Stephen Murray

Gender: Male
Born: 6th September 1912
Died: 31st March 1983
Nationality: England
TV programs: Elizabeth R
Movies: The Next of Kin, Four Sided Triangle, London Belongs to Me, The End of the Affair, The Prime Minister, The Magnet, Alice in Wonderland, The Nun's Story, A Tale of Two Cities, Undercover, At the Stroke of Nine, For Them That Trespass, Now Barabbas, Silent Dust

Stephen Umfreville Hay Murray (6 September 1912 – 31 March 1983) was an English cinema, radio, theatre and television actor.

A member of Clan Murray headed by the Duke of Atholl, he was born in Partney, Lincolnshire, the son of the Reverend Charles Murray, Rector of Kirby Knowle, Yorkshire, and Mabel (née Umfreville). He was the great-grandson of the Right Reverend George Murray, Bishop of Rochester, while the diplomat Sir Ralph Murray was his elder brother. He was educated at Brentwood and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. He was also the great uncle of the comedian Al Murray.

Murray found his greatest fame as the new Number 1, later promoted to Lieutenant Commander in The Navy Lark on BBC Radio. His film debut was as the second police officer who interrupts an amorous Eliza and Freddy (Wendy Hiller and David Tree) in Pygmalion (1938). He was Gladstone to John Gielgud's Disraeli in The Prime Minister in 1941. He played Dr. Stephan Petrovitch in the 1943 Ealing war movie Undercover. Among his other larger film roles were Uncle Henry in London Belongs to Me (1948, heavily made-up to look several decades older) and the lead in Terence Fisher's Four Sided Triangle (1953). He

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