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Rosemary Murphy is a Actor American born on 13 january 1925 at Munich (German)

Rosemary Murphy

Rosemary Murphy
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Nationality USA
Birth 13 january 1925 at Munich (German)
Death 5 july 2014 (at 89 years) at New York City (USA)

Rosemary Murphy (January 13, 1925 – July 5, 2014) was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She was nominated for three Tony Awards for her stage work, as well as two Emmy Awards for television work, winning once, for her performance in Eleanor and Franklin (1976).

Biography

Née à Munich où son père diplomate est alors en poste, Rosemary Murphy débute au cinéma dans le film allemand La Chair de Josef von Báky (avec Johanna Hofer), sorti en 1949.

Suivent vingt-trois films américains (le premier sorti en 1957) ou coproductions, dont Du silence et des ombres de Robert Mulligan (1962, avec Gregory Peck et Brock Peters), Julia de Fred Zinnemann (1977, avec Vanessa Redgrave dans le rôle-titre et Jane Fonda), September de Woody Allen (1987, avec Mia Farrow et Elaine Stritch), For the Boys de Mark Rydell (1991, avec Bette Midler et James Caan), ou encore La Famille Savage de Tamara Jenkins (2007, avec Laura Linney et Philip Seymour Hoffman). Le dernier à ce jour est Les Meilleurs Amis de Galt Niederhoffer (avec Katie Holmes et Anna Paquin), sorti en 2010.

À la télévision, elle tourne douze téléfilms diffusés entre 1968 et 1999, dont Les Soldats de l'espérance de Roger Spottiswoode (1993, avec Matthew Modine et Alan Alda) et Nuits de Chine de Woody Allen (1994, avec le réalisateur et Michael J. Fox).

S'y ajoutent cinquante séries dès 1951, dont Columbo (un épisode, 1974) et Magnum (un épisode, 1982). Sa dernière série à ce jour est Frasier, avec deux épisodes diffusés respectivement en 1997 et 1999.

Rosemary Murphy est également active au théâtre et joue notamment à Broadway (New York) dans quinze pièces, la première en 1950 étant The Tower Beyond Tragedy de Robinson Jeffers (d'après son poème éponyme), avec Judith Anderson.

Mentionnons aussi Délicate Balance d'Edward Albee, mise en scène par Alan Schneider en 1966-1967, avec Hume Cronyn et Jessica Tandy (à noter qu'elle reprend cette pièce en 1996, aux côtés de Rosemary Harris et Elaine Stritch), ainsi que John Gabriel Borkman d'Henrik Ibsen, mise en scène par Austin Pendleton en 1980-1981, avec E. G. Marshall (rôle-titre) et Irene Worth.

Sa dernière pièce à Broadway en 1999-2000 est Waiting in the Wings de Noël Coward, avec Lauren Bacall et Rosemary Harris.

Parmi les diverses distinctions qu'elle obtient durant sa carrière — voir détails ci-dessous —, évoquons trois nominations aux Tony Awards (dont celui de la meilleure actrice dans une pièce en 1967, pour Balance délicate pré-citée). Et elle gagne un Primetime Emmy Award pour son second rôle dans le téléfilm Eleanor and Franklin : The Early Years de Daniel Petrie (1976, avec Edward Herrmann et Jane Alexander).

Best films

Julia (1977)
(Actress)

Usually with

Woody Allen
Woody Allen
(3 films)
Buzz Kulik
Buzz Kulik
(1 films)
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Rosemary Murphy (33 films)

