Personal Info
George Lloyd Murphy
George Murphy
Acting
Biography
George Murphy was an American dancer and stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a United States Senator. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first notable U.S. actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is the only United States Senator represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of F…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine
Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
That's Dancing!
as From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration
Talk About a Stranger
as Robert Fontaine Sr.
Walk East on Beacon
as Inspector James 'Jim' Belden
The Hoaxters
as Narrator (voice)
It's a Big Country
as Mr. Patrick Callaghan
