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Dudley Murphy

Director

Dudley Murphy

Directing
1933 · 1 film
Lived
10 July 1867 — d. 1968
From
Winchester, Massachusetts, United States

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.

Career Signature

How Dudley Murphy’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they directed.