Michael George Murphy (born May 5, 1938) is a multi-award-winning American film, television and stage actor. He often plays unethical or morally ambiguous characters in positions of authority, including politicians, executives, administrators, clerics, academics, doctors, law enforcement agents, judges and lawyers. He is also known for his frequent collaborations (more than any other performer) with director Robert Altman, having appeared in twelve (film, TV series and miniseries) productions directed by Altman in a period spanning from 1963 to 2004, including his leading titular role in the acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning HBO cable miniseries Tanner '88. He had roles in the films M*A*S*H (1970), Brewster McCloud (1970), McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), What's Up, Doc? (1972), Phase IV (1974), Nashville (1975), The Front (1976), An Unmarried Woman (1978), The Class of Miss MacMichael (1978), Manhattan (1979), Strange Behavior (1981), The Year of Living Dangerously (1983), Cloak & Dagger (1984), Salvador (1986), Shocker (1989), Batman Returns (1992), Magnolia (1999), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Away from Her (2007), and Fall (2014), among others. Murphy's performance in Fall earned him a nomination for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Performance in a Drama Film.
Lees meer...5 mei 1938 was een donderdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♉. Het was de 124e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 88 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op dinsdag 5 mei 2026, 26 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op woensdag 5 mei 2027, in 338 dagen. Je hebt 32.168 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 772.041 uur, of ongeveer 46.322.479 minuten, of ongeveer 2.779.348.740 seconden.
Date: 05 May 1938
From a Staff Correspondent
fishes, Sombrero Is; error in existing Eastern Bahamas charts revealed
Date: 06 May 1938
Chinese drive from Pihsien to Szechuchen; recapture Matowcheng; surround Tancheng; map; Japanese planes bomb Chinese reinforcements south of Tancheng; bomb Lung-Hai and Canton rys and Kinhwa, Chekiang Province; Gen Miao Chen-lieu's forces drive Japanese back at Antungwei on Shantung-Kiangsu border; Hankow Govt insists China will not be bound by customs accord; Japanese rept Chinese repulsed in Shantung; Peiping's gates closed; guerrillas reptd near; Tokyo pub uninformed on war events
Date: 06 May 1938
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Date: 05 May 1938
Date: 05 May 1938
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mins rept to Cabinet com on Brit and French views on problem; T G Masaryk statue defaced; Benes conf with Min Osusky
Date: 06 May 1938
R E Desvernine elected pres
Date: 05 May 1938
Wheeler-Lea Act; self-censorship to avoid FTC complaints urged
Date: 05 May 1938
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES