
Fredrick Martin 'Fred' MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor and musician. He was educated at Carroll College, Wisconsin, and played with a Chicago orchestra for more than a year. Then he joined an orchestra in Hollywood where he played, did some recording and played extra roles. He then joined a comedy stage band, California Collegians, and went to New York. There he joined "Three's A Crowd" revue on Broadway and on the road. After this show closed, he returned to California and worked in vaudeville. He played the vaudeville circuits and night clubs until cast for major role in "Roberta". Signed by Paramount in 1935.
He was raised in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin from the age of 5, eventually graduating from Beaver Dam High School (currently the site of Beaver Dam Middle School), where he was a 3-sport star in football, baseball, and basketball. He retained a special place in his heart for his small-town Wisconsin upbringing, referring at any opportunity in magazine articles or interviews to the lifelong friends and cherished memories of Beaver Dam, even including mementos of his childhood in several of his films. In 'Pardon my Past' (1945), he and fellow GI William Demarest are moving to Beaver Dam, WI to start a mink farm.

The Apartment
1960 · as Jeff D. Sheldrake

Double Indemnity
1944 · as Walter Neff

The Caine Mutiny
1954 · as Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Keefer

The Swarm
1978 · as Maj. Clarance Tuttle

The Movie Orgy
1968 · as Self (archive footage)

Pushover
1954 · as Paul Sheridan

Quantez
1957 · as Gentry

Joys
1976 · as Self

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982 · as (in "Double Indemnity") (archive footage)

Family Honeymoon
1948 · as Grant Jordan

Follow Me, Boys!
1966 · as Lemuel Siddons

The Far Horizons
1955 · as Cpt. Meriwether Lewis

The Absent-Minded Professor
1961 · as Ned Brainard

Son of Flubber
1963 · as Ned Brainard

There's Always Tomorrow
1956 · as Clifford Groves

Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976 · as Self (archive footage)

Disneyland '59
1959 · as Self

On Our Merry Way
1948 · as Al