조지 머피

소개

조지 로이드 머피 은 미국의 무용가이자 배우였으며 말년에는 정치인으로 활동하였다. 1930년부터 1952년까지 할리우드 뮤지컬 대작에 여럿 출연해 가무에 뛰어난 배우로 이름났다. 1944년부터 1946년까지는 미국 배우 조합의 회장을 지냈고, 1951년에는 아카데미상 명예상을 수상하였다.

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.