Donald Patrick Don Murray (July 31, 1929-February 2, 2024) was an American actor.Murray was born in Hollywood, California. He attended East Rockaway High School (class of 1947) in East Rockaway, New York where he played football and track, was a member of the student government and glee club and joined the Alpha Phi Chapter of the Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity. From high school he went on to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.Murray had a long and varied career in films and television, including his role as Sid Fairgate in the long-running prime-time soap opera Knots Landing from 1979 to 1981. He was nominated for an Academy Award as best supporting actor in Bus Stop (1956) in which he co-starred with Marilyn Monroe.He starred as a blackmailed United States senator in Advise & Consent (1961), a film version of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Allen Drury that was directed by Otto Preminger and cast Murray opposite Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton. He also co-starred with Steve McQueen in the film Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) and played the ape-hating Governor Breck in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972).In addition to acting, Murray directed a film based on the book The Cross and the Switchblade (1970) starring Pat Boone and Erik Estrada, and he scripted two episodes of Knots Landing (Hitchhike parts 1 & 2) in 1980.Murray starred with Otis Young in the ground breaking ABC western television series The Outcasts (1968-69) featuring an interracial bounty hunter team in the post-Civil War West.Murray decided to leave Knots Landing after two years to concentrate on other projects, although some sources say he left over a salary dispute. The characters death was notable at the time because it was considered rare to kill off a star character. The death came in the second episode of season three, following up on season twos cliffhanger in which Sids car careered off a cliff. To make viewers off doubt the character would actually die, Murray was listed in the newly created credit sequence for season three; the character survived the plunge off the cliff (thus temporarily reassuring viewers), but died shortly afterwards in hospital.Although he effectively distanced himself from the series after his exit in 1981, Murray later contributed an interview segment for Knots Landing Together Again, a non-fiction reunion special made in 2005.Murray was the first husband of actress Hope Lange. They had two children, including actor Christopher Murray.
Breck
Film 1972
Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
Film 1956
Winston
Film 1989
Self
Film 2000
Mio
Film 1959
Self
Film 2004
Dr. Alex Lauder
Film 1969
Self
Film 2007
Self
Film 2010
Self
Film 2010
Senator Brigham Anderson
Film 1962
Self
Film 1987
Albert Gallatin 'Lat' Evans
Film 1959
Herb Shuttle
Film 1971
William Martin
Film 1974
Father Charles Dismas Clark
Film 1961
Deputy Sheriff Slim
Film 1965
Kid Rodelo
Film 1966
David Farmer
Film 1983
Self
Film 1994
Justin Morgan
Film 1972
Pimp
Film 1981
Sen. Grant O'Neal
Film 1974
Gifford Lease
Film 1986
Parker Gaits
Film 2001
Self
Film 1986
Lloyd Raines
Film 1996
Kurt Schröder
Film 1962
Wild Bill Hickok
Film 1966
Sam Garrison
Film 1970
Axel Nordman
Film 1955
Adam Travis
Film 1979
Norman Vincent Peale
Film 1964
Self
Film 1996
Zacharias
Film 2021
Self
Film 1987
Ken Saunders
Film 1980
Tom Harris
Film 1969
Steven Harding
Film 1987
Self
Film 1999
Self
Film 1998
Self
Film 1960
Jack Karpinsky
Film 1989
Jack Kelcher
Film 1986
Self
Film 2008
Self
Film 2015
Sheriff Phil Rotteman
Film 1975
David Hillary
Film 1967
Parker Alden
Film 1983
Benjamin Gilvey
Film 1984
Sam Kingsley
Film 1987
Self
Film 1994
Sonny Morgan
Film 1981
Self ("Bus Stop") (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1963
Peter Ritchie
Film 1980
Self
Film 1991
Cotter
Film 1973
Robert Langford
Film 1980
Self
Film 1997
Self
Film 2017
Senator Stuart Grayle
Film 1986
Chip Bremley
Tv 1995
Tv 1982
Biondello
Tv 1948
Self
Tv 1948
Tv 1968
Tv 1973
Tv 1974
Jimmy
Tv 1950
Tv 1948
Jack Karpinsky
Tv 1972
Tv 1989
Bing Hammersmith
Tv 1991
Albert Gordon
Tv 1986
Self - Mystery Guest
Tv 1950
Randy Bragg
Tv 1956
Wally Hampton
Tv 1984
Tv 1947
Booth
Tv 1947
George
Tv 1947
Self
Tv 1961
Self
Tv 1962
Bushnell Mullins
Tv 1990
Axel Nordman
Tv 1948
Sid Fairgate
Tv 1979
Justin Morgan
Tv 1954