George Murphy
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1902-07-04
Deathday 1992-05-03 (89 years old)
Place of Birth New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Also Known As George Lloyd Murphy
George Murphy
Biography
George Murphy was an American dancer and stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a United States Senator. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first notable U.S. actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is the only United States Senator represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In movies, Murphy was known as a song-and-dance man and appeared in many big-budget musicals such as Broadway Melody of 1938, Broadway Melody of 1940 and For Me and My Gal. He made his movie debut shortly after talking pictures had replaced silent movies in 1930, and his career continued until he retired as an actor in 1952, at the age of 50. During World War II, he organized entertainment for American troops. In 1951, he was awarded an honorary Academy Award. He was never nominated for an Oscar in any competitive category. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946. He was also a vice president of Desilu Productions and of the Technicolor Corporation. He was director of entertainment for presidential inaugurations in 1953, 1957 and 1961.
Known For
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Host
as Narrator (voice)
as Inspector James 'Jim' Belden
as Robert Fontaine Sr.
as Mr. Patrick Callaghan
as Police Insp. Matt Duggan
as 'Pop' Stazak
as Jack Bearnes
as Patrick O'Donnell
as Steve Abbutt
as Larry Bishop
as Theodore 'Ted' Parkson
as Joseph Morton
as Jake Justus
as Gordon Miller
as George Doane
as Johnny Demming
as (archive footage)
as Jerry Jones
as Lt. Steve Bentley
as Self
as Jerry Hendricks
as Lt. Thomas L. 'Tom' Sands
as Jimmy K. Metcalf
as Joe Jonathan
as Jimmy McGonagle
as Cavalryman (uncredited)
as Francis X. 'Skeets' / 'Skeeter' Maguire
as Tom
as Claudius "Coffee Cup" Cup
as Jerry Kelly
as Alan Blake
as Eddie Kerns
as King Shaw
as Himself (uncredited)
as Self (uncredited)
as Dan Clifford
as Rusty Stevens
as Barry Paige
as Roger Wendling
as Hal Adams
as Bill Raeburn
as Sonny Ledford
as Michael Denis
as Ted Lane
as Charlie Hall
as Keat Shevlin
as Edward Joseph "Red" Foster
as Jerry Davis
as Carl Brent
as Larry O'Roarke
as Jerry Lane
Crew
as Stunts