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Dudley Murphy

Dudley Murphy

DirectorWriterCrewDirectingActor Jul 10 (died age 100) Winchester, Massachusetts, United States 1921–1944 (23 year career)
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Biography

Dudley Bowles Murphy (July 10, 1897 – February 22, 1968) was an American film director. In his first short film, Soul of the Cypress (1921), a variation on the Orpheus myth, the film's protagonist falls in love with a dryad (a wood nymph whose soul dwells in an ancient tree) and throws himself into the sea to become immortal and spend eternity with her. Murphy's then-wife Chase Harringdine played the dryad. Murphy followed this with Danse Macabre (1922) featuring Adolph Bolm, Olin Howland, and …

Known For

Dracula
Film

Dracula

Additional Dialogue
Drácula
Film

Drácula

Dialogue
Ballet Mécanique
Film

Ballet Mécanique

6.5 1924
Black and Tan
Film

Black and Tan

Director
Danse macabre
Film

Danse macabre

Director
Emperor Jones
Film

Emperor Jones

Director
St. Louis Blues
Film

St. Louis Blues

Director
Soul of the Cypress
Film

Soul of the Cypress

Director

Filmography

Acting (1)