James Murray (English actor)
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James Murray is an English
actor
.
; his great-grandfather, Richard Hollins Murray, invented the reflecting lens in 1927.
's soap opera
Coronation Street
(1998) as Sandy Hunter. He then starred in a series of both film and television pieces, including the comedy series Roger-Roger (1999), legal drama series North Square
(2000), mini series Other People's Children
(2000) and Sons & Lovers (2003), a Granada
production of The Sittaford Mystery
(2006) as Charles Burnaby, a movie of the Thomas Hardy
story Under the Greenwood Tree
(2005) as Dick Dewy, plus earlier movies Nailing Vienna (2002) as Peter, All The King's Men
(1999) as Pvt Will Needham, and Phoenix Blue (2001) as Rick. He also found more permanent roles in Channel 4
's 20 Things to Do Before You're 30 (2003) playing Glen and BBC One
's season four of Cutting It
(2005) as Liam Carney.
Murray starred in the ITV science fiction series Primeval as Stephen Hart, Nick Cutter's lab technician, in both series one (2007) and series two (2008).
Murray had the leading role of the father, Frank Davis, in It's Alive
(2008) a remake of the 70's Horror classic by Larry Cohen
.
James had a role in Krod Mandoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire
, a comic fantasy series for Comedy Central
and BBC Two
, which began airing in April 2009. His character is Ralph Longshaft.
According to United Agents
James appeared on the CBS
series CHAOS
in Vancouver
from November 2010 to April 2011. His character was called Billy Collins (not Michael Dorset as listed at their website).
co-star Sarah Parish
in Hampshire on 15 December 2007, following a two-year romance. On 18 January 2008, it was announced that Sarah was pregnant with their first child. Their daughter was born 5 weeks premature in May 2008 and died in January 2009 aged 8 months due to a congenital heart defect. In her honour, Parish and Murray are raising funds for the Children's Intensive Care unit at Southampton General Hospital. In October 2009, it was announced that Sarah was expecting another child, to be born in the New Year. Their daughter Nell was born 21 November 2009.
) or as James Murray, an American animator/puppeteer/voice actor (who appeared in Being John Malkovich
and Greg the Bunny
and his voice as Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
series) or as James Murray, an American stage and screen actor (who appeared in Air Crash Investigation ).
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
.
Early life
Murray was born in Greater ManchesterGreater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...
; his great-grandfather, Richard Hollins Murray, invented the reflecting lens in 1927.
Career
Murray found initial fame as in ITV1ITV1
ITV1 is a generic brand that is used by twelve franchises of the British ITV Network in the English regions, Wales, southern Scotland , the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. The ITV1 brand was introduced by Carlton and Granada in 2001, alongside the regional identities of their...
's soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
(1998) as Sandy Hunter. He then starred in a series of both film and television pieces, including the comedy series Roger-Roger (1999), legal drama series North Square
North Square
North Square is an award-winning British television drama series written by Peter Moffat and broadcast by Channel 4 at the end of 2000. Starring an ensemble cast including Phil Davis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Helen McCrory and Kevin McKidd, the programme is set around the practice of a Leeds Legal...
(2000), mini series Other People's Children
Other People's Children (TV series)
Other People's Children is a four-episode 2000 British television drama, adapted by Leigh Jackson from Joanna Trollope's 1998 novel of the same name...
(2000) and Sons & Lovers (2003), a Granada
Granada Television
Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....
production of The Sittaford Mystery
The Sittaford Mystery
The Sittaford Mystery is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1931 under the title of The Murder at Hazelmoor and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 September of the same year under Christie's original title...
(2006) as Charles Burnaby, a movie of the Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...
story Under the Greenwood Tree
Under the Greenwood Tree
Under the Greenwood Tree or The Mellstock Quire: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1872. It was Hardy's second published novel, the last to be printed without his name, and the first of his great series of Wessex novels...
