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      Murray Melvin

      Murray Melvin

      Highest Rated: 100% Damn the Defiant! (1962)

      Lowest Rated: 33% The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

      Birthday: Aug 10, 1932

      Birthplace: St. Pancras, London, England, UK

      Narrow-faced, slender, haughty-looking character player, best known for his Cannes award-winning performance as Rita Tushingham's sympathetic gay friend in Tony Richardson's adaptation of Shelagh Delaney's "angry young woman" drama, "A Taste of Honey" (1961). A prolific theater actor--he originated the "Honey" role on the stage--Melvin has appeared in several films, including three by director Peter Medak: "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" (1970), "The Krays" (1990) and "Let Him Have It" (1991). Murray Melvin died on April 14, 2023 at the age of 90.

      Highest rated movies

      Damn the Defiant!
      Alfie
      The Boy Friend
      Barry Lyndon
      A Taste of Honey
      Let Him Have It
      Sparrows Can't Sing
      The Emperor's New Clothes

      Photos

      A TASTE OF HONEY, Murray Melvin, Rita Tushingham, 1961 THE DEVILS, from left: Michael Gothard, Oliver Reed, Murray Melvin, 1971. A TASTE OF HONEY, Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, 1961 A TASTE OF HONEY, Murray Melvin, Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, 1961 A TASTE OF HONEY, Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, director Tony Richardson, on-set, 1961 THE DEVILS, Vanessa Redgrave, Murray Melvin, 1971 A TASTE OF HONEY, Murray Melvin, Rita Tushingham, 1961 A TASTE OF HONEY, Murray Melvin, Rita Tushingham, 1961 A TASTE OF HONEY, Murray Melvin, Rita Tushingham, 1961 A TASTE OF HONEY, Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, 1961 THE FIXER, from left: Ian Holm, Carol White, Murray Melvin, Dirk Bogarde (back to camera), 1968 A TASTE OF HONEY, from left: Murray Melvin, Rita Tushingham, 1961 A TASTE OF HONEY, from left: Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin, Dora Bryan, 1961 THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Murray Melvin, 2004, (c) Warner Brothers
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Undertaker Unknown (Character) - 2023
      33% 84% The Phantom of the Opera Reyer (Character) $51.2M 2004
      73% 64% The Emperor's New Clothes Antommarchi (Character) $569.4K 2001
      33% 62% Alice in Wonderland Chief Executioner (Character) - 1999
      No Score Yet 75% England, My England Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury (Character) - 1995
      No Score Yet 53% Doomsday Gun Shop Manager (Character) - 1994
      No Score Yet No Score Yet As You Like It Sir Oliver Martext (Character) - 1992
      84% 85% Let Him Have It Secondary School Teacher (Character) $83.3K 1991
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Nutcracker Leopold (Character) - 1982
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Stories From a Flying Trunk Hans Christian Andersen (Character) - 1979
      87% 92% Barry Lyndon Reverend Samuel Runt (Character) - 1975
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Gawain and the Green Knight Seneschal (Character) - 1973
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Ghost in the Noonday Sun Hamidos (Character) - 1973
      No Score Yet 70% A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Doctor (Character) - 1972
      88% 69% The Boy Friend Alphonse (Character) - 1971
      70% 88% The Devils Mignon (Character) - 1971
      No Score Yet 58% Kaleidoscope Aimes (Character) - 1966
      97% 76% Alfie Nat (Character) - 1966
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ceremony First Gendaime (Character) - 1963
      80% 55% Sparrows Can't Sing Georgie (Character) - 1963
      100% 63% Damn the Defiant! Percival Wagstaffe (Character) - 1962
      86% 86% A Taste of Honey Geoffrey Ingham (Character) - 1961

      TV

      Credit
      98% 83% Torchwood Bilis (Guest Star) 2007