Don Murray

Donald Patrick "Don" Murray (July 31, 1929-February 2, 2024) was an American actor. Murray was born in Hollywood, California. He attended East Rockaway High School (class of 1947) in East Rockaway, New York where he played football and track, was a member of the student government and glee club and joined the Alpha Phi Chapter of the Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity. From high school he went on to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Murray had a long and varied career in films and television, including his role as Sid Fairgate in the long-running prime-time soap opera Knots Landing from 1979 to 1981. He was nominated for an Academy Award as best supporting actor in Bus Stop (1956) in which he co-starred with Marilyn Monroe. He starred as a blackmailed United States senator in Advise & Consent (1961), a film version of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Allen Drury that was directed by Otto Preminger and cast Murray opposite Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton. He also co-starred with Steve McQueen in the film Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) and played the ape-hating Governor Breck in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972). In addition to acting, Murray directed a film based on the book The Cross and the Switchblade (1970) starring Pat Boone and Erik Estrada, and he scripted two episodes of Knots Landing ("Hitchhike" parts 1 & 2) in 1980. Murray starred with Otis Young in the ground breaking ABC western television series The Outcasts (1968-69) featuring an interracial bounty hunter team in the post-Civil War West. Murray decided to leave Knots Landing after two years to concentrate on other projects, although some sources say he left over a salary dispute. The character's death was notable at the time because it was considered rare to "kill off" a star character. The death came in the second episode of season three, following up on season two's cliffhanger in which Sid's car careered off a cliff. To make viewers off doubt the character would actually die, Murray was listed in the newly created credit sequence for season three; the character survived the plunge off the cliff (thus temporarily reassuring viewers), but died shortly afterwards in hospital. Although he effectively distanced himself from the series after his exit in 1981, Murray later contributed an interview segment for Knots Landing: Together Again, a non-fiction reunion special made in 2005. Murray was the first husband of actress Hope Lange. They had two children, including actor Christopher Murray.

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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

The Borgia Stick

Bus Stop

Ghosts Can't Do It

Besuch bei Don Murray

Winterset

Hollywood Legenden

The Viking Queen

Daughter of the Mind

Made in Heaven

Fred Zinnemann - Der Mann, der 'High Noon' machte

Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved

Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon

A Hatful of Rain

Radioactive Dreams

Advise & Consent

Hollywood Uncensored

License to Kill

These Thousand Hills

Endless Love

Happy Birthday, Wanda June

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

Deadly Hero

From Hell to Texas

The Hoodlum Priest

Baby, the Rain Must Fall

Kid Rodelo

I Am The Cheese

Quarterback Princess

Shurtleff on Acting

Justin Morgan Had a Horse

One Foot in Hell

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

The Sex Symbol

Scorpion

The Bachelor Party

Island Prey

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

Hearts Adrift

The Plainsman

Escape from East Berlin

The Intruders

A Man Is Ten Feet Tall

Rainbow

Crisis in Mid-Air

One Man's Way

Shake Hands with the Devil

Marilyn, divine et fragile

Promise

Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

The Boy Who Drank Too Much

Childish Things

The Stepford Children

Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man

Internet Love

Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

My Dad Can't Be Crazy... Can He?

Peggy Sue Got Married

Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times

Tab Hunter Confidential

A Girl Named Sooner

Thursday's Child

Sweet Love, Bitter

A Touch of Scandal

Stillwatch

Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess

Return of the Rebels

Marilyn

Fugitive Family

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Cotter

If Things Were Different

Something in Common

Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years

Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers

T.J. Hooker - Blood Sport

Gold of Rio Bravo: Sheriff Kelly's Story

Mr. Headmistress

Mistress