Gerard Murphy
- Acting
- October 14, 1948 · Newry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, UK
- August 26, 2013
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Lake
- Shades of Grey · Narrator
- Pumpgirl · Shawshank
- Batman Begins · Judge Faden
- The Afternoon Play · Clarence Mitchell
- Spooks · Boris Gulyanov
- Waking the Dead · James Alcock
- The Scarlet Pimpernel · Planchet
- Vanity Fair · Lord Steyne
- This Is the Sea · Voice
- McCallum
- Dalziel and Pascoe · Steven Burlow
- Tattoo · Unnamed
- Waterworld · Nord
- Father Ted · Pilot
- Heartbeat · Billy Trotter
- Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis · Richard
- The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
- Theban Plays: Oedipus the King · Messenger
- Sacred Hearts · Father Larkin
- Charters and Caldicott · Insp. Snow
- The Bill
- Shaping Up · Colum
- Facing The Sun · Gilberto
- The Best of Friends · George
- Minder · Kevin O'Hara
- My Son, My Son
- Thank You, Comrades · Sanin
- Catchpenny Twist · Roy Fletcher
- Play for Today
- ITV Playhouse · Gilberto
- Doctor Who · Richard
- Z-Cars