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Don Murray (1929-2024) was an Oscar®-nominated American actor. Murray’s movie career started off with a bang. His first movie, Bus Stop, not only starred the legendary Marilyn Monroe, but earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar® nomination. His IMDb page shows 92 acting credits from 1950 to 2021. This page will rank Don Murray movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in the rankings, a movie needed to do well at the box office, be liked by both critics and audiences and earn some award recognition. Some of his early English movies were not included in the rankings, due to lack of information.
Don Murray Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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| 1956 | Bus Stop (1956) AA Best Supp Actor Nom |
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| 1986 | Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) | |
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| 1962 | Advise & Consent (1962) |  |
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| 1957 | A Hatful of Rain (1957) | |
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| 1957 | The Bachelor Party (1957) |  |
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| 1961 | The Hoodlum Priest (1961) | |
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| 1962 | Escape from East Berlin (1962) | |
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| 1972 | Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) |  |
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| 1959 | Shake Hands with The Devil (1959) | |
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| 1958 | From Hell To Texas (1958) | |
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| 1959 | These Thousand Hills (1959) | |
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| 1981 | Endless Love (1981) | |
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| 1967 | Sweet Love Bitter (1967) Limited Release |
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| 1987 | Made in Heaven (1987) |  |
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| 1965 | Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) | |
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| 1964 | One Man's Way (1964) | |
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| 1975 | Deadly Hero (1975) | |
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| 1966 | Kid Rodelo (1966) |  |
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| 1969 | Childish Things (1969) | |
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| 1985 | Radioactive Dreams (1985) | |
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| 1960 | One Foot in Hell (1960) | |
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| 1971 | Happy Birthday Wanda June (1971) | |
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| 1966 | The Plainsman (1966) |  |
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| 1967 | The Viking Queen (1967) | |
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| 1983 | I Am The Cheese (1983) Limited Release |
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| 2001 | Island Prey (2001) Limited Release |
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| 1986 | Scorpion (1986) | |
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| 2021 | Promise (2021) VOD Release |
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| 1990 | Ghosts Can't Do It (1990) | |
Don Murray Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
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- Sort Don Murray movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Don Murray movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Don Murray movie won.
- Sort Don Murray movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews, and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | Bus Stop (1956) AA Best Supp Actor Nom |
Marilyn Monroe | 12.10 | 238.0 | 238.00 | 19 | 74 | 01 / 00 | 96.3 | |
| 2 | Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) | Kathleen Turner & Nicolas Cage |
41.40 | 120.2 | 120.20 | 20 | 78 | 03 / 00 | 90.8 | |
| 3 | Advise & Consent (1962) | Franchot Tone & Henry Fonda |
5.70 | 82.1 | 82.10 | 47 | 80 | 00 / 00 | 86.3 | |
| 4 | A Hatful of Rain (1957) | Eva Marie Saint & Anthony Franciosa |
4.30 | 82.5 | 82.50 | 51 | 73 | 01 / 00 | 83.6 | |
| 7 | The Bachelor Party (1957) | E.G. Marshall | 4.30 | 82.5 | 82.50 | 53 | 58 | 01 / 00 | 72.7 | |
| 5 | The Hoodlum Priest (1961) | Keir Dullea | 3.40 | 49.9 | 49.90 | 68 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 72.6 | |
| 6 | Escape from East Berlin (1962) | Werner Klemperer | 2.90 | 41.1 | 41.10 | 83 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 70.6 | |
| 10 | Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) | Roddy McDowall & Ricardo Montalban |
13.60 | 86.5 | 86.50 | 28 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 68.2 | |
| 9 | Shake Hands with The Devil (1959) | James Cagney & Glynis Johns |
2.80 | 50.0 | 50.00 | 86 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 67.7 | |
| 8 | From Hell To Texas (1958) | Diane Varsi | 1.90 | 33.7 | 33.70 | 114 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 67.7 | |
| 11 | These Thousand Hills (1959) | Lee Remick & Richard Egan |
1.90 | 33.5 | 33.50 | 116 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 57.2 | |
