Role Film actress Years active 1951–1975 Parents James Victor Murphy | Home town Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. Children Stephanie Specht Name Mary Murphy | |
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Born January 26, 1931 ( 1931-01-26 ) Washington, D.C, U.S. Movies The Wild One, A Man Alone, The Desperate Hours, Beachhead, The Mad Magician Similar People Laszlo Benedek, Dale Robertson, Ray Milland, Sidney Salkow, Stuart Heisler | ||
Cause of death Cardiovascular disease | ||
Mary Murphy (January 26, 1931 – May 4, 2011) was an American film and television actress of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
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- The most beautiful couples of the cinema mary murphy and marlon brando
- Early years
- Film
- Television
- Personal life
- Death
- Filmography
- References
The most beautiful couples of the cinema mary murphy and marlon brando
Early years
Murphy was born in Washington, D.C., and was the youngest of four children. She spent most of her early childhood in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, James Victor Murphy, died in 1940. Shortly afterwards, she and her mother moved to Southern California. She attended University High School in West Los Angeles.
While working as a package wrapper at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, she was signed to appear in films for Paramount Pictures in 1951.
Film
She first gained attention in 1953, when she played a good-hearted girl who is intrigued by Marlon Brando in The Wild One. The following year, she appeared opposite Tony Curtis in Beachhead, and with Dale Robertson in Sitting Bull, 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. That was one of her best roles; another was in the film she made the following year for Joseph Losey, The Intimate Stranger (1956).
Television
Among her television appearances she was featured in the title role of defendant Eleanor Corbin in the 1962 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Glamorous Ghost." She also appeared in dozens of other television series including The Lloyd Bridges Show, I Spy, The Outer Limits , The Fugitive and Ironside. She was absent from the big screen for seven years before resuming her film career in 1972 with Steve McQueen in Junior Bonner.
Personal life
On June 3, 1956, Murphy married actor Dale Robertson in Yuma, Arizona. The marriage was annulled after six months.
Death
On May 4, 2011, Murphy died of heart disease at her home in Beverly Hills, California, aged 80. She was survived by a daughter.