Highest rated movie: Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
Lowest rated movie: Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)
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Looking for reviews of Richard Murdoch movies? Cinafilm has a total of 11 reviews across 2 movies.
Movies starring Richard Murdoch have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 57%.
Whoops Apocalypse - released in 1986 - is Richard Murdoch's highest rated movie, with a score of 59% based on 10 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Richard Murdoch is Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt - released in 1940 - with a score of 56% based on 1 reviews.
Richard Bernard Murdoch was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey, and Pembroke College, Cambridge University. Whilst at university he participated in the Footlights Dramatic Club's performances.
Murdoch's first appearance in cinema was as an uncredited dancing extra in 1932 film Looking on the Bright Side. In 1937 he was listed among the cast of the "Television Follies", an early BBC Television programme.
He received his big professional break in the British Broadcasting Corporation's comedy radio programme Band Waggon in 1938 as part of a double act with the then rising star Arthur Askey, acquiring the nickname "Stinker" in mocking reference to his superior formal education.
As Askey moved from radio performing into cinema at the end of the 1930s Murdoch went with him and they appeared in a number of Askey star vehicle films together, Murdoch's tall athletic physique, good looks and upper middle class English Home Counties demeanor contrasting comedically with Askey's short stature, homely appearance, Lancashire provincial accent and working class performance persona. Their working partnership broke up during World War 2 when Murdoch joined the Armed Forces, but they briefly reprised it in the late 1950s for the television series Living It Up.
Murdoch was conscripted into the Royal Air Force in 1941, serving as a junior intelligence officer with Bomber Command, before being posted to the Department of Allied Air Force and Foreign Liaison as a Flight Lieutenant. In 1943 he joined the Directorate of Administrative Plans at the Air Ministry, where he shared an office with Wing Commander Kenneth Horne, being responsible for the supply of aircraft and air equipment to Russia. He finished the war with the rank of Squadron Leader.
Richard Murdoch has acted in films with Ruben Rabasa, Rik Mayall, Michael Richards and Murray Hamilton.
Richard Murdoch has worked with these film directors: Walter Forde and Tom Bussmann.
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