
Known for
Acting
Born
January 26, 1931
Birthplace
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Died
May 4, 2011 (aged 80)
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 televis...
1976
as Miss Murphy
1975
as Miss Collins
1974
1974
as Mrs. Quayle
1974
as Pam Parks
1972
as Martha Hagger
1972
1972
1972
as Ruth Bonner
1967
1965
1965
1965
as Sally Doane
1963
1963
1963
1963
1963
1962
as Liz McCluskey
1962
1961
1961
1960
1959
as Sally Marmon
1959