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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, including politicians, executives and lawyers. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with director Robert Altman, having appeared in twelve films, TV series and miniseries directed by Altman from 1963 to 2004, including the title role in the miniseries Tanner '88.
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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, including politicians, executives and lawyers. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with director Robert Altman, having appeared in twelve films, TV series and miniseries directed by Altman from 1963 to 2004, including the title role in the miniseries Tanner '88.
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Murphy was married to Canadian actress Wendy Crewson from 1988 until their divorce in January 2009. They have two children, Maggie (born 1989) and John (born 1992).Best films
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Filmography of Michael Murphy (67 films)
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Add to a movie listManhattan (1979)
, 1h36Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Woody Allen, Michael O'Donoghue
Roles Yale
Rating77%
The film opens with a montage of images of Manhattan and other parts of New York City accompanied by George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, with Isaac Davis (Woody Allen) narrating drafts of an introduction to a book about a man who loves the city. Isaac is a twice-divorced, 42-year-old television comedy writer dealing with the women in his life who quits his unfulfilling job. He is dating Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), a 17-year-old girl attending the Dalton School. His best friend, college professor Yale Pollack (Michael Murphy), married to Emily (Anne Byrne), is having an affair with Mary Wilkie (Diane Keaton). Mary's ex-husband and former teacher, Jeremiah (Wallace Shawn), also appears. Isaac's ex-wife Jill Davis (Meryl Streep) is writing a confessional book about their marriage. Jill has also since come out of the closet as a lesbian and lives with her partner, Connie (Karen Ludwig).
The Class Of Miss MacMichael (1979)
, 1h34Directed by Silvio Narizzano
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Michael Murphy, Rosalind Cash, John Standing, Phil Daniels
Roles Martin
Rating54%
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
, 2h4Directed by Paul Mazursky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Jill Eikenberry, Patricia Quinn, Kelly Bishop
Roles Martin Benton
Rating71%
Wealthy New York City wife Erica Benton's (Jill Clayburgh) perfect life is shattered when her stockbroker husband Martin (Michael Murphy) leaves her for a younger woman. The film documents Erica's attempts at being single again, where she suffers confusion, sadness, and rage.
The Great Bank Hoax (1978)
, 1h27Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Richard Basehart, Ned Beatty, Burgess Meredith, Michael Murphy, Paul Sand, Constance Forslund
Roles Reverend Everett Manigma
Rating51%
The Front (1976)
, 1h35Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Films about films, Mise en scène d'un scénariste, Political films
Actors Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy, Andrea Marcovicci, Remak Ramsay
Roles Alfred Miller
Rating72%
In the early 1950s, in New York City, restaurant cashier and small-time bookie Howard Prince (Woody Allen) has a friend who writes for television. Because the friend, Alfred Miller (Michael Murphy) has been blacklisted, he asks Howard to sign his name to the TV scripts.
Nashville (1975)
, 2h39Directed by Robert Altman, Alan Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Barbara Baxley, Geraldine Chaplin, Scott Glenn
Roles John Triplette
Rating75%
The overarching plot takes place over five days leading up to a political rally for Replacement Party candidate Hal Phillip Walker, who is never seen throughout the entire movie. The story follows 24 characters roaming around Nashville, in search of some sort of goal through their own (often overlapping) story arcs.
Phase IV (1974)
, 1h24Directed by Saul Bass
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Natural horror films, Films about insects, Musical films
Actors Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport, Lynne Frederick, David Healy
Roles James R. Lesko
Rating63%
Due to an unknown cosmic event, listed in "phases", ants have undergone rapid evolution and developed a hive mind. A scientific team begins investigating strange towers and geometrically perfect designs that ants have built in the desert. Except for one family, the local human population flees the strangely acting ants. Scientists James Lesko and Ernest Hubbs set up a computerized lab in a sealed dome located in an area of significant ant activity in Arizona. The ant colony and the scientific team, along with the holdout family, fight each other though the ants are the more effective aggressors.
