Charlie Murphy
Also Known As: Charles Q. Murphy, Charles Murphy
Biography: Charles Quinton 'Charlie' Murphy (July 12, 1959 - April 12, 2017) was an American actor, comedian, and writer famous for being a cast member and writer on the Comedy Central sketch-comedy series Chappelle's Show. He is also known for his work with his younger brother, actor/comedian Eddie Murphy. He died from leukemia on April 12, 2017, aged 57 in Brooklyn.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: July 12, 1959
Deathday: April 12, 2017
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Night at the Museum
Overview: Chaos reigns at the natural history museum when night watchman Larry Daley accidentally stirs up an ancient curse, awakening Attila the Hun, an army of gladiators, a Tyrannosaurus rex and other exhibits.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-20
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Death of a Dynasty
Overview: A story which centers around Dave Katz, a journalist at a hip-hop magazine who is sent on assignment to uncover the often comedic underworld of Roc-a-Fella Records run by Damon Dash and Jay-Z.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-07
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The Perfect Holiday
Overview: Nancy Taylor, a divorced mother of three, feels especially lonely during the holidays. All she wants for Christmas is to meet a nice man - even just a nice compliment would make her day. Sensing her sadness, Nancy's little girl, Emily, has a plan to make her mom happy again. She shares her Mommy's wish with shopping mall Santa, Benjamin Armstrong. And Benjamin, who is also a struggling songwriter, knows exactly the right words to say.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-12
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Universal Remote
Overview: Charlie Murphy takes the lead for this comedy concerning two best friends sent hurtling through a politically-incorrect television landscape thanks to a magical remote control that redefines the concept of interactive entertainment. Now, with each change of the channel, the shows get more bizarre, leaving hapless knuckleheads Bubba and Leroy scrambling to find a way back into the real world.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Lottery Ticket
Overview: Kevin Carson is a young man living in the projects who has to survive a three-day weekend after his opportunistic neighbors find out he's holding a winning lottery ticket worth $370 million
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-20
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Roll Bounce
Overview: In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Thugaboo: A Miracle on D-roc's Street
Overview: D-Roc, Dee-Dee, DJ, Money, Lissette, Slim, Chad, Gwenny, and Soo Young are working together to find a way to bring the true meaning of Christmas home to less fortunate young Gavin and his family.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-21
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Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness
Overview: When D-Roc sees a pair of expensive sneakers called Air Jareds, he wants his mother to buy them to wear at school in order to look cool. His mother purchases a cheaper priced pair of Air Johnsons instead. Afraid of looking bad to his crew, D-Roc asks Soo-Young to make Air Jareds out of Air Johnsons and when they work out well, they realize they can make money by converting the shoes. Their plan to make money eventually goes wary and D-Roc is taught a lesson about being himself.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-11
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Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
Overview: Directors Robert Townsend and Quincy Newell offer this comprehensive and hilarious examination of the history, evolution and cultural significance of African American comedy in America, from the earliest minstrel shows to the latest HBO special. Featuring interviews with cultural critics and loads of comedic clips, this program features appearances by a who's-who of black comedians including Chris Rock, Bill Cosby, Whoopi Goldberg and many more.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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CB4
Overview: A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don't appear to know as much about rap music as they claim... but a lack of musical ability in an artist never hurts sales, does it? You've just got to play the part of a rap star...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-12
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Unearthed
Overview: In the desert area of Hat Creek, cows are found partially devoured and the farmers believe that a wolf is attacking the cattle. The alcoholic Sheriff Annie Flynn is called by the local farmer Rob Horn to witness the remains of an animal to request reimbursement from the government and for an accident with a tank truck that is blocking the road.
