Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1931-01-26
Day of Death
2011-05-04
Place of Birth
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Mary Murphy
Biography
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary Murphy (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (32)
Born Innocent
1976
Katherine
1975
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
1974
I Love You...Good-bye
1974
Footsteps
1972
Junior Bonner
1972
Harlow
1965
40 Pounds of Trouble
1962
Two Before Zero
1962
Crime and Punishment USA
1959
Live Fast, Die Young
1958
Escapement
1958
The Intimate Stranger
1956
The Maverick Queen
1956
