Don MurrayFilmography

Murder, She Wrote: Bloodlines

Synopsis: In 1944, Angela Lansbury and Mickey Rooney both appeared in the classic racetrack film National Velvet. The two veterans are reunited in this story, which appropriately enough revolves around a thoroughbred horse, and two families who have staked everything in an upcoming race. When her old Read More

Kickboxer the Champion

Synopsis: Wayne Archer fills the shoes of the title character in Kickboxer the Champion. The plot concerns a powerful opium ring, whose mastermind surrounds himself with martial arts-savvy goons. Archer dispatches the villain's flunkeys and forces a one-on-one, winner-take-all duel to the death. Do the bad Read More

Ghosts Can't Do It

Actors: Bo Derek, Anthony Quinn, Don Murray, Leo Damian, Julie Newmar

Synopsis: The final cinematic abomination from the late John Derek and his legendary non-actress wife Bo Derek turns out to be their worst collaboration ever, beating out even Bolero for sheer incomprehensible awfulness and ranking as one of the silliest monstrosities ever committed to film. Though no Read More

Barry Manilow: Because It's Christmas

Crew: Music Producer, Sound Recordist

Actors: Barry Manilow

License to Kill

Actors: James Farentino, Penny Fuller, Millie Perkins, Don Murray

Synopsis: License to Kill is a serious TV movie dealing with the subject of drunken driving. The film begins when a popular high school girl is killed in a head-on collision by inebriated-businessman Don Murray. Though he's had a drinking problem for some time, Murray has dismissed it as a byproduct of the Read More

Brand New Life

Synopsis: This Magical World of Disney made-for-television movie is another tale of step-kids coming together to form a new, big, happy family. Don Murray and Barbara Eden star as single parents, each with three kids of their own from previous marriages. When Eden and Murray fall in love, the brood comes Read More

My Dad Can't Be Crazy, Can He?

Actors: Loretta Swit, Wil Wheaton, Don Murray

Made in Heaven

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis, Maureen Stapleton, Don Murray, Ellen Barkin, Marj Dusay

Synopsis: Alan Rudolph directed this offbeat, boy-meets-girl romance in which boy dies, dead boy meets dead girl, dead boy loses dead girl, and dead boy tries to find dead girl again. The tale begins is a small Pennsylvania town, where Mike Shea (Timothy Hutton) dreams of escaping small town life and moving Read More

The Stepford Children

Actors: Barbara Eden, Don Murray, Richard Anderson, James Coco, Randall Batinkoff

Synopsis: This film takes place in that strange bastion of middle-class living, Stepford, CT. The trouble begins when a former resident returns with his new family and forces them to become as strangely contented as their neighbors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Matlock: The Billionaire

Synopsis: The son of an American businessman living in London is convicted of his father's murder, prompting his sister to hire Matlock to prove that he was framed. ~ TV Guide, All Movie Guide Read More

Stillwatch

Synopsis: This mystery is set in Washington, D.C. and chronicles the exploits of a TV correspondent who is sent there to interview a prominent senator. While there, she begins realizing that her subject and a weird old house are strangely connected. Mayhem ensues as she begins her investigation. ~ Sandra Read More

Mistress

Actors: Victoria Principal, Don Murray, Kerrie Keane, Alan Rachins, Guy Boyd

Synopsis: A kept woman learns to live independently in this made-for-TV melodrama. Her troubles begin after her successful and much loved "sugar daddy" suddenly dies, leaving her with nothing but her own strong will and very few real job skills to survive. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Scorpion

Actors: Tonny Tulleners, Don Murray, Robert Logan, Allen Williams, Kathryn Daley

Synopsis: This martial arts film features Tonny Tulleners (a karate champion) as a U.S. government agent who goes after international terrorists in some picturesque locations: Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. His terrorist-fighting takes on another complexion when he is required to protect a terrorist Read More

Peggy Sue Got Married

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Maureen O'Sullivan, Helen Hunt, Jim Carrey, John Carradine

Synopsis: During her 25th high school class reunion, middle-aged Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) tries to forget her marital problems with husband Charlie (Nicolas Cage) by renewing old friendships. Wondering if she made the right decisions in her life, Peggy Sue gets a chance to try again when, zapped into a Read More

Radioactive Dreams

Actors: John Stockwell, Michael Dudikoff, Lisa Blount, George Kennedy, Don Murray

Synopsis: This comedy is set 15 years after the final nuclear holocaust and centers upon two fellows who have been stuck in their fathers' elaborate bomb shelter since the bombs began to fall. They had plenty of food, clothing (from the 1940s), and necessities, but their only entertainment was a huge set of Read More

