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Richard Murphy (May 8, 1912 – May 19, 1993) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer. His screenplays for Boomerang (1947) and The Desert Rats (1953) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay, respectively.
May 22, 1993 · Richard Murphy, who wrote the screenplays for "The Desert Rats," "Boomerang!" and "Compulsion," died on Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81 and lived in...
May 23, 1993 · Richard Murphy, screenwriter and director twice nominated for an Academy Award, has died at age 81. Murphy died Wednesday in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of complications from a stroke suffered...
Jun 3, 1993 · Richard Murphy, writer and director: born Boston, Massachusetts 8 May 1912; died Los Angeles 19 May 1993. DISCUSSING his screenplay for Panic in the Streets, Richard Murphy revealed, 'Not a...
Leaving his job as a feature writer for Literary Digest to go to Hollywood in 1937, Murphy started in the shorts department at MGM. His first screenplays, penned for Paramount and Republic in the early 1940s, were B-action flicks and Gene Autry oaters.
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Richard Murphy (May 8, 1912 – May 19, 1993) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer. His screenplays for Boomerang (1947) and The Desert Rats (1953) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay, respectively.
