Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Oct 14, 1948 (77 years old)
Gerard Murphy
Known For
6 Episodes
TV Show
1999
The Scarlet Pimpernel
A series of television drama programmes loosely based on Baroness...
55min
Movie
1988
The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
In a special documentary made for public television in the...
Biography
Gerard Murphy was a Northern Irish actor of film, television and theatre fame. His most famous film roles included that of The Nord in Kevin Costner's ambitious Waterworld and the corruot Judge Faden in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins. On television, he was famous for playing Richard Maynarde in the 1988 Doctor Who 25th anniversary serial Silver Nemesis and for the role of the airplane pilot in the classic Father Ted episode Flight Into Danger from 1996. He died of prostate cancer at the age of 64 in August 2013.