Mary Murphy
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.237 |
Birthday | 1931-01-26 |
Place of Birth | Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
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1976
Born Innocent
6.3/50
A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bure...
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Born Innocent
1965
Harlow
5.4/18
Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both...
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Harlow
1951
The Lemon Drop Kid
6.6/26
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Cr...
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The Lemon Drop Kid
1954
The Mad Magician
6.9/46
Don Gallico is an inventor of stage magic effects who aspires to become a star in his own right. Just before his first performance his act is shut dow...
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The Mad Magician
1953
The Wild One
6.6/296
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes...
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The Wild One
1952
The Turning Point
6.3/31
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The Turning Point
1954
Beachhead
5.3/16
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Beachhead
1955
Hell's Island
5.4/11
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Hell's Island
1959
Crime and Punishment USA
5.2/5
Believing he can elude justice, a California law student murders an elderly pawnbroker, then matches wits with the detective on the case.
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Crime and Punishment USA
1955
The Desperate Hours
7/161
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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The Desperate Hours
1951
Westward the Women
7/72
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order b...
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Westward the Women
1954
Make Haste to Live
5.708/12
A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.
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Make Haste to Live
1956
Finger of Guilt
5.8/11
Film producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he finds himself in England and married to the studio boss's...
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Finger of Guilt
1954
Sitting Bull
4.9/21
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Sitting Bull
1958
Live Fast, Die Young
5.7/3
A teenager finds her wayward sister running with thieves in San Francisco.
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Live Fast, Die Young
1958
Escapement
4.1/7
An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy in...
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Escapement
1956
The Maverick Queen
5.2/11
A Pinkerton detective goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of thieves whose boss is a feisty lady saloonkeeper. Complications ensue.
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The Maverick Queen
1953
Main Street to Broadway
6.5/2
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspira...
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1975
Katherine
5.5/8
A harrowing look at the 60s and early 70s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a figh...
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Katherine
1955
A Man Alone
5.6/29
A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the hors...
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A Man Alone
1962
40 Pounds of Trouble
5.4/15
Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.
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40 Pounds of Trouble
1952
Carrie
6.432/37
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly pa...
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Carrie
1951
Darling, How Could You!
6/3
Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.
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Darling, How Could You!
1972
Junior Bonner
6.1/106
With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck in the annual rodeo. But his fond childhood memor...
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Junior Bonner
1952
The Atomic City
5.2/14
Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos bomb formula.
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The Atomic City
1972
Footsteps
0/0
A football coach is hired by a small college to shape up its football team, and he finds himself in trouble with local gamblers who don't want the tea...
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Footsteps
1952
Off Limits
5.8/15
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Off Limits
1962
Two Before Zero
5/1
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Two Before Zero
1974
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
6/1
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The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
1974
I Love You...Good-bye
0/0
A suburban wife begins to resent the pressures she sees society putting on her as a wife and mother, and leaves her family to find the meaning of her...
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I Love You...Good-bye
1951
When Worlds Collide
6.29/181
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