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Fred MacMurray
Fred MacMurray

Fred MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991).

Frederick Martin MacMurray was an American actor and singer who appeared in over 100 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 (1944).


Through the 1960s, MacMurray appeared in numerous Disney films, including The Shaggy Dog (1959), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), and The Happiest Millionaire (1967). In 1960, he turned to television as Steve Douglas, the widowed father on My Three Sons, which ran on ABC from 1960 to 1965 and CBS from 1965 to 1972.


MacMurray appears with Donna Reed as Captain Meriwether Lewis in the American western film The Far Horizons (1955).

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