Fred MacMurray Ranked
A ranking of Fred MacMurray's film performances.
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- DirectorBilly WilderStarsFred MacMurrayBarbara StanwyckEdward G. RobinsonA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsKatharine HepburnFred MacMurrayFred StoneA working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
- DirectorChester ErskineStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayMarjorie MainOn their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsFred MacMurrayNancy OlsonKeenan WynnA college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsHumphrey BogartJosé FerrerVan JohnsonWhen a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardises the ship, the first officer is urged to consider relieving him of command.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsJoan CrawfordFred MacMurrayConrad VeidtOxford Professor Richard Myles and his new bride Frances are off on a European honeymoon. It isn't the typical honeymoon: they are on a spying mission for British Intelligence on the eve of World War II.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsBarbara StanwyckFred MacMurrayBeulah BondiLove blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsFred MacMurrayTommy SteeleGreer GarsonClever yet hapless new butler John Lawless manages a Philadelphia household for quirky and joyful millionaire Anthony Drexel Biddle, his unflappable wife, Cordelia, and their spitfire daughter, Cordy.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsFred MacMurrayJean HagenTommy KirkA teenage boy is cursed with periodically turning into a sheepdog.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayHarvey StephensYoung lovers fall afoul of repressive society as Salem elders get caught up in the witch hunts and trials of 17th-century Massachusetts. One family in particular uses the hysteria to its advantage, getting even with everyone for every slight--real or imagined.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsIrene DunneFred MacMurrayWilliam DemarestSophisticated, successful New York City songwriter Kay Kingsley falls in love with Chris Hayward, a widower rancher she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo, and they get married and leave for his ranch in the west. Kay makes one difficult adjustment after another as Chris' kids preside over the ranch. Then, an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds that her heart is with Chris and his children.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsFred MacMurrayHelen WalkerMarjorie MainProfessional pollster Pete Marshall gets more than he bargained for when he heads deep into the Ozarks to investigate the disappearances of several of his colleagues.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsFred MacMurrayMadeleine CarrollAllan JonesA Manhattan career woman tries to resist a man who wants her to be his wife.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsFred MacMurrayLynn BariCharles BickfordWWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayRay MillandA stenographer becomes a famed entertainer and is courted by an English nobleman and an informal American reporter.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsLana TurnerRichard BurtonFred MacMurrayDespite marital problems, English Lord Albert Esketh and his rich American socialite wife Lady Edwina Esketh travel to India to buy a prize horse from the ruler of Ranchipur.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsFred MacMurrayJack OakieJean ParkerTwo down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallA. Edward SutherlandStarsBing CrosbyBob HopeFred MacMurrayA Paramount Studios security guard who was a major actor during the silent film era must carry out the illusion that he is still a big deal when his sailor son comes to visit.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsSylvia SidneyHenry FondaFred MacMurrayA railroad man from the city befriends a mountain girl in a Kentucky family feud.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsFred MacMurrayEleanor ParkerRichard CarlsonA secretary is sent on a business trip to inform a radio personality he's just inherited two million dollars. She falls for him instantly, but he's on his way to get married.
- DirectorLeslie FentonStarsFred MacMurrayMarguerite ChapmanAkim TamiroffAn ex-GI wants to open a mink farm in Wisconsin, but is mistaken for a look-alike gambler who owes a lot of money.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayRobert YoungA penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsFred MacMurrayNancy OlsonKeenan WynnWhen Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsCarole LombardFred MacMurrayCharles ButterworthA hair-dresser stranded in Panama moves in with an ex-soldier and his hypochondriac roommate; she and the former fall in love, but their romance is threatened by success and the arrival of his old flame.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsFred MacMurrayMadeleine CarrollPatricia MorisonA Texas pilot courts a British aristocrat in London amid bombing and in Portugal amid spies.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsFred MacMurrayDorothy MaloneWalter BrennanThe peace-loving owner of a general store, who became a town hero after he luckily killed the leader of a gang of bank robbers, is deserted by the townspeople who fear the threatened return of the vengeful bandits.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayIlka ChaseAn upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsFred MacMurrayGuy StandingAnn SheridanA story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayGil LambA presumed-dead World War II pilot's last words are misquoted as a declaration of love for his co-worker, forcing him to keep up the ruse when he returns home alive.
