Michael Murphy
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Michael George Murphy (born May 5, 1938) is an American film, television, and stage actor.
He often plays unethical or morally ambiguous characters in positions of authority, such as politicians, executives, and attorneys.
He is also known for his frequent collaborations with director Robert Altman, having appeared in twelve films, TV series, and miniseries directed by the actor from 1963 to 2004, as well as the title role in the miniseries Tanner '88.
Early life
Murphy was born in Los Angeles, California, and Bearl Branton Murphy, a salesman, was the son of Georgia Arlyn (née Money), a tutor. Murphy attended the University of Arizona and the University of California in Los Angeles after serving in the United States Marine Corps.
He taught English and drama at University High School (Los Angeles) before embarking on acting.
Personal life
Murphy dated actress Wendy Crewson from 1988 to their divorce in January 2009. Maggie and John, both born 1989, and John (born 1992), they have two children.
Murphy now lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
Career
Murphy is best known for his appearances in Paul Mazursky's The Civil War (1978), as Woody Allen's morally ambiguous best friend Yale in Magnolia (1999), and as the actor of Garry Trudeau and Robert Altman's Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries Tanner '88.
Murphy served with Altman, including as Captain Ezekiel Bradbury "Me Lay" Marston, IV, who was the pompous "supercop" Det. Lt. Frank Shaft of Brewster McCloud (1970), as John Triplette in Nashville (1975), and as the title character in Tanner'88 (a role he reprised in the 2004 miniseries Tanner on Tanner). The World War II television series Combat! was one of Murphy's other Altman films and television series in which he appeared. Countdown (1968), That Cold Day in the Park (1969), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), among other topics, including Murphy, (1989).
Some film roles include: The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Salvador (1986), Silver City (2004), According to Greta (2009), White House Down and a critically acclaimed role, as well as a leading role in the Canadian independent film Fall (2014). Ben Casey, The Man from U.C.L.E., Hogan's Heroes, and others. L.A. law, Judging Amy, Criminal Intent, and Person of Concern are among others. Murphy has appeared on television shows such as E.N.G., The Eleventh Hour, Living in Your Car, Street Legal and Michael, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Murphy has also narrated many episodes of PBS' critically acclaimed, long-running, and multi-award-winning PBS historical documentary series The American Experience and the public television travel documentary series Weekends with Yankee. In the well-received 2005 ESPN mini-series Tilt, Jimmy Malloy played a supporting role as the no-nonsense casino boss Jimmy Malloy. Murphy has appeared in numerous Canadian films and television, including as Judge Maxwell Fraser in the acclaimed CBC legal comedy series This Is Wonderland, for which he received two consecutive Gemini Awards in 2004 and 2005, and was nominated for a third in 2006. He was also a key cast member of the short-lived 2010 police drama The Bridge, in which he played the Steely Chief of Police Ed Wycoff. The show, which was produced and broadcast by CTV, was also co-distributed by and broadcast in the United States on the CBS network.
Murphy has appeared in several other critically acclaimed made-for-television films, including CBS' 1988 film The Day Reagan Was Shot as the judge who illegally sentences Mole, as the magistrate who unlawfully sentences Mole, and the chief of staff Michael Deaver in Kenneth Graham's classic 1974 drama The Life and Times as Quentin Lerner, opposite Cicely Tyson in her eponymous title role.
Not unlike his frequent and fruitful artistic relationship with Robert Altman, as well as numerous other television film and series collaborations, Murphy has appeared in a number of other HBO film and television series productions, including: Countdown to Looking Glass (1992), Truman (1995), and Live from Baghdad (2002).
Murphy has never been confined to solely supporting actor/character roles in the aforementioned films Phase IV (1974), Manhattan (1979), Strange Behavior (1981), and Fall (2014), although he has appeared in many other leading roles in theatrical, feature films, including Hot Money (1983), and 1998's Norma Jean, Jack & Me. Murphy has enjoyed starring roles in films including Bell, Book and Candle, directed by Cheever, O Youth and Beauty. (1979) PBS, Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (1989) for HBO, Footsteps (2003) for CBS, the independently distributed Canadian film In the Dark (2003), as well as its 2004 sequel Tanner on Tanner for the Sundance Channel, Tanner on Tanner (1989) for PBS. In addition, Murphy has appeared in weekly television series like the ABC family drama Two Marriages (1983-1984), as Dr. Art Armstrong, and as Andy Omart, the cynical and hard-nosed journalist in the short-lived 1987 CBS newspaper drama Hard Copy.