Katy Murphy
Also Known As: 케이티 머피
Biography: Katy Murphy is a Scottish actress of stage, TV and film. She has appeared in children's TV serials such as Mike and Angelo and Spatz, sitcoms such as Me and My Girl and The River, and acclaimed dramas such as The Steamie, Takin' Over The Asylum, Your Cheatin' Heart, and Tutti Frutti to name but a few. She currently is semi-retired from acting, teaching a reception class in North London.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland
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Birthday: January 15, 1963
Age: 62 years old
Gender: Female
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Dear Frankie
Overview: Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. With the real HMS Accra arriving in only a fortnight, Lizzie must choose between telling Frankie the truth or finding the perfect stranger to play Frankie's father for just one day...
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-18
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The Cottage
Overview: In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer and all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Horror Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-07
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No Holds Bard
Overview: Comedy following the lives of five people as they prepare to vie for the 2009 Cup O'Kindness, the trophy awarded to the champion in Robert Burns poetry recital. The film captures the ups and downs of each participant's progress as the pressure intensifies, the poems are recited and the champion is crowned. Held in Alloway, the birthplace of Burns himself, this prestigious competition is the centrepiece of the annual celebrations devoted to the Bard's immortal memory. And this year it may prove memorable for all the wrong reasons.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-25
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The Steamie
Overview: Tony Roper wrote 'The Steamie' for Glasgow's Mayfest in 1987. Return to Hogmany 1957 when a fiesty group of Glasgow women; Mrs Culfeathers, Dolly, Doreen and the irrepressible Magrit, all meet at The Steamie to do the traditional family wash before the New Year. The Steamie is a hilarious cameo of Glasgow's social history where the washing was always easier to do when the Women shared their laugher and sorrow and a scandalous supply of gossip. This is the definitive version of the most popular play of the last 20 years with the all star cast of Dorothy Paul as Magrit, Eileen McCallum as Dolly, Kate Murphy as Doreen, Sheila McDonald as Mrs Culfeathers and a very young Peter Mullan as Andy, the whisky loving handy man.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family History Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-31
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Normal Service
Overview: It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too quickly. Some of the design and graphics staff are intent on not getting involved. Others won't survive the strain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-02
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Byrne About Byrne
Overview: In this diverse and inventive autobiography, painter and author John Byrne travels from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his stage and TV plays, and on to his death, sometime in the future. With him is Robbie Coltrane as himself and as a shamus invented by Byrne, who discovers there are as many aspects to the author as there are actors playing him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-01
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Overview: London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle between love and fame.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-07
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'Itch
Overview: A lone hitch hiker, marooned near a housing estate, has a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-23
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The Key
Overview: The story of three generations told against the backdrop of the 20th century. The drama focuses on the life of Mary Corrigan, from her days as a rebellious mill worker in 1915 and her doomed love affair for a man who must fight for his country, through to her final days in the run up to the British General Election of 1997.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-16
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Donovan Quick
Overview: Quirky stranger Donovan (Colin Firth) blows into the Scottish village of Port Clyde. There, he rents a room with the Pannick family and ingratiates himself into their lives. Lucy (Katy Murphy) is the long-suffering matriarch of the clan, caring for her senile grandmother (Liz Smith) and mentally disabled brother, Sandy (David Brown). When the town cancels Sandy's train route to school, Donovan suggests starting their own bus line. They do, much to the consternation of local officials.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-28
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Butterfly Kiss
Overview: Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly searching for an unknown woman named Judith. She spares the life of lonely but kind-hearted gas station cashier Miriam, who abandons her dismal life to follow her damaged new lover. While attempting to hide the evidence of her multiple crimes, Miriam tries to understand Eunice's bizarre quest.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-18
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Cemetery Junction
Overview: In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-14
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Your Cheatin' Heart
Overview: In this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country music scene in an unsentimental portrait of Glaswegian life and culture. Local food and wine correspondent Frank McClusky falls in love with waitress Cissie Crouch. Unfortunately for him, she’s the wife of a convict, who is serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. As Frank’s life becomes more embroiled with Cissie’s he goes on a mission to track down the guilty men.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-11
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Me & Mrs. Jones
Overview: A top tabloid journalist poses as a political fundraiser to get dirt on the prime minister, but things take a turn when the two begin to fall for one another.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-26
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B&B
Overview: An out-of-work architect turns his house into a bed and breakfast hotel.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-19
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