Don Murray
Acting

Don Murray

Born 31 July 1929 · Hollywood, California, USA · Died 2 February 2024

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.

Known for

Twin Peaks
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Peggy Sue Got Married
Murder, She Wrote
Endless Love
Bus Stop
Matlock
Advise & Consent
Made in Heaven
Radioactive Dreams
Baby the Rain Must Fall
Knots Landing
Gold of Rio Bravo: Sheriff Kelly's Story
Promise
Breathe
Island Prey
Mr. Headmistress
Hearts Adrift
Ghosts Can't Do It
My Dad Can't Be Crazy... Can He?
Made in Heaven
The Stepford Children
Stillwatch
Mistress
Radioactive Dreams
License to Kill
Scorpion
Peggy Sue Got Married
Something in Common
T.J. Hooker: Blood Sport
A Touch of Scandal
I Am the Cheese
Quarterback Princess
Thursday's Child
Endless Love
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
Return of the Rebels
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
Fugitive Family
If Things Were Different
Crisis in Mid-Air
Rainbow
Damien's Island
Deadly Hero
A Girl Named Sooner
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
The Sex Symbol
Cotter
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
The Intruders
The Cross and the Switchblade
Daughter of the Mind
Childish Things
The Borgia Stick
The Viking Queen
Sweet Love, Bitter
Kid Rodelo
The Plainsman
Baby the Rain Must Fall
One Man's Way
Advise & Consent
Escape from East Berlin
The Hoodlum Priest
One Foot in Hell
These Thousand Hills
Shake Hands with the Devil
From Hell to Texas
A Hatful of Rain
The Bachelor Party
Bus Stop
A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
The Taming of the Shrew
Don Murray · Midrow