Actor
Mary Murphy
Born January 26, 1931 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Died May 4, 201132 films
Mary Murphy (January 26, 1931 – May 4, 2011) was an American film actress of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. She was born in Washington, D.C., before moving to Los Angeles. Shortly out of high school she was signed to appear in films for Paramount Pictures in the late 1940s.
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Murphy first gained attention in 1953, when she played a good-hearted girl who tries to reform Marlon Brando in The Wild One. The following year, she appeared opposite Tony Curtis in Beachhead, and the year after that as Fredric March's daughter in the thriller The Desperate Hours, which also starred Humphrey Bogart. She co-starred with actor-director Ray Milland in his Western A Man Alone, and appeared in dozens of television series including Perry Mason, I Spy and Ironside. She was long absent from the big screen before acting in 1972 with Steve McQueen in the Sam Peckinpah film Junior Bonner. She had retired from acting by the 1980s.
Murphy died from heart disease complications on May 4, 2011; she was 80 years old.
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First watchWestward the Women19517.1as Pioneer Woman (uncredited)There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California.View filmEssential films
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32 films as actor- 1976Born InnocentMiss Murphy
- 1975KatherineMiss Collins
- 1974The Stranger Who Looks Like MeMrs. Quayle
- 1974I Love You...Good-byePam Parks
- 1972FootstepsMartha Hagger
- 1972Junior BonnerRuth Bonner
- 1965HarlowSally Doane
- 196240 Pounds of TroubleLiz McCluskey
- 1962Two Before Zero
- 1959Crime and Punishment USASally Marmon
- 1958Live Fast, Die YoungKim Winters / Narrator
- 1958EscapementRuth Vance
- 1956The Intimate StrangerEvelyn Stewart
- 1956The Maverick QueenLucy Lee
- 1955A Man AloneNadine Corrigan
- 1955The Desperate HoursCynthia 'Cindy' Hilliard
- 1955Hell's IslandJanet Martin
- 1954Sitting BullKathy Howell
- 1954The Mad MagicianKaren Lee
- 1954Make Haste to LiveRandy Benson
- 1954BeachheadNina Bouchard
- 1953The Wild OneKathie Bleeker
- 1953Main Street to BroadwayMary Craig
- 1952Off LimitsWAC
- 1952CarrieJessica Hurstwood
- 1952The Turning PointSecretary (uncredited)
- 1952The Atomic CityYoung Woman Buying Stamps
- 1952Sailor BewareGirl (uncredited)
- 1951Westward the WomenPioneer Woman (uncredited)
- 1951When Worlds CollideStudent
- 1951Darling, How Could You!Sylvia
- 1951The Lemon Drop KidGirl (uncredited)