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