Christopher Murney

Acting

Christopher Murney

Born 1943-07-20 · Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA

Christopher Murney (born July 20, 1943) is an American actor and vocal artist. Murney has worked on the stage, in television series, and in movies. On television, he is perhaps best known for his role as radio actor Mackie Bloom in Remember WENN (1996 - 1998). Murney has appeared in several films including Slap Shot (1977), The Last Dragon (1985), Maximum Overdrive (1986), The Secret of My Success (1987), and Barton Fink (1991). Murney has also performed extensive voice acting, including as Chester Cheetah for Cheetos (2006) and in popular video games such as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006) and Red Dead Redemption (2010). He is the father of singer and actress Julia Murney and actor Patrick Murney.

Acting credits

The Secret of My Success poster
6.5

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York City, but once there, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When he visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the mail room.

The Secret of My Success

1987

Maximum Overdrive poster
5.8

When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of murderous 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines…Or be killed by them.

Maximum Overdrive

1986

Barton Fink poster
7.5

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Barton Fink

1991

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three poster
7.5

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers while the authorities question about the method of their escape.

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

1974

The Last Dragon poster
6.5

A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.

The Last Dragon

1985

Slap Shot poster
6.8

To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.

Slap Shot

1977

Last Exit to Brooklyn poster
6.5

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.

Last Exit to Brooklyn

1989

Grace Quigley poster
5.9

Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she's being evicted, she witnesses a murder being committed by a top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She proposes to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends she wants him to get rid of first.

Grace Quigley

1985

Chicago 10 poster
5.8

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Chicago 10

2008

The San Pedro Bums poster
7.0

Pilot for the short-lived TV series centers on five rough-and-tumble guys living on a leaky boat where they try to collar a gang of waterfront toughs after a robbery of which their buddy was the victim.

The San Pedro Bums

1977

Where are the Children? poster
6.4

In Cape Cod, Missy and Michael, the two children of Nancy Eldridge, are kidnapped by a man who has disturbing intentions for them. Local police chief Ed Coffin wrongfully suspects that Nancy is behind the disappearances.

Where are the Children?

1986

Way Off Broadway poster
4.6

Way Off Broadway is the story of five friends who, frustrated by the abrupt juxtaposition of being successful artists on the university level to poor struggling artists in New York City, take a crash course in life as they explore the dynamic of conflict in friendship involving sex, love, failure and betrayal.

Way Off Broadway

2001

Murder by the Book poster
6.2

Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation, hard-boiled private eye Biff Deegan, constantly appears to him as a hallucination. Intent on getting rid of Biff, and replacing him with a more civilized detective, Mercer soon finds himself in a genuine mystery involving art fraud, murder, and a beautiful lady in peril.

Murder by the Book

1987

Cafe Society poster
4.9

New York 1952. Mickey Jelke inherits a big sum of money and spends his nights in Manhattan, painting the city red. Night after night, he can be found in one Broadway bar or the other, in the company of disreputable persons like pimps and prostitutes. One day,a shady cop, aided by Mickey's own girlfriend, Patricia, decides to accuse him of running a prostitution network. A scandal breaks out.

Cafe Society

1997

Kent State poster
6.0

Dramatization of the four days of events leading up to the historic tragedy at Kent State University in May 1970, during the confrontation between National Guardsmen and students staging antiwar demonstrations.

Kent State

1981

The Country Girl poster
10.0

Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interfere.

The Country Girl

1974

You Can't Go Home Again poster
3.0

An adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's literary classic, telling of the struggles of a young writer determined to be a success in New York's literary world of the 1920s, his married lover, and the brilliant editor who sees him as a blossoming genius. The story parallels the life of Wolfe himself and his affair with stage designer Aline Bernstein.

You Can't Go Home Again

1979

Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number poster
10.0

An Argentinian newspaper publisher is imprisoned by his government for dissent.

Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

1983

Found Money poster
9.0

Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders.

Found Money

1983

No artwork available
6.4

Jimmy Burke and his friends steal 10 million from the Lufthansa office in New York. The FBI has no idea who the thieves are until Burke girlfriend gives them a hint. When word leaks out a Mafia boss puts a killer on the gang's trail.

The 10 Million Dollar Getaway

1991

The One and Only Phyllis Dixey poster
NR

Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper.

The One and Only Phyllis Dixey

1978

The Passing Season poster
7.0

When his hockey career comes to a sudden end, Sam returns to his hometown and tries to escape into an earlier, simpler time in his life.

The Passing Season

2016

The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine poster
8.7

Robert McCall is forced to work with a former terrorist turned monk by the name of Joseph Heiden(Telly Savalas), whom he despises and mistrusts, on a deadly mission in New York.

The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine

1987

The Charmkins poster
8.0

The Charmkins is a television film based on an early 1980s toyline by Hasbro, which was broadcast on October 25, 1983.

The Charmkins

1983