Blood Sport

Actors: William Shatner, Heather Locklear, James Darren, Don Murray, Kim Miyori

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1975 TV movie Bloodsport, this 1986 production was a spin-off of the recently cancelled police drama series T.J. Hooker. William Shatner is back as the aforementioned Hooker, a cop on special assignment to Hawaii (where the film was lensed). Accompanied by longtime Read More

Something in Common

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Something in Common is a made-for-television comedy about a middle-aged, widowed career woman (Ellen Burstyn) who discovers that her grown son is having a love affair with a woman (Tuesday Weld) her own age. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hollywood Collection: Marilyn Monroe - Beyond the Legend

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Joshua Logan, Susan Strasberg, Don Murray

Synopsis: This documentary of Marilyn Monroe takes a novel approach in not dwelling on her love affairs and concentrating on her film career. Film clips and press conferences accompany interviews of Marilyn's friends and co-stars such as Shelly Winters, Robert Mitchum, Susan Strasberg, and Joshua Logan. Read More

A Test of Love

Crew: Producer

Actors: Drew Forsythe, Tina Arhondis, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Monica Maughan

Synopsis: This emotional true story is about Annie O'Farrell (Tina Arhondis -- who suffered brain damage at birth and as a result was later institutionalized with other children like herself, physically unable to mature past the age of 8 or 9, even though in chronological years they are much older. When Read More

A Touch of Scandal

Synopsis: In this drama, a lady lawyer's campaign to become state attorney general is jeopardized by a scandal involving a gigolo, extortion and even murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Am the Cheese

Actors: Robert MacNaughton, Hope Lange, Don Murray, Robert Wagner, Cynthia Nixon

Synopsis: In this interesting drama based on a novel by Robert Cormier, flashbacks to two different periods of time mixed with scenes from the present slowly unveil the mysterious circumstances surrounding a lonely teen (Robert MacNaughton) who meets regularly with a psychiatrist delving into his past. The Read More

Quarterback Princess

Actors: Helen Hunt, Don Murray, John Stockwell, Barbara Babcock, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: This fact-based youth-oriented drama chronicles the courage and determination of a teenage girl who stands tall in the face of sexist traditionalism and fights for her right to play on the varsity football team. Not only does she succeed, she also manages to become the homecoming queen. ~ Sandra Read More

Thursday's Child

Actors: Rob Lowe, Jessica Walter, Don Murray

Synopsis: Thursday's Child is full of woe in this made-for-TV drama. Rob Lowe was given "and introducing" billing in the role of a teenaged athlete in dire need of a heart transplant. As Rob's parents Gene Rowlands and Don Murray prepare to face the possibility that they may lose their son, his aunt Jessica Read More

Endless Love

Actors: Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray, Richard Kiley

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Scott Spencer, Endless Love details the doomed romance between 17-year-old David (Martin Hewitt) and 15-year-old Jade (Brooke Shields). Banished from Jade's home by her daddy Hugh (Don Murray), David obsessively cooks up a scheme to get back into the family's good graces. Since Read More

Return of the Rebels

Synopsis: Mary Beth Allen (Barbara Eden), the widow of a member of the long-defunct Eagle Rock Rebels motorcycle gang, supports herself by running a small campground. Unfortunately, the future of this enterprise is endangered by the arrival of several young punks who have been scaring off the customers and Read More

Justin Morgan Had a Horse

Actors: Gary Crosby, Lana Wood, Don Murray

Synopsis: This Disney TV movie traces the origins of the Morgan saddle horse, America's first distinct breed. The story begins during the Revolutionary War, when Colonial schoolteacher Justin Morgan (Don Murray), though nearly penniless, sets about to develop a sire for horse-racing purposes. Not one but Read More

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Lee Grant, Angie Dickinson, Richard Hatch, Brian Keith

Synopsis: Peter Ustinov plays the talented detective in San Francisco who attempts, with help/hindrance from his clumsy grandson (Richard Hatch), to solve a murder case in this mystery/comedy. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Fugitive Family

Actors: Mel Ferrer, Eli Wallach, Richard Crenna, Don Murray

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Fugitive Family questions the efficacy of the government's witness protection program. After sending syndicate kingpin Anthony Durano (Mel Ferrer) to prison, undercover agent Brian Roberts (Richard Crenna) and his entire family is marked for death by Durano's successor Peter Read More

