“I was born in Illinois, but I call Beaver Dam my home town. That's where I graduated from high school and started what I thought was going to be a musical career.”

American actor

Fred MacMurray was an American actor, active for nearly half a century, whose career ran from 1935 into the 1970s. He was known for more than one hundred films and for the television series My Three Sons. He is best remembered for Billy Wilder’s 1944 film noir Double Indemnity, which became his most renowned role. Later, from 1959 to 1973, he appeared in a string of Disney films, including The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor, Follow Me, Boys!, and The Happiest Millionaire, and he played Steve Douglas in My Three Sons.