Acting

Forbes Murray

Born November 3, 1884 · Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Died November 18, 1982 · aged 98

Forbes Murray was born on November 4, 1884 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada as Murray Forbes Barnard. He was an actor, known for A Chump at Oxford (1940), Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride (1940) and The Spider's Web (1938). He died on November 18, 1982 in Douglas County, Oregon, USA.

Known For

Vertigo

Vertigo · 1958

MovieMysteryRomance

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain · 1952

Singin' in the Rain

MovieComedyRomance

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

Party Girl

Party Girl · 1958

MovieCrimeDrama

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.

Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder · 1954

Dial M for Murder

MovieThrillerCrime

When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep · 1946

MovieMysteryCrime

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

Gilda

MovieRomanceDrama

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

Test Pilot

Test Pilot · 1938

MovieDramaRomance

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

Anchors Aweigh

Anchors Aweigh · 1945

MovieMusicComedy

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.

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Vertigo

Vertigo · 1958

MovieMysteryRomance

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Diner at Ernie's (uncredited)

Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain · 1952

Singin' in the Rain

MovieComedyRomance

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

Club Patron (uncredited)

Party Girl

Party Girl · 1958

MovieCrimeDrama

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.

Party Guest at Rico's (uncredited)

Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder · 1954

Dial M for Murder

MovieThrillerCrime

When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

Judge at Margot's Trial (uncredited)

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep · 1946

MovieMysteryCrime

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

Furtive Man (uncredited)

Gilda

MovieRomanceDrama

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

American Cartel Member (uncredited)

Test Pilot

Test Pilot · 1938

MovieDramaRomance

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

Pilot in Cafe (uncredited)

Anchors Aweigh

Anchors Aweigh · 1945

MovieMusicComedy

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.

Passerby (uncredited)

How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won · 1962

How the West Was Won

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

Auction Guest (uncredited)

The Country Girl

The Country Girl · 1954

The Country Girl

An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, yet his alcoholism may prevent that from happening.

Party Guest (uncredited)

Pat and Mike

Pat and Mike · 1952

MovieComedyRomance

Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.

Golf Official (uncredited)

The Far Country

The Far Country · 1954

The Far Country

During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Canadian town.

Townsman (uncredited)

The Wings of Eagles

The Wings of Eagles · 1957

The Wings of Eagles

The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.

Congressman (uncredited)

The Gunfight at Dodge City

The Gunfight at Dodge City · 1959

The Gunfight at Dodge City

Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is killed by hired guns of the corrupt incumbent Bat is determined to settle the score with violence but he is convinced by the townspeople that the best way to avenge his brother's death is by taking Ed's place on the ballot. Bat agrees and wins the election but his new role on the right side of the law will lead him to unexpected confrontations as he finds himself torn between his loyalties to his friends and his duties as sheriff.

Townsman (uncredited)

Them!

MovieScience FictionHorror

As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.

Government Official

Annie Get Your Gun

Annie Get Your Gun · 1950

Annie Get Your Gun

MovieComedyWestern

Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Ball Guest (uncredited)

Funny Face

Funny Face · 1957

MovieMusicComedy

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

Fashion Show Guest (uncredited)

The Long, Long Trailer

The Long, Long Trailer · 1954

The Long, Long Trailer

MovieComedyRomance

A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success · 1957

Sweet Smell of Success

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.

Toots Shor's Patron (uncredited)

The Dark Corner

The Dark Corner · 1946

The Dark Corner

MovieCrimeDrama

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.

Mr. Bryson (uncredited)

Monkey Business

Monkey Business · 1952

Monkey Business

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

Board Member (uncredited)

Laura

MovieDramaMystery

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Man (uncredited)

Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride · 1950

Father of the Bride

MovieComedyRomance

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Daddy Long Legs

Daddy Long Legs · 1955

Daddy Long Legs

Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.

Art Gallery Patron (uncredited)

Bonanza

Bonanza · 1959

SeriesWesternAction & Adventure

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

Townsman (uncredited)

Maverick

Maverick · 1957

SeriesComedyWestern

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

Diner Patron (uncredited)

Have Gun, Will Travel

Have Gun, Will Travel · 1957

Have Gun, Will Travel

SeriesWesternAction & Adventure

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.

Hotel Guest (uncredited)

Cheyenne

Cheyenne · 1955

SeriesWesternDrama

Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.

Senator (uncredited)

The Untouchables

The Untouchables · 1959

The Untouchables

SeriesDramaCrime

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

Banker (uncredited)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. · 1964

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

SeriesAction & AdventureComedy

Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N. Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly. Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club. This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E. United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.

Party Guest (uncredited)

Arrest and Trial

Arrest and Trial · 1963

Arrest and Trial

SeriesCrimeDrama

Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.

Party Guest (uncredited)

The Lone Wolf

The Lone Wolf · 1954

Theatre Patron (uncredited)