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Mary Murphy

Mary Murphy

Actor · 1931 – 2011 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Mary Murphy (January 26, 1931 – May 4, 2011) was an American film actress of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. She was born in Washington, D.C., before moving to Los Angeles. Shortly out of high school she was signed to appear in films for Paramount Pictures in the late 1940s. Murphy first gained attention in 1953, when she played a good-hearted girl who tries to reform Marlon Brando in The Wild One. The following year, she appeared opposite Tony Curtis in Beachhead, and the year after that as Fredric March's daughter in the thriller The Desperate Hours, which also starred Humphrey Bogart. She co-starred with actor-director Ray Milland in his Western A Man Alone, and appeared in dozens of television series including Perry Mason, I Spy and Ironside. She was long absent from the big screen before acting in 1972 with Steve McQueen in the Sam Peckinpah film Junior Bonner. She had retired from acting by the 1980s. Murphy died from heart disease complications on May 4, 2011; she was 80 years old. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary Murphy (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies24

  • Movie6.5

    The Wild One

    1953 · 345 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Desperate Hours

    1955 · 188 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Westward the Women

    1951 · 85 votes

  • Movie6.4

    When Worlds Collide

    1951 · 210 votes

  • Movie5.7

    40 Pounds of Trouble

    1962 · 21 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Sailor Beware

    1952 · 34 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Born Innocent

    1976 · 59 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Beachhead

    1954 · 21 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Carrie

    1952 · 51 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Junior Bonner

    1972 · 119 votes

  • Movie5.8

    A Man Alone

    1955 · 36 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Mad Magician

    1954 · 50 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie5.6

    Harlow

    1965 · 20 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Maverick Queen

    1956 · 16 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Lemon Drop Kid

    1951 · 32 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Make Haste to Live

    1954 · 14 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Sitting Bull

    1954 · 26 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Turning Point

    1952 · 34 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Off Limits

    1952 · 18 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Hell's Island

    1955 · 13 votes

  • Movie7.3
  • Movie7.2
  • Movie8.0

    I Love You...Good-bye

    1974 · 1 votes

Series23

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV6.8

    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 265 votes

  • TV7.8

    The Outer Limits

    1963 · 164 votes

  • TV7.1
  • TV5.8

    The Millionaire

    1955 · 4 votes

  • TV5.1

    The Rebel

    1959 · 11 votes

  • TV6.7

    The Detectives

    1959 · 10 votes

  • TV8.3

    Arrest and Trial

    1963 · 4 votes

  • TV6.7

    Laramie

    1959 · 18 votes

  • TV6.2

    Black Saddle

    1959 · 5 votes

  • TV6.4

    Laredo

    1965 · 14 votes

  • TV7.2

    Honey West

    1965 · 17 votes

  • TV7.4

    Ghost Story

    1972 · 9 votes

  • TV4.6

    Cavalcade of America

    1952 · 5 votes

  • TV6.0

    The Investigators

    1961 · 2 votes

  • TV7.4

    Breaking Point

    1963 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Westerner

    1960 · 11 votes

  • TV6.6

    Death Valley Days

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV6.3

    Redigo

    1963 · 3 votes

  • TV6.5

    Kodiak

    1974 · 2 votes