Biography
George Lloyd Murphy was an American actor and politician. 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 American actor to be elected to statewide office in California, predating Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who each served two terms as governor. He is the only United States senator represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Awards & recognition
- Academy Honorary Award · 1951
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography18 titles
Big City
That's Entertainment!
That's Entertainment! III
That's Dancing!
Border Incident
Up Goes Maisie
Broadway Melody of 1940
Battleground
Step Lively
They Died with Their Boots On
Kid Millions
Broadway Melody of 1938
Bataan
For Me and My Gal
Little Miss Broadway
No Questions Asked
Letter of Introduction
This Is the Army