Fred MacMurray

Frederick Martin MacMurray, Jr. (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was a Hollywood actor who appeared in over one hundred movies, during a career that lasted from the 1930s to the 1970s. His most famous role was that of the father in the 1960s TV series My Three Sons. He was typecast for decades as a lovable, friendly fellow, and he capitalized on this by starring in a number of live-action comedies for Walt Disney during the later part of his career, with his biggest hits being The Shaggy Dog and The Absent-Minded Professor. MacMurray's early film work is largely overlooked by many film historians and critics, but in his heyday, he worked with some of Hollywood's greatest talents including director Preston Sturges and actors Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Barbara Stanwyk and Claudette Colbert. Early in his acting career, he also appeared on Broadway in Three's a Crowd in 1930, and in the original production of Roberta (on which the movie was based) in 1933 with Sydney Greenstreet and Bob Hope.

Notable films

• Double Indemnity (1944)
• The Egg and I (1947)
• The Caine Mutiny (1954)
• The Shaggy Dog (1959)
• The Apartment (1960)
• The Absent Minded Professor (1961)
• Son of Flubber (1963)
• Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
• The Happiest Millionaire (1967)