1929-07-31 Hollywood, California, USA
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.
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Gold of Rio Bravo: Sheriff Kelly's Story | 2025-01-16 | |
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Promise | Zacharias | 2021-04-06 |
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Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers | Self | 2017-12-05 |
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Tab Hunter Confidential | Self | 2015-03-15 |
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Marilyn Monroe - Ich möchte geliebt werden | Self | 2010-02-10 |
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Marilyn Monroe - Tod einer Ikone | Self | 2010-02-10 |
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Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times | Self | 2008-11-04 |
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Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte | Self | 2007-01-01 |
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Hollywood Legenden | Self | 2004-01-01 |
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Island Prey | Parker Gaits | 2001-01-01 |
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Besuch bei Don Murray | Self | 2000-01-01 |
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Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man | Self | 1999-03-04 |
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Internet Love | Self | 1998-07-03 |
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Mr. Headmistress | Reporter | 1998-03-15 |
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Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years | Self | 1997-01-21 |
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Hearts Adrift | Lloyd Raines | 1996-08-07 |
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Marilyn, divine et fragile | Self | 1996-12-31 |
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Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess | Self | 1994-10-17 |
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Shurtleff on Acting | Self | 1994-07-14 |
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Self | 1991-10-28 |
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Ghosts Can't Do It | Winston | 1989-10-17 |
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My Dad Can't Be Crazy... Can He? | Jack Karpinsky | 1989-09-14 |
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Stillwatch | Sam Kingsley | 1987-02-10 |
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Hollywood's Hidden Secrets | Self | 1987-01-01 |
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Made in Heaven | Ben Chandler | 1987-11-06 |
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Hollywood Uncensored | Self | 1987-12-01 |
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The Stepford Children | Steven Harding | 1987-03-15 |
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Mistress | Wyn | 1987-10-04 |
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Scorpion | Gifford Lease | 1986-12-01 |
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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Self | 1986-04-19 |
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Something in Common | Theo Fontana | 1986-11-02 |
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License to Kill | Tom Fiske | 1986-12-16 |
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Peggy Sue Got Married | Jack Kelcher | 1986-10-10 |
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Radioactive Dreams | Dash Hammer | 1986-09-19 |
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T.J. Hooker - Blood Sport | Senator Stuart Grayle | 1986-05-21 |
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A Touch of Scandal | Benjamin Gilvey | 1984-11-27 |
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Thursday's Child | Parker Alden | 1983-02-01 |
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I Am The Cheese | David Farmer | 1983-11-11 |
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Quarterback Princess | Ralph Maida | 1983-12-03 |
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen | Pimp | 1981-02-13 |
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Return of the Rebels | Sonny Morgan | 1981-10-17 |
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Endless Love | Hugh | 1981-07-17 |
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Fugitive Family | Peter Ritchie | 1980-10-01 |
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Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop | Sergeant Jack Leland | 1980-04-28 |
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The Boy Who Drank Too Much | Ken Saunders | 1980-02-06 |
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If Things Were Different | Robert Langford | 1980-01-16 |
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Crisis in Mid-Air | Adam Travis | 1979-02-13 |
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Rainbow | Frank Gumm | 1978-11-06 |
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A Girl Named Sooner | Sheriff Phil Rotteman | 1975-06-18 |
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Deadly Hero | Edward A. Lacy | 1975-12-14 |
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The Sex Symbol | Sen. Grant O'Neal | 1974-09-17 |
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The Girl on the Late, Late Show | William Martin | 1974-04-01 |
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Cotter | Cotter | 1973-01-01 |
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes | Breck | 1972-06-29 |
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Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Justin Morgan | 1972-02-06 |
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June | Herb Shuttle | 1971-12-09 |
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The Intruders | Sam Garrison | 1970-11-10 |
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Daughter of the Mind | Dr. Alex Lauder | 1969-12-09 |
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Childish Things | Tom Harris | 1969-07-01 |
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The Viking Queen | Justinian | 1967-03-25 |
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The Borgia Stick | Tom Harrison | 1967-02-25 |
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Sweet Love, Bitter | David Hillary | 1967-01-30 |
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Kid Rodelo | Kid Rodelo | 1966-01-01 |
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The Plainsman | Wild Bill Hickok | 1966-08-01 |
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Baby the Rain Must Fall | Deputy Sheriff Slim | 1965-01-12 |
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One Man's Way | Norman Vincent Peale | 1964-02-26 |
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Marilyn | Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1963-04-18 |
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Escape from East Berlin | Kurt Schröder | 1962-10-22 |
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Advise & Consent | Senator Brigham Anderson | 1962-06-06 |
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The Hoodlum Priest | Father Charles Dismas Clark | 1961-03-26 |
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood | Self | 1960-01-10 |
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One Foot in Hell | Dan Keats | 1960-09-11 |
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Shake Hands with the Devil | Kerry O'Shea | 1959-06-24 |
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Winterset | Mio Romagna | 1959-10-26 |
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These Thousand Hills | Albert Gallatin 'Lat' Evans | 1959-05-07 |
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From Hell to Texas | Tod Lohman | 1958-04-29 |
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The Bachelor Party | Charlie Samson | 1957-04-09 |
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A Hatful of Rain | Johnny Pope | 1957-07-17 |
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Bus Stop | Beauregard 'Bo' Decker | 1956-08-31 |
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A Man Is Ten Feet Tall | Axel Nordman | 1955-10-02 |
