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Michael Murphy
Michael George Murphy (born May 5, 1938) is an American film and television actor.
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...
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Manhattan
Manhattan is a 1979 romantic comedy film about Isaac Davis (Woody Allen), a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer dating a 17-year-old high school girl (Mariel Hemingway). Isaac eventually falls in love with his best friend's mistress (Diane...
Private Parts
Private Parts is a 1997 biographical film directed by Betty Thomas from a script written by Len Blum and Michael Kalesniko. Produced by Ivan Reitman and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is adapted from the 1993 best-selling autobiography...
Tanner on Tanner
Tanner on Tanner is a 2004 comedy and the sequel series to the 1988 Robert Altman directed and Garry Trudeau written miniseries about a failed presidential candidate, Tanner '88. The sequel focuses mostly on Alex Tanner (Cynthia Nixon), a struggling...
The Front
The Front (1976), written by Walter Bernstein, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Woody Allen and Zero Mostel, is a film about the blacklist during the age of live television. Because of the blacklist, a number of artists, writers, directors and...
Count Yorga, Vampire
Count Yorga, Vampire is a 1970 vampire/horror movie starring Robert Quarry. It was followed by a sequel, The Return of Count Yorga.
The movie opens with narration by character actor George MacReady (whose son Michael produced the film) about the...
Phase IV
Phase IV is an American science fiction film, made in 1974. It is the only feature-length film directed by the noted title designer Saul Bass. It starred Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick and Helen Horton (who would later provide the...
The Year of Living Dangerously
The Year of Living Dangerously is a 1982 Peter Weir film adapted from the novel of the same name by its author Christopher Koch, Weir, and David Williamson. The story is about a love affair set in Indonesia during the overthrow of President Sukarno....
Away From Her
Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian film which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and also played in the Premier category at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The feature-length directorial debut of Canadian actress Sarah Polley, the...
Batman Returns
Batman Returns (1992) is an American superhero film directed by Tim Burton. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, it is the sequel to Burton's Batman (1989), and features Michael Keaton reprising the title role, with Danny DeVito as the Penguin...
Childstar
Childstar is a 2004 comedy film directed and written (with the help of Michael Goldbach) by Don McKellar. It was screened at several film festivals between September 2004 and July 2005.
Taylor Brandon Burns (Mark Rendall), a conflicted twelve-year...
Nashville
Nashville is a 1975 American musical film directed by Robert Altman. A winner of many awards, selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, Nashville is generally considered to be one of Altman's best films.
The film takes a...
X-Men: The Last Stand
X-Men: The Last Stand is a 2006 superhero film and the third in the X-Men series. It is directed by Brett Ratner, who took over when Bryan Singer dropped out to direct Superman Returns. The movie revolves around a "mutant cure" that causes serious...
Clean Slate
Clean Slate is a 1994 American comedy film, directed by Mick Jackson. The film stars Dana Carvey as a private investigator who is the key witness in a murder case. After suffering a head injury however, he has developed a rare form of amnesia that...
Greta
According to Greta is an independent drama film starring Hilary Duff, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Murphy, Evan Ross, and Melissa Leo. Set in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and directed by Nancy Bardawil, making her feature film directing debut.
Greta (Duff) is...
Shocker
Shocker (aka Wes Craven's Shocker) is a 1989 horror film written and directed by Wes Craven. The relatively low-budget film has since become a cult classic. It starred Mitch Pileggi as the antagonist Horace Pinker. This role gained Mitch fame as...
Strange Behavior
Strange Behavior was a 1981 horror spoof directed by Michael Laughlin and written by Bill Condon, poking fun at pulp horror films of the 1950s. The original release was titled "Dead Kids". The film was intended to be the first installment of the...
An Unmarried Woman
An Unmarried Woman is a 1978 American drama film that tells the story of the wealthy New York wife Erica (Jill Clayburgh) whose “perfect” life is shattered when her stockbroker husband Martin (Michael Murphy) leaves her for a younger woman. The film...
Salvador
Salvador is a 1986 film which tells the story of an American journalist in El Salvador covering the Salvadoran civil war. While trying to get footage, he becomes entangled with both leftist guerrillas and the right wing military. It stars James...
Cloak & Dagger
Cloak & Dagger is a 1984 film directed by Richard Franklin starring Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman. It is a remake of the 1949 film The Window.
Thomas plays Davey Osborne, an 11-year-old who lives in San Antonio with his father Hal Osborne, played...
Brewster McCloud
Brewster McCloud is a 1970 movie directed by Robert Altman; it centers on a young recluse who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome building a pair of wings so he will be able to fly.
This was an early film to be shot on location in...
