Mary Murphy

Born: 1931-01-26

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.


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When Worlds Collide

as Student
Released: 1951-09-14

When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days...

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The Desperate Hours

as Cynthia 'Cindy' Hilliard
Released: 1955-10-05

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

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Junior Bonner

as Ruth Bonner
Released: 1972-08-02

With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his...

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The Wild One

as Kathie Bleeker
Released: 1953-12-30

The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to...

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Westward the Women

as Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Released: 1951-12-16

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His...

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The Mad Magician

as Karen Lee
Released: 1954-05-19

Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right....

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Sitting Bull

as Kathy Howell
Released: 1954-10-06

Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react...

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Carrie

as Jessica Hurstwood
Released: 1952-07-17

Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that...

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The Turning Point

as Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1952-07-12

Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop...

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The Stranger Who Looks Like Me

as Mrs. Quayle
Released: 1974-03-06

A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins...

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Born Innocent

as Miss Murphy
Released: 1976-01-01

A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre...

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40 Pounds of Trouble

as Liz McCluskey
Released: 1962-12-31

Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome...

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The Lemon Drop Kid

as Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1951-04-02

When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the...

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A Man Alone

as Nadine Corrigan
Released: 1955-10-17

A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which...

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Make Haste to Live

as Randy Benson
Released: 1954-03-25

A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.

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Escapement

as Ruth Vance
Released: 1958-03-04

An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of...

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Beachhead

as Nina Bouchard
Released: 1954-02-05

On a Japanese-occupied island during World War II, only two soldiers remain alive after a...

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Live Fast, Die Young

as Kim Winters / Narrator
Released: 1958-04-01

A teenager finds her wayward sister running with thieves in San Francisco.

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Two Before Zero

as uncredited
Released: 1962-10-31

A black-robed purveyor of communism is periodically interrupted by the questions of a...

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The Atomic City

as Young Woman Buying Stamps
Released: 1952-05-01

Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos...

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Darling, How Could You!

as Sylvia
Released: 1951-08-08

Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years...

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Crime and Punishment USA

as Sally Marmon
Released: 1959-11-01

Believing he can elude justice, a California law student murders an elderly pawnbroker, then...

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Hell's Island

as Janet Martin
Released: 1955-05-06

Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby....

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Finger of Guilt

as Evelyn Stewart
Released: 1956-06-01

Film producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he...

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Main Street to Broadway

as Mary Craig
Released: 1953-10-12

In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying...

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Harlow

as Sally Doane
Released: 1965-06-23

Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the...

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I Love You...Good-bye

as Pam Parks
Released: 1974-02-12

A suburban wife begins to resent the pressures she sees society putting on her as a wife and...

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Off Limits

as WAC
Released: 1952-12-30

Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who...

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The Maverick Queen

as Lucy Lee
Released: 1956-05-03

A Pinkerton detective goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of thieves whose boss is a feisty...

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Katherine

as Miss Collins
Released: 1975-10-05

A harrowing look at the 60s and early 70s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy...

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Footsteps

as Martha Hagger
Released: 1972-10-03

A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself...

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Perry Mason

as Eleanor Corbin
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Ironside

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-03-28

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...

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The Fugitive

as Thelma Hollister
First aired: 1963-09-17

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route...

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Dr. Kildare

as Janet Logan
First aired: 1961-09-27

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession,...

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Ghost Story

as Maggie Mundy
First aired: 1972-09-15

Ghost Story is an American television anthology series that aired for one season on NBC from...

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Laramie

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-15

Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue...

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The Outer Limits

as Linda Darcy
First aired: 1963-09-16

The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes...

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Honey West

as Vicky
First aired: 1965-09-17

After her father's death, Honey West takes over his high-tech private-detective firm, assisted...

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The Millionaire

as Janie Harris
First aired: 1955-01-19

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...

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The Streets of San Francisco

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-23

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate...

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Laredo

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-09-16

Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 16, 1965, to...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Estelle
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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The Detectives

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-10-16

The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons,...

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The Rebel

as 'T' White
First aired: 1959-10-04

The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on...

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Black Saddle

as Laurie
First aired: 1959-01-10

Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44...

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Arrest and Trial

as uncredited
First aired: 1963-09-15

Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964...

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Cavalcade of America

as Rowena
First aired: 1952-10-01

Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company,...

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The Westerner

as Suzy
First aired: 1960-09-30

The Westerner is an American Western series that aired on NBC from September to December 1960....

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Breaking Point

as uncredited
First aired: 1963-09-16

Breaking Point is an American medical drama that aired on ABC from September 16, 1963, to April...

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Kodiak

as Cathy
First aired: 1974-09-13

Kodiak is a short lived, half-hour adventure program that aired Friday evenings at 8:00 p.m...

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Death Valley Days

as Marianne
First aired: 1952-10-01

Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of...

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Redigo

as Laura McAdams
First aired: 1963-09-24

Redigo is a 15-week Western dramatic series, set on a New Mexico ranch during the early 1960s,...

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The Investigators

as Maggie Peters
First aired: 1961-10-05

The Investigators is a short-lived American adventure/drama television series that aired on CBS...

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