Actor
Gerard Murphy
October 14, 1948 · Newry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, UK
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Patrick Troughton
2 titles together
Doctor Who, Play for Today
William Simons
2 titles together
Heartbeat, ITV Playhouse
Richard O'Callaghan
2 titles together
Dalziel and Pascoe, McCallum
Anton Lesser
2 titles together
Vanity Fair, The Scarlet Pimpernel
Frances Tomelty
2 titles together
Vanity Fair, Play for Today
Colin Jeavons
2 titles together
Play for Today, Charters and Caldicott
Full filmography · 30
The Afternoon Play
as Clarence Mitchell
2003
Spooks
as Boris Gulyanov
20027.7
Waking the Dead
as James Alcock
20017.2
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Planchet
1999
Vanity Fair
as Lord Steyne
1998
McCallum
cast
1997
Dalziel and Pascoe
as Steven Burlow
19966.4
Father Ted
as Pilot
19958.2
Heartbeat
as Billy Trotter
19927.2
Charters and Caldicott
as Insp. Snow
1985
The Bill
cast
19846.8
Minder
as Kevin O'Hara
19797.1