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. He starred as a blackmailed United States senator in Advise & Consent (1961), a film version of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Allen Drury that was directed by Otto Preminger and cast Murray opposite Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton. He also co-starred with Ste...
Hearts Adrift
1996
Fugitive Family
1980
The Intruders
1970
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
1980
Escape from East Berlin
1962
Advise & Consent
1962
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
1974
Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers
2017
Baby the Rain Must Fall
1965
Rainbow
1978
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1972
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986
Endless Love
1981
Scorpion
1986
Peggy Sue Got Married
1986
Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
1999
Made in Heaven
1987
Stillwatch
1987
Bus Stop
1956
Mr. Headmistress
1998
The Sex Symbol
1974
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015
Mistress
1987
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
1981
One Foot in Hell
1960
License to Kill
1986
A Hatful of Rain
1957
The Stepford Children
1987
Radioactive Dreams
1986
The Boy Who Drank Too Much
1980
Deadly Hero
1975
The Plainsman
1966
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959
Ghosts Can't Do It
1989
A Girl Named Sooner
1975
Cotter
1973
From Hell to Texas
1958
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
Quarterback Princess
1983
The Hoodlum Priest
1961