Fred MacMurray — Actor (56)
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Quantez (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Quantez
director: Harry Keller actor: Fred MacMurray / Dorothy Malone …
other title: Quantez, die tote Stadt / QUANTEZ, Leur Dernier Repaire
A gang of bank robbers with a posse in hot pursuit. Riding into the desert, they take refuge in Quantez, a small town they find deserted. Their horses tired and near death, they’re forced to stay the night — with the plan to cross the border into Mexico the next day.
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Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Star Spangled Rhythm
director: George Marshall actor: Bing Crosby / Bob Hope …
other title: Signorine, non guardate i marinai / Fantasía de estrellas
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
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The Forest Rangers (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Forest Rangers
director: George Marshall actor: Fred MacMurray / Paulette Goddard …
other title: Corazones en llamas
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
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New York Town (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
New York Town
director: Charles Vidor actor: Fred MacMurray / Mary Martin …
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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On Our Merry Way (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
On Our Merry Way
director: Leslie Fenton / King Vidor actor: Paulette Goddard / Burgess Meredith …
other title: La strada della felicità / Når enden er god …
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
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Callaway Went Thataway (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Callaway Went Thataway
director: Melvin Frank / Norman Panama actor: Fred MacMurray / Dorothy McGuire …
other title: Der Cowboy, den es zweimal gab / Ese no soy yo …
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star is in demand. Unfortunately no one can find him. When a lookalike sends in a photo, the marketing team hires him to impersonate Callaway. Things get sticky when the real Callaway eventually shows up.
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Son of Flubber (1963) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Son of Flubber
director: Robert Stevenson actor: Fred MacMurray / Nancy Olson …
other title: Professore a tuttogas / As Descobertas do Sr. Professor …
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.
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Face of a Fugitive (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Face of a Fugitive
director: Paul Wendkos actor: Fred MacMurray / Lin McCarthy …
other title: Il volto del fuggiasco / Audácia de Um Forasteiro …
A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. But he cannot settle in peace as his chasers are trying to find him.
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The Miracle of the Bells (1948) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Miracle of the Bells
director: Irving Pichel actor: Fred MacMurray / Alida Valli …
other title: Il miracolo delle campane / Die Glocken von Coaltown …
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.
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Singapore (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Singapore
director: John Brahm actor: Fred MacMurray / Ava Gardner …
other title: Singapur / Singapour …
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
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The Princess Comes Across (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Princess Comes Across
director: William K. Howard actor: Carole Lombard / Fred MacMurray …
other title: Resa d'amore / Eine Prinzessin für Amerika …
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
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Maid of Salem (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Maid of Salem
director: Frank Lloyd actor: Claudette Colbert / Fred MacMurray …
other title: La vergine di Salem / La muchacha de Salem …
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.