- DirectorClaude BinyonStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayRita JohnsonA bachelor marries a widow and her three kids join the honeymoon.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsMadeleine CarrollFred MacMurraySterling HaydenA New York chorus girl (Madeleine Carroll) comes home to claim her family plantation and must choose between two men (Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden), one rich, one not.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsMadeleine CarrollFred MacMurrayShirley RossA wealthy young lady marries a reporter on a bet, but things might not work out so well when he finds out the truth.
- DirectorMelvin FrankNorman PanamaStarsFred MacMurrayDorothy McGuireHoward KeelTwo marketing professionals hire a lookalike of classic Western actor Smoky Callaway to impersonate the actor and make new films, but things go awry when the real Callaway, thought long missing, returns.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsFred MacMurrayPaulette GoddardSusan HaywardRanger Don Stuart, pursuing a forest arsonist, finds time to romance a socialite.
- DirectorLeslie FentonKing VidorJohn HustonStarsPaulette GoddardBurgess MeredithJames StewartThree short stories revolving around the topic of the daily question posed by the roving reporter to the readers of a daily newspaper.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsRosalind RussellFred MacMurrayMacdonald CareyA struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end up falling in love.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsIrene DunneFred MacMurrayCharles RugglesAn egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsFred MacMurrayJoan BennettZasu PittsAirline pilot Jack Gordon (Fred MacMurray) on a flight from New York to San Francisco, is immediately attracted to beautiful passenger Felice Rollins (Joan Bennett). Known as a "lady's man", he bets stewardess Vi Johnson (Ruth Donnelly) that he will take Felice out to dinner that evening. A jewel robbery is in the news and a beautiful blonde is implicated, with Jack suspecting that Felice may be the culprit. On a stop over in Chicago, Jack learns instead that his passenger is a wealthy socialite at odds with another passenger, Count Stephani (Fred Keating). Jack worries that he may have a crisis involving the Count when he finds Stephani has a gun aboard. Other passengers include Dr. Evarts (Brian Donlevy) and Curtis Palmer (Alan Baxter, both of whom seem to be harboring a secret. Felice is trying to get to San Francisco in order to prevent her sister from marrying the Count's brother, but the flight runs into bad weather. Jack and Freddie Scott (John Howard), his co-pilot are persuaded to fly on but are eventually forced to make an emergency landing. Dr. Evarts tells Jack he is a federal agent pursuing Palmer, a notorious criminal, who now takes the opportunity to shoot Freddie and Dr. Everts, commandeering the aircraft. Jack manages to overcome Palmer, and with the help of Felice, is able to take off and fly to San Francisco. When the flight lands, he is able to have his dinner with Felice, collecting his bet, knowing that he will need the money for a marriage licence.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsCarole LombardFred MacMurrayJohn BarrymoreA lawyer defends his wife, a pathological liar, in a murder trial.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsFred MacMurrayAva GardnerRoland CulverAfter WW2, an American skipper returns to Singapore to retrieve his hidden stash of pearls and finds his lost fiancée who now has amnesia.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsJean ArthurFred MacMurrayMelvyn DouglasLong-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsFred MacMurrayMargaret HayesRobert VaughnAfter claiming his daughter's childhood-sweetheart killed the marshal, one man finds himself in conflict with his daughter, his fiancée and many of the townsfolk.