Knots Landing: Season 02

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Don Murray, Michele Lee

Synopsis: Playing to disappointing ratings during its first season on the air, the Dallas spinoff Knots Landing made a spectacular leap forward during Season Two with the introduction to the cast of Donna Mills as Abby Cunningham, the manipulative and predatory sister of Sid Fairgate (Don Murray), Gary Read More

The Boy Who Drank Too Much

Synopsis: Scott Baio plays the son of ex-hockey star Don Murray, who has reacted to the loss of his career with a steadily increasing reliance upon liquor. Baio begins to excel athletically in school, but when the inevitable disappointments set in, he begins to imitate his father's booze intake. Lance Kerwin Read More

Confessions of a Lady Cop

Synopsis: In this episode from the Police Story crime drama series a vice investigator begins to break down beneath the pressure imposed by his career and tumultuous personal life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Knots Landing: Season 01

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Don Murray, Michele Lee, John Pleshette

Synopsis: Season One of the Dallas spinoff Knots Landing begins as Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford), ex-alcoholic "black sheep" of the oil-rich Ewing clan, moves from Texas to Southern California with his long-suffering wife Val (Joan Van Ark). The couple make their new home in the cul-de-sac community of Knots Read More

Crisis in Mid-Air

Synopsis: Crisis in Mid-Air is essentially a "problem drama" concentrating on a single individual. George Peppard plays a veteran air traffic controller who holds himself responsible for a mid-air collision. With an FAA investigator breathing down his neck, Peppard gets a chance to prove his value when Read More

If Things Were Different

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Tony Roberts, Arte Johnson, Chuck McCann, Dan Shor

Synopsis: In this drama, a suburban housewife shows great inner strength when she must suddenly keep the family together after her husband suffers a complete breakdown and falls into an irreversible catatonic state. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rainbow

Synopsis: Judy Garland's rise to stardom is chronicled in this bio-pic that begins with her vaudeville days and ends with The Wizard of Oz. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Damien's Island

Crew: Director

Deadly Hero

Actors: Don Murray, Diahn Williams, James Earl Jones, Lilia Skala, George Irving

Synopsis: Don Murray plays Lacy, a blatantly bigoted New York cop who finds that his rabid hatred forces him into a bloody rampage in order to save himself and his job in the derivative cop melodrama Deadly Hero. At one point in the film, Lacy rehearses a speech to be given to a cadre of right-wingers by Read More

A Girl Named Sooner

Actors: Lee Remick, Richard Crenna, Cloris Leachman, Don Murray, Anne Francis

Synopsis: The made-for-TV A Girl Named Sooner stars newcomer Susan Deer in the title role. Sooner is an illiterate 8-year-old, growing up in a backwater Indiana community. Lee Remick co-stars as Elizabeth McHenry, Sooner's new foster parent, who hopes to properly educate the girl--and in so doing, give Read More

The Sex Symbol

Actors: Connie Stevens, Shelley Winters, Don Murray

Synopsis: Connie Stevens appears both with and without clothing in this made-for-TV a clef version of the Marilyn Monroe saga. The script, based on Alvah Bessie's novel The Symbol, contrives to have Stevens portray La Monroe in everything but name, right down to entering into a marriage with a famous Read More

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

Actors: Van Johnson, Cameron Mitchell, John Ireland

Synopsis: Don Murray stars as slick network news producer William Martin in The Girl on the Late, Late Show. In addition to his administrative duties, Martin is a news reporter, and it is in this capacity that he investigates a series of Hollywood murders. The unifying link between the killings would seem Read More

Call Me by My Rightful Name

Synopsis: Call Me by My Rightful Name was cobbled together for overseas theatrical release from several episodes of the 1968 TV series The Outcasts. This "relevant" western stars Don Murray as Earl Corey, a Southern aristocrat impoverished by the Civil War. Otis Young costars as ex-slave Jemal David. Corey Read More

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, Natalie Trundy, Hari (Harry) Rhodes

Synopsis: The fourth Planet of the Apes film is set in 1991, 20 years since the assassination of talking, time-traveling apes Cornelius and Zira at the end of Escape From the Planet of the Apes. The couple's infant son, Caesar (Roddy McDowall), has grown to adulthood in the care of kindly circus owner Read More

Cotter

Synopsis: A Native American rodeo clown (Don Murray) causes the death of a rider, and retires from the business to re-examine his life. He ends up back in his home town where he inadvertently becomes involved in a murder mystery. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Happy Birthday, Wanda June

