Don Murray

Don Murray

Acting 1929-07-31 Hollywood, California, USA

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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2004 Self
2001 Parker Gaits
2000 Self
1998 Self
1998 Reporter
1997 White Dragon / John James / Col. Quentin Shepherd
1996 Lloyd Raines
1995 Chip Bremley
1994 Self
1993 Frank Morrow
1991 Bing Hammersmith
1990 Dad
1990 Bushnell Mullins
1989 Winston
1989 Jack Karpinsky
1987 Ben Chandler
1987 Self
1987 Steven Harding
1987 Sam Kingsley
1987 Wyn
1986 Dash Hammer
1986 Tom Fiske
1986 Gifford Lease
1986 Jack Kelcher
1986 Theo Fontana
1986 Senator Stuart Grayle
1986 Albert Gordon
1984 Benjamin Gilvey
1984 Wally Hampton
1983 David Farmer
1983 Ralph Maida
1983 Parker Alden
1982 Sam Burton
1981 Hugh
1981 Pimp
1981 Sonny Morgan
1980 Ken Saunders
1980 Sergeant Jack Leland
1980 Peter Ritchie
1980 Robert Langford
1979 Adam Travis
1979 Sid Fairgate
1979 Writer
1978 Frank Gumm
1977 Anderson
1976 Director
1975 Edward A. Lacy
1975 Sheriff Phil Rotteman
1974 William Martin
1974 Sen. Grant O'Neal
1974 Connors
1973 Cotter
1973 Jack Bonner
1973 Jack Stanley
1972 Breck
1972 Justin Morgan
1972 Jack Karpinsky
1971 Herb Shuttle
1970 Sam Garrison
1970 Director
1970 Writer
1969 Dr. Alex Lauder
1969 Tom Harris
1969 Writer
1969 Producer
1968 Earl Corey
1967 Tom Harrison
1967 Justinian
1967 David Hillary
1966 Kid Rodelo
1966 Wild Bill Hickok
1965 Deputy Sheriff Slim
1964 Norman Vincent Peale
1963 Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962 Senator Brigham Anderson
1962 Kurt Schröder
1961 Father Charles Dismas Clark
1961 Self
1961 Screenplay
1961 Original Story
1961 Producer
1960 Dan Keats
1959 Mio Romagna
1959 Albert Gallatin 'Lat' Evans
1959 Kerry O'Shea
1958 Tod Lohman
1957 Johnny Pope
1957 Charlie Samson
1956 Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
1956 Randy Bragg
1956 Writer
1955 Axel Nordman
1954 Justin Morgan
1954 Henry Antrobus
1951 Mio
1951 Parker Alden
1950 Biondello
1950 Jimmy
1950
1948 Biondello
1948 Self
1948 Axel Nordman
1947 George
1947 Booth
1944 Self - Presenter