Mary Murphy

Acting

Born January 26, 1931, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary Murphy (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 1976Born Innocent — Miss Murphy
• 1975Katherine — Miss Collins
• 1974I Love You...Good-bye — Pam Parks
• Kodiak — Cathy
• 1974The Stranger Who Looks Like Me — Mrs. Quayle
• 1972Footsteps — Martha Hagger
• Ghost Story — Maggie Mundy
• 1972Junior Bonner — Ruth Bonner
• The Streets of San Francisco
• Ironside
• 1965Harlow — Sally Doane
• Honey West — Vicky
• Laredo
• Arrest and Trial
• Breaking Point
• Redigo — Laura McAdams
• The Fugitive — Thelma Hollister
• The Outer Limits — Linda Darcy
• 196240 Pounds of Trouble — Liz McCluskey
• 1962Two Before Zero
• Dr. Kildare — Janet Logan
• The Investigators — Maggie Peters
• The Westerner — Suzy
• Black Saddle — Laurie
• 1959Crime and Punishment USA — Sally Marmon
• Laramie
• The Detectives
• The Rebel — 'T' White
• 1958Escapement — Ruth Vance
• 1958Live Fast, Die Young — Kim Winters / Narrator
• Perry Mason — Eleanor Corbin
• 1956The Intimate Stranger — Evelyn Stewart
• 1956The Maverick Queen — Lucy Lee
• 1955A Man Alone — Nadine Corrigan
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Estelle
• 1955Hell's Island — Janet Martin
• 1955The Desperate Hours — Cynthia 'Cindy' Hilliard
• The Millionaire — Janie Harris
• 1954Beachhead — Nina Bouchard
• 1954Make Haste to Live — Randy Benson
• 1954Sitting Bull — Kathy Howell
• 1954The Mad Magician — Karen Lee
• 1953Main Street to Broadway — Mary Craig
• 1953The Wild One — Kathie Bleeker
• 1952Carrie — Jessica Hurstwood
• Cavalcade of America — Rowena
• Death Valley Days — Marianne
• 1952Off Limits — WAC
• 1952Sailor Beware — Girl (uncredited)
• 1952The Atomic City — Young Woman Buying Stamps
• 1952The Turning Point — Secretary (uncredited)
• 1951Darling, How Could You! — Sylvia
• 1951The Lemon Drop Kid — Girl (uncredited)
• 1951Westward the Women — Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
• 1951When Worlds Collide — Student