Biography
Stephen Samuel Kahan (August 6, 1939 – August 4, 2019) was an American character actor, best known for playing Captain Ed Murphy in the Lethal Weapon film series. He has appeared in fourteen films directed by his cousin Richard Donner: Superman (1978), Inside Moves (1980), The Toy (1982), Lethal Weapon (1987), Scrooged (1988), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Radio Flyer (1992), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), Maverick (1994), Assassins (1995), Conspiracy Theory (1997), Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), Timeline (2003) a...
Known For
Complete Filmography

16 Blocks
2006
as Resturant Owner
An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse, but they find themselves running t...

Timeline
2003
as Baker
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century F...

Out Cold
2001
as Powder Room Bartender
Rick Rambis and his friends are having the time of their lives on Bull Mountain—until the legendary Papa Muntz' son decides to sell the mountain to a ...

Lethal Weapon 4
1998
as Captain Murphy
With personal crises and age weighing in on them, Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads trying to free their former leaders from ...

Conspiracy Theory
1997
as Mr. Wilson
A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he h...

Assassins
1995
as Alan Branch
Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly resul...

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
1995
as Captain Nilson
Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from ...

Maverick
1994
as Dealer
Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game b...

The Favor
1994
as Helpful Fisherman
On the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend Emily to seduce an old flame Tom, so she can get all the...

Demolition Man
1993
as Captain Healy
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a res...

Warlock: The Armageddon
1993
as Will Travis
Every six hundred years, a great evil has the opportunity to escape and unleash Armageddon. A group of five stones has the power to either free the ev...

Lethal Weapon 3
1992
as Captain Murphy
Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition t...

Dead On: Relentless II
1992
as Ibsen
Detective Sam Dietz is paired with a shady FBI agent to track down another serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles.

Radio Flyer
1992
as Coffee Shop Manager
A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. W...

Predator 2
1990
as Sergeant
A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next ...

Lethal Weapon 2
1989
as Captain Murphy
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Scrooged
1988
as Technician
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after fi...

Police Story: The Freeway Killings
1987
as Paulis
Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers.

Destination: America
1987
as Bambeck
A patrician family's estranged, black-sheep son forsakes his blue-collar life to return home and soon finds himself wrongly accused of his father's mu...

Lethal Weapon
1987
as Captain Ed Murphy
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.

The Last Fling
1987
as Amigo de Jason
A young woman decides to have one more romantic escapade before marrying her dull fiancé.

The Toy
1982
as State Trooper
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eri...

Inside Moves
1980
as Burt
After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. Wh...

Superman
1978
as Officer 1
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the ne...