| 12 | Endless Love (1981) | Brooke Shields & Tom Cruise |
31.20 | 120.9 | 120.90 | 25 | 32 | 01 / 00 | 54.1 | |
| 12 | Sweet Love Bitter (1967) Limited Release |
Dick Gregory | 0.20 | 1.6 | 1.60 | 173 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 51.5 | |
| 13 | Made in Heaven (1987) | Kelly McGillis & Debra Winger |
4.60 | 12.6 | 12.60 | 107 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 47.2 | |
| 15 | Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) | Steve McQueen & Lee Remick |
3.50 | 37.1 | 37.10 | 71 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 46.9 | |
| 14 | One Man's Way (1964) | Diana Hyland | 1.30 | 14.7 | 14.70 | 128 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 46.6 | |
| 17 | Deadly Hero (1975) | Danny DeVito | 1.30 | 6.8 | 6.80 | 131 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 41.5 | |
| 19 | Kid Rodelo (1966) | Janet Leigh | 1.90 | 18.5 | 18.50 | 106 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 27.0 | |
| 18 | Childish Things (1969) | Linda Evans | 0.40 | 2.7 | 2.70 | 168 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 26.9 | |
| 20 | Radioactive Dreams (1985) | George Kennedy | 0.20 | 0.7 | 0.70 | 178 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 24.8 | |
| 22 | One Foot in Hell (1960) | Alan Ladd | 2.40 | 37.0 | 37.00 | 94 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 21.9 | |
| 21 | Happy Birthday Wanda June (1971) | Rod Steiger | 0.80 | 4.9 | 4.90 | 168 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 20.9 | |
| 23 | The Plainsman (1966) | Guy Stockwell | 2.00 | 19.6 | 19.60 | 102 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 18.4 | |
| 25 | The Viking Queen (1967) | Carita | 2.10 | 18.6 | 18.60 | 95 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 16.2 | |
| 24 | I Am The Cheese (1983) Limited Release |
Robert Wagner | 0.10 | 0.5 | 0.50 | 159 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 15.4 | |
| 26 | Island Prey (2001) Limited Release |
Edward Asner | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 312 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 9.2 | |
| 27 | Scorpion (1986) | Robert Logan | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 224 | 39 | 00 / 00 | 3.4 | |
| 28 | Promise (2021) VOD Release |
Trista Robinson | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 281 | 36 | 00 / 00 | 2.1 | |
| 29 | Ghosts Can't Do It (1990) | Anthony Quinn & Bo Derek |
0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 225 | 16 | 00 / 00 | 0.0 |
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Bus Stop remains my favourite Don Murray film. Rest in peace. Glad to see you have started a 2024 page.
From Deadline (pardon the gibberish below this obit.)
Don Murray Dies: ‘Bus Stop’, ‘Knot’s Landing’ Actor Was 94
Story by Greg Evans • 2h
Don Murray, who rose to fame co-starring with Marilyn Monroe in 1956’s Bus Stop and enjoyed a prolific career that stretched into the 21st Century with Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017, has died. He was 94.
His death was announced by his son Christopher to The New York Times. No additional details were provided.
Murray was Oscar-nominated for his debut performance as Beauregard “Beau” Decker, the lovestruck cowboy who falls for Monroe’s saloon singer Cherie in Joshua Logan’s Bus Stop, an adaptation of the William Inge play.
A conscientious objector during the Korean War who fulfilled his service obligation by working in German and Italian refugee camps, Murray became known for building an acting career in what were once called “message” movies, films with socially responsible themes. In Fred Zinnemann’s A Hatful of Rain (1957), he played a morphine-addicted war veteran, and in 1962 starred as a closeted (and blackmailed) gay senator in Otto Preminger’s Advise & Consent.Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, ‘Bus Stop’ (1956)
Numerous other films would follow, including a co-starring role opposite Steve McQueen in 1965’s Baby the Rain Must Fall. In 1972 he appeared in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes as a governor out to destroy a pair of earth-stranded apes, and in 1986 he played the father of Kathleen Turner’s title character in Peggy Sue Got Married.
Murray also had a busy television career, most prominently in a starring role on Knot’s Landing (1979–1981). He co-starred with Otis Young in the short-lived 1968-69 Western series The Outcasts, a series notable for teaming a Black actor with a white actor: Their characters had fought on opposite sides of the Civil War before becoming bounty-hunting partners.
Born in Hollywood on July 31, 1929, Murray made his Broadway debut in 1951 in Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo, and would return to the stage in 1955’s The Skin of Our Teeth, a performance that attracted the attention of director Logan and got him the role in Bus Stop. Murray would return to Broadway more than five times over the next two decades, appearing in plays such as Same Time, Next Year and, in 1975, the Norman Conquests trilogy.
In 1970, Murray co-wrote and directed The Cross and the Switchblade, a drama starring Pat Boone as a minister seeking to bring religion to Chicago street gangs.
His first of two marriages was to Hope Lange, who had co-starred with Murray and Monroe in Bus Stop. He later married actress Elizabeth Johnson.