Actors: Rod Steiger, Susannah York, George Grizzard, Don Murray, William Hickey

Synopsis: Based on a play by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Happy Birthday, Wanda June takes us to the Ryan household, where Penelope Ryan (Susannah York) has learned to accept the death of her husband Harold, a supremely macho explorer and big game hunter who married her when she was working as a carhop. He Read More

The Cross and the Switchblade

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pat Boone, Erik Estrada, Jo Ann Robinson, Dino de Filippi

Synopsis: Based on a true story, David Wilkerson (Pat Boone) is the small-town preacher who gets caught in the shadows of a crime-ridden neighborhood in New York City. He encounters a gang led by Nicky Cruz (Erik Estrada), and David brings a message of hope to the angry youths. Guided by the street-wise Read More

The Intruders

Synopsis: The year is 1876. The place is Medalia, MN. With the Jesse James and Cole Younger gangs cutting a murderous swath through the land, the citizens of Medalia brace themselves against an outlaw invasion. Normally, the townsfolk could turn to their marshal, Sam Garrison (Don Murray), for salvation; Read More

Daughter of the Mind

Synopsis: Psychologist Don Murray investigates the claim of Nobel prize winning scientist Ray Milland, who insists he has spoken to his young daughter. The thing of it is, the daughter has been dead for several weeks. At first dismissing the claims as the delusions of a grief-stricken man, Murray decides to Read More

Confessions of Tom Harris

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Don Murray, Linda Evans, David Brian, Angelique Pettyjohn, Don Joslyn

Synopsis: Actor Don Murray wrote, produced, and starred in this drama about an alcoholic former serviceman who falls in with gangsters until he has a spiritual awakening and decides to devote his life to helping others. The supporting cast includes Linda Evans, Logan Ramsey, and Angelique Pettyjohn. Also Read More

The Children

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This amusingly weird, painfully threadbare production pits a town of lethargic ex-hippie parents against their own offspring, who have been transformed into pasty-faced zombies (with cute little black fingernails) after their school bus passes through a cloud of radioactive fallout from a nearby Read More

The Borgia Stick

Synopsis: The Borgia Stick opens with a funeral: the "guests of honor" are also the film's stars, Don Murray and Inger Stevens. In flashback, we learn that Murray and Stevens were for all intents and purposes a happily married suburban couple. Before long, we discover that the couple wasn't married at all Read More

Sweet Love, Bitter

Actors: Dick Gregory, Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Robert Hooks, Jeri Archer

Synopsis: Loosely based on Charlie Parker's life and based on the book Night Song, this drama chronicles the friendship between a nearly washed up jazz sax player and a down-and-out college professor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Viking Queen

Actors: Don Murray, Carita, Donald Houston, Andrew Keir, Niall MacGinnis

Synopsis: Set in first century England, The Viking Queen is a loose retelling of the legend of Boadicea (also sometimes known as Boudica), the queen of the native Britons, who were known as the Iceni. In the year 60 A.D., the Roman governor general Justinian (Don Murray) attempts to rule over the island Read More

The Plainsman

Synopsis: The Plainsman was a Technicolor remake of the 1936 Cecil B. DeMille film, all about the fictional romantic triangle of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill. DeMille had the advantage of a topnotch cast: Gary Cooper as Hickok, Jean Arthur as Calamity (complete with a Wally Westmore Read More

Kid Rodelo

Actors: Don Murray, Janet Leigh, Broderick Crawford, Richard Carlson, Jose Nieto

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Louis L'Amour, this western, filmed on location in Spain, chronicles the quest of an ex-con to locate a fortune in stolen gold and to get even with his treacherous former partners. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Baby, the Rain Must Fall

Actors: Lee Remick, Steve McQueen, Don Murray, Paul Fix, Josephine Hutchinson

Synopsis: Adapted by Horton Foote from his own play The Travelling Lady, Baby the Rain Must Fall stars Steve McQueen as a troube-prone country singer and Lee Remick as his estranged wife. Released on parole after serving time for knifing a man, McQueen returns to Remick and their young daughter Kimberly Read More

One Man's Way

Actors: Don Murray, Diana Hyland, William Windom, Virginia Christine, Carol Ohmart

Synopsis: From at least the 1930s on to the 1970s, the upbeat protestant minister, Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, ministered to the well-heeled and upwardly mobile of the United States from his pulpit at the Riverside church on Fifth Avenue in New York City. At least as positive-thinking as the similarly Read More

Advise and Consent

Actors: Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Gene Tierney

Synopsis: The first of Allen Drury "all names changed to protect the guilty" political novels, Advise and Consent was brought to the screen by producer/director Otto Preminger. The film hinges upon the appointment of Robert Leffingwell (Henry Fonda) to Secretary of State. Leffingwell has been hand-picked by Read More

