Cast
Don Murray
Acting
Cast
Don Murray
Known for
Acting
Born
1929-07-31
From
Hollywood, California, USA
Died
2024-02-02
Also known as Donald Patrick 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. 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.
Endless Love
as Hugh
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
as Breck
Bus Stop
as Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
Tab Hunter Confidential
as Self
Peggy Sue Got Married
as Jack Kelcher
Advise & Consent
as Senator Brigham Anderson
Made in Heaven
as Ben Chandler
Rainbow
as Frank Gumm
Deadly Hero
as Edward A. Lacy
Fugitive Family
as Peter Ritchie
Kid Rodelo
as Kid Rodelo
Hollywood Uncensored
as Self
Marilyn, Her Final Secret
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self
The Intruders
as Sam Garrison
Stillwatch
as Sam Kingsley
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
as Pimp
The Plainsman
as Wild Bill Hickok
License to Kill
as Tom Fiske
Radioactive Dreams
as Dash Hammer
Baby the Rain Must Fall
as Deputy Sheriff Slim
The Stepford Children
as Steven Harding
Mr. Headmistress
as Reporter
Marilyn
as archive footage
Escape from East Berlin
as Kurt Schröder
Scorpion
as Gifford Lease
T.J. Hooker: Blood Sport
as Senator Stuart Grayle
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
as Self
These Thousand Hills
as Albert Gallatin 'Lat' Evans
One Man's Way
as Norman Vincent Peale
Shake Hands with the Devil
as Kerry O'Shea
A Hatful of Rain
as Johnny Pope
Daughter of the Mind
as Dr. Alex Lauder
Quarterback Princess
as Ralph Maida
Ghosts Can't Do It
as Winston
If Things Were Different
as Robert Langford
Crisis in Mid-Air
as Adam Travis
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
as Self
From Hell to Texas
as Tod Lohman
One Foot in Hell
as Dan Keats
Hearts Adrift
as Lloyd Raines
Winterset
as Mio Romagna
Norma Jean Alias Marilyn Monroe
as archive footage
Cotter
as Cotter
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self
Shurtleff on Acting
as Self
The Viking Queen
as Justinian
Remembering Marilyn
as Self (Interviewee)
The Bachelor Party
as Charlie Samson
Mistress
as Wyn
Thursday's Child
as Parker Alden
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
as William Martin
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as Self
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
as Self
The Sex Symbol
as Sen. Grant O'Neal
Marilyn despite herself
Internet Love
as Self
Island Prey
as Parker Gaits
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
as Self
A Girl Named Sooner
as Sheriff Phil Rotteman
Return of the Rebels
as Sonny Morgan
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
as Herb Shuttle
Hollywood Legenden
as Self
Something in Common
as Theo Fontana
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
as Ken Saunders
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
as Self
A Touch of Scandal
as Benjamin Gilvey
The Borgia Stick
as Tom Harrison
The Hoodlum Priest
as Father Charles Dismas Clark
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
as Axel Nordman
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
as Sergeant Jack Leland
Sweet Love, Bitter
as David Hillary
Gold of Rio Bravo: Sheriff Kelly's Story
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
as Justin Morgan
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
as Self
My Dad Can't Be Crazy... Can He?
as Jack Karpinsky
The Taming of the Shrew
as Biondello
I Am the Cheese
as David Farmer
Promise
as Zacharias
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
as Self
Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte
as Self
Marilyn Monroe: In The Movies
Childish Things
as Tom Harris
Marilyn, divine et fragile
as Self
Montana Crossroads
as Frank Morrow
Besuch bei Don Murray
as Self