Cause of death Prostate cancer Role Film actor Name Gerard Murphy | Years active 1972 – 2013 Occupation Actor | |
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Full Name Eamon Gerard Murphy Born 14 October 1948 ( 1948-10-14 ) Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK Died August 26, 2013, Cambridge Education Queen's University Belfast Movies and TV shows Batman Begins, Waterworld, The Brink's Job, McCallum, The Comedian Similar People Kevin Reynolds, Dean Semler, William Friedkin, Kevin Costner, Christopher Nolan | ||
Eamon Gerard Murphy (14 October 1948 – 26 August 2013) was a Northern Irish film, television and theatre actor.
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Life and career
Born in 1948 in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, Murphy began his career on stage with the Glasgow Citizens Theatre. He branched out into television work with roles in Z-Cars, Doctor Who, Minder, Heartbeat, Father Ted, Dalziel and Pascoe and The Bill. He narrated the BBC Radio version of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
His film roles include the pirate and spy "The Nord" in Waterworld, and as the corrupt High Court Judge Faden in Batman Begins.
Onstage, Murphy portrayed Hector in Alan Bennett's The History Boys, a role previously played by Richard Griffiths, in a national tour co-produced by the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Theatre Royal, Bath and directed by Christopher Luscombe.
In addition, he played Salieri in a 2007 production of Amadeus directed by Nikolai Foster. Although suffering in 2012 from spinal cord compression due to prostate cancer, Murphy appeared in Glasgow Citizens Theatre's production of Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett.
Murphy died at the age of 64 on 26 August 2013 in Cambridge from prostate cancer, which he bravely battled for over two years.