Gerard Murphy

Acting

Born October 14, 1948, Newry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, UK

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.

Filmography

• 2014Lake
• 2009Pumpgirl — Shawshank
• 2009Shades of Grey — Narrator
• 2005Batman Begins — Judge Faden
• The Afternoon Play — Clarence Mitchell
• Spooks — Boris Gulyanov
• Waking the Dead — James Alcock
• The Scarlet Pimpernel — Planchet
• Vanity Fair — Lord Steyne
• McCallum
• 1997This Is the Sea — (voice)
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Steven Burlow
• Father Ted — Pilot
• 1995Tattoo — Unnamed
• 1995Waterworld — Nord
• Heartbeat — Billy Trotter
• 1988Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis — Richard
• 1988The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
• 1986Theban Plays: Oedipus the King — Messenger
• Charters and Caldicott — Insp. Snow
• 1985Sacred Hearts — Father Larkin
• The Bill
• 1980Facing The Sun — Gilberto
• 1980Shaping Up — Colum
• 1980The Best of Friends — George
• Minder — Kevin O'Hara
• My Son, My Son
• 1978Thank You, Comrades — Sanin
• 1977Catchpenny Twist — Roy Fletcher
• Play for Today
• ITV Playhouse — Gilberto
• Doctor Who — Richard
• Z-Cars