(2005) as Dick Dewy, plus earlier movies Nailing Vienna (2002) as Peter, All The King's Men
All the King's Men
All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren first published in 1946. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. In 1947 Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men....
(1999) as Pvt Will Needham, and Phoenix Blue (2001) as Rick. He also found more permanent roles in Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
's 20 Things to Do Before You're 30 (2003) playing Glen and BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
's season four of Cutting It
Cutting It
Cutting It was a popular BBC television programme set in Manchester, England, which ran for four series between 2002 and 2005.- Series 1 :...
(2005) as Liam Carney.
Murray starred in the ITV science fiction series Primeval as Stephen Hart, Nick Cutter's lab technician, in both series one (2007) and series two (2008).
Murray had the leading role of the father, Frank Davis, in It's Alive
It's Alive (2008 film)
It's Alive is a 2008 remake of the Larry Cohen's 1974 horror film of the same name. See It's Alive .- Plot :When Lenore learns that she is pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend Frank in the country...
(2008) a remake of the 70's Horror classic by Larry Cohen
Larry Cohen
Lawrence G. "Larry" Cohen is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known as a B-Movie auteur of horror and science fiction films - often containing a police procedural element - during 1970s and 1980s...
.
James had a role in Krod Mandoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire
Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire is a British-American comedic sword and sorcery series created by Peter A. Knight, co-produced by Hat Trick Productions and Media Rights Capital for Comedy Central and BBC Two, which premiered on April 9, 2009 in the USA and on June 11 in the UK. It began...
, a comic fantasy series for Comedy Central
Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated....
and BBC Two
BBC Two
BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
, which began airing in April 2009. His character is Ralph Longshaft.
According to United Agents
United Agents
United Agents is a British talent and literary agency founded in 2007. It is situated on Lexington Street in London, UK and was set up by agents who had left Peters, Fraser & Dunlop . It is chaired by Lindy King and the managing director is St...
James appeared on the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
series CHAOS
Chaos (TV series)
CHAOS is an American television series for the CBS network. The one-hour comedic drama premiered on April 1, 2011, as a midseason replacement for The Defenders.-Premise:...
in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
from November 2010 to April 2011. His character was called Billy Collins (not Michael Dorset as listed at their website).
Personal life
Murray married his Cutting ItCutting It
Cutting It was a popular BBC television programme set in Manchester, England, which ran for four series between 2002 and 2005.- Series 1 :...
co-star Sarah Parish
Sarah Parish
Sarah Parish is an English actress.Parish is known for her work on such TV series as: Peak Practice, Hearts and Bones, Cutting It, Doctor Who, Mistresses, Merlin and the new ITV medical drama Monroe....
in Hampshire on 15 December 2007, following a two-year romance. On 18 January 2008, it was announced that Sarah was pregnant with their first child. Their daughter was born 5 weeks premature in May 2008 and died in January 2009 aged 8 months due to a congenital heart defect. In her honour, Parish and Murray are raising funds for the Children's Intensive Care unit at Southampton General Hospital. In October 2009, it was announced that Sarah was expecting another child, to be born in the New Year. Their daughter Nell was born 21 November 2009.
Corrections
Murray is often mis-credited in filmography listings as either James Scott Murray (a Scottish actor who appeared in Monarch of the Glen and Dr. FinlayDr. Finlay
Dr. Finlay is a fictional character, the hero of a series of stories by Scottish author A. J. Cronin.-History:The stories were used as the basis for the long-running BBC television programme, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, screened from 1962 to 1971, and radio series . Based on Cronin's novella entitled...
