Bryan Murray (actor)
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Bryan Murray (born 13 July 1949) is an Irish actor. He is currently playing Bob Charles in the soap opera Fair City.
Murray was born in Dublin, Ireland. As a stage actor he began his career in Dublin at the Abbey Theatre where, as a member of The Abbey Company, he appeared in over 50 productions. He has appeared many times at the Gate Theatre in Dublin most recently in Celebration by Harold Pinter for the 2010 Dublin Theatre Festival. In the 2010 Dublin Fringe Festival he appeared in the award winning production of Medea at The Samuel Becket theatre. In London he has been a member of The Royal National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company and has been in many productions in London and the West End.
He is widely known for his extensive television work which includes Fitz in Strumpet City, Flurry Knox in The Irish RM, Shifty in Bread (for which he won BBC TV Personality of the Year), Harry Cassidy in Perfect Scoundrels, Trevor Jordache in Brookside and Bob Charles in Fair City. He appeared on the second season of Charity You're a Star where he sang duets with his Fair City co-star Una Crawford O'Brien. The duo were voted off the show after performing "Don't Go Breaking My Heart".[1]
As a presenter he fronted the children’s religious affairs programmes Knock Knock and Umbrella for BBC1 Television for 3 years. For RTÉ Television he had his own prime time talk shows Encore and Caught in the Act and presented Saturday Night Live. His nine-part radio programme The Sound of Movies was aired on RTÉ Radio 1 in 2008. Most recently he has presented Late Date on RTÉ Radio 1.
In the US he presented the Irish Spring commercial on network TV for six years, the award winning Pioneer Press commercials for three years and hosted the St Patrick’s Day Parade for PBS Television. In 2011 he presented the highly acclaimed and IFTA nominated documentary for TV3 The Tenements, a four part series charting the rise and fall of the tenements in Dublin from the 1800s to the mid-1970s.
He co-created and co-devised the ITV series Perfect Scoundrels for three years.
He has co-written two musicals performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and Irish Theatre Company Dublin; A Happy Go Likeable Man, after Moliere, and Thieves Carnival, after Anouilth.
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[edit] Famous roles
Murray is most famous for the following roles:
- Trevor Jordache in Brookside
- Mr James Roberts in Casualty and Holby City
- Harry Fullerton in The Bill
- Shifty Boswell in Bread
- Flurry Knox in The Irish R.M.
- Harry Cassidy in Perfect Scoundrels
- Bob Fitzpatrick in Strumpet City
- Officer Doyle in Mrs Santa Claus
- Bob Charles in Fair City
Although Murray's fame increased in the eighties thanks to his role as Flurry Knox in The Irish R.M. and Shifty Boswell in the popular sitcom Bread, his role in Brookside is easily the best remembered, even though he was only in the show for eleven episodes in 1993. His character, the wife beater and child abuser Trevor Jordache, was famously stabbed and killed by his wife, Mandy (Sandra Maitland) and daughter Beth (Anna Friel). They later buried his body under the patio, where it was discovered in 1995.
He currently plays Bob Charles, once owner of McCoys pub but now the owner of The Hungry Pig restaurant, in the RTÉ soap opera Fair City.
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[edit] References
- ^ "Una and Bryan voted off Charity You're A Star". RTÉ. 3 August 2006. http://www.rte.ie/ten/2006/0803/charityyoureastar.html. Retrieved 3 August 2006.
