Don Murray

Overview

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Acting
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Birthday
Jul 31, 1929 (95 years old)
Death date
Feb 02, 2024

Don Murray

Known For

Gold of Rio Bravo: Sheriff Kelly's Story
1h 27m
Movie 2025

Gold of Rio Bravo: Sheriff Kelly's Story

1874, East Texas. Sheriff Vernon Kelly and former General Ivan Turchin restore justice in small American towns on the border with Mexico. One of the skirmishes with cutthroats forces Sheriff Kelly to reveal to Ivan the secret of the "Confederate gold" stolen during the American Civil War.

Promise
1h 59m
Movie 2021

Promise

A retired contract scout for the union, compelled to move on from his tragic past, embarks on a deadly mission with gunfight battles, double crosses, and an unexpected showdown to learn what happened to his true love and her little girl.

Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
0h 30m
Movie 2017

Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers

Documentary about Twin Peaks: The Return.

Tab Hunter Confidential
1h 31m
Movie 2015

Tab Hunter Confidential

Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and destroy him. Tab Hunter himself shares first hand, for the first time, what it was like to be a studio manufactured movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood and the consequences of being someone totally different from his studio manufactured image.

Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon
0h 59m
Movie 2010

Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon

Documentary about Marilyn Monroe: 1962: America loses its blonde icon. Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances. How did she die? The police report states: probable suicide. But there are many things that point to murder: a corpse draped too beautifully, an investigation that was cut short, evidence that disappeared. Plus Marilyn's affairs with the then US President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby. What really happened on that fateful summer night? After her housekeeper discovers the body, six hours pass before the police are called. She finds a beautifully draped corpse, sleeping pills in the blood but no pill residue in the stomach, witnesses who seem uncertain. The first investigator thinks about murder - and is taken off the case. Today no police files can be found.

Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
1h 29m
Movie 2010

Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved

Documentary about Marilyn Monroe.

Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
0h 21m
Movie 2008

Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times

Documentary on the parallels between United States racial politics and the narrative of 'Conquest for the Planet of the Apes' (1972).

Marilyn, divine et fragile
Movie 1996

Marilyn, divine et fragile

Hearts Adrift
2h 0m
Movie 1996

Hearts Adrift

Max and her mom are going to visit a friend, where she meets his son. Rich playboys don't interest Max. But she gives him a chance, and they get to know each other better...

Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
1h 32m
Movie 1994

Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess

An account of the life and career of Marilyn Monroe, one of Hollywood's most famous and glamorous movie stars.

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.

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