Mary Murphy (Actor)

Reviews of Mary Murphy Movies

Looking for reviews of Mary Murphy movies? Cinafilm has a total of 487 reviews across 19 movies.

Movies starring Mary Murphy have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.

Westward the Women - released in 1951 - is Mary Murphy's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 18 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Mary Murphy is Off Limits - released in 1952 - with a score of 50% based on 16 reviews.

Actor Biography

Mary Murphy (January 26, 1931 – May 4, 2011) was an American film actress of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. She was born in Washington, D.C., before moving to Los Angeles. Shortly out of high school she was signed to appear in films for Paramount Pictures in the late 1940s.

Murphy first gained attention in 1953, when she played a good-hearted girl who tries to reform Marlon Brando in The Wild One. The following year, she appeared opposite Tony Curtis in Beachhead, 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, and appeared in dozens of television series including Perry Mason, I Spy and Ironside. She was long absent from the big screen before acting in 1972 with Steve McQueen in the Sam Peckinpah film Junior Bonner. She had retired from acting by the 1980s.

Murphy died from heart disease complications on May 4, 2011; she was 80 years old.

Mary Murphy has acted in films with John Doucette, Jerry Hausner, Tony Curtis and Bob Hope.

Mary Murphy has worked with these film directors: Ray Milland, William Wyler, Norman Jewison and Sam Peckinpah.