Gerard Murphy
Acting Born Oct 14, 1948 Newry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, UK 24 credits
Biography
Gerard Murphy was a Northern Irish actor of film, television and theatre fame. His most famous film roles included that of The Nord in Kevin Costner's ambitious Waterworld and the corruot Judge Faden in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins. On television, he was famous for playing Richard Maynarde in the 1988 Doctor Who 25th anniversary serial Silver Nemesis and for the role of the airplane pilot in the classic Father Ted episode Flight Into Danger from 1996. He died of prostate cancer at the age of 64 in August 2013.
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Full filmography
- Play for Today (1970)
- Doctor Who (1963) as Richard Maynarde
- Heartbeat (1992) as Billy Trotter
- Minder (1979) as Kevin O'Hara
- Waking the Dead (2001) as James Alcock
- Spooks (2002) as Boris Gulyanov
- Z-Cars (1962)
- Batman Begins (2005) as Judge Faden
- The Bill (1984)
- ITV Playhouse (1967) as Gilberto
- Waterworld (1995) as Nord
- Father Ted (1995) as Pilot
- The Afternoon Play (2003) as Clarence Mitchell
- Vanity Fair (1998) as Lord Steyne
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999) as Planchet
- McCallum (1997)
- Charters and Caldicott (1985) as Insp. Snow
- My Son, My Son (1979)
- This Is the Sea (1997) as (voice)
- Sacred Hearts (1985) as Father Larkin
- Shaping Up (1980) as Colum
- Pumpgirl (2009) as Shawshank
- Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (1986) as Messenger
- Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis (1988) as Richard