Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy

1938-05-05 Los Angeles, California, USA 110 Credits

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Michael Murphy is an American film and television actor.

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Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano

Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano

2024

as Himself

Acting

Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sleeper hit Georgy Girl (1966), he's known largely as...

Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV

Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV

2024

as Self

Acting

A brand new documentary by Elijah Drenner featuring interviews with Jeffrey Bass, co-star Michael Murphy, screenwriter Mayo Simon, archivist Sean Sava...

The Man Who Tried to Feed the World

The Man Who Tried to Feed the World

2020

as narrator

Acting

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 "...

The Feud

The Feud

2019

as Narrator

Acting

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

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

2019

as The Politician

7.1
Acting

Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan perfo...

The Circus

The Circus

2018

as Narrator

6.0
Acting

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

Indian Horse

Indian Horse

2018

as Father Quinney

7.0
Acting

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 pl...

Grand Coulee Dam

Grand Coulee Dam

2017

as Narrator

6.0
Acting

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

The Race Underground

The Race Underground

2017

as Narrator

7.7
Acting

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 cha...

The Battle Of Chosin

The Battle Of Chosin

2016

as Narrator

7.2
Acting

An amazingly harrowing story of the 17 day engagement of bloody combat and heroic survival in subartic temperatures. UN forces largely outnumbered and...

Tesla

Tesla

2016

as Narrator (voice)

7.1
Acting

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

Way Out on a Limb

Way Out on a Limb

2016

as Self

Acting

Documentary with several of director Robert Altman's longtime collaborators, as they discuss making the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the style an...

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

2016

as Self

6.9
Acting

A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and young French director Pierre Filmon. A personal journey with t...

Space Men

Space Men

2016

as Narrator

Acting

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 accla...

Murder of a President

Murder of a President

2016

as Narrator

7.6
Acting

The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassination.

The Forgotten Plague

The Forgotten Plague

2015

as Himself - Narrator (voice)

6.5
Acting

Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits, ...

Edison

Edison

2015

as Narrator (voice)

7.2
Acting

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 his...

Fall

Fall

2014

as Father Sam Ryan

1.0
Acting

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

Altman

Altman

2014

as Self

6.5
Acting

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

They Came Together

They Came Together

2014

as Roger

5.6
Acting

A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

2014

as Narrator

7.7
Acting

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 b...

White House Down

White House Down

2013

as Vice President Alvin Hammond

6.5
Acting

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 ...

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

2013

as Narrator

Acting

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

Custer's Last Stand

Custer's Last Stand

2012

as Narrator (voice)

7.0
Acting

Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept Plains of the West...

Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid

2012

as Narrator

8.0
Acting

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 m...

Triangle Fire

Triangle Fire

2011

as narrator

7.0
Acting

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 fo...

The Greely Expedition

The Greely Expedition

2011

as Narrator

Acting

From PBS and American Experience - Using scientific accounts, diaries, photographs and letters, this film reveals how poor planning, personality clash...

Panama Canal

Panama Canal

2011

as Narrator

Acting

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

Dinosaur Wars

Dinosaur Wars

2011

as Narrator

6.0
Acting

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

Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee

2011

as Narrator

Acting

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 Uni...

The Trotsky

The Trotsky

2010

as Frank McGovern

6.7
Acting

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 20th...

Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp

2010

as Narrator

8.2
Acting

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

According to Greta

According to Greta

2009

as Joseph

6.1
Acting

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

Depression: Out of the Shadows

Depression: Out of the Shadows

2008

as Himself - Narrator

6.5
Acting

This PBS documentary explores depression, a debilitating disease that affects millions of Americans. Touching the lives of people from diverse backgro...

Kit Carson

Kit Carson

2008

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Acting

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 a...

Away from Her

Away from Her

2007

as Aubrey

7.0
Acting

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 Alzheimer’s disease. ...

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

2006

as Judge

5.8
Acting

Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, ...

