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- Birth nameDennis Rorke Murphy
- Dennis Murphy was born on August 27, 1932 in Salinas, California, USA. He was a writer, known for The Todd Killings (1971), Eye of the Devil (1966) and The Sergeant (1968). He was married to Daryl Leslie Timmons, Ashley Susanna Justice and Kelly Murphy. He died on October 6, 2005 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- SpousesDaryl Leslie Timmons(October 17, 1960 - August 1971) (divorced, 1 child)Ashley Susanna Justice(1957 - May 8, 1959) (her death, 1 child)Kelly Murphy(? - October 6, 2005) (his death, 2 children)
- Cremated and ashes scattered on the Big Sur, California coast.
- The son of Nobel Prize-winning novelist John Steinbeck's best friend and the grandson of the physician who delivered Steinbeck.
- Dennis was the brother of Michael Murphy, co-founder of the Esalen Institute on the family's property south of Big Sur, where the music concert film "Celebration in Big Sur" was filmed in 1969 and released in 1971.
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