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Actress

The Romantics, 1h35
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin, Josh Duhamel, Dianna Agron, Adam Brody, Candice Bergen
Roles Grandmother Hayes
Rating49% 2.499952.499952.499952.499952.49995
A group of seven college friends reunite after six years for a wedding. Things go awry when the maid of honor, Laura, (Katie Holmes) and the bride, Lila (Anna Paquin), clash over the groom, Tom (Josh Duhamel), with whom Laura was once romantically involved. As Laura, Lila, and Tom all try to decipher their emotions, the film explores all of the relationships of people in and around the circle of friends that met those years ago.
After.Life
After.Life (2010)
, 1h44
Directed by Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long, Josh Charles, Chandler Canterbury, Rosemary Murphy
Roles Susan Whitehall
Rating59% 2.954862.954862.954862.954862.95486
Middle school teacher Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci) attends a funeral of her piano teacher where she encounters the solemn owner of the funeral home, Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson). That night Anna argues with her boyfriend Paul (Justin Long), leaves in a panic, and gets in a traffic accident. She awakens in a morgue finding the morgue director, Eliot, dressing her wounds and telling her she has died. He tells Anna he has a gift to help the dead accept their deaths. It is revealed that Eliot talks to the dead and has a collection of photographs of corpses whom, it is implied, he has helped to "cross over". Eliot injects Anna regularly with a fictional drug called hydronium bromide to "relax the muscles and keep rigor mortis from setting in.
Synecdoche, New York, 2h4
Directed by Charlie Kaufman, Uwe Boll
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre
Actors Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton, Hope Davis, Tom Noonan, Emily Watson
Roles Frances
Rating75% 3.750533.750533.750533.750533.75053
Theater director Caden Cotard finds his life unraveling. Suffering from numerous physical ailments and growing increasingly alienated from his wife, Adele, an artist, he hits bottom when Adele leaves him for a new life in Berlin, taking their four-year-old daughter, Olive, with her.
The Savages, 1h53
Directed by Tamara Jenkins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families, Children's films
Actors Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, David Zayas, Peter Friedman, Guy Boyd
Roles Doris Metzger
Rating70% 3.54843.54843.54843.54843.5484
After drifting apart emotionally over the years, two single siblings — Wendy (Linney) and Jon (Hoffman) — band together to care for their estranged, elderly father, Lenny (Philip Bosco), who is rapidly slipping into dementia. Wendy and Jon first travel to Sun City, Arizona to attend the funeral of their father's girlfriend of 20 years. When they arrive, they are told that their father signed a non-marriage agreement and will not have rights to any of her property. They then move him to a nursing home in Buffalo, where Jon is a theater professor working on a book about Bertolt Brecht. Wendy, who is an aspiring, but unsuccessful, playwright, moves from New York City to help establish their father in Buffalo.
Dust
Dust (2001)
, 2h7
Directed by Milcho Manchevski
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham, Adrian Lester, Vera Farmiga, Anne Brochet, Rosemary Murphy
Roles Angela
Rating62% 3.146123.146123.146123.146123.14612
Shifting periodically between two parallel stories, Dust opens in present-day New York City with a young criminal, Edge (Adrian Lester), being confronted at gunpoint by an ailing old woman, Angela (Rosemary Murphy), whose apartment he is attempting to burglarize. While he awaits an opportunity to escape, she launches into a tale about two outlaw brothers, at the turn of the 20th century, who travel to Ottoman-controlled Macedonia. The two brothers have transient ill will between them, and they become estranged when confronted with a beautiful woman, Lilith (Anne Brochet).
Message in a Bottle, 2h11
Directed by Luis Mandoki
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Robin Wright, Kevin Costner, Paul Newman, John Savage, Illeana Douglas, Robbie Coltrane
Roles Helen at the B&B
Rating61% 3.099973.099973.099973.099973.09997
Theresa Osborne, a former reporter, works as a researcher for the Chicago Tribune. On a trip to Cape Cod, she finds a mysterious, intriguing love letter in a bottle in the sand, addressed from Garret to Catherine. She is fascinated by it and comes into possession of two more letters by the same person, eventually tracking down the man who wrote them, Garret Blake. He refurbished a boat called Happenstence with his wife before her death and he lives quietly on the Outer Banks of North Carolina near his father, Dodge.
Mighty Aphrodite, 1h35
Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on mythology, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Erotic thriller films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Woody Allen, Mira Sorvino, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Rapaport, F. Murray Abraham, Claire Bloom
Roles Adoption Coordinator
Rating69% 3.497833.497833.497833.497833.49783
The film opens on ancient Greek ruins where a chanting Greek chorus introduces and narrates the story of Lenny Weinrib (Woody Allen). Lenny is a sportswriter in Manhattan, married to ambitious curator Amanda (Helena Bonham Carter). The couple decide to adopt a baby, a boy they name Max. Lenny is awed by their son who, it becomes increasingly clear, is a gifted child.
The Tuskegee Airmen, 1h41
Directed by Robert Markowitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B. Vance, Andre Braugher, Christopher McDonald
