More Michael Murphy Bios & Profiles
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Biography #2 (for Footsteps)
For over thirty-five years, Michael Murphy has performed in film, television and in the theatre. Murphy has worked in over one hundred television productions, the highlight of which was the Robert Altman/Garry Trudeau cult series Tanner 88, in which he played the title role. He also appeared in the classic Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, with Cicely Tyson. The film won nine Emmy awards.A list of Murphy's more interesting credits includes Magnolia (SAG nomination for best ensemble), Kansas City, Batman Returns, Salvador, The Year Of Living Dangerously, Manhattan, The Front, An Unmarried Woman, Nashville, What's Up, Doc? Brewster McCloud and M.A.S.H.
Murphy now has three films in various stages of completion, including Three Janes, Tart and Norma Jean, Jack, and Me. Murphy recently co-starred in the cable films The Day Reagan was Shot, with Richard Dreyfuss, and Live From Baghdad, with Michael Keaton.
Additionally, Murphy has narrated some highly acclaimed programs for Public Broadcasting, including Long Journey Home: The Irish in America, The Last Stand of the Tallgrass Prairie and Mount Rushmore. He has also committed many well-known novels to tape, including the Nero Wolfe series.
With co-writer David Fineman, Murphy recently completed an original screenplay entitled Crashing. He currently resides in Toronto.
Bio courtesy CBS for "Footsteps" (10-Nov-2005)
Biography #3
One of Hollywood's finest character actors, Michael Murphy has worked with some of film's leading directors. Among his many feature credits are Tim Burton's Batman Returns, Oliver Stone's Salvador, and Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously. He has acted in six previous feature films directed by Robert Altman (including McCabe And Mrs. Miller, Nashville and M*A*S*H), as well as Altman's television projects The Caine Mutiny and Tanner '88. Murphy is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Jill Clayburgh's unfaithful husband in Paul Mazursky's An Unmarried Woman.Bio courtesy Fine Line Features (07-Jul-2002)
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