X-Men: The Last Stand

X-Men: The Last Stand

2006

as Warren Worthington II

6.4
Acting

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 powerful mut...

Playing House

Playing House

2006

as Hubbard

6.1
Acting

A young, ambitious editor finds out she's pregnant just as she lands her big break.

Jesse James

2006

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

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 def...

Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 2 - American Mecca

Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 2 - American Mecca

2005

as Narrator

7.0
Acting

The continued story of the circumstances that led to the founding of what would become a huge tourist destination in the desert.

Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1 - Sin City

Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1 - Sin City

2005

as Narrator

7.0
Acting

Traces the often surprising, endlessly entertaining history of the country's most outrageous playground. Interviews with Las Vegas insiders as well as...

Mayday

Mayday

2005

as Captain Randall Williams

4.5
Acting

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 bo...

Heights

Heights

2005

as Jesse

6.6
Acting

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

What’s Happened Since ‘88

2004

as Self

Acting

A discussion of how the world has changed since Tanner ‘88.

On the Set: Alex’s Loft

2004

as Self

Acting

A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner.

On the Set: Loews Theater

2004

as Self

Acting

A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner.

H2O

H2O

2004

as U.S. Ambassador Conrad

4.7
Acting

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 co...

Silver City

Silver City

2004

as Senator Judson Pilager

6.1
Acting

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

Childstar

Childstar

2004

as Reed Harrison

4.9
Acting

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

Tricks

2004

as Arthur

Acting

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 gir...

The Rise & Fall of Penn Station

The Rise & Fall of Penn Station

2004

as Narrator

9.5
Acting

In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East R...

Footsteps

Footsteps

2003

as Robbie

5.6
Acting

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 a...

The Transcontinental Railroad

2003

as Narrator (voice)

5.0
Acting

Documentary filmmakers offer a fascinating look at one of the most spectacular engineering feats of the 19th Century as the story of the Transcontinen...

Live from Baghdad

Live from Baghdad

2002

as Tom Johnson

6.7
Acting

A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winni...

The Day Reagan Was Shot

The Day Reagan Was Shot

2001

as Michael Deaver

6.4
Acting

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 ...

Tart

Tart

2001

as Mike Storm

4.3
Acting

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

The Art of War

The Art of War

2000

as Politician (uncredited)

5.7
Acting

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. As...

Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'

2000

as Self

6.0
Acting

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 behind...

Altman on His Own Terms

Altman on His Own Terms

2000

as Self

Acting

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 w...

Magnolia

Magnolia

1999

as Alan Kligman, Esq.

7.7
Acting

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 geniu...

Indiscretion of an American Wife

Indiscretion of an American Wife

1998

as Russell Burton

Acting

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 has been...

Sleeping Dogs Lie

Sleeping Dogs Lie

1998

as Edgar Trott

5.0
Acting

In 1919 theatre owner Ambrose Small sold his business and vanished. but who , if anyone, was responsible for his disappearance?

Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story

Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story

1997

as Pete Louganis

5.6
Acting

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

Private Parts

Private Parts

1997

as Roger Erlick

6.5
Acting

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 a...

Kansas City

Kansas City

1996

as Henry Stilton

6.2
Acting

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

Special Report: Journey to Mars

Special Report: Journey to Mars

1996

as Dean Rumplemeyer

5.0
Acting

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 the...

The Ultimate Lie

The Ultimate Lie

1996

as Malcolm McGrath

5.7
Acting

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 clie...

Truman

Truman

1995

as Dinner Speaker (uncredited)

7.6
Acting

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 decision...

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995

as Self

8.1
Acting

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 write...

Bad Company

Bad Company

1995

as William V. 'Smitty' Smithfield (uncredited)

4.8
Acting

CIA operative Nelson Crowe is tasked with a deadly assignment: infiltrate a highly secret industrial espionage firm. Once inside, he teams with Margar...