- DirectorAbner BibermanStarsFred MacMurrayJeffrey HunterJanice RuleAfter the death of a rancher, his three sons run the ranch but one of them is seen as a coward because of his aversion to gun-fighting.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsBing CrosbyFred MacMurrayDonald O'ConnorOf the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but reckless Joe thinks his only road to success is through swapping and gambling. It seems the only thing all three can join in is their singing act, which Mike and Dave hate. Finally, all Joe's hopes are pinned on a race horse he's acquired, but it's a bigger gamble than his family knows. Hilarious sequence involving a lecturer on seals.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsDorothy LamourFred MacMurrayBetty HuttonThe singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy (Dorothy Lamour), Bobby (Betty Hutton), Josie (Diana Lynn) and Patti (Mimi Chandler), aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel (Raymond Walburn) to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall (Fred MacMurray) is playing. Bobby takes the ten dollars and runs it up to $190 at the dice table. Happy hits on Nancy, but she rebuffs him. He doesn't have the money to pay his band and borrows the gambling winnings from Bobby on the pretext that he will give her a job with his band. Bobby discovers the next day that Happy has hastily departed for New York. The girls follow to a night club where he is working and, after an audition, the manager is willing to give Happy a contract if the girls will sing with his band.
- DirectorHarry KellerStarsFred MacMurrayJoan WeldonJohn EricsonJudge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnFred MacMurrayRalph BellamyA military surgeon teams with a ranking Navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
- DirectorLothar MendesStarsRosalind RussellFred MacMurrayHerbert MarshallThe life of air pioneer Amelia Earhart is here given a fictionalized treatment, with a speculative conclusion.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsCarole LombardFred MacMurrayDouglass DumbrilleA woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.
- DirectorGregory RatoffGeorge SeatonStarsFred MacMurrayJoan LeslieJune HaverBill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight problems with his history knowlege, so he sends Bill everywhere in history, but not to WWII.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsCarole LombardFred MacMurrayRalph BellamyA loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsFred MacMurrayClaire TrevorRaymond BurrTwo undercover agents infiltrate a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico, but neither is aware of the other's identity.
- DirectorIrving PichelStarsFred MacMurrayAlida ValliFrank SinatraA press agent brings a dead actress home for burial. To promote her one film, he asks churches to ring bells for 3 days, hoping to get the studio head to release it.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsBarbara StanwyckFred MacMurrayJoan BennettWhen a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsFred MacMurrayLin McCarthyDorothy GreenA robber who is falsely accused of murdering a deputy sheriff tries to start a new life in a border town near Mexico, but his past catches up with him.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsPaulette GoddardFred MacMurrayEdward ArnoldDuring World War II, Lee Stevens travels to Washington D.C. with his secretary Jane Rogers in order to secure a government contract. Not thinking it through, Jane cancels their hotel reservations when she feels the accommodations are inadequate. With no rooms available in the entire city, Lee and Jane pose as a married couple and take positions as maid and butler in the Cromwell's home until the contract can be secured.
- DirectorGene Fowler Jr.StarsFred MacMurrayWilliam BishopNina ShipmanIn 1846, a newspaperman joins an Oregon Trail wagon train to verify rumors about the U.S. government sending troops disguised as settlers there in order to claim Oregon.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsFred MacMurrayCloris LeachmanHarry MorganCharley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsMarlene DietrichFred MacMurrayAline MacMahonIn order to adopt an abandoned baby, an actress arranges a marriage of convenience with a doctor.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsAlice FayeFred MacMurrayRichard GreeneSteamboat inventor Robert Fulton shows up in New York in 1807. Tavern keeper believes in him, but her boyfriend doesn't. All seems lost when sailors afraid of losing their jobs burn his boat.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsFred MacMurrayRay MillandLouise CampbellPlot #1 is the love triangle between two guys and one girl as they grow into adults and affiliate themselves in the new aircraft industry. Plot #2 is aircraft evolution from the days of Wilbur and Orville Wright to just prior to WWII.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsFred MacMurrayMadeleine CarrollCharles 'Buddy' RogersVincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested in him than in business. Vincent's wife Paula gets suspicious and finally decides to do some flirting of her own to make him jealous. Unknown to her, she chooses cigarette tychoon Claude Kimball. In fact, Kimball hits it off well with both of the Doanes. The question is whether or not their marriage can survive all the shenanigans.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsFred MacMurrayHarriet NelsonBen BlueBand tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
- DirectorRalph MurphyStarsFred MacMurrayMadge EvansDavid HoltThis story about the U.S. Department of Justice and its agents begins with a daring mail-truck robbery by a ruthless gang that flees to the western U.S. after the robbery. When money from the robbery shows up in a small Kansas town, the department sends agent Dick Grant to investigate, posing as a businessman. He is hindered in his assignment by local newspaper reporter Helen Sherwood, and when he falls in love with her, he is unable to reveal to her who he really is and why he is there.
