Gordon MacRae

Movie Actor

Gordon MacRae was born in East Orange, New Jersey, United States on March 12th, 1921 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 64, Gordon MacRae biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Albert MacRae Gordon
Date of Birth
March 12, 1921
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
East Orange, New Jersey, United States
Death Date
Jan 24, 1986 (age 64)
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
Profession
Actor, Film Actor, Singer, Stage Actor, Television Actor
Gordon MacRae Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 64 years old, Gordon MacRae has this physical status:

Height
173cm
Weight
Not Available
Hair Color
Dark brown
Eye Color
Brown
Build
Athletic
Measurements
Not Available
Gordon MacRae Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Deerfield Academy
Gordon MacRae Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Sheila MacRae, ​ ​(m. 1941; div. 1967)​, Elizabeth Lambert Schrafft, ​ ​(m. 1967)​
Children
5, including Heather and Meredith
Dating / Affair
Not Available
Parents
Not Available
Gordon MacRae Life

Albert Gordon MacRae (March 12, 1921 – January 24, 1986), an American actor, singer, and television show host who appeared in the film versions of two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, Oklahoma! (1955) and Carousel (1956), and played the leading man of Doris Day in On Moonlight Bay (1951) and its sequel By the Sunlight of the Silvery Moon (1953).

Early life

MacRae, a native of East Orange, Massachusetts, to Scottish parents, graduated in 1940 from Deerfield, Massachusetts, and served as a navigator in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He attended Nottingham High School in Syracuse, New York, before this. Gordon MacRae was recalled from the Clan MacRae.

Personal life

He was married to Sheila MacRae from 1941 to 1967. They met on the set of a play, and it was "love at first sight." The couple were the parents of four children: actress Heather and Meredith MacRae, as well as son William Gordon MacRae and Robert Bruce MacRae. Sheila later married television producer Ronald Wayne.

Amanda Mercedes MacRae was born in 1968, MacRae's second marriage was to Elizabeth Lambert Schrafft on September 25, 1967, and the two children had one child, Amanda Mercedes MacRae. They were married until his death. For many years, he suffered with alcoholism but didn't manage to eliminate them until the late 1970s.

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Gordon MacRae Career

Career

MacRae was a baritone. He was able to perform at the 1939 New York World's Fair with the Harry James and Les Brown orchestras after winning a contest.

He made his Broadway debut in 1942 and signed his first recording contract soon after. Many of his hit songs were made with Jo Stafford.

He appeared on Junior Miss as a replacement.

His talents were showcased on the Gordon MacRae Show on the CBS network in 1945, together with conductor Archie Bleyer. The show featured emerging musical talent, including accordionist John Serry Sr. MacRae, the show's host and lead actor on The Railroad Hour, a half-hour anthology collection made up of condensed versions of hit Broadway musicals. The services were later released on CD as well as popular studio cast albums, the majority of which have been reissued on CD.

He appeared in the revue Three to Make Ready, which ran for 326 performances in 1946.

In 1947, MacRae signed a Warner Bros. contract. He appeared in his first film, The Big Punch, a boxing drama, in 1948. Virginia Mayo, Backfire, 1949, 1950), he followed this with a film noir (made in 1948, released 1950).

'Look for the Silver Lining (1949), a biopic of Marilyn Miller (June Haver), where MacRae played Frank Carter, was MacRae's first on-screen musical. David Butler was the primary protagonist. In The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950), MacRae was reunited with Haver and Butler. In a Western, Return of the Frontiersman (1950), Warners put him in a Western. In Tee for Two (1950), a reworking of No, No. Nanette, which also for Butler, then appeared with Doris Day. The public response was enthusiastic. MacRae and Day were reunited in The West Point Story (1951), starring James Cagney and Mayo, On Moonlight Bay (1951), and the all-star Korean War tribute, Starlift (1951).

MacRae appeared in About Face (1952) with Eddie Bracken, then he and Day did a film entitled By the Sunlight of the Moon (1953). In the third film version of The Desert Song, Kathryn Grayson appeared opposite Kathryn Grayson and partnered with Jane Powell in Three Sailors and a Girl (1953). Curly in Oklahoma's big screen version was MacRae's best known film role. (1955) with Shirley Jones. He and Jones were included in another Rodgers and Hammerstein film, Carousel (1956), at 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios). For the twentieth century-Fox, MacRae played Buddy De Sylva in The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956).

MacRae appeared on television on shows such as The Ford Show and Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

He has appeared on drama shows like Lux Video Theatre.

MacRae and Ford sang "O Holy Night" during Christmas 1958. MacRae appeared on the short-lived NBC variety show The Polly Bergen Show in 1958.

He appeared in the television film The Gift of the Magi (1958). MacRae appeared on The Ed Sullivan Exhibition, The Dinah Shore Chevy Showroom, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, and The Bell Telephone Hour followed.

He continued his musical career, often with his wife, as in the hit musical Guys and Dolls in 1964, with his wife, Miss Adeleide, playing her Broadway debut at Tempe, Arizona.

He co-hosted for a week on The Mike Douglas Show in the late 1960s. He also worked in summer sales and appeared in nightclubs.

In 1967, he replaced Robert Preston in the original Broadway revival of the musical I Do! I Do!, starring Carol Lawrence, who had taken over the role from Mary Martin.

On McCloud, a MacRae guest appeared. He appeared in the films Zero to Sixty (1978) and The Pilot (1980).

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'If they find it, I'm done': Hunt for mystery remote cottage 50 years since mother and son went missing after killer, 81, ignored pleas to reveal where he hid the bodies

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 31, 2023
Renee MacRae (pictured left) and her son (pictured right) are looking for a remote cottage connected to their murder after a witness told a police he was 'done' if it was discovered. In 1976, William MacDowell (inset) killed the 36-year-old and his son Andrew, three, in Inverness-shire. He was finally brought to justice in September last year, but the 81-year-old refused pleas from her family and police to reveal where he hid their bodies and died in February. MacDowell told a witness that the discovery of a cottage could lead to his downfall years before he was imprisoned.

What happened to Renee and Andrew MacDowell, the murderer?

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 28, 2023
Renee and Andrew MacRae's abduction is one of Scotland's most well-known unsolved crimes. After telling her family she was off to visit her sister in Kilmarnock in 1976, the 36-year-old girl went missing. After her burnt-out BMW was discovered, foul play was suspected, and suspicion fell on her unknown lover William MacDowell. MacDowell evaded justice for 45 years for his crimes, but what did he do to the mother of two and the child they shared?And what happened to him?

In decades of bizarre twists and turns on the hunt for a'mystery of A9' killer,'

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 30, 2022
Renee MacRae, 36, (right) and Andrew, her baby (inset), has been long and painful, with police in one point turning to the services of a Swiss clairvoy. William MacDowell (left) and his partner, Rosemary, attended only one media interview, during which he confessed to being Andrew's real father and said he had ended the investigation, and that Renee was still alive, and that, oddly, she was getting encrypted phone calls from her. Pic top: A copy of MacDowell's Volvo.