In the 1940s and early 1950s, he became a Las Vegas marquee performer, including headlining at the Flamingo Hotel during its first year of operation.
From the 1960s through the 1980s, Murray had acting roles in episodes of many TV comedy and drama series, including Dr. Kildare; The Lucy Show; The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
; The Name of the Game; Love, American Style; Mannix; Kolchak: The Night Stalker; Fantasy Island; The Fall Guy; and Hardcastle and McCormick.
(1965), The Busy Body (1967), Tarzan and the Great River (1967), Thunder Alley (1967), A Man Called Dagger (1968), Which Way to the Front?
Among them were Jack Carter, Jerry Lewis, Joey Bishop, and others, from whom he created comedy routines often related at various golf charity events.
[citation needed] Murray retired from show business at the age of 83, as he felt his asthma was affecting his timing.