What early English movies?
Don Murray was never on the Oracle of Bacon top 1000. Don never even made the top 500 most connected of any decade.
These are the actors on the 2021 Oracle list that Don appeared with:
10 DENNIS HOPPER From Hell to Texas (1958)
29 ROD STEIGER Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971)
42 ANTHONY QUINN Ghosts Can’t Do It (1989)
56 RODDY MCDOWELL Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
57 GEORGE KENNEDY Radioactive Dreams (1985)
63 NICOLAS CAGE Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
73 CLINT EASTWOOD TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL (2015)
89 JOHN CARRADINE Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
116 RIP TORN Cotter (1973)
129 ROBERT WAGNER I Am the Cheese (1983)
129 ROBERT WAGNER TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL (2015)
140 HENRY FONDA Advise & Consent (1962)
143 DANNY DEVITO Deadly Hero (1976)
149 RICHARD HARRIS Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
167 HENRY SILVA A Hatful of Rain (1957)
167 HENRY SILVA The Plainsman (1966)
168 JACK WARDEN The Bachelor Party (1957)
184 JAMES EARL JONES Deadly Hero (1976)
273 TREAT WILLIAMS Deadly Hero (1976)
282 TOM CRUISE Endless Love (1981)
306 LESLIE NIELSEN The Plainsman (1966)
311 BURGESS MEREDITH Advise & Consent (1962)
415 TOM SKERRITT One Man’s Way (1964)
442 JAMES GAMMON Made in Heaven (1987)
522 SUSANNAH YORK Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971)
536 STUART WHITMAN These Thousand Hills (1959)
554 PETER LAWFORD Advise & Consent (1962)
558 TIMOTHY HUTTON Made in Heaven (1987)
562 CYRIL CUSACK Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
605 AMANDA PLUMMER Made in Heaven (1987)
614 ALLAN CUTHBERTSON SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL (1959)
655 SHIRLEY KNIGHT Endless Love (1981)
674 ROYAL DANO These Thousand Hills (1959)
702 PAUL FIX Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
706 JAMES SPADER ENDLESS LOVE (1981)
765 ELLEN BARKIN Made in Heaven (1987)
795 BRODERICK CRAWFORD Kid Rodelo (1966)
847 DEBBIE REYNOLDS TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL (2015)
881 JIM CARREY Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
886 HELEN HUNT PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED (1986)
893 BROOKE SHIELDS Endless Love (1981)
902 PERCY HERBERT The Viking Queen (1967)
910 WALTER PIDGEON Advise & Consent (1962)
928 KEVIN J. O’CONNOR PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED (1986)
936 E.G. MARSHALL The Bachelor Party (1957)
Don appeared with 12 Oscar winners.
ANTHONY QUINN Ghosts Can’t Do It (1989)
BRODERICK CRAWFORD Kid Rodelo (1966)
CHARLES LAUGHTON Advise & Consent (1962)
EVA MARIE SAINT A Hatful of Rain (1957)
GEORGE KENNEDY Radioactive Dreams (1985)
HELEN HUNT PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED (1986)
HENRY FONDA Advise & Consent (1962)
JAMES CAGNEY Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
MAUREEN STAPLETON Made in Heaven (1987)
NICOLAS CAGE Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
ROD STEIGER Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971)
TIMOTHY HUTTON Made in Heaven (1987)
Hey Dan. That is a copy and paste that I did not need to copy and paste. I will fix that when I get home. I was reading about Murray when I realized he was still around, so I figured there was no time like the present to give him an UMR page. Wow…both of the lists are pretty short. Robert Wagner and Henry Silva get most frequent Oracle co-stars with only 2 movies. As for Oscar winning co-stars…12 is pretty low…but still 12 is a cool stat. Are we sure that Bo Derek did not win an Oscar? Good information as always…hope all is well.
I have seen 6 Don Murray movies, 5 of them in the top 10.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Bus Stop.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Advise and Consent.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is Baby the Rain Must Fall.
Favourite Don Murray Movies:
Bus Stop
A Hatful of Rain
Other Don Murray Movies I Have Seen:
Peggy Sue Got Married
Shake Hands with the Devil
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Baby the Rain Must Fall
Hey Flora….wow….I have you topped as I have seen 9 of his movies. I have seen one of your favorites, Bus Stop, and 3 of your others. I actually did not really like his character in Bus Stop. He did well in the role, but the character was pretty hard to watch. I would say Advise and Consent is my favorite of his……somewhat surprised you have not seen that one. It has a great cast and the story is pretty interesting.