Director
Dudley Murphy
Born July 10, 1867 in Winchester, Massachusetts, United States
Died February 22, 196819 films
Dudley Bowles Murphy (July 10, 1897 – February 22, 1968) was an American film director. In his first short film, Soul of the Cypress (1921), a variation on the Orpheus myth, the film's protagonist falls in love with a dryad (a wood nymph whose soul dwells in an ancient tree) and throws himself into the sea to become immortal and spend eternity with her. Murphy's then-wife Chase Harringdine played the dryad. Murphy followed this with Danse Macabre (1922) featuring Adolph Bolm, Olin Howland, and Ruth Page.
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First watchBallet Mécanique19246.5Ballet Mécanique is a Dadaist, post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy.View filmFilmography
19 films as director- 1944Alma de bronceDirector
- 1943YolandaDirector
- 1941Alabamy BoundDirector
- 1941I Don't Want to Set the World on FireDirector
- 1939Main Street LawyerDirector
- 1939One Third of a NationDirector
- 1936Don't Gamble with LoveDirector
- 1935The Night Is YoungDirector
- 1933Emperor JonesDirector
- 1932The Sport ParadeDirector
- 1931Confessions of a Co-EdDirector
- 1931He Was Her ManDirector
- 1929Black and TanDirector
- 1929St. Louis BluesDirector
- 1928Stocks and BlondesDirector
- 1928Alex The GreatDirector
- 1924Ballet MécaniqueDirector
- 1922Danse macabreDirector
- 1921Soul of the CypressDirector