Mary Murphy est une Actrice Américaine née le 26 janvier 1931 à Washington (Etats-Unis)
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Mary Murphy (26 janvier 1931 - 4 mai 2011) est une actrice américaine qui a joué au cinéma et à la télévision dans les années 1950, 1960 et 1970. Elle naquit à Washington, et passa la plus grande partie de son enfance à Cleveland dans l'Ohio. Son père, James Victor Murphy, mourut en 1940. Peu de temps après, elle et sa mère s'installèrent en Californie du Sud. Peu de temps après sa sortie du lycée, à la fin des années 1940, elle signa avec la Paramount Pictures pour paraitre dans des films. Elle mourut d'une maladie cardiaque le 4 mai 2011 à Beverly Hills à l'âge de quatre-vingts ans.
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Murphy was born in Washington, D.C., and 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. 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.
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.
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 and Ironside. She was long absent from the big screen before acting in 1972 with Steve McQueen in Junior Bonner.
Murphy died of heart disease at her home in Beverly Hills, California, aged 80.
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