Don Murray
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.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
(Breck)
The Borgia Stick
(Tom Harrison)
Bus Stop
(Beauregard 'Bo' Decker)
Ghosts Can't Do It
(Winston)
Besuch bei Don Murray
(Self)
Winterset
(Mio)
Hollywood Legenden
(Self)
The Viking Queen
(Justinian)
Daughter of the Mind
(Dr. Alex Lauder)
Made in Heaven
(Ben Chandler)
Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte
(Self)
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
(Self)
Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon
(Self)
A Hatful of Rain
(Johnny Pope)
Radioactive Dreams
(Dash Hammer)
Advise & Consent
(Senator Brigham Anderson)
Hollywood Uncensored
(Self)
License to Kill
(Tom Fiske)
These Thousand Hills
(Albert Gallatin 'Lat' Evans)
Endless Love
(Hugh)
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
(Herb Shuttle)
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
(William Martin)
Deadly Hero
(Edward A. Lacy)
From Hell to Texas
(Tod Lohman)
The Hoodlum Priest
(Father Charles Dismas Clark)
Baby, the Rain Must Fall
(Deputy Sheriff Slim)
Kid Rodelo
(Kid Rodelo)
I Am The Cheese
(David Farmer)
Quarterback Princess
(Ralph Maida)
Shurtleff on Acting
(Self)
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
(Justin Morgan)
One Foot in Hell
(Dan Keats)
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
(Pimp)
The Sex Symbol
(Sen. Grant O'Neal)
Scorpion
(Gifford Lease)
The Bachelor Party
(Charlie Samson)
Island Prey
(Parker Gaits)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
(Self)
Hearts Adrift
(Lloyd Raines)
Escape from East Berlin
(Kurt Schröder)
The Plainsman
(Wild Bill Hickok)
The Intruders
(Sam Garrison)
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
(Axel Nordman)
Rainbow
(Frank Gumm)
Crisis in Mid-Air
(Adam Travis)
One Man's Way
(Norman Vincent Peale)
Shake Hands with the Devil
(Kerry O'Shea)
Marilyn, divine et fragile
(Self)
Promise
(Zacharias)
Hollywood's Hidden Secrets
(Self)
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
(Ken Saunders)
Childish Things
(Tom Harris)
The Stepford Children
(Steven Harding)
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
(Self)
Internet Love
(Self)
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
(Sergeant Jack Leland)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
(Self)
My Dad Can't Be Crazy... Can He?
(Jack Karpinsky)
Peggy Sue Got Married
(Jack Kelcher)
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
(Self)
Tab Hunter Confidential
(Self)
A Girl Named Sooner
(Sheriff Phil Rotteman)
Sweet Love, Bitter
(David Hillary)
Thursday's Child
(Parker Alden)
A Touch of Scandal
(Benjamin Gilvey)
Stillwatch
(Sam Kingsley)
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
(Self)
Return of the Rebels
(Sonny Morgan)
Marilyn
(Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited))
Fugitive Family
(Peter Ritchie)
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
(Self)
Cotter
(Cotter)
If Things Were Different
(Robert Langford)
Something in Common
(Theo Fontana)
Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years
(Self)
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
(Self)
The Single Guy
(Chip Bremley)
The Wonderful World of Disney
(Reporter)
Hotel
Studio One
(Biondello)
The Ed Sullivan Show
(Self)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Mio)
The Outcasts
Police Story
Amy Prentiss
Lux Video Theatre
(Jimmy)
The Philco Television Playhouse
ABC Afterschool Special
(Jack Karpinsky)
Brand New Life
Sons and Daughters
(Bing Hammersmith)
Matlock
(Albert Gordon)
What's My Line?
(Self - Mystery Guest)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Parker Alden)
Playhouse 90
(Randy Bragg)
Murder, She Wrote
(Wally Hampton)
Wings
(Dad)
Kraft Television Theatre
Kraft Television Theatre
(Booth)
Kraft Television Theatre
(George)
How the West Was Won
(Anderson)
The Mike Douglas Show
(Self)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)
Twin Peaks
(Bushnell Mullins)
The Philco Television Playhouse
(Axel Nordman)
Knots Landing
(Sid Fairgate)
The Wonderful World of Disney
(Justin Morgan)
