Fred MacMurray
Frederick "Fred" MacMurray Martin ( born August 30, 1908 in Kankakee, Illinois, † November 5, 1991 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American actor.
Life
Fred MacMurray was the son of a concert violinist and played himself some time saxophone in various big bands, among others, George Olsen. In 1930, he began several roles in the theater to take over and made it to the Broadway, where he participated in the musical Roberta. In 1934 he signed a contract with Paramount, and in 1935 he had at the side of Claudette Colbert in The Gilded Lily his breakthrough. His talent for light comedy made him the ideal partner of Colbert, and the two worked as a popular screen couple to 1949 in a total of seven films together with. Most of the films were romantic comedies. Excursions into the dramatic subject, as in Maid of Salem, which showed the two stars as a fighter against the witch craze of the Puritans in Salem, flopped at the box office.
MacMurray also played alongside other stars like Irene Dunne, Carole Lombard and Marlene Dietrich. With Madeleine Carroll he turned 1939-1942, starting with Café Society, a total of four films directed by Edward H. Griffith. In the mid- 1940s, the actor moved increasingly into more substantial roles and made it in 1944 on the side of Barbara Stanwyck directed by Billy Wilder in the film noir classic woman to offer a compelling dramatic presentation without conscience. With his performance in The Caine their fate was he made the jump into character roles.
In the next few years MacMurray was with the exception of Billy Wilder's film to see the apartment mostly as a friendly hero in family-friendly adventures. For Walt Disney, he turned some successes such as The Flying Pauker and its sequel The Pathfinder 's can not leave. In The Happiest Millionaire MacMurray starred opposite Tommy Steele and Greer Garson in one of his few musical roles. 1987 Fred MacMurray was declared a Disney Legend. He was the first living person to whom bestowed this honor.
Fred MacMurray was married twice. In the 1940s, he was a real "face model " for the superhero Captain Marvel.
Fred MacMurray died on 5 November 1991 at Santa Monica, California. He is on the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City buried.