Joe Murphy

Acting

Joe Murphy

Born — Died

1877-05-16 — 1961-07-31

Place of birth

San Jose, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

22 titles

Joseph Murphy (May 16, 1877 – July 31, 1961) was an American comic stage actor.

Known for

Film credits

1920s · 16 titles

The Man Who Laughs poster
7.3

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.

The Man Who Laughs

1928

The Cat and the Canary poster
6.9

A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.

The Cat and the Canary

1927

The Play House poster
6.9

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.

The Play House

1921

Souls for Sale poster
6.3

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

Souls for Sale

1923

Skirts poster
8.0

Clyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is a millionaire separated from his family. Clyde is endeavoring to get the old man's fortune, with the strong man of the circus scheming to beat him to it.

Skirts

1921

Open All Night poster
8.5

Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabelle Fevre (Gale Henry) suggests that Edmond go to the bicycle races and stay out all night. Then she takes Therese there and introduces her to manly Petit Mathieu, one of the racers (Maurice B. Flynn). Since he has just quarreled with his sweetheart, Lea (Jetta Goudal), he is glad to have Therese's attention and offers to run away with her after he wins the six-day race. Lea, meanwhile, is spending her time with Edmond. Therese eventually decides she doesn't care for brutes like Mathieu, and Edmond gains a temper and wins his wife back. Lea and Mathieu are reunited, while Isabelle goes back to helping her own alcoholic sweetheart, Igor (Raymond Griffith), break into the movies.

Open All Night

1924

Dynamite poster
6.0

Trouble is stirred up at a munitions factory by a Walking Delegate.

Dynamite

1920

No artwork available
3.0

A slapstick comedy starring Al St. John.

Trouble

1920

The Red Lily poster
6.2

Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.

The Red Lily

1924

Oh! What a Day! poster
6.5

In 1923, The Gumps moved up to two-reel live-action comedies, with former Keystone Cop Joe Murphy as the chinless lead, pioneering comedienne-producer Fay Tincher as Min, and Jack Morgan as the rascally Chester. In this episode, the comedy begins with the announcement of Min’s tenth anniversary gift from Uncle Bim—a “tin” flivver. Primping for a family outing in the new car, Min breaks a mirror due to her son’s shenanigans. “That’s seven more years of bad luck, Chester,” she scolds. The rest of the action—in a hotel, on the road, and at the beach—proves her right. Angelinos will take delight in the scenes filmed at Ocean Park’s Lick Pier, just months before it was destroyed by fire.

Oh! What a Day!

1923

No artwork available
5.3

Eleventh episode, third series, of The Gumps 2-reel series.

I'm the Sheriff

1927

Andy's Stump Speech poster
8.0

Andy Gump is a clueless yokel that decides that he can run for President.

Andy's Stump Speech

1924

Andy's Stump Speech poster
8.0

Andy Gump is a clueless yokel that decides that he can run for President.

Andy's Stump Speech

1924

No artwork available
9.0

Part of the Gumps 2-reel comedy series of shorts

Andy Takes a Flyer

1925

No artwork available
5.8

A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on the run, he starts working for a blacksmith, who then betrays him.

The Heart Snatcher

1920

No artwork available
9.0

The Gumps spend time at a hotel

Any Old Count

1928

1910s · 4 titles