Don Murray

ActorDirectorProducerWriter Jul 31 (died age 94) Hollywood, California, USA 1944–2025 (81 year career)

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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, i…

Known For

Film

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Breck

Film

Peggy Sue Got Married

Jack Kelcher

Film

Advise & Consent

Senator Brigham Anderson

Film

Bus Stop

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker

Film

Endless Love

Hugh

Film

Tab Hunter Confidential

Self

Film

Made in Heaven

Ben Chandler

Film

Knots Landing

Sid Fairgate

Filmography

Acting (113)

Movies (81)

Gold of Rio Bravo: Sheriff Kelly's Story

2025

Promise

2021

as Zacharias

1.5

Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers

2017

as Self

5.0

Tab Hunter Confidential

2015

as Self

7.3

Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved

2010

as Self

Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times

2008

as Self

Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte

2007

as Self

Hollywood Legenden

as Self

Island Prey

as Parker Gaits

Besuch bei Don Murray

2000

as Self

Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man

as Self

Mr. Headmistress

as Reporter

Internet Love

as Self

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years

1997

as Self

7.2

Marilyn, divine et fragile

1996

as Self

Hearts Adrift

1996

as Lloyd Raines

6.0

Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess

1994

as Self

6.8

Shurtleff on Acting

1994

as Self

Montana Crossroads

1993

as Frank Morrow

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as Self

Ghosts Can't Do It

as Winston

My Dad Can't Be Crazy... Can He?

1989

as Jack Karpinsky

Made in Heaven

as Ben Chandler

Hollywood Uncensored

as Self

Mistress

as Wyn

Stillwatch

as Sam Kingsley

The Stepford Children

1987

as Steven Harding

4.7

Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

1987

as Self

Something in Common

1986

as Theo Fontana

6.0

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

1986

as Self

7.5

Peggy Sue Got Married

as Jack Kelcher

Radioactive Dreams

as Dash Hammer

License to Kill

as Tom Fiske

T.J. Hooker: Blood Sport

1986

as Senator Stuart Grayle

Scorpion

1986

as Gifford Lease

3.9

A Touch of Scandal

1984

as Benjamin Gilvey

Quarterback Princess

as Ralph Maida

I Am The Cheese

as David Farmer

Thursday's Child

as Parker Alden

Endless Love

as Hugh

Return of the Rebels

as Sonny Morgan

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

1981

as Pimp

5.2

If Things Were Different

1980

as Robert Langford

Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop

1980

as Sergeant Jack Leland

1.0

Fugitive Family

1980

as Peter Ritchie

The Boy Who Drank Too Much

as Ken Saunders

Crisis in Mid-Air

as Adam Travis

Rainbow

as Frank Gumm

Deadly Hero

1975

as Edward A. Lacy

5.7

A Girl Named Sooner

1975

as Sheriff Phil Rotteman

4.7

The Sex Symbol

1974

as Sen. Grant O'Neal

2.3

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

as William Martin

Cotter

as Cotter

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

1972

as Breck

6.2

Justin Morgan Had a Horse

1972

as Justin Morgan

7.8

Happy Birthday, Wanda June

as Herb Shuttle

The Intruders

as Sam Garrison

Daughter of the Mind

as Dr. Alex Lauder

Childish Things

as Tom Harris

The Borgia Stick

as Tom Harrison

The Viking Queen

as Justinian

Sweet Love, Bitter

as David Hillary

The Plainsman

as Wild Bill Hickok

Kid Rodelo

as Kid Rodelo

Baby the Rain Must Fall

1965

as Deputy Sheriff Slim

6.0

One Man's Way

1964

as Norman Vincent Peale

3.3

Marilyn

1963

as Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.0

Advise & Consent

1962

as Senator Brigham Anderson

7.1

Escape from East Berlin

1962

as Kurt Schröder

5.9

The Hoodlum Priest

1961

as Father Charles Dismas Clark

5.4

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

as Self

One Foot in Hell

as Dan Keats

Shake Hands with the Devil

1959

as Kerry O'Shea

6.6

These Thousand Hills

1959

as Albert Gallatin 'Lat' Evans

6.4

Winterset

1959

as Mio Romagna

From Hell to Texas

as Tod Lohman

The Bachelor Party

as Charlie Samson

A Hatful of Rain

as Johnny Pope

Bus Stop

as Beauregard 'Bo' Decker

6.0

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

1955

as Axel Nordman

The Taming of the Shrew

1950

as Biondello

Television (32)

The Wonderful World of Disney

1997

as Reporter

6.7

Soldier of Fortune, Inc.

1997

as White Dragon / John James / Col. Quentin Shepherd

The Single Guy

as Chip Bremley

Sons and Daughters

as Bing Hammersmith

Twin Peaks

as Bushnell Mullins

Wings

as Dad

Brand New Life

Matlock

as Albert Gordon

Murder, She Wrote

as Wally Hampton

Hotel

as Sam Burton

Knots Landing

as Sid Fairgate

Knots Landing

as Sid Fairgate

How the West Was Won

as Anderson

Amy Prentiss

as Connors

Police Story

as Jack Bonner

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

1973

as Jack Stanley

6.7

ABC Afterschool Special

as Jack Karpinsky

The Outcasts

as Earl Corey

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.4

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

Playhouse 90

as Randy Bragg

The Wonderful World of Disney

as Justin Morgan

Producers' Showcase

as Henry Antrobus

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Mio

What's My Line?

as Self

Danger

Lux Video Theatre

as Jimmy

The Philco Television Playhouse

Studio One

as Biondello

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Kraft Television Theatre

as George

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

Crew (12)

Movies (10)

Breathe

Director

Breathe

Producer

Damien's Island

Director

The Cross and the Switchblade

1970

Director

5.8

The Cross and the Switchblade

Writer

Childish Things

Producer

Childish Things

Writer

The Hoodlum Priest

Original Story

The Hoodlum Priest

Producer

The Hoodlum Priest

Screenplay

Television (2)

Knots Landing

Writer

Playhouse 90

Writer