George Murphy
Birthday
1902/07/04
Day of death
1992/05/03 (89 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Also know as
George Lloyd Murphy
Biography
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 notable U.S. actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold S...Read more
Acting
(1949) Battleground
as 'Pop' Stazak
(1952) The Hoaxters
as Narrator (voice)
(1942) For Me and My Gal
as Jimmy K. Metcalf
(1949) Border Incident
as Jack Bearnes
(1947) The Arnelo Affair
as Theodore 'Ted' Parkson
(1943) Bataan
as Lt. Steve Bentley
(1944) Step Lively
as Gordon Miller
(1943) This Is the Army
as Jerry Jones
(1940) Broadway Melody of 1940
as King Shaw
(1940) Little Nellie Kelly
as Jerry Kelly
(1937) Broadway Melody of 1938
as Sonny Ledford
(1938) Little Miss Broadway
as Roger Wendling
(1941) Rise and Shine
as Jimmy McGonagle
(1944) Broadway Rhythm
as Johnny Demming
(1951) No Questions Asked
as Police Insp. Matt Duggan
(1951) It's a Big Country
as Mr. Patrick Callaghan
(1941) Tom, Dick and Harry
as Tom
(1952) Talk About a Stranger
as Robert Fontaine Sr.
(1940) Two Girls on Broadway
as Eddie Kerns
(1952) Walk East on Beacon
as Inspector James 'Jim' Belden
(1938) Letter of Introduction
as Barry Paige
(1942) The Navy Comes Through
as Lt. Thomas L. 'Tom' Sands
(1948) Tenth Avenue Angel
as Steve Abbutt
(1941) Ringside Maisie
as Francis X. 'Skeets' / 'Skeeter' Maguire
(1945) Having Wonderful Crime
as Jake Justus
(1947) Cynthia
as Larry Bishop
(1935) The Public Menace
as Edward Joseph "Red" Foster
(1937) The Women Men Marry
as Bill Raeburn
(1944) Show Business
as George Doane
(1941) A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
as Claudius "Coffee Cup" Cup
(1946) Up Goes Maisie
as Joseph Morton
(1942) The Mayor of 44th Street
as Joe Jonathan
(1948) Big City
as Patrick O'Donnell
(1937) London by Night
as Michael Denis
(1938) Hold That Co-ed
as Rusty Stevens
(1939) Hollywood Hobbies
as Self (uncredited)
(1955) 1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration
as ---
(1934) Kid Millions
as Jerry Lane
(1939) Risky Business
as Dan Clifford
(1943) The Powers Girl
as Jerry Hendricks
(1940) Public Deb No. 1
as Alan Blake
(1937) You're a Sweetheart
as Hal Adams
(1937) Top of the Town
as Ted Lane
(2003) Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine
as ---
(1935) After the Dance
as Jerry Davis
(1974) That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1936) Woman Trap
as Keat Shevlin
(1939) Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
as Himself (uncredited)
(1941) They Died with Their Boots On
as Cavalryman (uncredited)
(1934) Jealousy
as Larry O'Roarke
(1935) I'll Love You Always
as Carl Brent
(1943) Show-Business at War
as Self
(1936) Violets in Spring
as Charlie Hall
(1994) That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
(1940) A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
(1944) Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
(1936) Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
(1985) That's Dancing!
as From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
(1997) Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self (archive footage)
(1958) Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
as ---
(1957) The Thin Man
as ---
(1955) MGM Parade
as Host