Michael Murphy
Birthday: 1938-05-05
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography: Michael Murphy (born May 5, 1938) is an American film and television actor.
Movies
Batman Returns
The monstrous Penguin, who dwells in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins up with corrupt mayoral candid...
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M*A*S*H
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of t...
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Manhattan
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further ...
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The Front
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice ...
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Nashville
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitr...
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Heights
Spanning twenty-four hours, HEIGHTS follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny befo...
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Away from Her
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absen...
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Tricks
Laurel, Jane and Candy. We meet them as children, we know them as prostitutes and we come to underst...
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The Year of Living Dangerously
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of ...
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Salvador
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the le...
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Kansas City
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable working...
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What's Up, Doc?
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild ...
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The Crooked Hearts
A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts cl...
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Brewster McCloud
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He ...
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According to Greta
Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive te...
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Shocker
About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms i...
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The Art of War
Neil Shaw is both agent and weapon - a critical line of defense for the Secretary General of the Uni...
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Countdown
Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a...
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Strange Behavior
When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connect...
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Live from Baghdad
A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting...
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Count Yorga, Vampire
Posing as a hip medium, a bloodthirsty old-world undead gent attracts young lovelies to his mansion ...
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Countdown to Looking Glass
A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, ...
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until ...
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Childstar
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious s...
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The Wind in the Willows
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved To...
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X-Men: The Last Stand
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles ...
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Space Men
In the 1950s and early '60s, a small band of high-altitude pioneers exposed themselves to the extrem...
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An Unmarried Woman
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sex...
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Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil...
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The Trotsky
Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his pee...
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Magnolia
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famo...
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That Cold Day in the Park
Frances Austen, a young, wealthy spinster, invites a mute teenager into her apartment after finding ...
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Clean Slate
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking ...
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The Arrangement
An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown....
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Cloak & Dagger
Davey Osborne is an average 11-year-old boy with an overactive imagination. He spends his days playi...
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H2O
When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes office a...
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The Day Reagan Was Shot
The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film sta...
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Mesmerized
An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he's a miser who spies on her....
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biogra...
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Phase IV
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman....
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Robert E. Lee
This two-hour film examines the life and reputation of the Confederacy's pre-eminent general, whose ...
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The Great Bank Hoax
When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been e...
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Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and young French...
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Custer's Last Stand
Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, ...
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The Transcontinental Railroad
Documentary filmmakers offer a fascinating look at one of the most spectacular engineering feats of ...
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Jesse James
He's one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. America's Robin Hood...
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White House Down
Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service protecting Pr...
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Billy the Kid
A fascinating look at the myth and the man behind it, who, in just a few short years transformed him...
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Hot Money
Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small t...
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Footsteps
Daisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house wi...
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative schoo...
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Depression: Out of the Shadows
This PBS documentary explores depression, a debilitating disease that affects millions of Americans....
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is th...
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Special Report: Journey to Mars
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV network GNN begins its live cov...
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Fall
An aging Roman Catholic Priest living contentedly at a Niagara Falls parish, receives a letter forci...
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They Came Together
A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development....
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Altman
Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema lef...
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Kit Carson
An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice mar...
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Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV
A brand new documentary by Elijah Drenner featuring interviews with Jeffrey Bass, co-star Michael Mu...
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The Thief Who Came to Dinner
A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance inves...
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Playing House
A young, ambitious editor finds out she's pregnant just as she lands her big break....
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The Forgotten Plague
Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost...
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The Rise & Fall of Penn Station
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...
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O Youth and Beauty!
Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice ho...
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Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sle...
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Double Trouble
When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel...
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Mayday
Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, an errant missile strikes a state of the art passenger jet. Th...
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The Ultimate Lie
A spoiled young rich girl rebels against her parents by becoming a call girl. However, one night she...
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Private Parts
The life and career of shock-jock superstar Howard Stern is recounted from his humble beginnings to ...
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Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story
Breaking the Surface is about the tough times Greg Louganis had on his way to becoming one of the wo...
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Tart
A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in N...
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The Battle Of Chosin
An amazingly harrowing story of the 17 day engagement of bloody combat and heroic survival in subart...
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Folks!
A slightly self absorbed yuppie takes in his parents including his senile father, after their home b...
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Sleeping Dogs Lie
In 1919 theatre owner Ambrose Small sold his business and vanished. but who , if anyone, was respons...
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "...
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Edison
By the time he died in 1931, Thomas Alva Edison was one of the most famous men in the world. The hol...
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I Love You...Good-bye
A suburban wife begins to resent the pressures she sees society putting on her as a wife and mother,...
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Murder of a President
The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassina...
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Bad Company
CIA operative Nelson Crowe is tasked with a deadly assignment: infiltrate a highly secret industrial...
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Tesla
Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the ele...
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The Race Underground
Based on Doug Most's acclaimed non-fiction book of the same name, The Race Underground tells the dra...
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Silver City
The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a b...
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Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 2 - American Mecca
The continued story of the circumstances that led to the founding of what would become a huge touris...
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Silicon Valley
In 1957, decades before Steve Jobs dreamed up Apple or Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, a group of ...
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Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1 - Sin City
Traces the often surprising, endlessly entertaining history of the country's most outrageous playgro...
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Dinosaur Wars
Dinosaur Wars is the story of two talented scientists, O.C. Marsh and Edward Cope, whose once profes...
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Indian Horse
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amo...
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Talk to Me
Richard, a successful New York accountant, has a chronic stuttering problem that causes great exhaus...
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Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy
Chronicle of the shooting down of a Korean passenger plane by Soviet air force on 1st September 1983...
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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of Ame...
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The Circus
Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and afi...
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Way Out on a Limb
Documentary with several of director Robert Altman's longtime collaborators, as they discuss making ...
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Indiscretion of an American Wife
An American diplomat's wife meets an Italian vintner at an embassy soirée. He sees her as more than ...
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Triangle Fire
The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...
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The Man Who Tried to Feed the World
The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of Norman Borlaug, a man who not only solved ...
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Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp has been portrayed in countless movies and television shows by some of Hollywood's greate...
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The Feud
The feud between the Hatfields and McCoys is perhaps the most famous family conflict in American his...
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The historical account of outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, whose turn of the last century...
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Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie M*A*S*H. The documentary reveals all of the chao...
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The Rules of Marriage
A seemingly perfect marriage disintegrates, as both husband and wife become involved in a series of ...
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Truman
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from sm...
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The Lawyer
Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroile...
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist ar...
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On the Set: Alex’s Loft
A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner....
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On the Set: Loews Theater
A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner....
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Panama Canal
On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signali...
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The Greely Expedition
From PBS and American Experience - Using scientific accounts, diaries, photographs and letters, this...
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Grand Coulee Dam
During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everyth...
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Altman on His Own Terms
A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. T...
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Angle of Attack
100-years of naval aviation, from wobbly gliders and the first shipboard landing in 1911 to modern s...
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