Joe Murphy
Acting
Biography
Joseph Murphy (May 16, 1877 – July 31, 1961) was an American comic stage actor.
Born: May 16, 1877
Place of Birth: San Jose, California, USA
Known For
Andy's Stump Speech
Andy Gump is a clueless yokel that decides that he can run for President.
Andy's Stump Speech
Andy Gump is a clueless yokel that decides that he can run for President.
The Man Who Laughs
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 Dumb Girl of Portici
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
Open All Night
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.
The Cat and the Canary
Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.
The Play House
Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.
Souls for Sale
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
The Red Lily
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.
Dynamite
Trouble is stirred up at a munitions factory by a Walking Delegate.
Filmography
as Self
as Tall Union Soldier
as Hardquanones Messenger (uncredited)
as Milkman (uncredited)
as Min Gump
as Andy Gump
as Bicycle Race Spectator
as Wagon driver
as Andy Gump
as Motorist (uncredited)
as One of the Zouaves (uncredited)
as Leader of Forty Bandits (uncredited)
as Footman on Vehicle (uncredited)
as Man in Crowd at madman Masaniello Gathering