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Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy
Born: May 05, 1938 in Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '70s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Tanner '88, The Year of Living Dangerously, An Unmarried Woman
First Major Screen Credit: Brewster McCloud (1970)
27 Videos for Michael Murphy
Smokin' Aces (2007) Private Parts (1997) Salvador (1986)
Away From Her (2006) Kansas City (1996) Strange Behavior (1981)
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Clean Slate (1994) Manhattan (1979)
Childstar (2004) Batman Returns (1992) Nashville (1975)
Heights (2004) Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1992) What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Silver City (2004) Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992) Brewster McCloud (1970)
Tanner on Tanner [TV Series] (2004) Folks! (1992) M*A*S*H (1970)
Live From Baghdad (2002) Shocker (1989) The Arrangement (1969)
Tart (2001) Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (1989) Double Trouble (1967)
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Biography:

American actor Michael Murphy pursued a high school teaching career upon graduation from the University of Arizona. Among the subjects he taught was drama; good-looking and personable enough to get paid for reciting lines to an audience older than the age of 18, Murphy chucked the teaching profession to work on stage.

In films since 1967, Murphy is best remembered as Jill Clayburgh's cheating -- and uncontrollably sobbing -- husband in An Unmarried Woman (1978). Michael Murphy has also functioned as a stock company player for director Robert Altman (Countdown [1968], McCabe and Mrs. Miller [1971], Nashville [1974], etc.); in 1988 Munrphy portrayed a pre-fab presidential candidate in Altman's satirical HBO miniseries Tanner.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.