Michael Murphy
Popularity:1.177
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1938-05-05
Place of Birth:Los Angeles, California, USA
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Also Known As:Michael George Murphy, Mike Murphy

Batman Returns (1992)
Batman must face The Penguin, a sewer-dwelling gangleader intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Meanwhile, another Gotham resident finds...

M*A*S*H (1970)
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

Manhattan (1979)
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best...

The Front (1976)
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Nashville (1975)
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in...

Heights (2005)
Spanning twenty-four hours, HEIGHTS follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny before the sun comes up the next day.

Away from Her (2007)
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of...

Tricks (2004)
Laurel, Jane and Candy. We meet them as children, we know them as prostitutes and we come to understand them as women. The town is Chicago and the...

The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends...

Salvador (1986)
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing...

Kansas City (1996)
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.

What's Up, Doc? (1972)
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

The Crooked Hearts (1972)
A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts club, but her scheme boomerangs into a deadly...

Brewster McCloud (1970)
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines...

According to Greta (2009)
Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid...

Shocker (1989)
About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young...

The Art of War (2000)
Neil Shaw is both agent and weapon - a critical line of defense for the Secretary General of the United Nations. He does not even officially exist....

Countdown (1967)
Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar...

Strange Behavior (1981)
When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments...

Live from Baghdad (2002)
A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild...

Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having...

Countdown to Looking Glass (1984)
A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of...

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives...

Childstar (2004)
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.

The Wind in the Willows (2006)
Matt Lucas as a marvellous Toad, Mark Gatiss as a spiky rat, Lee Ingleby as a nervous Mole, and Bob Hoskins as a grumpy old Badger make a classy cast...

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of...

Space Men (2016)
In the 1950s and early '60s, a small band of high-altitude pioneers exposed themselves to the extreme forces of the space age long before NASA's...

An Unmarried Woman (1978)
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her...

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992)
The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.

The Trotsky (2010)
Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early...

Magnolia (1999)
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy...

That Cold Day in the Park (1969)
Frances Austen, a young, wealthy spinster, invites a mute teenager into her apartment after finding him freezing in the park next to where she lives....

Clean Slate (1994)
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the...

The Arrangement (1969)
An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.

Cloak & Dagger (1984)
Davey Osborne is an average 11-year-old boy with an overactive imagination. He spends his days playing video games and pretending to be a spy with...

H2O (2004)
When Canada's Prime Minister drowns in what appears to be a boating accident, his son takes office and is drawn into a deceptive world of power and...

The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)
The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss as Alexander Haig and Richard...

Mesmerized (1985)
An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he's a miser who spies on her.

The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

Phase IV (1974)
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

Robert E. Lee (2011)
This two-hour film examines the life and reputation of the Confederacy's pre-eminent general, whose military successes made him the scourge of the...

The Great Bank Hoax (1978)
When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the...

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond (2016)
A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and young French director Pierre Filmon. A personal journey with...

Custer's Last Stand (2012)
Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept Plains of the...

The Transcontinental Railroad (2003)
Documentary filmmakers offer a fascinating look at one of the most spectacular engineering feats of the 19th Century as the story of the...

Jesse James (2006)
He's one of America's most cherished myths... and one of its most wrong-headed. America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and...

White House Down (2013)
Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his...

Billy the Kid (2012)
A fascinating look at the myth and the man behind it, who, in just a few short years transformed himself from a skinny orphan boy to the most feared...

Hot Money (1983)
Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July,...

Footsteps (2003)
Daisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan who knows almost everything...

The Class Of Miss MacMichael (1979)
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.

Depression: Out of the Shadows (2008)
This PBS documentary explores depression, a debilitating disease that affects millions of Americans. Touching the lives of people from diverse...

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and...

Special Report: Journey to Mars (1996)
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission and...

Fall (2014)
An aging Roman Catholic Priest living contentedly at a Niagara Falls parish, receives a letter forcing his complacent life into a downward spiral.

They Came Together (2014)
A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.

Altman (2014)
Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution...

Kit Carson (2008)
An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice married Native American women, yet led a brutal war...

Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV (2024)
A brand new documentary by Elijah Drenner featuring interviews with Jeffrey Bass, co-star Michael Murphy, screenwriter Mayo Simon, archivist Sean...

The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who...

Playing House (2006)
A young, ambitious editor finds out she's pregnant just as she lands her big break.

The Forgotten Plague (2015)
Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits,...

The Rise & Fall of Penn Station (2004)
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East...

O Youth and Beauty! (1979)
Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice home and two fine children. But Cash grows...

Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano (2024)
Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sleeper hit Georgy Girl (1966), he's known largely...

Double Trouble (1967)
When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.

Mayday (2005)
Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, an errant missile strikes a state of the art passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying...

The Ultimate Lie (1996)
A spoiled young rich girl rebels against her parents by becoming a call girl. However, one night she arrives at a hotel for a "rendezvous" with a...

Private Parts (1997)
The life and career of shock-jock superstar Howard Stern is recounted from his humble beginnings to his view from the top. Possessing a desire to be...

Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story (1997)
Breaking the Surface is about the tough times Greg Louganis had on his way to becoming one of the world's top Olympic divers.

Tart (2001)
A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.

The Battle Of Chosin (2016)
An amazingly harrowing story of the 17 day engagement of bloody combat and heroic survival in subartic temperatures. UN forces largely outnumbered...

