
George Murphy
Biography
George Murphy was an American dancer and stage, screen, and television actor, as well as a United States Senator. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946, and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1951. Murphy served from 1965 to 1971 as U.S. Senator from California, the first notable U.S. actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is the only United States Senator represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In movies, Murphy was known as a song-and-dance man and appeared in many big-budget musicals such as Broadway Melody of 1938, Broadway Melody of 1940 and For Me and My Gal. He made his movie debut shortly after talking pictures had replaced silent movies in 1930, and his career continued until he retired as an actor in 1952, at the age of 50. During World War II, he organized entertainment for American troops.
In 1951, he was awarded an honorary Academy Award. He was never nominated for an Oscar in any competitive category.
He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946. He was also a vice president of Desilu Productions and of the Technicolor Corporation. He was director of entertainment for presidential inaugurations in 1953, 1957 and 1961.
Acting (55 movies)

Battleground
1949

For Me and My Gal
1942

Border Incident
1949

The Arnelo Affair
1947

Bataan
1943

Step Lively
1944

This Is the Army
1943

Broadway Melody of 1940
1940

Little Nellie Kelly
1940

Broadway Melody of 1938
1937

Little Miss Broadway
1938

Rise and Shine
1941

Broadway Rhythm
1944

No Questions Asked
1951

It's a Big Country
1951

Tom, Dick and Harry
1941

Talk About a Stranger
1952

Two Girls on Broadway
1940

Walk East on Beacon
1952

Letter of Introduction
1938

The Navy Comes Through
1942

Tenth Avenue Angel
1948

Ringside Maisie
1941

Having Wonderful Crime
1945

Cynthia
1947

The Public Menace
1935

The Women Men Marry
1937

Show Business
1944

A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941

Up Goes Maisie
1946

The Mayor of 44th Street
1942

Big City
1948

London by Night
1937

Hold That Co-ed
1938

Hollywood Hobbies
1939

Kid Millions
1934

Risky Business
1939

The Powers Girl
1943

Public Deb No. 1
1940

You're a Sweetheart
1937

Top of the Town
1937

After the Dance
1935

That's Entertainment!
1974

Woman Trap
1936

Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
1939

They Died with Their Boots On
1941

Jealousy
1934

I'll Love You Always
1935

Show-Business at War
1943

That's Entertainment! III
1994

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940

Twenty Years After
1944

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936

That's Dancing!
1985

Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
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