Michael Murphy (actor)
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| Michael Murphy | |
| Born | May 5, 1938 Los Angeles, California |
Michael George Murphy (born May 5, 1938) is an American actor.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Murphy was born in Los Angeles, California to Bearl Branton Murphy and Georgia Arlyn Money. He served in the United States Marine Corps and attended the University of California at Los Angeles.[1] After working as a high school teacher for two years, he pursued an acting career. Murphy is married to Canadian actress Wendy Crewson.
[edit] Career
Murphy played Woody Allen's friend Yale in the film Manhattan. He has worked frequently with director Robert Altman, and gave his best-known performances for Altman as political operative John Triplette in Nashville and as presidential candidate Jack Tanner in the acclaimed 1988 HBO miniseries Tanner '88. He played Mayor Hamilton Hill in Batman Returns, and sleazy journalist Pete Curtis in Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously. In 2006, he played Warren Worthington II, the father of Angel, in X-Men: The Last Stand.
He can now be seen on the Canadian series This is Wonderland, for which he won Gemini Awards in 2004 and 2005. That same year, he appeared in the film Childstar with Don McKellar. His TV credits also include Law & Order and its spinoff, Criminal Intent.
