Cast
George Murphy
Acting
Cast
George Murphy
Known for
Acting
Born
1902-07-04
From
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Died
1992-05-03
Also known as George Lloyd Murphy
Biography
George Murphy was an American dancer and stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a United States Senator. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first notable U.S. actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is the only United States Senator represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In movies, Murphy was known as a song-and-dance man and appeared in many big-budget musicals such as Broadway Melody of 1938, Broadway Melody of 1940 and For Me and My Gal. He made his movie debut shortly after talking pictures had replaced silent movies in 1930, and his career continued until he retired as an actor in 1952, at the age of 50. During World War II, he organized entertainment for American troops. In 1951, he was awarded an honorary Academy Award. He was never nominated for an Oscar in any competitive category. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946. He was also a vice president of Desilu Productions and of the Technicolor Corporation. He was director of entertainment for presidential inaugurations in 1953, 1957 and 1961.
★5.6
MOVIE1944
Show Business
as George Doane
★7.4
MOVIE1974
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1941
Ringside Maisie
as Francis X. 'Skeets' / 'Skeeter' Maguire
★6.7
MOVIE1941
They Died with Their Boots On
as Cavalryman (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1936
Woman Trap
as Keat Shevlin
★7.0
MOVIE1994
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
★8.0
MOVIE1944
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
★6.7
MOVIE1949
Battleground
as 'Pop' Stazak
★5.7
MOVIE1943
This Is the Army
as Jerry Jones
★6.9
MOVIE1985
That's Dancing!
as From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1938
Letter of Introduction
as Barry Paige
★6.7
MOVIE1944
Step Lively
as Gordon Miller
★6.6
MOVIE1937
Broadway Melody of 1938
as Sonny Ledford
★6.8
MOVIE1940
Broadway Melody of 1940
as King Shaw
★6.3
MOVIE1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE1941
Tom, Dick and Harry
as Tom
★5.9
MOVIE1951
It's a Big Country
as Mr. Patrick Callaghan
★6.1
MOVIE1937
London by Night
as Michael Denis
★6.4
MOVIE1943
Bataan
as Lt. Steve Bentley
★5.3
MOVIE1952
The Hoaxters
as Narrator (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE1938
Little Miss Broadway
as Roger Wendling
★6.0
MOVIE1942
The Navy Comes Through
as Lt. Thomas L. 'Tom' Sands
★6.7
MOVIE1934
Kid Millions
as Jerry Lane
★6.5
MOVIE1939
Risky Business
as Dan Clifford
★6.5
MOVIE1942
For Me and My Gal
as Jimmy K. Metcalf
★7.0
MOVIE1943
Show-Business at War
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1944
Broadway Rhythm
as Johnny Demming
★7.0
MOVIE1943
The Powers Girl
as Jerry Hendricks
★6.1
MOVIE1951
No Questions Asked
as Police Insp. Matt Duggan
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Two Girls on Broadway
as Eddie Kerns
★6.2
MOVIE1952
Talk About a Stranger
as Robert Fontaine Sr.
★6.5
MOVIE1948
Tenth Avenue Angel
as Steve Abbutt
★7.3
MOVIE1941
Rise and Shine
as Jimmy McGonagle
★5.3
MOVIE1952
Walk East on Beacon
as Inspector James 'Jim' Belden
★5.0
MOVIE1935
I'll Love You Always
as Carl Brent
★5.0
MOVIE1942
The Mayor of 44th Street
as Joe Jonathan
★5.5
MOVIE1941
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
as Claudius "Coffee Cup" Cup
★5.2
MOVIE1947
The Arnelo Affair
as Theodore 'Ted' Parkson
★4.9
MOVIE1940
Public Deb No. 1
as Alan Blake
★5.6
MOVIE1939
Hollywood Hobbies
as Self (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
★6.8
MOVIE1946
Up Goes Maisie
as Joseph Morton
★6.9
MOVIE1949
Border Incident
as Jack Bearnes
★6.3
MOVIE1937
The Women Men Marry
as Bill Raeburn
★6.0
MOVIE1936
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
★7.8
MOVIE1948
Big City
as Patrick O'Donnell
★6.7
MOVIE1938
Hold That Co-ed
as Rusty Stevens
★6.0
MOVIE1935
The Public Menace
as Edward Joseph "Red" Foster
★6.8
MOVIE1940
Little Nellie Kelly
as Jerry Kelly
★6.0
MOVIE1937
Top of the Town
as Ted Lane
★5.8
MOVIE1936
Violets in Spring
as Charlie Hall
★6.5
MOVIE1935
After the Dance
as Jerry Davis
★4.6
MOVIE1937
You're a Sweetheart
as Hal Adams
★6.2
MOVIE1947
Cynthia
as Larry Bishop
★6.5
MOVIE1945
Having Wonderful Crime
as Jake Justus
★7.0
MOVIE2003
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine
★5.8
MOVIE1934
Jealousy
as Larry O'Roarke
★4.0
MOVIE1939
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
as Himself (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1955