Born Donald Patrick Murray in Hollywood on July 31, 1929, he was raised in New York. Don attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He then made it into the cast of the original 1951 Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ Tony Award-winning “The Rose Tattoo”. Universal offered him a contract for $150 a week, but he turned it down. “They could put you in whatever picture they wanted,” he said, and he wanted none of that, choosing to work in live TV. Murray was a conscientious objector during the Korean War, but he spent nearly three years working in German and Italian refugee camps in the Brethren Volunteer Service, a forerunner to the Peace Corps. He came back to the U.S. in 1955. When he appeared opposite Marilyn Monroe in “Bus Stop” (1956) tt was his first movie, and he was 26 at the time. Television audiences will best remember Murray as Sid Fairgate, the husband of Michele Lee’s character, on the CBS primetime soap ‘Knots Landing’. Murray appeared in one Spaghetti western 1966’s “Kid Rodelo” in the lead role and sang the song “Love is Trouble”. Murray was to star in a previous western to be filmed in Spain titled "Talión", but the film was never made. The co-stars were Broderick Crawford and Janet Leigh. Don died at his home in Goleta, California on February 2, 2024.
MURRAY, Don (Donald Patrick Murray)
[7/31/1929, Hollywood, California, U.S.A. -
2/2/2024, Goleta, California, U.S.A.] – actor, singer, married to
actress Hope Lange (Hope Elise Ross Lange) [1933-2003] (1956-1961) father of
actor Christopher Murray [1957- ],
actress Patricia Murray [1958- ],
married to actress Bettie Johnson (Elizabeth Christina Johnson) [1936- ] (1962-2024) father of Coleen Murray
[1963- ], composer Sean Murray
[1965- ], Mick Murray [1972- ].
Kid Rodelo – 1965 [sings: “Love is Trouble”]
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