Death
In 1936, Murray drowned after falling from the string-piece of a pier into the Hudson River. The medical examiner determined that the cause was asphyxia by submersion, without ruling on whether it was an accident or suicide. He was interred at the Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, Queens, New York. At the time of his death, he was married to actress Marion Sayers.
Decades later, Vidor was still so haunted by Murray's tragic decline that he wrote an unrealized screenplay about his life, "The Actor".
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“Tear out the close vermiculate crease
Where death crawled angrily at bay.”
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