Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 14, 1948
Died
Aug 26, 2013
Place of Birth
Newry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, UK
Credits
32 titles
Gerard Murphy
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Lake
Shades of Grey
Narrator
Pumpgirl
Shawshank
Batman Begins
Judge Faden
The Afternoon Play
Clarence Mitchell
Spooks
Boris Gulyanov
Waking the Dead
James Alcock
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Planchet
Vanity Fair
Lord Steyne
This Is the Sea
(voice)
McCallum
Tattoo
Unnamed
Waterworld
Nord
Father Ted
Pilot
Heartbeat
Billy Trotter
Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
Richard
The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Messenger
Sacred Hearts
Father Larkin
Charters and Caldicott
Insp. Snow
The Bill
Shaping Up
Colum
Facing The Sun
Gilberto
The Best of Friends
George
Minder
Kevin O'Hara
My Son, My Son
Thank You, Comrades
Sanin
Catchpenny Twist
Roy Fletcher
Play for Today
ITV Playhouse
Gilberto
Doctor Who
Richard
Z-Cars