credits of
Don Murray
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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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January 16th, 2025 | Gold of Rio Bravo: Sheriff Kelly's Story | TBD | TBD | |
May 11th, 2022 | Marilyn, Her Final Secret | TBD | 6.5 | |
April 6th, 2021 | Promise | Zacharias | 3 | |
December 5th, 2017 | Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers | Self | 5 | |
March 15th, 2015 | Tab Hunter Confidential | Self | 7.3 | |
July 15th, 2012 | Marilyn Monroe: In The Movies | TBD | 7 | |
June 18th, 2012 | Marilyn despite herself | TBD | 8 | |
February 10th, 2010 | Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved | Self | TBD | |
November 4th, 2008 | Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times | Self | TBD | |
January 1st, 2007 | Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte | Self | TBD | |
January 1st, 2004 | Hollywood Legenden | Self | 4.5 | |
January 1st, 2001 | Island Prey | Parker Gaits | 4.8 | |
January 1st, 2000 | Besuch bei Don Murray | Self | TBD | |
March 4th, 1999 | Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man | Self | 8 | |
July 3rd, 1998 | Internet Love | Self | 10 | |
March 15th, 1998 | Mr. Headmistress | Reporter | 4.6 | |
January 21st, 1997 | Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years | Self | 7.2 | |
December 31st, 1996 | Marilyn, divine et fragile | Self | TBD | |
August 7th, 1996 | Hearts Adrift | Lloyd Raines | 7.5 | |
October 17th, 1994 | Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess | Self | 6.9 | |
July 14th, 1994 | Shurtleff on Acting | Self | TBD | |
December 9th, 1993 | Montana Crossroads | Frank Morrow | TBD | |
October 28th, 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | Self | 8 | |
October 17th, 1989 | Ghosts Can't Do It | Winston | 2.8 | |
September 14th, 1989 | My Dad Can't Be Crazy... Can He? | Jack Karpinsky | TBD | |
August 20th, 1988 | Remembering Marilyn | TBD | 9 | |
December 1st, 1987 | Hollywood Uncensored | Self | 5.4 | |
November 6th, 1987 | Made in Heaven | Ben Chandler | 6.5 | |
October 4th, 1987 | Mistress | Wyn | 4.3 | |
August 5th, 1987 | Norma Jean Alias Marilyn Monroe | archive footage | 9 | |
March 15th, 1987 | The Stepford Children | Steven Harding | 5 | |
February 10th, 1987 | Stillwatch | Sam Kingsley | 6.6 | |
January 1st, 1987 | Hollywood's Hidden Secrets | Self | TBD | |
December 16th, 1986 | License to Kill | Tom Fiske | 5.7 | |
December 1st, 1986 | Scorpion | Gifford Lease | 4.6 | |
November 2nd, 1986 | Something in Common | Theo Fontana | 6 | |
October 10th, 1986 | Peggy Sue Got Married | Jack Kelcher | 6.1 | |
September 19th, 1986 | Radioactive Dreams | Dash Hammer | 5.4 | |
May 21st, 1986 | T.J. Hooker: Blood Sport | Senator Stuart Grayle | 8 | |
April 19th, 1986 | Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Self | 7.4 | |
November 27th, 1984 | A Touch of Scandal | Benjamin Gilvey | 8 | |
December 3rd, 1983 | Quarterback Princess | Ralph Maida | 7.1 | |
November 11th, 1983 | I Am The Cheese | David Farmer | 7.4 | |
February 1st, 1983 | Thursday's Child | Parker Alden | 5.5 | |
October 17th, 1981 | Return of the Rebels | Sonny Morgan | 6.1 | |
July 17th, 1981 | Endless Love | Hugh | 5.7 | |
February 13th, 1981 | Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen | Pimp | 5.1 | |
October 1st, 1980 | Fugitive Family | Peter Ritchie | 8 | |
April 28th, 1980 | Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop | Sergeant Jack Leland | 3 | |
February 6th, 1980 | The Boy Who Drank Too Much | Ken Saunders | 4.7 | |
January 16th, 1980 | If Things Were Different | Robert Langford | 9 | |
February 13th, 1979 | Crisis in Mid-Air | Adam Travis | 8 | |
November 6th, 1978 | Rainbow | Frank Gumm | 10 | |
December 14th, 1975 | Deadly Hero | Edward A. Lacy | 5.8 | |
June 18th, 1975 | A Girl Named Sooner | Sheriff Phil Rotteman | 5.3 | |
September 17th, 1974 | The Sex Symbol | Sen. Grant O'Neal | 4 | |
April 1st, 1974 | The Girl on the Late, Late Show | William Martin | 5.5 | |
January 1st, 1973 | Cotter | Cotter | 4.5 | |
June 29th, 1972 | Conquest of the Planet of the Apes | Breck | 6.2 | |
February 6th, 1972 | Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Justin Morgan | 8 | |
December 9th, 1971 | Happy Birthday, Wanda June | Herb Shuttle | 6 | |
November 10th, 1970 | The Intruders | Sam Garrison | 5 | |
December 9th, 1969 | Daughter of the Mind | Dr. Alex Lauder | 6.7 | |
July 1st, 1969 | Childish Things | Tom Harris | 3 | |
March 25th, 1967 | The Viking Queen | Justinian | 4.7 | |
February 25th, 1967 | The Borgia Stick | Tom Harrison | 8.5 | |
January 30th, 1967 | Sweet Love, Bitter | David Hillary | 5.5 | |
August 1st, 1966 | The Plainsman | Wild Bill Hickok | 5.6 | |
January 1st, 1966 | Kid Rodelo | Kid Rodelo | 8 | |
January 12th, 1965 | Baby the Rain Must Fall | Deputy Sheriff Slim | 6.1 | |
February 26th, 1964 | One Man's Way | Norman Vincent Peale | 4.3 | |
April 18th, 1963 | Marilyn | archive footage | 7.5 | |
October 22nd, 1962 | Escape from East Berlin | Kurt Schröder | 5.9 | |
June 6th, 1962 | Advise & Consent | Senator Brigham Anderson | 7.2 | |
March 26th, 1961 | The Hoodlum Priest | Father Charles Dismas Clark | 5.9 | |
September 11th, 1960 | One Foot in Hell | Dan Keats | 5.3 | |
January 10th, 1960 | Hedda Hopper's Hollywood | Self | 6 | |
October 26th, 1959 | Winterset | Mio Romagna | 9 | |
June 24th, 1959 | Shake Hands with the Devil | Kerry O'Shea | 6.5 | |
May 7th, 1959 | These Thousand Hills | Albert Gallatin 'Lat' Evans | 6.5 | |
April 29th, 1958 | From Hell to Texas | Tod Lohman | 6 | |
July 17th, 1957 | A Hatful of Rain | Johnny Pope | 6.8 | |
April 9th, 1957 | The Bachelor Party | Charlie Samson | 6.8 | |
August 31st, 1956 | Bus Stop | Beauregard 'Bo' Decker | 6.1 | |
October 2nd, 1955 | A Man Is Ten Feet Tall | Axel Nordman | TBD | |
June 5th, 1950 | The Taming of the Shrew | Biondello | TBD |