George Murphy

Known for ActingBorn 1902-07-04Died 1992-05-03New Haven, Connecticut, USA

George Murphy was an American dancer and stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a United States Senator. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first notable U.S. actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is the only United States Senator represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In movies, Murphy was known as a song-and-dance man and appeared in many big-budget musicals such as Broadway Melody of 1938, Broadway Melody of 1940 and For Me and My Gal. He made his movie debut shortly after talking pictures had replaced silent movies in 1930, and his career continued until he retired as an actor in 1952, at the age of 50. During World War II, he organized entertainment for American troops. In 1951, he was awarded an honorary Academy Award. He was never nominated for an Oscar in any competitive category. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946. He was also a vice president of Desilu Productions and of the Technicolor Corporation. He was director of entertainment for presidential inaugurations in 1953, 1957 and 1961.Read more

Movies & web series

MGM Parade

Twenty Years After

Woman Trap

Big City

That's Entertainment!

The Thin Man

Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine

That's Entertainment! III

That's Dancing!

Rise and Shine

Frank Capra's American Dream

Border Incident

The Powers Girl

Show-Business at War

Two Girls on Broadway

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

Broadway Melody of 1940

Battleground

The Merv Griffin Show

Up Goes Maisie

Little Nellie Kelly

Step Lively

Hold That Co-ed

They Died with Their Boots On

Kid Millions

Having Wonderful Crime

Tenth Avenue Angel

Broadway Melody of 1938

Bataan

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

For Me and My Gal

Risky Business

1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration

Little Miss Broadway

After the Dance

Broadway Rhythm

Talk About a Stranger

Cynthia

The Women Men Marry

No Questions Asked

London by Night

The Navy Comes Through

It's a Big Country

Letter of Introduction

Top of the Town

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

The Public Menace

Tom, Dick and Harry