Mary Murphy
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.
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Filmography
When Worlds Collide
as Student 1951
The Desperate Hours
as Cynthia 'Cindy' Hilliard 1955
Junior Bonner
as Ruth Bonner 1972
Westward the Women
as Pioneer Woman (uncredited) 1951
Born Innocent
as Miss Murphy 1976
The Mad Magician
as Karen Lee 1954
Carrie
as Jessica Hurstwood 1952
The Turning Point
as Secretary (uncredited) 1952
A Man Alone
as Nadine Corrigan 1955
Sailor Beware
as Girl (uncredited) 1952
The Lemon Drop Kid
as Girl (uncredited) 1951
Sitting Bull
as Kathy Howell 1954
Harlow
as Sally Doane 1965
Beachhead
as Nina Bouchard 1954
40 Pounds of Trouble
as Liz McCluskey 1962
Off Limits
as WAC 1952