Murray Melvin

Biography

Murray Melvin (10 August 1932-14 April 2023) was an English actor and writer. He won the 1962 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award for his role in A Taste of Honey (1961).

Known For

Reverend Runt

Barry Lyndon

Shop Manager

Doomsday Gun

Antlers

The Criminal

Alphonse

The Boy Friend

Father-Canon Jean Mignon

The Devils

Geoffrey Ingham

A Taste of Honey

Self

Set the Night on Fire: The Story of Ewan MacColl

Hector Berlioz

Lisztomania

Blind Man

Start the Revolution Without Me

Priest

The Fixer

Georgie

Sparrows Can't Sing

Leopold

Nutcracker

McFayden

Ghost Story

Himself

Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image

Male Librarian

Hepzibah - Sie holt dich im Schlaf

Hans Christian Andersen

Stories from a Flying Trunk

(voice)

Gulliver's Travels

Film Editor

Testimony

Beau Didapper

Joseph Andrews

Teddy Boy

Suspect

Sir Oliver Martext

As You Like It

Lenny

The Undertaker

Hamidos

Ghost in the Noonday Sun

Larkin

Solo for Sparrow

Reporter

This Office Life

Nat

Alfie

Newsagent

The Krays

Wagstaffe

H.M.S. Defiant

Photographer

Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World

Jeremy Ruttle

The Fool

Blifil

The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones

Self

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

Chief Executioner

Alice in Wonderland

Professor Worth

The Grey Mile

Gendarme

The Ceremony

Lord James Bernard

The Lost City of Z

1st Exquisite

Smashing Time

Lt. Phipps

Shout at the Devil

Aimes

Kaleidoscope

Head waiter

Sunday Pursuit

Doctor

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Father Power

Sacred Hearts

Self

Stanley and Us

Secondary School Teacher

Let Him Have It

Seneschal

Gawain and the Green Knight

Antommarchi

The Emperor's New Clothes

Kenneth

Petticoat Pirates

Mr. Frampton's Clerk

Comrades

Man on Stairs

Slipstream

Reyer

The Phantom of the Opera

Prince's Dresser

The Prince and the Pauper

Himself

The Ghost of Peter Sellers

Lupin Pooter

The Diary of a Nobody

Lord Motley

Princess Caraboo

Traveling Barber

The Adventures Of Don Quixote

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

55

Gender

Male

Birthday

1932-11-30

Place of Birth

Hampstead, London, England, UK

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