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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 31, 1929
Died
February 2, 2024
Place of Birth
Hollywood, California, USA
Also Known As
- Donald Patrick Murray
Don Murray
0.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Gold of Rio Bravo: Sheriff Kelly's Story
2025
1.5
Zacharias
Promise
2021
5.0
Self
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
2017
7.3
Self
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015
0.0
Self
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
2010
0.0
Self
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
2008
🎬
0.0
Self
Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte
2007
🎬
2.0
Self
Hollywood Legenden
2004
4.0
Parker Gaits
Island Prey
2001
🎬
0.0
Self
Besuch bei Don Murray
2000
Credits
Gold of Rio Bravo: Sheriff Kelly's Story
2025
0.0
Promise
as Zacharias
2021
1.5
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
as Self
2017
5.0
Tab Hunter Confidential
as Self
2015
7.3
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
as Self
2010
0.0
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
as Self
2008
0.0
🎬
Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte
as Self
2007
0.0
🎬
Hollywood Legenden
as Self
2004
2.0
Island Prey
as Parker Gaits
2001
4.0
🎬
Besuch bei Don Murray
as Self
2000
0.0
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
as Self
1999
7.0
Internet Love
as Self
1998
10.0
Mr. Headmistress
as Reporter
1998
3.2
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Reporter
1997
6.7
Soldier of Fortune, Inc.
as White Dragon / John James / Col. Quentin Shepherd
1997
6.1
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
as Self
1997
7.2
🎬
Marilyn, divine et fragile
as Self
1996
0.0
Hearts Adrift
as Lloyd Raines
1996
6.0
The Single Guy
as Chip Bremley
1995
5.0
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
as Self
1994
6.8
Shurtleff on Acting
as Self
1994
0.0
🎬
Montana Crossroads
as Frank Morrow
1993
0.0
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as Self
1991
7.7
🎬
Sons and Daughters
as Bing Hammersmith
1991
0.0
Wings
as Dad
1990
6.9
Twin Peaks
as Bushnell Mullins
1990
8.3
Ghosts Can't Do It
as Winston
1989
2.7
Brand New Life
1989
5.0
My Dad Can't Be Crazy... Can He?
as Jack Karpinsky
1989
0.0
Hollywood Uncensored
as Self
1987
5.1
Made in Heaven
as Ben Chandler
1987
6.5
Mistress
as Wyn
1987
2.7
The Stepford Children
as Steven Harding
1987
4.7
Stillwatch
as Sam Kingsley
1987
6.5
🎬
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
as Self
1987
0.0
License to Kill
as Tom Fiske
1986
5.7
Scorpion
as Gifford Lease
1986
3.9
Something in Common
as Theo Fontana
1986
6.0
Peggy Sue Got Married
as Jack Kelcher
1986
6.1
Radioactive Dreams
as Dash Hammer
1986
5.3
T.J. Hooker: Blood Sport
as Senator Stuart Grayle
1986
0.0
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self
1986
7.5
Matlock
as Albert Gordon
1986
7.1
A Touch of Scandal
as Benjamin Gilvey
1984
0.0
Murder, She Wrote
as Wally Hampton
1984
7.5
Quarterback Princess
as Ralph Maida
1983
6.8
I Am The Cheese
as David Farmer
1983
7.0
Thursday's Child
as Parker Alden
1983
1.0
Hotel
as Sam Burton
1982
6.8
Return of the Rebels
as Sonny Morgan
1981
5.5
Endless Love
as Hugh
1981
5.7
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
as Pimp
1981
5.2
Fugitive Family
as Peter Ritchie
1980
0.0
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
as Sergeant Jack Leland
1980
1.0
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
as Ken Saunders
1980
2.0
If Things Were Different
as Robert Langford
1980
0.0
Knots Landing
as Sid Fairgate
1979
6.7
Crisis in Mid-Air
as Adam Travis
1979
6.0
Rainbow
as Frank Gumm
1978
0.0
How the West Was Won
as Anderson
1977
6.9
Deadly Hero
as Edward A. Lacy
1975
5.7
A Girl Named Sooner
as Sheriff Phil Rotteman
1975
4.7
Amy Prentiss
as Connors
1974
5.0
The Sex Symbol
as Sen. Grant O'Neal
1974
2.3
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
as William Martin
1974
5.2
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
as Jack Stanley
1973
6.7
Police Story
as Jack Bonner
1973
6.9
Cotter
as Cotter
1973
1.0
ABC Afterschool Special
as Jack Karpinsky
1972
6.4
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
as Breck
1972
6.2
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
as Justin Morgan
1972
7.8
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
as Herb Shuttle
1971
5.5
The Intruders
as Sam Garrison
1970
4.5
Daughter of the Mind
as Dr. Alex Lauder
1969
6.4
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Childish Things
as Tom Harris
1969
1.0
The Outcasts
as Earl Corey
1968
5.3
The Viking Queen
as Justinian
1967
4.6
The Borgia Stick
as Tom Harrison
1967
7.8
Sweet Love, Bitter
as David Hillary
1967
4.9
The Plainsman
as Wild Bill Hickok
1966
4.8
Kid Rodelo
as Kid Rodelo
1966
0.0
Baby the Rain Must Fall
as Deputy Sheriff Slim
1965
6.1
One Man's Way
as Norman Vincent Peale
1964
3.3
Marilyn
as Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)
1963
6.0
Escape from East Berlin
as Kurt Schröder
1962
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
Advise & Consent
as Senator Brigham Anderson
1962
7.2
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Hoodlum Priest
as Father Charles Dismas Clark
1961
5.4
One Foot in Hell
as Dan Keats
1960
5.1
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as Self
1960
6.0
🎬
Winterset
as Mio Romagna
1959
0.0
Shake Hands with the Devil
as Kerry O'Shea
1959
6.5
These Thousand Hills
as Albert Gallatin 'Lat' Evans
1959
6.4
From Hell to Texas
as Tod Lohman
1958
5.9
A Hatful of Rain
as Johnny Pope
1957
6.8
The Bachelor Party
as Charlie Samson
1957
6.6
Playhouse 90
as Randy Bragg
1956
7.6
Bus Stop
as Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
1956
6.1
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
as Axel Nordman
1955
0.0
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Justin Morgan
1954
7.8
🎬
Producers' Showcase
as Henry Antrobus
1954
6.5
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Mio
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Parker Alden
1951
8.6
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Jimmy
1950
6.3
🎬
Danger
1950
8.0
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
Studio One
as Biondello
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Axel Nordman
1948
6.3
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
7.5
Kraft Television Theatre
as Booth
1947
7.5
Kraft Television Theatre
as George
1947
7.5
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2