Mary Murphy
32 movies · 23 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 26, 1931
- Died
- May 4, 2011 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Biography
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.
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Murphy died from heart disease complications on May 4, 2011; she was 80 years old.
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Known for
Mary Murphy: movies and TV shows
Acting (55)
- 1976 Born Innocent
as Miss Murphy
- 1975 Katherine
as Miss Collins
- 1974
- 1974 The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
as Mrs. Quayle
- 1974 I Love You...Good-bye
as Pam Parks
- 1972 Footsteps
as Martha Hagger
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972 Junior Bonner
as Ruth Bonner
- 1967
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965 Harlow
as Sally Doane
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1962 40 Pounds of Trouble
as Liz McCluskey
- 1962
- 1961
- 1961
- 1960
- 1959 Crime and Punishment USA
as Sally Marmon
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1958 Live Fast, Die Young
as Kim Winters / Narrator
- 1958 Escapement
as Ruth Vance
- 1957
- 1956 The Intimate Stranger
as Evelyn Stewart
- 1956 The Maverick Queen
as Lucy Lee
- 1955 A Man Alone
as Nadine Corrigan
- 1955 The Desperate Hours
as Cynthia 'Cindy' Hilliard
- 1955
- 1955 Hell's Island
as Janet Martin
- 1955
- 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
- 1952 Off Limits
as WAC
- 1952
- 1952
- 1952 Carrie
as Jessica Hurstwood
- 1952 The Turning Point
as Secretary (uncredited)
- 1952 The Atomic City
as Young Woman Buying Stamps
- 1952 Sailor Beware
as Girl (uncredited)
- 1951 Westward the Women
as Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
- 1951 When Worlds Collide
as Student
- 1951 Darling, How Could You!
as Sylvia
- 1951 The Lemon Drop Kid
as Girl (uncredited)