13 Celebrities Turned Politicians Besides Trump

8. George Murphy

In 1964, George Murphy won a seat in the U.S. Senate and became a stellar advocate of “visual education”. He did this by utilizing Technicolor’s concept films on science, math, and athletics to aid in the education of American youth. Before all this he was a respected actor, making his film debut in 1934, and going on to be president of the Screen Actors’ Guild in the mid-1940s, and vice president of the Technicolor Corporation later on. Murphy also won an Academy Award for career achievement in 1950. A wet blanket was thrown on his political career during his re-election bid in 1970 when it was revealed that while serving in Congress, he was still receiving a salary from Technicolor. Murphy not only lost, but never got to see results for his educational project.