Folks! (1992)
A slightly self absorbed yuppie takes in his parents including his senile father, after their home burns down. But his personal and professional life...

Sleeping Dogs Lie (1998)
In 1919 theatre owner Ambrose Small sold his business and vanished. but who , if anyone, was responsible for his disappearance?

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988)
A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".

Edison (2015)
By the time he died in 1931, Thomas Alva Edison was one of the most famous men in the world. The holder of more patents than any other inventor in...

I Love You...Good-bye (1974)
A suburban wife begins to resent the pressures she sees society putting on her as a wife and mother, and leaves her family to find the meaning of her...

Murder of a President (2016)
The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassination.

Bad Company (1995)
CIA operative Nelson Crowe is tasked with a deadly assignment: infiltrate a highly secret industrial espionage firm. Once inside, he teams with...

Tesla (2016)
Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century. Although...

The Race Underground (2017)
Based on Doug Most's acclaimed non-fiction book of the same name, The Race Underground tells the dramatic story of how Boston overcame a litany of...

Silver City (2004)
The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor...

Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 2 - American Mecca (2005)
The continued story of the circumstances that led to the founding of what would become a huge tourist destination in the desert.

Silicon Valley (2013)
In 1957, decades before Steve Jobs dreamed up Apple or Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, a group of eight brilliant young men defected from the...

Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1 - Sin City (2005)
Traces the often surprising, endlessly entertaining history of the country's most outrageous playground. Interviews with Las Vegas insiders as well...

Dinosaur Wars (2011)
Dinosaur Wars is the story of two talented scientists, O.C. Marsh and Edward Cope, whose once professional rivalry soured into a bitter personal...

Indian Horse (2018)
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey...

Talk to Me (1984)
Richard, a successful New York accountant, has a chronic stuttering problem that causes great exhaustion and personal strife for him. After trying a...

Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (1989)
Chronicle of the shooting down of a Korean passenger plane by Soviet air force on 1st September 1983. Over 280 people died in this incident.

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)
Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan...

The Circus (2018)
Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and aficionados, this four-hour mini-series follows the...

Way Out on a Limb (2016)
Documentary with several of director Robert Altman's longtime collaborators, as they discuss making the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the style...

Indiscretion of an American Wife (1998)
An American diplomat's wife meets an Italian vintner at an embassy soirée. He sees her as more than just her "husband's hostess". Her husband...

Triangle Fire (2011)
The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killing one hundred and forty-eight young women and...

The Man Who Tried to Feed the World (2020)
The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of Norman Borlaug, a man who not only solved India's famine problem but would go on to lead a...

Wyatt Earp (2010)
Wyatt Earp has been portrayed in countless movies and television shows by some of Hollywood's greatest actors, including Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart,...

The Feud (2019)
The feud between the Hatfields and McCoys is perhaps the most famous family conflict in American history. As legend has it, two neighboring families...

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (2014)
The historical account of outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, whose turn of the last century exploits made headlines, led them to be pursued...

Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' (2000)
A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie M*A*S*H. The documentary reveals all of the chaos, politics, and conflict that was going on...

The Rules of Marriage (1982)
A seemingly perfect marriage disintegrates, as both husband and wife become involved in a series of affairs.

Truman (1995)
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his...

The Lawyer (1970)
Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just...

What’s Happened Since ‘88 (2004)
A discussion of how the world has changed since Tanner ‘88.

On the Set: Alex’s Loft (2004)
A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner.

On the Set: Loews Theater (2004)
A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner.

Panama Canal (2011)
On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower.

The Greely Expedition (2011)
From PBS and American Experience - Using scientific accounts, diaries, photographs and letters, this film reveals how poor planning, personality...

Grand Coulee Dam (2017)
During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everything about it was described in superlatives. It...

Altman on His Own Terms (2000)
A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director who shook the cinema industry...

Person of Interest (2011)
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York...

L.A. Law (1986)
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven...

Tanner '88 (1988)
In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran...

Judging Amy (1999)
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy...

This Is Wonderland (2004)
Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the...

Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was...

LAX (2004)
LAX is a television drama set at the Los Angeles International Airport and draws its name from the airport's IATA airport code, "LAX". On May 17,...

Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense...

The Path to 9/11 (2006)
Beginning with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and ending on the morning of 9/11, the draws on detailed information from the 9/11...

Family Law (1999)
Family attorney and mom Lynn Holt has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together since her husband left her and took most of their...

The Sixth Sense (1972)
The Sixth Sense is an American paranormal thriller television

Ben Casey (1961)
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a...

The Bridge (2010)
The Bridge was a Canadian police drama commissioned by CTV and CBS starring Aaron Douglas. The name of the series is derived from the bridge which...

Hard Copy (1987)
Hard-driving crime reporters at a fictional L.A. newspaper uncover scandals and expose corruption.

Tanner on Tanner (2004)
Sixteen years ago, Jack Tanner's bid for the White House ended at the 1988 Democratic convention. Now the former congressman is the subject of a...

Rogue (2013)
Grace, a morally and emotionally-conflicted undercover detective, is tormented by the possibility that her own actions contributed to her son’s...

H2O (2004)
H2O is a Canadian political drama two-part miniseries that first aired on the CBC Television October 31, 2004. It starred Paul Gross and Leslie Hope,...

American Experience (1988)
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

Tilt (2005)
Young poker players must navigate their past along with the best players in the world to win.

Law & Order (1990)
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

Bonanza (1959)
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

Baretta (1975)
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74...

American Experience (1988)
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.