Roles Eleanor Roosevelt
Rating70% 3.5482853.5482853.5482853.5482853.548285
During World War II, Hannibal Lee (Laurence Fishburne), traveling by train to Tuskegee, Alabama, is joined by other African American men from different backgrounds. At the start of their training, they are met by 2nd Lt. Glenn (Courtney B. Vance), who had joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and was credited with three kills. During training, Lewis Johns (Mekhi Phifer), and his instructor are killed when they fail to recover from a stall. Walter Peoples III (Allen Payne), who already has a pilot's license, performs an unauthorized aerobatic maneuver in order to impress Hannibal, but this results in him being removed from the training program. To avoid going home in disgrace, he commits suicide by deliberately crashing an aircraft.
Don't Drink the Water, 1h32
Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Michael J. Fox, Woody Allen, Mayim Bialik, Dom DeLuise, Julie Kavner, Edward Herrmann
Roles Miss Pritchard
Rating61% 3.0938053.0938053.0938053.0938053.093805
1961 à Moscou, en pleine Guerre froide. L'ambassadeur des États-Unis, Magee, se prépare à regagner Washington. Il confie à son fils Alex le soin de diriger l'ambassade en son absence. Sitôt parti, Walter Hollander, un touriste américain, débarque avec sa femme Marion et sa fille Susan : ils sont poursuivis par la police soviétique pour avoir photographié des sites « sensibles » et demandent l'asile politique. Alex Magee s'avère vite incompétent et dépassé par les évènements.
Twenty Bucks, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Linda Hunt, Brendan Fraser, Gladys Knight, Elisabeth Shue, Sam Sorbo, Steve Buscemi
Roles Aunt Dotty
Rating62% 3.147363.147363.147363.147363.14736
An armored truck brings money to load an ATM. A woman withdraws $20 but the bill slips away. A homeless woman, Angeline (Linda Hunt), grabs the bill and reads the serial number, proclaiming that it is her destiny to win the lottery with those numbers. As she holds the bill, a boys grabs the bill from her and uses it at a bakery. The baker sells an expensive pair of figurines for a wedding cake to Jack Holiday (George Morfogen) and gives him the bill as change. At the rehearsal dinner for the upcoming wedding of Sam Mastrewski (Brendan Fraser) to Anna Holiday (Sam Jenkins), Jack reminisces about exchanging his foreign money for American currency when he first came to America, and he presents Sam with the $20 bill as a wedding present. Sam is taken aback by the perceived cheapness of his father-in-law-to-be, but is quickly "kidnapped" for his bachelor party, where he uses the bill to pay the stripper (Melora Walters). Anna shows up to explain that the $20 is not the entire present and suggests they frame it to show that they understand its significance. Sam is unable to explain the absence of the bill, when the stripper comes in from the fire escape to offer it back to him. Anna apparently breaks the engagement.
And the Band Played On, 2h21
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentary films about health care, Films about viral outbreaks, LGBT-related films, Sida et LGBT, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film
Actors Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau, Anjelica Huston, Lawrence Monoson, Richard Gere
Roles Blood Bank Executive
Rating77% 3.89323.89323.89323.89323.8932
In a prologue set in 1976, American epidemiologist Don Francis arrives in a village on the banks of the Ebola River in Zaire and discovers many of the residents and the doctor working with them have died from a mysterious illness later identified as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. It is his first exposure to such an epidemic, and the images of the dead he helps cremate will haunt him when he later becomes involved with HIV/AIDS research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
For the Boys, 2h15
Directed by Mark Rydell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal, Patrick O'Neal, Arye Gross, Norman Fell
Roles Luanna Trott
Rating62% 3.1496653.1496653.1496653.1496653.149665
In the early 1990s, retired entertainer Dixie Leonard (Midler) has a commitment to attend a Hollywood ceremony being televised live to honor her and her longtime show-biz partner Eddie Sparks (Caan). When a young man from the TV show comes to pick her up, Dixie balks and explains what brought Eddie and her together, as well as what drove them apart. The majority of the film is an extended flashback.
September
September (1987)
, 1h19
Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston, Dianne Wiest, Denholm Elliott, Elaine Stritch, Jack Warden
Roles Mrs. Mason
Rating64% 3.247323.247323.247323.247323.24732
After a failed suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Stephanie, has come to join her for the summer to have some time away from her husband. Lane's brassy, tactless mother, Diane, has recently arrived with her physicist husband, Lane's stepfather. Lane is close to two neighbors: Peter, a struggling writer, and Howard, a French teacher. Howard is in love with Lane, Lane is in love with Peter, and Peter is in love with Stephanie.
George Washington (miniseries), 8h
Directed by Buzz Kulik
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Barry Bostwick, Patty Duke, David Dukes, Jaclyn Smith, Lloyd Bridges, José Ferrer
Roles Mary Ball Washington
Rating78% 3.932573.932573.932573.932573.93257
This miniseries covers the life of George Washington, from the time he is a young man, through his experiences in the French and Indian War and his rise to lead the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It concludes shortly after the end of the war, with Washington's return to his home in Mount Vernon.