mio Romagna
Montana Crossroads
1993
as Frank Morrow
Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte
2007
as Self
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
2010
as Self
Marilyn, divine et fragile
1996
as Self
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
1987
as Self
My Dad Can't Be Crazy... Can He?
1989
as Jack Karpinsky
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
2008
as Self
T.J. Hooker: Blood Sport
1986
as Senator Stuart Grayle
Fugitive Family
1980
as Peter Ritchie
Damien's Island
1976
Director
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