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Ken Murray
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Ken Murray
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1903-07-14,New York City, New York, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
Ken Murray (born Kenneth Abner Doncourt, July 14, 1903 – October 12, 1988) was an American comedian, actor, radio and television personality and author. After finding success on the vaudeville stage, Murray moved to Hollywood and made his film debut in the 1929 romantic drama Half Marriage, followed by a role in Leathernecking in 1930. Murray was the host of a weekly radio variety show (The Ken Murray Show) on NBC 1932-33 and on CBS 1936–37. He later was the original host (1945-57) of Queen for a Day, on the Mutual Broadcasting System radio show, which was simulcast on KTSL (now KCBS-TV), Channel 2 in Los Angeles. During World War II, Murray was one of the many celebrities to volunteer at the Hollywood Canteen. In 1947, he produced Bill and Coo, a feature film using trained birds and other animals as actors. Bill and Coo won a special Academy Award for "novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion picture" and "artistry and patience" . He was also the host of The Ken Murray Show, a weekly music and comedy show on CBS Television that ran from 1950 to 1953. The show was the first to win a Freedom Foundation Award. Murray also guest starred on several television series, including The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford and The Bing Crosby Show. Murray produced and co-starred as "Smiling Billy Murray" in a 1953 film, The Marshal's Daughter, a western that featured his protege Laurie Anders in the title role, her sole film performance. In 1962, Murray portrayed the top hat wearing, cigar chewing, drunken Doc Willoughby in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance starring John Wayne and James Stewart, arguably his most memorable screen role. Paired off for most of the picture with Edmond O'Brien as an alcoholic newspaper editor, he drunkenly rolls over the gunshot corpse of villain Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) with his boot, looks around off-handedly, and says "Dead" to the surrounding crowd of euphoric Mexicans. In 1964, Murray played Whipsaw, the operator of a stagecoach depot in the episode "Little Cayuse" of the television series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. He and his partner take in a Cayuse orphan (Larry Domasin), who demonstrates his loyalty to the men during an Indian attack. In 1965, Murray played a THRUSH financier and owner of a caribbean casino in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. In 1966, Murray was cast as Melody Murphy in the Walt Disney film Follow Me, Boys! starring Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles and Kurt Russell.

Filmography

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

7.8

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962-04-13

5.5

Red Light
1949-09-30

Follow Me, Boys!

6.6

Follow Me, Boys!
1966-12-01

6.2

The Power
1968-02-21

6.2

Bill and Coo
1948-03-28

Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1

0

Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1941-08-15

5

Crooner
1932-08-20

5.2

Half Marriage
1929-10-12

Ladies of the Jury

6.4

Ladies of the Jury
1932-02-02

Hollywood Without Make-Up

5.9

Hollywood Without Make-Up
1963-07-01

0

Disgraced!
1933-07-07

A Night at Earl Carroll's

3.5

A Night at Earl Carroll's
1940-12-06

A Preferred List

7

A Preferred List
1933-10-06

You're a Sweetheart

4

You're a Sweetheart
1937-12-26

Swing It Soldier

5

Swing It Soldier
1941-11-07

Hollywood My Home Town

5.3

Hollywood My Home Town
1965-12-31

The Marshal's Daughter

2.7

The Marshal's Daughter
1953-06-25

Swing, Sister, Swing

0

Swing, Sister, Swing
1938-12-16

5.9

Son of Flubber
1963-01-16

From Headquarters

5.8

From Headquarters
1933-11-16

0

Leathernecking
1930-09-12

0

Juke Box Jenny
1942-03-27

Peeks at Hollywood

0

Peeks at Hollywood
1946-01-26

Frank Capra's American Dream

6.2

Frank Capra's American Dream
1997-01-01

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

4.1

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976-07-26

6

Burke's Law
1963-09-20

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.6

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20

The Greatest Show on Earth

5

The Greatest Show on Earth
1963-09-17

The Hollywood Palace

4.5

The Hollywood Palace
1964-01-04

This Is Your Life

6.3

This Is Your Life
1952-10-01

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

5.5

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963-10-04

The Bing Crosby Show

5

The Bing Crosby Show
1964-09-14

The Ken Murray Show

7

The Ken Murray Show
1950-01-07

The Judy Garland Show

8

The Judy Garland Show
1963-12-08

6

The Lux Show
1957-09-26

What's My Line?

6.8

What's My Line?
1950-02-02