Al Murphy

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography38 Titles

#1Holiday Affair

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Man (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
ComedyRomanceDrama

Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.

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#2Fort Apache

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
Western

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

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#3His Kind of Woman

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Seaman / Henchman (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
CrimeComedyThriller

Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.

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#4Mr. Lucky

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Gambler (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
ComedyRomanceCrime

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

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#5No Way Out

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Cab Driver (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
DramaCrimeThriller

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.

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#6Sands of Iwo Jima

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Bartender (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
WarDrama

Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.

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#7The Fighting Seabees

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m as Costruction Worker (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
DramaActionWar

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

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#8The Virginian

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
Western

Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.

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#9The Racket

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Newsboy (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
CrimeThriller

The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.

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#10The Gang's All Here

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Stage Manager (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
ComedyRomance

A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

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#11Born to Kill

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Cab Driver (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
CrimeDramaThriller

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.

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#12The Boy with Green Hair

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
DramaComedyFamily

Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.

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#13Trail Street

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Dealer (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
Western

Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.

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#14Road to Utopia

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
AdventureComedyMusic

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.

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#15All My Sons

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
Drama

During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.

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#16Riff-Raff

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Bartender (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
DramaAdventureThriller

A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while he searches for a valuable map hidden in plain sight.

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#17The Undercover Man

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.1 / 10
CrimeDrama

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.

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#18Buck Privates Come Home

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as GI Buddy

6.4 / 10
ComedyRomanceAction

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

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#19Two of a Kind

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
CrimeThriller

A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son.

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#20People Will Talk

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Photographer (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
ComedyRomanceDrama

A successful, unorthodox doctor befriends a young woman with suicidal ideations due to her pregnancy by her ex, a military reservist killed in action.

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#21Presenting Lily Mars

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Waiter

6.4 / 10
MusicRomance

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

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#22Harriet Craig

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Bartender (Uncredited)

7.5 / 10
Drama

A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.

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#23The Chance of a Lifetime

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as William Jones (Uncredited)

6.7 / 10
CrimeMystery

A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.

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#24Johnny Angel

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Ship's Lookout (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.

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#25Not as a Stranger

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m as Patient Being Restrained (scenes deleted)

6.2 / 10
DramaRomance

Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.

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#26Cornered

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
Thriller

A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.

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#27Flame of Barbary Coast

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Horseshoe Brown

5.5 / 10
RomanceWestern

Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.

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#28Gambling House

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Cab Driver (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
CrimeDrama

A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.

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#29Race Street

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Drunk (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.

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#30Mr. Soft Touch

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Driver (Uncredited)

6.8 / 10
CrimeDramaRomance

When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.

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#31The Las Vegas Story

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Bartender (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
DramaCrimeThriller

When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.

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#32Bunco Squad

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Cabbie (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
Crime

Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances. When the plan leads to murder, Johnson and McManus must bring the group down before they kill again.

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#33You Gotta Stay Happy

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Mechanic (Uncredited)

6.8 / 10
ComedyRomance

Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.

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#34Double Exposure

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m as Bartender

6.2 / 10
CrimeComedy

In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.

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#35A Likely Story

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Poker Player (uncredited)

4.8 / 10
Comedy

A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.

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#36Hit Parade of 1951

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as George

6.5 / 10
Music

While raising cash to pay a debt, a Vegas gambler tricks a night club crooner there who looks like him to play him for a bit.The gambler's Latina girlfriend opens the eyes of the prissy crooner.

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#37The Last Crooked Mile

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Carnival Barker

5.5 / 10
CrimeDramaThriller

A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.

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#38The Bold Frontiersman

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Saloon Piano Player

7.0 / 10
Western

Rocky Lane and his horse Black Jack must protect the gold which drought bedeviled ranchers have raised to build a dam from bad guy Smiling Jim.

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