John Branton Murphy is the son of Michael Murphy. John Branton Murphy’s father Michael is an American film, television, and stage actor. He often plays unethical or morally ambiguous characters in positions of authority, including politicians, executives, and lawyers.
John Branton Murphy: Bio Summary
| Full Name | John Branton Murphy |
| famous as | son of Michael Murphy |
| Age | 30 years old as of 2022 |
| Date of Birth | 1951 |
| Place of Birth | United States of America |
| Zodiac sign | Unknown |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Siblings | Wendy Crewson, Michael Murphy |
| Parents | Maggie Murphy |
John Branton Murphy was born in 1991 to his parents Wendy Crewson and Michael Murphy in the United States of America. As of 2022, he is 30 years old. He is not the only child of his parents, he has another sibling whose name is Maggie Murphy.
John Branton’s mother, Wendy Crewson is a Canadian actress and producer. She began her career appearing on Canadian television, before her breakthrough role in the 1991 dramatic film The Doctor.
Crewson has appeared in many Hollywood films, including The Good Son (1993), The Santa Clause (1994) and its sequels The Santa Clause 2 (2002) and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006), as well as Air Force One (1997), Bicentennial Man (1999), What Lies Beneath (2000), The 6th Day (2000), The Covenant (2006) and Eight Below (2006). She also starred in a number of independent movies, such as Better Than Chocolate (1999), Suddenly Naked (2001), Perfect Pie (2002), Away from Her (2006), Into the Forest (2015), and Room (2015).
How did John Branton Murphy’s Parents meet?
There isn’t much information available regarding the circumstances which lead the two into meeting each other and hence their marriage. However, the couple tied the knot in 1988. They got married in a beautiful ceremony in the presence of their friends, family, and loved ones.
Their marriage didn’t last forever, John Branton’s parents called their marriage a quit in January 2009. They were married for 21 years before ending it all. Though their marriage didn’t work out, the former couple remain friends and worked together in the film Fall (2014).
Crewson came out publicly as a lesbian in December 2014 and revealed to the press that she had come out to her family years earlier. In 2015, it was reported that Crewson dated Julie Bristow, president of Bristow Global Media in Canada. John Branton Murphy’s father currently resides in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, and his mother also resides in Rosedale, Toronto.
Michael Murphy
John Branton Murphy’s father, Michael Murphy is best known for his performances as Jill Clayburgh’s adulterous husband Martin in Paul Mazursky’s An Unmarried Woman (1978), as Woody Allen’s morally ambiguous best friend Yale in Manhattan (1979), as ethically enigmatic lawyer Alan Kligman in Magnolia (1999), and as the star of Garry Trudeau and Robert Altman’s HBO miniseries Tanner ’88.
Murphy worked frequently with Altman, including as Captain Ezekiel Bradbury “Me Lay” Marston, IV, in MAS*H (1970), as Frank Shaft in Brewster McCloud (1970), as John Triplette in Nashville (1975), and as the title character in Tanner ’88 (a role he reprised in the 2004 miniseries Tanner on Tanner).
John Branton Murphy’s father has also narrated many episodes of the PBS historical documentary series The American Experience and the public television travel series Weekends with Yankee. He appeared in Canadian film and television, including This Is Wonderland, for which he won two Gemini Awards, in 2004 and 2005, and was nominated for a third, in 2006. He also appeared in the 2004 Canadian film Childstar.
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