Murphy worked frequently with Altman, including as Captain Ezekiel Bradbury "Me Lay" Marston V, in M*A*S*H (1970), as Det. Lt. Frank Shaft in Brewster McCloud (1970), as John Triplette in Nashville (1975), and as the eponymous, fictitious former U.S. Congressman and presidential aspirant, Jack Tanner, in Tanner '88, a role he later reprised in the 2004 follow-up miniseries Tanner on Tanner. Other Altman films and television series in which Murphy appeared include the World War II TV series Combat! (in which Murphy appeared, twice, in 1963, on the show's second of five seasons), Countdown (1968), That Cold Day in the Park (1969), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988) and Kansas City (1996).
Murphy has been cast in leading roles in network television series, such as Dr. Art Armstrong on the ABC family drama Two Marriages (1983-1984), and as jaded veteran reporter Andy Omart on the short-lived CBS newspaper drama Hard Copy (1987).
He has also been a regular supporting cast member on a number of other television series. He has appeared extensively in Canadian film and television, including the legal dramady series This Is Wonderland, co-starring as longtime judicial veteran Judge Maxwell Fraser. For his work on the show, Murphy would go on to be nominated for three Gemini Awards, winning twice, successively, in 2004 and 2005, and nominated for a third in 2006.[1][2] He was cast as monolithic casino executive Jimmy Malloy on the American ESPN competitive poker drama Tilt (2005), as veteran law enforcement superior Ed Wycoff on the Canadian CTV police drama The Bridge (2010), and as George Kelly, the father of ex-soldier-turned-thief Ethan Kelly (played by Cole Hauser) in the third season of the Canadian-British-American DirecTV police drama Rogue in 2015.
Murphy has also enjoyed a hugely prolific career as a narrator of documentary films, including several dozen episodes of the popular, landmark PBS historical documentary series The American Experience, as well as the public television travel series Weekends with Yankee.
Personal life
Murphy was married to Canadian actress Wendy Crewson from 1988 until their divorce in January 2009. They have two children, Maggie (b. 1989) and John (b. 1992).[citation needed]
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