Don Murphy (born 1966) is an American film producer who produced Natural Born Killers, among many other films.
Born in April 1966, Murphy grew up in Hicksville, New York, was educated at Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York, and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) from the Business School of Georgetown University, in Washington D.C. In the 1980s, during the summer, he worked as a copywriter at Diener Hauser Bate...
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Don Murphy (born 1966) is an American film producer who produced Natural Born Killers, among many other films.
Born in April 1966, Murphy grew up in Hicksville, New York, was educated at Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York, and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) from the Business School of Georgetown University, in Washington D.C. In the 1980s, during the summer, he worked as a copywriter at Diener Hauser Bates, a "now defunct" advertising company then representing "over 70% of the film studios," on ad campaigns for such films as Blow Out (1981), Under the Rainbow (1981) and Ragtime (1981).
He is married to Susan Montford, a film director, film producer, and screenwriter with whom he frequently collaborates.
Murphy founded Jane & Don Productions, Inc. with Jane Hamsher, a Stark graduate-student colleague. Their first project was optioning then-unknown Quentin Tarantino's original screenplay for Natural Born Killers and co-producing that 1994...
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