Don Murray

Personal Info

Birthday

July 31, 1929

Day of Death

2024-02-02

(94 years old)

Place of Birth

Hollywood, California, USA

Also Known As

Donald Patrick Murray

Don Murray

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, including his role as Sid Fairgate in the long-running prime-time soap opera Knots Landing from 1979 to 1981.

Known For

Murder, She Wrote

Twin Peaks

Knots Landing

The Philco Television Playhouse

Matlock

Studio One

Hotel

ABC Afterschool Special

Filmography

2021
Promise
as Zacharias
2017
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
as Self
2015
Tab Hunter Confidential
as Self
2010
Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon
as Self
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
as Self
2008
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
as Self
2007
Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte
as Self
2004
Hollywood Legenden
as Self
2001
Island Prey
as Parker Gaits
2000
Besuch bei Don Murray
as Self
1999
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
as Self
1998
Internet Love
as Self
Mr. Headmistress
as Reporter
1997
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
as Self
1996
Marilyn, divine et fragile
as Self
Hearts Adrift
as Lloyd Raines
1994
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
as Self
Shurtleff on Acting
as Self
1993
Montana Crossroads
as Frank Morrow
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self
1989
Ghosts Can't Do It
as Winston
My Dad Can't Be Crazy... Can He?
as Jack Karpinsky
1987
Hollywood Uncensored
as Self
Made in Heaven
as Ben Chandler
Mistress
as Wyn
The Stepford Children
as Steven Harding
Stillwatch
as Sam Kingsley
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
as Self
1986
License to Kill
as Tom Fiske
Scorpion
as Gifford Lease
Something in Common
as Theo Fontana
Peggy Sue Got Married
as Jack Kelcher
Radioactive Dreams
as Dash Hammer
T.J. Hooker - Blood Sport
as Senator Stuart Grayle
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self
1984
A Touch of Scandal
as Benjamin Gilvey
1983
Quarterback Princess
as Ralph Maida
I Am The Cheese
as David Farmer
Thursday's Child
as Parker Alden
1981
Return of the Rebels
as Sonny Morgan
Endless Love
as Hugh
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
as Pimp
1980
Fugitive Family
as Peter Ritchie
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
as Sergeant Jack Leland
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
as Ken Saunders
If Things Were Different
as Robert Langford
1979
Crisis in Mid-Air
as Adam Travis
1978
Rainbow
as Frank Gumm
1975
Deadly Hero
as Edward A. Lacy
A Girl Named Sooner
as Sheriff Phil Rotteman
1974
The Sex Symbol
as Sen. Grant O'Neal
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
as William Martin
1973
Cotter
as Cotter
1972
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
as Breck
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
as Justin Morgan
1971
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
as Herb Shuttle
1970
The Intruders
as Sam Garrison
1969
Daughter of the Mind
as Dr. Alex Lauder
Childish Things
as Tom Harris
1967
The Viking Queen
as Justinian
The Borgia Stick
as Tom Harrison
Sweet Love, Bitter
as David Hillary
1966
The Plainsman
as Wild Bill Hickok
Kid Rodelo
as Kid Rodelo
1965
Baby the Rain Must Fall
as Deputy Sheriff Slim
1964
One Man's Way
as Norman Vincent Peale
1963
Marilyn
as Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962
Escape from East Berlin
as Kurt Schröder
Advise & Consent
as Senator Brigham Anderson
1961
The Hoodlum Priest
as Father Charles Dismas Clark
1960
One Foot in Hell
as Dan Keats
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as Self
1959
Winterset
as Mio Romagna
Shake Hands with the Devil
as Kerry O'Shea
These Thousand Hills
as Albert Gallatin 'Lat' Evans
1958
From Hell to Texas
as Tod Lohman
1957
A Hatful of Rain
as Johnny Pope
The Bachelor Party
as Charlie Samson
1956
Bus Stop
as Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
1955
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
as Axel Nordman