, 1h45Directed by John Korty
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Cicely Tyson, Michael Murphy, Eric Brown, Katherine Helmond, Richard A. Dysart, Will Hare
Roles Quentin Lerner
Rating78%
Le téléfilm est basé sur une nouvelle écrite en 1971 par Ernest J. Gaines (biographie d'une femme afro-américaine entre la guerre de Sécession et la guerre hispano-américaine).
The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
, 1h41Directed by Bud Yorkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Romance
Themes Heist films
Actors Ryan O'Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh, Ned Beatty, Charles Cioffi
Roles Ted
Rating61%
Webster McGee (Ryan O'Neal) is a computer programmer who abruptly quits his job and adopts a life of crime as a jewel thief in Houston, Texas.
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
, 1h34Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, Austin Pendleton, Michael Murphy, Kenneth Mars
Roles Mr. Smith
Rating76%
The story, which takes place in San Francisco, centers on four identical plaid overnight bags and the people who own them.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
, 2hDirected by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, Michael Murphy, William Devane, Shelley Duvall
Roles Eugene Sears
Rating75%
In 1902 Washington, a gambler named John McCabe (Warren Beatty) arrives mysteriously and mumbling to himself in the town of Presbyterian Church (named after its only substantial building, a tall but mostly unused [in the film] chapel), in the north-west United States. McCabe quickly takes a dominant position over the town's simple-minded and lethargic miners, thanks to his aggressive personality and rumors that he is a gunfighter.
Brewster McCloud (1970)
, 1h45Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy, Shelley Duvall, William Windom, René Auberjonois
Roles Shaft
Rating68%
The film opens with the MGM logo, as usual, but with the voice of Rene Auberjonois saying, "I forgot the opening line," replacing the lion roar and proceeds with The Lecturer (Auberjonois) regaling his unseen students with a wealth of knowledge of the habits of birds. Owlish Brewster (Bud Cort), living hidden and alone under the Houston Astrodome, dreams of creating wings that will help him fly like a bird. His only assistance comes from Louise (Sally Kellerman), a beautiful woman who wants to help. Wearing only a trench coat, Louise has unexplained scars on her shoulder blades, suggestive of a fallen angel. She warns him against having sexual intercourse, as this could kill his instinct to fly.
The Lawyer (1970)
, 2hDirected by Sidney J. Furie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Barry Newman, Diana Muldaur, Harold Gould, Booth Colman, Robert Colbert, Kathleen Crowley
Roles Intern in Legal Office (uncredited)
Rating66%
Tony Petrocelli is a Harvard-educated attorney of Italian heritage who practices in an unidentified part of the American Southwest. He works (and drives) at a frenetic pace, not only because he is a zealous advocate for his defendants (which includes a regular run of drunks and other small-time criminal cases) but because of the vast distances of western prairie he must cross in order to meet clients, investigate his cases and make court appointments.
Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
, 1h33Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Vampires in film
Actors Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy, Donna Anderson, Marsha Jordan, George Macready
Roles Paul
Rating57%
The scenario opens with narration (by character actor George Macready, whose son, Michael Macready, both produced the film and played "Michael") about superstition and the abilities of vampires. A truck is loaded at the Port of Los Angeles, and as it climbs to a gated mansion in the Southern California hills, the cargo is revealed to be a coffin.
M*A*S*H (1970)
, 1h56Directed by Robert Altman, Fred Williamson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Medical-themed films, Politique, Sports films, American football films, Musical films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois
Roles Me Lai Marston
Rating73%
Set in 1951 in South Korea, the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is assigned two replacements: Captains "Hawkeye" Pierce and "Duke" Forrest, who arrive in a stolen Jeep. They are insubordinate, womanizing, mischievous rule-breakers but they soon prove to be excellent combat surgeons. They immediately clash with their new tent mate Frank Burns, who is both a religious man and an inferior, stubborn, inept and incompetent surgeon who, when he causes mistakes, selfishly accuses anyone that is aside him. Hawkeye and Duke pressure Lt. Colonel Henry Blake, the unit CO, to have Burns removed from "their" tent. They also ask him to apply for a specialist thoracic surgeon to be assigned to the 4077th. Their wish is granted when Captain "Trapper" John McIntyre arrives at the 4077th.