Dudley Murphy

Biography

Dudley Bowles Murphy (July 10, 1897 – February 22, 1968) was an American film director. In his first short film, Soul of the Cypress (1921), a variation on the Orpheus myth, the film's protagonist falls in love with a dryad (a wood nymph whose soul dwells in an ancient tree) and throws himself into the sea to become immortal and spend eternity with her. Murphy's then-wife Chase Harringdine played the dryad. Murphy followed this with Danse Macabre (1922) featuring Adolph Bolm, Olin Howland, and Ruth Page. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dudley Murphy licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Directed

1. Ballet Mécanique (1924) — Director
2. Black and Tan (1929) — Director
3. Emperor Jones (1933) — Director
4. St. Louis Blues (1929) — Director
5. Danse macabre (1922) — Director
6. Soul of the Cypress (1921) — Director
7. The Sport Parade (1932) — Director
8. Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931) — Director
9. One Third of a Nation (1939) — Director
10. The Night Is Young (1935) — Director
11. Yolanda (1943) — Director
12. Alma de bronce (1944) — Director
13. Main Street Lawyer (1939) — Director
14. He Was Her Man (1931) — Director
15. Don't Gamble with Love (1936) — Director
16. Abercrombie Had a Zombie (1941) — Director
17. Alex The Great (1928) — Director
18. Stocks and Blondes (1928) — Director
19. Yes, Indeed! (1941) — Director
20. The Merry-Go-Roundup (1941) — Director
21. Lazybones (1941) — Director
22. Alabamy Bound (1941) — Director
23. I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire (1941) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Ballet Mécanique (1924)