Gerard Murphy
Actor
Born October 14, 1948 in Newry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, UK
Gerard Murphy was a Northern Irish actor of film, television and theatre fame. His most famous film roles included that of The Nord in Kevin Costner's ambitious Waterworld and the corruot Judge Faden in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins. On television, he was famous for playing Richard Maynarde in the 1988 Doctor Who 25th anniversary serial Silver Nemesis and for the role of the airplane pilot in the classic Father Ted episode Flight Into Danger from 1996. He died of prostate cancer at the age of 64 in August 2013.
Filmography
Lake
Shades of Grey
Narrator
Pumpgirl
Shawshank
Batman Begins
Judge Faden
The Afternoon Play
Clarence Mitchell
Spooks
Boris Gulyanov
Waking the Dead
James Alcock
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Planchet
Vanity Fair
Lord Steyne
This Is the Sea
(voice)
McCallum
Waterworld
Nord
Father Ted
Pilot
Heartbeat
Billy Trotter
Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
Richard
The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
Messenger
Sacred Hearts
Father Larkin
Charters and Caldicott
Insp. Snow
The Bill
Shaping Up
Colum
Facing The Sun
Gilberto
The Best of Friends
George
Minder
Kevin O'Hara
Catchpenny Twist
Roy Fletcher
Play for Today
ITV Playhouse
Gilberto
Doctor Who
Richard Maynarde
Z-Cars