Richard Murdoch

Richard Murdoch

Richard Bernard Murdoch was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey, and Pembroke College, Cambridge University. Whilst at university he participated in the Footlights Dramatic Club's performances. Murdoch's first appearance in cinema was as an uncredited dancing extra in 1932 film Looking on the Bright Side. In 1937 he was listed among the cast of the "Television Follies", an early BBC Television programme. He received his big professional break in the British Broadcasting Corporation's comedy radio programme Band Waggon in 1938 as part of a double act with the then rising star Arthur Askey, acquiring the nickname "Stinker" in mocking reference to his superior formal education. As Askey moved from radio performing into cinema at the end of the 1930s Murdoch went with him and they appeared in a number of Askey star vehicle films together, Murdoch's tall athletic physique, good looks and upper middle class English Home Counties demeanor contrasting comedically with Askey's short stature, homely appearance, Lancashire provincial accent and working class performance persona. Their working partnership broke up during World War 2 when Murdoch joined the Armed Forces, but they briefly reprised it in the late 1950s for the television series Living It Up. Murdoch was conscripted into the Royal Air Force in 1941, serving as a junior intelligence officer with Bomber Command, before being posted to the Department of Allied Air Force and Foreign Liaison as a Flight Lieutenant. In 1943 he joined the Directorate of Administrative Plans at the Air Ministry, where he shared an office with Wing Commander Kenneth Horne, being responsible for the supply of aircraft and air equipment to Russia. He finished the war with the rank of Squadron Leader.

  • Title : Richard Murdoch
  • Popularity : 1.071
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1907-04-06
  • Place of Birth : Keston, Kent, England, UK
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  • Also Known As : Richard Bernard Murdoch
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Richard Murdoch Movies

  • 1941
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    The Ghost Train

    The Ghost Train

    5.9 1941 HD

    Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is...

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  • 1970
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    Under the Table You Must Go

    Under the Table You Must Go

    1 1970 HD

    A trip around the clubs, pubs and discotheques in London, England.

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  • 1941
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    I Thank You

    I Thank You

    7.4 1941 HD

    Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded...

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  • 1950
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    Lilli Marlene

    Lilli Marlene

    5.6 1950 HD

    Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German...

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  • 1937
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    Over She Goes

    Over She Goes

    7 1937 HD

    Plot and counter-plot jostle each other in this romantic comedy about a music-hall star who finds himself much in demand when he inherits a title!

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  • 1940
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    Band Waggon

    Band Waggon

    5 1940 HD

    A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.

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  • 1959
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    Strictly Confidential

    Strictly Confidential

    4.5 1959 HD

    Two con-men just released from prison get straight back to their old tricks.

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  • 1949
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    Golden Arrow

    Golden Arrow

    1 1949 HD

    On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.

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  • 1960
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    Not a Hope in Hell

    Not a Hope in Hell

    1 1960 HD

    The efforts of a female Customs Officer to challenge smugglers who hide illicit liquor in a steam roller.

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  • 1944
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    One Exciting Night

    One Exciting Night

    6 1944 HD

    A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.

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  • 1952
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    The Magic Box

    The Magic Box

    6.3 1952 HD

    Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

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  • 1948
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    It Happened in Soho

    It Happened in Soho

    4 1948 HD

    Murder drama set in Soho involving a police inspector, a newspaper reporter and a country girl.

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  • 1932
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    Looking on the Bright Side

    Looking on the Bright Side

    6 1932 HD

    Gracie Fields' second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period.

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  • 1940
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    Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

    Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

    5 1940 HD

    Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. ...

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  • 1938
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    The Terror

    The Terror

    5.7 1938 HD

    For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks,...

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  • 1986
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    Whoops Apocalypse

    Whoops Apocalypse

    5.7 1986 HD

    When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the...

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  • 1980
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    The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls

    The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls

    1 1980 HD

    The reputation of the Academy for the Daughters of Respectable Monarchs has, of course, always been of the highest order... then suddenly Signor...

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  • 1977
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    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    7.4 1977 HD

    The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was...

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  • 1975
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    Rumpole of the Bailey

    Rumpole of the Bailey

    7.063 1975 HD

    Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as...

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  • 1976
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    The New Avengers

    The New Avengers

    6.9 1976 HD

    The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The...

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  • 1978
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    The Moomins

    The Moomins

    7.2 1978 HD

    A stop motion animated children's television series based on Tove Jansson's book series.

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  • 1983
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    Blackadder

    Blackadder

    7.976 1983 HD

    Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle...

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  • 1970
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    Blackadder

    Blackadder

    7.2 1970 HD

    A stop motion animated children's television series based on Tove Jansson's book series.

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