DIED. Fred MacMurray, 83, television's quintessential father figure; in Santa Monica, Calif. Adept at comedy and drama, MacMurray had a stage, film and TV career that spanned five decades. Although he usually played the proverbial good guy in his more than 80 films, MacMurray's most memorable roles went against type: a crooked insurance agent in Double Indemnity (1944), a cowardly, ambitious Navy lieutenant in The Caine Mutiny (1954) and a philandering husband in The Apartment (1960). But his affable image served MacMurray well in several Disney movies and in the role of the widower-father Steve Douglas in TV's My Three Sons.