Mary Murphy
Acting • Born 1931-01-26 – Died 2011-05-04
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. 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.
Filmography
55 credits
Born Innocent
Movie • 1976
Miss Murphy
Harlow
Movie • 1965
Sally Doane
The Lemon Drop Kid
Movie • 1951
Girl (uncredited)
The Mad Magician
Movie • 1954
Karen Lee
The Wild One
Movie • 1953
Kathie Bleeker
The Turning Point
Movie • 1952
Secretary (uncredited)
Beachhead
Movie • 1954
Nina Bouchard
Crime and Punishment USA
Movie • 1959
Sally Marmon
Hell's Island
Movie • 1955
Janet Martin
The Desperate Hours
Movie • 1955
Cynthia 'Cindy' Hilliard
Westward the Women
Movie • 1951
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Make Haste to Live
Movie • 1954
Randy Benson
The Intimate Stranger
Movie • 1956
Evelyn Stewart
Sitting Bull
Movie • 1954
Kathy Howell
Live Fast, Die Young
Movie • 1958
Kim Winters / Narrator
Escapement
Movie • 1958
Ruth Vance
The Maverick Queen
Movie • 1956
Lucy Lee
Main Street to Broadway
Movie • 1953
Mary Craig
Katherine
Movie • 1975
Miss Collins
A Man Alone
Movie • 1955
Nadine Corrigan
40 Pounds of Trouble
Movie • 1962
Liz McCluskey
Carrie
Movie • 1952
Jessica Hurstwood
Darling, How Could You!
Movie • 1951
Sylvia
Junior Bonner
Movie • 1972
Ruth Bonner
The Atomic City
Movie • 1952
Young Woman Buying Stamps
Footsteps
Movie • 1972
Martha Hagger
Off Limits
Movie • 1952
WAC
Two Before Zero
Movie • 1962
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
Movie • 1974
Mrs. Quayle
I Love You...Good-bye
Movie • 1974
Pam Parks
When Worlds Collide
Movie • 1951
Student
Sailor Beware
Movie • 1952
Girl (uncredited)
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Eleanor Corbin
Arrest and Trial
TV • 1963
Ironside
TV • 1967
Laredo
TV • 1965
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Estelle
Redigo
TV • 1963
Laura McAdams
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Thelma Hollister
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Janie Harris
Black Saddle
TV • 1959
Laurie
The Rebel
TV • 1959
'T' White
Laramie
TV • 1959
The Detectives
TV • 1959
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Rowena
Honey West
TV • 1965
Vicky
Breaking Point
TV • 1963
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Janet Logan
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Linda Darcy
Ghost Story
TV • 1972
Maggie Mundy
The Westerner
TV • 1960
Suzy
The Investigators
TV • 1961
Maggie Peters
Kodiak
TV • 1974
Cathy
Death Valley Days
TV • 1952
Marianne