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Richard Murphy

 
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  • Born: May 08, 1912 in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Died: 1993
  • Occupation: Writer, Director
  • Active: '40s-'50s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Western
  • Career Highlights: Compulsion, Les Miserables, The Last Angry Man
  • First Major Screen Credit: Flying Blind (1941)

Biography

Fresh out of Williams College, Richard Murphy landed a job as an editor with the Literary Digest, which promptly folded after predicting that Alf Landon would win the 1936 presidential election. After freelancing for a few years, Murphy began writing for films in 1941. Among his more prestigious assignments were his Oscar-nominated screenplays for Boomerang (1947) and The Desert Rats (1953). He turned director on two occasions, helming his own scripts for Three Stripes in the Sun (1956) and Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960). In 1967, he created the TV-cop series Felony Squad. Richard Murphy's last screenwriting credit was the made-for-TV movie The Kidnapping of the President (1980). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Richard Murphy
Born May 8, 1912(1912-05-08)
Boston, Massachusetts
Died May 19, 1993 (aged 81)
Los Angeles, California
Occupation Screenwriter, film director, film producer

Richard Murphy (May 8, 1912 - May 19, 1993) was an award winning American screenwriter, film director, and producer.

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Biography

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Murphy worked for Literary Digest in the 1930s before leaving in 1937 to work in the short film department at MGM. Murphy's first screenwriting credit was for providing the story for Back in the Saddle, a 1941 Gene Autry western.

While in the Army Air Forces during WWII, Murphy reached the rank of captain seeing action in the Pacific theater countries of New Guinea and the Philippines. Murphy returned back to the States and started working for 20th Century Fox. In 1947 he wrote the award winning film Boomerang!. He received the first of two Oscar nominations for this screenplay, with his second in 1953 for the WWII film The Desert Rats. He also directed a few films before moving into television in the 1960s when he wrote and created television series. Murphy's last screenplay was for The Kidnapping of the President in 1980.

Filmography

Writer

Director

  • Three Stripes in the Sun (1955)
  • The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)

Producer

  • The Mystery of the Chinese Junk (1967)

Awards and nominations

Year Result Award Category Film or series
1949 Nominated Writers Guild of America Award The Robert Meltzer Award (Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene) Cry of the City
1951 Nominated The Robert Meltzer Award (Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene) Panic in the Streets
Nominated Best Written American Drama Panic in the Streets
1952 Nominated Best Written American Comedy You're in the Navy Now
1960 Nominated Best Written American Drama Compulsion
1970 Won Valentine Davies Award
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1948 Nominated Academy Award Best Writing, Screenplay Boomerang!
1954 Nominated Best Writing, Story and Screenplay The Desert Rats

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