Escape from East Berlin

Actors: Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Werner Klemperer, Ingrid van Bergen, Edith Schultze-Westrum

Synopsis: Based on an actual escape from East to West Germany staged on January 28, 1962, this routine docudrama by director Robert Siodmak re-enacts the tale. Kurt Schroeder (Don Murray) is a chauffeur, the young East Berliner who gets the idea of digging a tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall. Thus Read More

The Hoodlum Priest

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Don Murray, Larry Gates, Cindi Wood, Keir Dullea, Logan Ramsey

Synopsis: Director Irvin Kershner, better known for his big-budget films like The Empire Strikes Back, joins with scripters and lead Don Murray to create this moving and effective docudrama. The story is based on the experiences of real-life Rev. Charles Dismas Clark (played here by Murray), a Jesuit priest Read More

One Foot in Hell

Actors: Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O'Herlihy, Dolores Michaels, Barry Coe

Synopsis: TV producer Aaron Spelling first came up with the story for this standard western set in a small town just after the American Civil War. Mitch (Alan Ladd) has tragically lost his wife during a problem in her pregnancy because he could not come up with $1.87 for the medicine she needed. A little Read More

Shake Hands with the Devil

Actors: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns, Michael Redgrave

Synopsis: Filmed on location, Shake Hands With the Devil is set in Ireland during the "troubles" of 1921. James Cagney plays a brilliant medical professor who doubles as head of the Irish Republican Army. Cagney convinces one of his more pacifistic students, Don Murray, to join the underground struggle Read More

These Thousand Hills

Actors: Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Stuart Whitman, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: Don Murray stars as a humble cowboy with aspirations for bigger things. He borrows money from his dance-hall girlfriend Lee Remick to buy a ranch, then dumps Remick in favor of banker's daughter Patricia Owens. Murray runs for political office, and in so doing is compelled to join a posse in Read More

From Hell to Texas

Actors: Chill Wills, Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Dennis Hopper, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: A spare, almost austere western, From Hell to Texas stars Don Murray as a carefree cowpoke. Accidentally killing the son of a powerful land baron (R. G. Armstrong), Murray runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengeful brothers. The fugitive is sheltered by Chill Wills, upon whose ranch Read More

A Hatful of Rain

Actors: Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan, Henry Silva

Synopsis: A Hatful of Rain, based on the stage play by Michael V. Gazzo, is the story of a drug addict's debilitating effect on his family. Don Murray has managed to keep his addiction secret from his pregnant wife Eva Marie Saint and his boorish father Lloyd Nolan, but Murray's brother Anthony Franciosa Read More

The Bachelor Party

Actors: Don Murray, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Philip Abbott, Larry Blyden, Carolyn Jones, Patricia Smith

Synopsis: Like his earlier Marty, Paddy Chayefsky's The Bachelor Party began life as a TV play. The film version centers around the impending wedding of thirtyish Arnold (Philip Abbott). As they gather for the traditional "wild" bachelor party, Arnold's married pals begin reflecting on their own lives. Most Read More

Bus Stop

Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart

Synopsis: In this cinemadaptation of William Inge's Broadway comedy Bus Stop, Marilyn Monroe is cast as Cherie, a fifth-rate nightclub chanteuse who captures the heart of Montana rodeo champ Bo (Don Murray). He, in turn, kidnaps Cherie and bundles her off to the roadside bus stop of the title. Gradually Read More

Producer's Showcase: The Skin of Our Teeth

Synopsis: Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954 through 1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color 90 minute specials, bringing the best of Broadway to the 21 inch screen. On September 11, 1955, the series expanded to two hours to offer an elaborate "life from Hollywood" staging of Read More

That's My Gal

Actors: Lynne Roberts, Don "Red" Barry, Pinky Lee, Frank Jenks, Edward Gargan

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a gang of con artists swindle a group of naive, starstruck investors into backing a dreadful musical that has no hope of succeeding. This garners the crooks a nice chunk of change until one of the investors dies and his lovely, canny executor insures that the show will Read More

Charlie Daniels Band: Volunteer Jam

Actors: Charlie Daniels, Joel "Taz" Digregorio, Tom Crain, Don Murray

Synopsis: Best known for their seminal 1979 country ballad "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," The Charlie Daniels Band - whose membership shifted continually over the years - retained a widespread following well into the 21st century, as a popular recording act and concert draw that effectively fused rock Read More