Genres: Action Adventure Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-27
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The Pompatus of Love
Overview: Four guys sit around drinking beer and talking, trying to figure out the meaning of "the pompatus of love" (from the Steve Miller song "Joker") and analyzing their relationships with women.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-26
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Bar Starz
Overview: Straight-arrow Barry has moved 3000 miles away from lackluster Ohio to attend college in sunny SoCal, and his friend Douglas has come along for the ride. Barry has his education on his mind; Douglas, the consummate mover-and-shaker, plans to make Barry a "Bar Star." Everyone knows the "Bar Star," the nightclub denizen that: like James Bond, he knows that every woman wants him, and every random guy wants to be just like him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-07
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Lovesick
Overview: Faced with the pressures of family, tradition, and culture, a Cambodian woman is forced into a marriage to a man she doesn't know. Love has it own plan when she meets another man and falls in love. Now she must choose to honor her family's wishes or follow her heart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Landlord
Overview: At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-20
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The Kid Who Loved Christmas
Overview: In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and his traveling musician dad is deemed unfit to care for him, being on the road too much. Now, the only thing that can help is if a cold, bureaucratic adoption agency caseworker sees the error of her ways and allows them to be together.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-14
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The Players Club
Overview: Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, Diana's convinced there's fast money to be made stripping.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-08
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Meet the Blacks
Overview: As Carl Black gets the opportunity to move his family out of Chicago in hope of a better life, their arrival in Beverly Hills is timed with that city's annual purge, where all crime is legal for twelve hours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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Murder Was the Case: The Movie
Overview: Follows the exploits of Snoop Doggy Dogg as he gets shot, and makes a deal with the devil to survive.
Genres: Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-14
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Frankenhood
Overview: Two guys who work at a morgue enlist the services of a reanimated corpse to better their chances at a streetball tournament.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-08
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Eddie Murphy: One Night Only
Overview: Eddie Murphy: One Night Only will pay homage to Murphy's journey from a 15-year-old aspiring comedian, to the record-breaking Raw, which remains the highest grossing stand-up film of all time, to his indelible characters and impressions from Saturday Night Live including Buckwheat, Gumby, Mr. Robinson and James Brown. Written by Spike TV
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-14
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The Hustle
Overview: Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at the opportunity that might save his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-05
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Merry F#%$in' Christmas
Overview: Denis Leary and a cast of many others celebrate Christmas Leary-style. Packed with original music and skits, this is a great spin on the usual holiday fluff.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-27
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Charlie Murphy: I Will Not Apologize
Overview: Charlie Murphy: I Will Not Apologize is a live stand-up performance by Murphy in Boston. During his 1-hour set, Charlie covers a spectrum of topics, such as a discussing the male ego as well as a politically incorrect bit about people, including a certain former president of the United States, that he believes are "functionally retarded." He also does an amusing re-enactment of some scenes from 300. Murphy goes on to criticize the usual rehabilitation treatments ensuing from celebrity meltdowns (e.g., Mel Gibson and Michael Richards), arguing that an experience with Jigsaw from Saw is the only way to cure these people of their prejudices. Sticking with celebrities, he claims that Britney Spears's strange behaviour in 2007-08 was caused by her being possessed by the spirit of Rick James. In addition, Charlie hits on reality television, making fun of the courage (or lack thereof) of Dog the Bounty Hunter as well as an obsession with The Dog Whisperer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Mo' Better Blues
Overview: Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-03
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Our Family Wedding
Overview: The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-12
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Jungle Fever
Overview: A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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Twisted Fortune
Overview: A down-and-out thief finds he's got a bottle cap worth a million bucks. Unfortunately, he discovers this while robbing a convenience store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-12
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Freaknik: The Musical
Overview: A rap group heads to Atlanta to participate in Atlanta's revived Freaknik festival.
Genres: Animation Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-05
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The Cookout 2
Overview: Basketball coach Ashmokeem kidnaps and blackmails the opposite team's player and his family in order to secure the championship for his team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-03
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King's Ransom
Overview: Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other people interested in his wealth as well.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-22
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Paper Soldiers
Overview: Paper Soldiers follows an overeager burglar named Shawn (Kevin Hart) through the ups and downs of his short, stressful career.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-01
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Harlem Nights
Overview: 'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-17
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Norbit
Overview: A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-08
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Pauly Shore's Natural Born Komics: Miami
Overview: Pauly Shore with his comics and celebrity friends in South Beach like you've never seen before. Hidden camera, parody, man on the street, stand-up and more!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-08
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