Richard Murphy (screenwriter)
Richard Murphy ( born May 8, 1912 in Boston, Massachusetts, † May 19, 1993 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American screenwriter and film director.
Life
Murphy grew up in New York City and Darien, Connecticut. In the subject English, he obtained a degree at Williams College.
Murphy first worked at the magazine The Literary Digest and was active from the late 1930s as a screenwriter. In total he participated in 28 productions. His focus was on the 1940s and 1950s.
In 1954 he was nominated for Best Original Screenplay for his script for The Desert Rats for the Oscar in the category. A first nomination for this award he received Best Adapted Screenplay for boomerang in the category in 1948.
In 1955, he was with the drama For Americans banned? his debut as a director. In 1960, with an oblique course on his second and last film.
1970 marks him the Writers Guild of America with the Valentine Davies Award. Four times he had been nominated for the WGA Award.
In the late 1960s he developed the television series Felony Squad, which was produced from 1966 to 1969. Following this, he only appeared once as a screenwriter in appearance: In 1980 with the participation of The kidnapping of the president.
Murphy was married and the father of two children.