Don Murray

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1929-07-31
Place of Birth: Hollywood, California, USA
Also Known As: Donald Patrick Murray

Movies List of Don Murray

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The Borgia Stick

1967 Movie
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Bus Stop

1956 Movie
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Ghosts Can't Do It

1989 Movie
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Besuch bei Don Murray

2000 Movie
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Winterset

1959 Movie
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Hollywood Legenden

2004 Movie
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The Viking Queen

1967 Movie
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Daughter of the Mind

1969 Movie
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Made in Heaven

1987 Movie
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A Hatful of Rain

1957 Movie
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Radioactive Dreams

1986 Movie
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Advise & Consent

1962 Movie
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Hollywood Uncensored

1987 Movie
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License to Kill

1986 Movie
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These Thousand Hills

1959 Movie
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Endless Love

1981 Movie
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Deadly Hero

1975 Movie
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From Hell to Texas

1958 Movie
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The Hoodlum Priest

1961 Movie
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Kid Rodelo

1966 Movie
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I Am The Cheese

1983 Movie
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Quarterback Princess

1983 Movie
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Shurtleff on Acting

1994 Movie
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One Foot in Hell

1960 Movie
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The Sex Symbol

1974 Movie
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Scorpion

1986 Movie
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The Bachelor Party

1957 Movie
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Island Prey

2001 Movie
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Hearts Adrift

1996 Movie
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The Plainsman

1966 Movie
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The Intruders

1970 Movie
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Rainbow

1978 Movie
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Crisis in Mid-Air

1979 Movie
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One Man's Way

1964 Movie
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Promise

2021 Movie
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Childish Things

1969 Movie
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The Stepford Children

1987 Movie
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Internet Love

1998 Movie
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Peggy Sue Got Married

1986 Movie
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A Girl Named Sooner

1975 Movie
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Thursday's Child

1983 Movie
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Sweet Love, Bitter

1967 Movie
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A Touch of Scandal

1984 Movie
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Stillwatch

1987 Movie
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Return of the Rebels

1981 Movie
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Marilyn

1963 Movie
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Fugitive Family

1980 Movie
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Cotter

1973 Movie
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Something in Common

1986 Movie