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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

100% Damn the Defiant!
97% Alfie
88% The Boy Friend
87% Barry Lyndon
86% A Taste of Honey
84% Let Him Have It
80% Sparrows Can't Sing
73% The Emperor's New Clothes

Photos

THE DEVILS, from left: Michael Gothard, Oliver Reed, Murray Melvin, 1971. A TASTE OF HONEY, Murray Melvin, Rita Tushingham, 1961 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% 68% 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