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Mary Murphy

Mary Murphy

Birthday: 1931-01-26 | Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1974
Born Innocent

as    Miss Murphy

1972
Junior Bonner

as    Ruth Bonner

1960
Escapement

as    Ruth Vance

1959
Crime and Punishment USA

as    Sally Marmon

1956
Finger of Guilt

as    Evelyn Stewart

1956
The Maverick Queen

as    Lucy Lee

1955
The Desperate Hours

as    Cynthia 'Cindy' Hilliard

1955
Hell's Island

as    Janet Martin

1955
A Man Alone

as    Nadine Corrigan

1954
The Mad Magician

as    Karen Lee

1954
Sitting Bull

as    Kathy Howell

1954
Make Haste to Live

as    Randy Benson

1953
The Wild One

as    Kathie Bleeker

1953
Main Street to Broadway

as    Mary Craig