Happy 90th Birthday to Don Murray!

And Endless Love!

Hot!

Was he considered a "difficult" actor? Because he had talent, charisma and looks to burn. So why the less than middling career?

And did Earl Holliman steal his television career? They seem similar to me, except Don is more beautiful; Earl more rugged.

He was a hottie who aged well. Loved him in Bus Stop. And it’s a look that isn’t dated.

Don Murray was sex on 2 legs back in the day. Oh how my young loins burned for him back in the 60s. I remember a few times he displayed a magnificent love package in incredibly tight pants in some of the old westerns he was in.

Don Murray was married to Hope Lange 1956-61. Appeared in the first two seasons on Knots Landing. 1981 Murray decided to leave the series after two seasons to concentrate on other projects, although some sources say he left over a salary dispute. The character's death was notable at the time because it was considered rare to kill off a star character. The death came in the second episode of season three, following season two's cliffhanger in which Sid's car careened off a cliff. To make viewers doubt that the character had actually died, Murray was listed in the credit sequence for season three; in fact, season three revealed that Fairgate had survived the plunge off the cliff (thus temporarily reassuring the viewers), but died shortly afterwards in hospital. Although he effectively distanced himself from the series after that, Murray later contributed an interview segment for Knots Landing: Together Again, a reunion special made in 2005.

Who played his blackmailing gay lover in "Advise and Consent" who ends up falling in the mud (literally) outside the gay bar? that guy had the hottest ass.

He’s outlasted his Knots Landing character by almost 40 years!

He was hot in Bus Stop.

He made that rare and fortuitous slide into genuine hot middle age.

I believe that was John Granger R7

Murray and Marilyn did not get along well at all in the move they did together,

He was dweamy.

I used to get him mixed up with Cliff Robertson.

Don Murray just did Twin Peaks!

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.

With the fine Otis Young in The Outcasts.

Gay pose.

The excellent The Borgia Stick with Inger Stevens and the long-forgotten Fritz Weaver.

The Borgia Stick was the first ever TV movie?

Va va VOOM!

Do these pants make my ass look big?

I swear I saw the elderly Fritz Weaver on the street two weeks ago, but I looked him up and discovered he died three years ago.

Still, NOT forgotten!

R22 I don't think that's him.

Skinny Murray had no body at all. And, frankly, I thought he was as unsexy as Hope Lange

Prayer position.

For Matt!

Certified Murray butt.

[quote] Do these pants make my ass look big?

No, but they certainly lift and separate your cheeks nicely.

The exquisite ass in question most certainly does belong to Don Murray.

Lifelong Democrat!

[quote]r6 1981 Murray decided to leave [Knots Landing] after two seasons to concentrate on other projects

This is a rather risky move when you're not-so-young, and not-so-famous. He was 50 at the time.

He should have been grateful for the steady gig, having never become a big name star in movies. He went from a hit show to playing Brooke Shields' father in "Endless Love".

I love where he signed it, r26.

More ass.

Bulge.

R16- If I was one of the apes after they took over the city my first order of business would be to strip Don Murray's character NAKED for a full cavity strip search!

I may be going senile but I half remember a trashy exploration shocker called 'Ghosts Can't Do It' (1989) where the 60 year old Don Murray and a hunky stud named Leo Damian both wear backless loincloths.

He still had a tight and fit body at 60. This is from "Ghosts Can't Do It".

^ Directed by John Derek and starring Bo, Anthony Quinn, Don Murray, and Donald Trump.

Don Murray could have been enjoying his tenth year of ascending pay on Knots Landing.

Instead, he did this for money.

R36, time is a bitch.

It must have been pretty daring to play a gay role in the early 60s. In fact, that was the first gay bar ever seen in a major film. Of course, he does what every gay character did back then...commit suicide.

He sure did have a pretty face (and long fingers) . . .

He had a disproportionately long chin as well as long fingers— in fact he looks rather like Miss Almira Gulch.

He and the late Barbara Harris played Kathleen Turner’s parents in Peggy Sue Got Married. No comment on the younger sister.

Who has seen The Hoodlum Priest?

Brought to his knees.

I'm sorry, but the few films I've seen Don Murray in, he came across as quite boring, bland, and lightweight. He had a wholesome handsomeness, but there was no presence. In "Bus Stop," his good ol' boy character was not just bratty and annoying, but his transformation into a sensitive partner seemed forced and rushed. And as the closeted senator in "Advise and Consent" and the morphine-addicted Korean War vet in "Hatful of Rain" there was a superficiality to his acting. He was an actor merely "acting" the parts rather than becoming the character and living through the characters' pains and sufferings. The roles required someone with more gravitas like Brando or even Paul Newman.

R19 and R20 - And I thought I was the only one who remembered "The Borgia Stick".

I got a copy off Ioffer some time back.

I agree R47, I thought Don was as 'bland and lightweight' as this guy Dean.

^ I always thought Dean Jones was kind of sexy.

Interview outtake for Tab Hunter Confidential where he discusses Advise & Consent. At the end he puts on a terrible German accent to imitate Otto Preminger and recalls his weird analogy of playing gay to playing a Nazi, to which Preminger offered a very Otto Preminger retort.

Go to 3:25 for him to start using the word homosexual, repeatedly.

Unusual combination of fine facial features and ruggedness.

Yes, Don. Without hesitation.

The movie Advise & Consent is an amazing piece of work. Ray, the senator's wartime lover, was played by John Granger.

That John Granger was a tall glass of water.

This has a number of nice photos and dreamy gifs.

Someone seems to have a fetish for big/tiny combinations centered on John Granger.

"Murray and Marilyn did not get along well at all in the move they did together,"

Honestly, not many got along with poor Marilyn after the Strasbergs took over her career. The only subsequent costar not bothered by her problems was Monty Clift, himself a method actor. They filled her head full of nonsense like "you're water running over and electric fence."

"Murray and Marilyn did not get along well at all in the move they did together,"

Honestly, not many got along with poor Marilyn after the Strasbergs took over her career. The only subsequent costar not bothered by her problems was Monty Clift, himself a method actor. They filled her head full of nonsense like "you're water running over and electric fence."

Otis Young was a knockout.

[quote]Oh how my young loins burned

There's ointment for that, you know.

[quote] he displayed a magnificent love package

MARY!

HAF!

DL is the only place left on the planet where you can read an irony-free post like r5 - and I love it.