Clean Slate

Clean Slate

1994

as Dr. Doover

5.8
Acting

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 middle...

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

1992

as Bill Reilly - Presidential Delegation

5.2
Acting

The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.

Batman Returns

Batman Returns

1992

as Mayor

6.9
Acting

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

Folks!

Folks!

1992

as Ed

5.5
Acting

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

Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy

Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy

1989

as Richard Burt

5.7
Acting

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.

Shocker

Shocker

1989

as Lt. Don Parker

5.6
Acting

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

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

1988

as Captain Blakely

6.5
Acting

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

Salvador

Salvador

1986

as Ambassador Thomas Kelly

7.0
Acting

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

Mesmerized

Mesmerized

1985

as Wilson

4.8
Acting

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

Countdown to Looking Glass

Countdown to Looking Glass

1984

as Bob Calhoun

5.9
Acting

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 ...

Cloak & Dagger

Cloak & Dagger

1984

as Rice

6.4
Acting

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 his...

Talk to Me

Talk to Me

1984

as Ross

Acting

Richard, a successful New York accountant, has a chronic stuttering problem that causes great exhaustion and personal strife for him. After trying a n...

Hot Money

Hot Money

1983

as Burt / Tom

2.0
Acting

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, while...

The Year of Living Dangerously

The Year of Living Dangerously

1982

as Pete Curtis

6.6
Acting

Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Au...

The Rules of Marriage

The Rules of Marriage

1982

as Alan Murray

1.0
Acting

A seemingly perfect marriage disintegrates, as both husband and wife become involved in a series of affairs.

Strange Behavior

Strange Behavior

1981

as John Brady

5.4
Acting

When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being...

O Youth and Beauty!

O Youth and Beauty!

1979

as Cash Bentley

10.0
Acting

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 increasin...

Manhattan

Manhattan

1979

as Yale

7.7
Acting

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 fr...

The Class Of Miss MacMichael

The Class Of Miss MacMichael

1979

as Martin

5.8
Acting

A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.

The Great Bank Hoax

The Great Bank Hoax

1978

as Reverend Everett Manigma

4.2
Acting

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 ba...

An Unmarried Woman

An Unmarried Woman

1978

as Martin Benton

6.7
Acting

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 fo...

The Front

The Front

1976

as Alfred Miller

7.0
Acting

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

Nashville

1975

as John Triplette

7.2
Acting

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

Phase IV

Phase IV

1974

as James R. Lesko

6.3
Acting

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

I Love You...Good-bye

I Love You...Good-bye

1974

as Alec Shield

Acting

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 ...

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

1974

as Quentin Lerner

6.6
Acting

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turn...

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

1973

as Ted

6.9
Acting

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 beco...

The Crooked Hearts

The Crooked Hearts

1972

as Frank Adamic

7.8
Acting

A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts club, but her scheme boomerangs into a deadly cat-an...

What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Doc?

1972

as Mr. Smith

7.4
Acting

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

1971

as Eugene Sears

7.2
Acting

A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

Brewster McCloud

Brewster McCloud

1970

as Shaft

6.4
Acting

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 of...

Count Yorga, Vampire

Count Yorga, Vampire

1970

as Paul

5.6
Acting

Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly b...

The Lawyer

The Lawyer

1970

as Intern in Legal Office (uncredited)

5.6
Acting

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

M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H

1970

as 'Me Lai' Marston

7.0
Acting

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

The Arrangement

The Arrangement

1969

as Father Draddy

6.7
Acting

An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.

That Cold Day in the Park

That Cold Day in the Park

1969

as The Rounder

6.7
Acting

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. ...

The Legend of Lylah Clare

The Legend of Lylah Clare

1968

as Mark Peter Sheean

5.9
Acting

A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

Countdown

Countdown

1967

as Rick

5.8
Acting

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 she...

Double Trouble

Double Trouble

1967

as Morley

5.0
Acting

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