) or as James Murray, an American animator/puppeteer/voice actor (who appeared in Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich is a 1999 American black comedy-fantasy film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. It stars John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and John Malkovich, who plays a fictional version of himself...
and Greg the Bunny
Greg the Bunny
Greg the Bunny is an American television sitcom that originally aired on Fox TV in 2002. It starred Seth Green and a hand puppet named Greg the Bunny, originally invented by the team of Sean S. Baker, Spencer Chinoy and Dan Milano. Milano and Chinoy wrote and co-produced the Fox show. In the show,...
and his voice as Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a fictional team of four teenage anthropomorphic turtles, who were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjutsu and named after four Renaissance artists...
series) or as James Murray, an American stage and screen actor (who appeared in Air Crash Investigation ).
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Coronation Street Coronation Street Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960... |
Sandy Hunter | TV series (4 episodes) |
| 1999 | Roger Roger Roger Roger Roger Roger is a BBC television comedy-drama written by John Sullivan. The series was about a mini-cab firm called Cresta Cabs. The pilot aired in 1996 and there were three subsequent series on BBC1 in 1998, 1999 and 2003.-Pilot: 1996:... |
Jason the Gardener | TV series (1 episode: "Two Much Wine, Too Many Stars") |
| All the King's Men | Pvt. Will Needham | TV movie | |
| 2000 | Peak Practice Peak Practice Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time... |
Marcus Johnson | TV series (1 episode: "Turning Tides") |
| Kevin & Perry Go Large | Candice's Adonis | ||
| Other People's Children | Lucas | TV series (1 episode: "Episode #1.3") | |
| North Square North Square North Square is an award-winning British television drama series written by Peter Moffat and broadcast by Channel 4 at the end of 2000. Starring an ensemble cast including Phil Davis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Helen McCrory and Kevin McKidd, the programme is set around the practice of a Leeds Legal... |
Johnny Boy | TV series (10 episodes) | |
| 2001 | Phoenix Blue | Rick | |
| 2002 | Nailing Vienna | Peter | |
| Clocking Off Clocking Off Clocking Off is a British television drama series which ran on the BBC One network for four series from 2000 to 2003. It was produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company, and created by Paul Abbott... |
Mark Talbot | TV series (1 episode: "Episode #3.3") | |
| Always and Everyone Always and Everyone Always and Everyone was a British television drama that ran from 1999 to 2002. It dramatised the hectic everyday lives of the doctors and nurses running the Accident and Emergency department of the large, busy city hospital, St. Victor's. The series has never been released commercially on VHS or... |
Dr. Danny Barton | TV series (8 episodes: "Episode #4.1-#4.8") | |
| 2003 | Sons and Lovers | William Morel | TV movie |
| 20 Thing's to Do Before You're 30 | Glen | TV series (7 episodes) | |
| Keen Eddie Keen Eddie Keen Eddie is an American action, comedy-drama television series that aired in 2003 on the Fox Network. The series follows a brash NYPD detective who goes to London when one of his cases goes sour and remains to work with New Scotland Yard... |
Colin Kinney | TV series (1 episode: "Eddie Loves Baseball") | |
| 2004 | Cutting It Cutting It Cutting It was a popular BBC television programme set in Manchester, England, which ran for four series between 2002 and 2005.- Series 1 :... |
Liam Carney | TV series (12 episodes: 2004-2005) |
| 2005 | Under the Greenwood Tree | Dick Dewey | TV movie |
| 2006 | Agatha Christie's Marple: The Sittaford Mystery | Charles Burnaby | TV movie |
| 2007 | Primeval Primeval Primeval or primæval may refer to:* Primeval, a British science fiction television series.* Primeval , a 2007 film* Primeval , a score of music from the BBC TV series Doctor Who... |
Stephen Hart | TV series (13 episodes: 2007-2008) |
| 2008 | It's Alive | Frank Davis | |
| 2009 | Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire | Ralph Longshaft | TV series (4 episodes) |
| 2011 | CHAOS Chaos (TV series) CHAOS is an American television series for the CBS network. The one-hour comedic drama premiered on April 1, 2011, as a midseason replacement for The Defenders.-Premise:... |
Billy Collins | TV series (Pilot and 12 episodes: 2011) |