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Mary Murphy
Actor
Died May 4, 2011 (80 years)
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.
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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.
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Filmography
| 1989 | Heavy Petting · as Cast |
| 1975 | Katherine · as Miss Collins |
| 1974 | Kodiak (TV Series) · as Cathy |
| 1974 | Born Innocent · as Miss Murphy |
| 1974 | The Stranger Who Looks Like Me · as Mrs. Quayle |
| 1974 | I Love You... Good-bye · as Pam Parks |
| 1973 | Harry O (TV Series) · as Joyce Greenbaum |
| 1972 | Footsteps · as Martha Hagger |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) |
| 1972 | Junior Bonner · as Ruth Bonner |
| 1972 | Ghost Story (TV Series) · as Maggie Mundy |
| 1967 | Ironside (TV Series) |
| 1966 | Family Affair (TV Series) · as Ellen Latimer |
| 1965 | Honey West (TV Series) · as Vicky |
| 1965 | Laredo (TV Series) |
| 1965 | I Spy (TV Series) · as Cass |
| 1965 | Harlow · as Sally Doane |
| 1963 | The Fugitive (TV Series) · as Thelma Hollister |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits (TV Series) · as Linda Darcy |
| 1963 | Breaking Point (TV Series) |
| 1963 | Arrest and Trial (TV Series) |
| 1962 | 40 Pounds of Trouble · as Liz Mccluskey |
| 1962 | The Lloyd Bridges Show (TV Series) · as Helen Devlin |
| 1961 | Alcoa Premiere (TV Series) · as Angie Palmer |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare (TV Series) · as Janet Logan |
| 1961 | The Dick Powell Show (TV Series) · as Karen Holm |
| 1960 | The Westerner (TV Series) · as Suzy |
| 1960 | The Tab Hunter Show (TV Series) · as Susan |
| 1960 | Hong Kong (TV Series) · as Agnes Unruh |
| 1959 | The Detectives (1959) (TV Series) |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | Laramie (TV Series) |
| 1959 | Crime & Punishment, USA · as Sally Marmon |
| 1959 | Black Saddle (TV Series) · as Laurie |
| 1958 | Live Fast, Die Young · as Kim Winters / Narrator |
| 1958 | The Electronic Monster · as Ruth Vance |
| 1957 | Alcoa Theatre (TV Series) · as Carli Sefton |
| 1957 | The Restless Gun (TV Series) · as Mary Clayton |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Eleanor Corbin |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Martha Murphy |
| 1956 | Finger of Guilt · as Evelyn Stewart |
| 1956 | The Maverick Queen · as Lucy Lee |
| 1955 | Matinee Theater (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1955 | The Desperate Hours · as Cynthia 'cindy' Hilliard |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Estelle |
| 1955 | A Man Alone · as Nadine Corrigan |
| 1955 | Hell's Island · as Janet Martin |
| 1955 | The Millionaire (TV Series) · as Janie Harris |
| 1954 | Sitting Bull · as Kathy Howell |
| 1954 | The Mad Magician · as Karen Lee |
| 1954 | Make Haste to Live · as Randy Benson |
| 1954 | Beachhead · as Nina Bouchard |
| 1953 | The Wild One · as Kathie Bleeker |
| 1953 | Main Street to Broadway · as Mary Craig |
| 1953 | Houdini · as Girl |
| 1952 | Off Limits · as Wac |
| 1952 | The Turning Point · as Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America (TV Series) · as Rowena |
| 1952 | Carrie · as Jessica Hurstwood |
| 1952 | The Atomic City · as Young Woman Buying Stamps |
| 1952 | Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick · as Girl In Bathtub |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as Marianne |
| 1952 | Sailor Beware · as Girl |
| 1951 | Westward the Women · as Pioneer Woman (uncredited) |
| 1951 | My Favorite Spy · as Manicurist |
| 1951 | When Worlds Collide · as Student |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1951 | Darling, How Could You! · as Sylvia |
| 1951 | The Lemon Drop Kid · as Girl (uncredited) |