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person_profile-Don Murray

Don Murray Age: 95

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Don Murray

Date of Birth:

Jul 31, 1929

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Don Murray

    Donald Patrick "Don" Murray (born July 31, 1929) is 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.

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Don Murray

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Filmography of

Don Murray

Found 68 Movies in total

... 2025

Promise

Zacharias ( Actor )

... 2021

... 2015

... 2010

... 2010

Island Prey

Parker Gaits ( Actor )

... 2001

Internet Love

Self ( Actor )

... 1998

... 1997

Hearts Adrift

Lloyd Raines ( Actor )

... 1996

... 1994

Shurtleff on Acting

Self ( Actor )

... 1994

... 1991

Ghosts Can't Do It

Winston ( Actor )

... 1989

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

Jack Karpinsky ( Actor )

... 1989

Hollywood Uncensored

Self ( Actor )

... 1987

Made in Heaven

Ben Chandler ( Actor )

... 1987

The Stepford Children

Steven Harding ( Actor )

... 1987

Stillwatch

Sam Kingsley ( Actor )

... 1987

License to Kill

Tom Fiske ( Actor )

... 1986

Scorpion

Gifford Lease ( Actor )

... 1986

Something in Common

Theo Fontana ( Actor )

... 1986

Peggy Sue Got Married

Jack Kelcher ( Actor )

... 1986

Radioactive Dreams

Dash Hammer ( Actor )

... 1986

T.J. Hooker - Blood Sport

Senator Stuart Grayle ( Actor )

... 1986

... 1986

A Touch of Scandal

Benjamin Gilvey ( Actor )

... 1984

Quarterback Princess

Ralph Maida ( Actor )

... 1983

I Am The Cheese

David Farmer ( Actor )

... 1983

Thursday's Child

Parker Alden ( Actor )

... 1983

Return of the Rebels

Sonny Morgan ( Actor )

... 1981

Endless Love

Hugh ( Actor )

... 1981

... 1981

Fugitive Family

Peter Ritchie ( Actor )

... 1980

Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop

Sergeant Jack Leland ( Actor )

... 1980

The Boy Who Drank Too Much

Ken Saunders ( Actor )

... 1980

If Things Were Different

Robert Langford ( Actor )

... 1980

Crisis in Mid-Air

Adam Travis ( Actor )

... 1979

Rainbow

Frank Gumm ( Actor )

... 1978

Deadly Hero

Edward A. Lacy ( Actor )

... 1975

A Girl Named Sooner

Sheriff Phil Rotteman ( Actor )

... 1975

The Sex Symbol

Sen. Grant O'Neal ( Actor )

... 1974

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

William Martin ( Actor )

... 1974

Cotter

Cotter ( Actor )

... 1973

... 1972

Justin Morgan Had a Horse

Justin Morgan ( Actor )

... 1972

Happy Birthday, Wanda June

Herb Shuttle ( Actor )

... 1971

The Intruders

Sam Garrison ( Actor )

... 1970

Daughter of the Mind

Dr. Alex Lauder ( Actor )

... 1969

The Viking Queen

Justinian ( Actor )

... 1967

The Borgia Stick

Tom Harrison ( Actor )

... 1967

... 1967

The Plainsman

Wild Bill Hickok ( Actor )

... 1966

Kid Rodelo

Kid Rodelo ( Actor )

... 1966

Baby, the Rain Must Fall

Deputy Sheriff Slim ( Actor )

... 1965

One Man's Way

Norman Vincent Peale ( Actor )

... 1964

Marilyn

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

... 1963

Escape from East Berlin

Kurt Schröder ( Actor )

... 1962

Advise & Consent

Senator Brigham Anderson ( Actor )

... 1962

The Hoodlum Priest

Father Charles Dismas Clark ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1961

One Foot in Hell

Dan Keats ( Actor )

... 1960

... 1960

Shake Hands with the Devil

Kerry O'Shea ( Actor )

... 1959

These Thousand Hills

Albert Gallatin 'Lat' Evans ( Actor )

... 1959

From Hell to Texas

Tod Lohman ( Actor )

... 1958

A Hatful of Rain

Johnny Pope ( Actor )

... 1957

The Bachelor Party

Charlie Samson ( Actor )

... 1957

Bus Stop

Beauregard 'Bo' Decker ( Actor )

... 1956

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

Axel Nordman ( Actor )

... 1955