George Murphy

Actor

Born: July 4, 1902
Died: May 3, 1992 (age 89)
From: New Haven, Connecticut, USA

George Murphy was an American dancer and stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a United States Senator. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first…

Filmography (59)

Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine (2003)
Frank Capra's American Dream (1997)
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
(archive footage)
That's Dancing! (1985)
From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! (1974)
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration
1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (1955)
The Hoaxters
The Hoaxters (1952)
Narrator (voice)
Walk East on Beacon (1952)
Inspector James 'Jim' Belden
Talk About a Stranger (1952)
Robert Fontaine Sr.
It's a Big Country (1951)
Mr. Patrick Callaghan
No Questions Asked (1951)
Police Insp. Matt Duggan
Battleground (1949)
'Pop' Stazak
Border Incident (1949)
Jack Bearnes
Big City (1948)
Patrick O'Donnell
Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
Steve Abbutt
Cynthia (1947)
Larry Bishop
The Arnelo Affair (1947)
Theodore 'Ted' Parkson
Up Goes Maisie (1946)
Joseph Morton
Having Wonderful Crime (1945)
Jake Justus
Step Lively (1944)
Gordon Miller
Show Business (1944)
George Doane
Broadway Rhythm (1944)
Johnny Demming
Twenty Years After (1944)
(archive footage)
This Is the Army (1943)
Jerry Jones
Bataan (1943)
Lt. Steve Bentley
Show-Business at War (1943)
Self
The Powers Girl (1943)
Jerry Hendricks
The Navy Comes Through (1942)
Lt. Thomas L. 'Tom' Sands
For Me and My Gal (1942)
Jimmy K. Metcalf
The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
Joe Jonathan