Biography
Charles Quinton 'Charlie' Murphy (July 12, 1959 - April 12, 2017) was an American actor, comedian, and writer famous for being a cast member and writer on the Comedy Central sketch-comedy series Chappelle's Show. He is also known for his work with his younger brother, actor/comedian Eddie Murphy. He died from leukemia on April 12, 2017, aged 57 in Brooklyn.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Meet the Blacks
2016
as Key Flo
As Carl Black gets the opportunity to move his family out of Chicago in hope of a better life, their arrival in Beverly Hills is timed with that city'...

Eddie Murphy: One Night Only
2012
as Self
Eddie Murphy: One Night Only pays homage to Murphy's journey from a 15-year-old aspiring comedian, through the record-breaking Raw, which remains the ...

The Cookout 2
2011
as Coach Ashmokeem
Basketball coach Ashmokeem kidnaps and blackmails the opposite team's player and his family in order to secure the championship for his team.

Lottery Ticket
2010
as Semaj
Kevin Carson is a young man living in the projects who has to survive a three-day weekend after his opportunistic neighbors find out he's holding a wi...

Our Family Wedding
2010
as T.J.
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.

Freaknik: The Musical
2010
as (voice)
A rap group heads to Atlanta to participate in Atlanta's revived Freaknik festival.

Charlie Murphy: I Will Not Apologize
2010
as Himself
Charlie Murphy: I Will Not Apologize is a live stand-up performance by Murphy in Boston. During his 1-hour set, Charlie covers a spectrum of topics, s...

Charlie Murphy: I Will Not Apologize
2010
Writer
Charlie Murphy: I Will Not Apologize is a live stand-up performance by Murphy in Boston. During his 1-hour set, Charlie covers a spectrum of topics, s...

Frankenhood
2009
as Franklin
Two guys who work at a morgue enlist the services of a reanimated corpse to better their chances at a streetball tournament.

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
2009
as Self
Directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell offer this comprehensive and hilarious examination of the history, evolution and cultural significance of ...

The Hustle
2008
as Junior Walker
Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run...

Bar Starz
2008
as Clay the Doorman / Arnie
Straight-arrow Barry has moved 3000 miles away from lackluster Ohio to attend college in sunny SoCal, and his friend Douglas has come along for the ri...

Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe
2007
as Griss
Mattie endures an uneventful life, until her grandfather leaves a videotaped will. According to his unorthodox theory, death is no barrier to their re...

The Perfect Holiday
2007
as J-Jizzy
Nancy Taylor, a divorced mother of three, feels especially lonely during the holidays. All she wants for Christmas is to meet a nice man - even just a...
Twisted Fortune
2007
as Angel Robbins
A down-and-out thief finds he's got a bottle cap worth a million bucks. Unfortunately, he discovers this while robbing a convenience store.

Unearthed
2007
as Hank
In the desert area of Hat Creek, cows are found partially devoured and the farmers believe that a wolf is attacking the cattle. The alcoholic Sheriff ...

Norbit
2007
as Floyd the Dog (voice)
A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.

Pauly Shore's Natural Born Komics: Miami
2007
as Self
Pauly Shore with his comics and celebrity friends in South Beach like you've never seen before. Hidden camera, parody, man on the street, stand-up and...

Norbit
2007
Story, Screenplay
A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.

Universal Remote
2007
as Various
Charlie Murphy takes the lead for this comedy concerning two best friends sent hurtling through a politically-incorrect television landscape thanks to...

Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-roc's Street
2006
as Big Kid (voice)
D-Roc, Dee-Dee, DJ, Money, Lissette, Slim, Chad, Gwenny, and Soo Young are working together to find a way to bring the true meaning of Christmas home ...

Night at the Museum
2006
as Taxi Driver
Chaos reigns at the natural history museum when night watchman Larry Daley accidentally stirs up an ancient curse, awakening Attila the Hun, an army o...

Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness
2006
as Big Kid (voice)
When D-Roc sees a pair of expensive sneakers called Air Jareds, he wants his mother to buy them to wear at school in order to look cool. His mother pu...

Merry F#%$in' Christmas
2005
as Self
Denis Leary and a cast of many others celebrate Christmas Leary-style. Packed with original music and skits, this is a great spin on the usual holiday...

Roll Bounce
2005
as Victor
In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to vis...

King's Ransom
2005
as Herb Clarke
Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other p...

Lovesick
2005
as Damian (as Charles Q. Murphy)
Faced with the pressures of family, tradition, and culture, a Cambodian woman is forced into a marriage to a man she doesn't know. Love has it own pla...

Death of a Dynasty
2003
as Dick James / Dukey Man / Sock Head
A story which centers around Dave Katz, a journalist at a hip-hop magazine who is sent on assignment to uncover the often comedic underworld of Roc-a-...

Paper Soldiers
2002
as Detective Johnson
Paper Soldiers follows an overeager burglar named Shawn through the ups and downs of his short, stressful career.

Paper Soldiers
2002
Writer
Paper Soldiers follows an overeager burglar named Shawn through the ups and downs of his short, stressful career.

The Players Club
1998
as Brooklyn
Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, D...

The Pompatus of Love
1996
as Saxophone Man
Four guys sit around drinking beer and talking, trying to figure out the meaning of "the pompatus of love" (from the Steve Miller song "Joker") and an...

Vampire in Brooklyn
1995
Screenplay, Story
Detective Rita Veder is assigned to a baffling serial murder case. After examining the crime scene — a corpse-filled ship found adrift at sea — she me...

Murder Was the Case: The Movie
1995
as Self
Follows the exploits of Snoop Doggy Dogg as he gets shot, and makes a deal with the devil to survive.

CB4
1993
as Gusto
A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these th...

Jungle Fever
1991
as Livin' Large
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference wo...

The Kid Who Loved Christmas
1990
as Jamal
In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and his...

Mo' Better Blues
1990
as Eggy
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he ...

Harlem Nights
1989
as Jimmy
'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of...

Beverly Hills Cop II
1987
Producer's Assistant
Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of police Captain Andrew Bogomil. With the help of Sg...

The Landlord
1970
as Hubcap Thief (uncredited)
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope sec...