- DirectorLouis KingStarsFred MacMurrayAnne BaxterBurl IvesDrama about the strong bond between a cowpoke and a wild bronco set during the 1940s.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsGladys SwarthoutFred MacMurrayJack OakieChampagne Waltz is one of five movies produced by Paramount in the 1930s featuring Gladys Swarthout, a very popular Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano. The studio was attempting to build on the popularity of Grace Moore, another opera singer, who had also expanded her talents into movies.
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsFred MacMurrayMary MartinRobert PrestonVictor Ballard is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski. After Victor shoots a photo of Alexandra Curtis, he realizes she is desperate and in need of a friend who can guide her through the ways and means of surviving in Manhattan with no money.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsPaulette GoddardFred MacMurrayMacdonald CareyFred wants to start a new life with a new wife, but it isn't easy to give Paulette the gate for another mate.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsFred MacMurrayVera RalstonRobert DouglasIn 1883, an American merchant ship's captain is searching for a treasure in diamonds from a sunken Dutch ship in the vicinity of a volcanic island in the Dutch East Indies.
- DirectorRudolph MatéStarsFred MacMurrayCharlton HestonDonna ReedAfter purchasing Louisiana from France, the USA sends surveyors Lewis and Clark, assisted by a Shoshone guide, to chart the new territory.
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsFred MacMurrayJane WymanMichael CallanA family takes a long delayed trip to Europe and finds an unending series of comedy adventures.
- DirectorHarry KellerStarsFred MacMurrayDorothy MaloneJames BartonGang of robbers heads for Mexican border, meets unexpected opposition along the way.
- DirectorAlexander HallStarsFred MacMurrayFrances FarmerCharles RugglesTwo newspapers are pitted against each other. One owned by gangster Charles Gillette (Lloyd Nolan), the other by Ralph Houston (Fred MacMurray).
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsVan HeflinLauren BacallCornel WildeAn executive plans to fill a high-ranking position by interviewing the candidates' wives.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsFred MacMurrayPolly BergenArlene DahlWhen the women of America join together on election day and elect a Leslie McCloud as the US President, things get a little awkward. Especially for her husband Thad McCloud. He, as First Husband, must take over the job of The First Lady, in the women's groups and garden parties.
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsFred MacMurrayKim NovakPhilip CareyAn undercover police officer falls for the beautiful moll of a bank robber on the run, and together they plan to double-cross the hood and the cops.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsMay RobsonMary CarlisleFred MacMurrayMiss Bayles (May Robson) has been trying to close down a business operated by Clarence (Alan Hale). Clarence runs a crooked gambling operation in the back room. Miss Bayles uses Clarence's crooked dice to beat him and uses her winnings to open a respectable business for her students to use. Her business gets closed down after a fight in her establishment and the school board replaces her as principal of the town's school. Clarence is feeling pretty good about his victory over Miss Bayles until she tells him she also lost her pension. Clarence sends a fellow classmate and former student of Miss Bayles a telegram. The former student happens to be the President of the United States and he comes to town to honor Miss Bayles.
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsBarbara StanwyckFred MacMurrayWard BondA cattle herder turned rustler runs from a lynch mob and falls, again, for an ex-lover.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsFred MacMurrayVera MilesLillian GishA man settles down in a small town and becomes the scoutmaster.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsFred MacMurrayMaureen O'HaraBetty LynnFootball coach George Cooper has as many problems managing his football team as he has at home dealing with his daughters, Ellen and Connie.
- DirectorIrwin AllenStarsMichael CaineKatharine RossRichard WidmarkA huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people.