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- Dudley Murphy was born on July 10, 1897 in Winchester, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Stocks and Blondes (1928), High Speed Lee (1923) and ...One Third of a Nation... (1939). He was married to Katharine Hawley and Virginia. He died on February 22, 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico.
- SpousesKatharine Hawley(December 1923 - July 1931) (divorced)Virginia
- Owned Dudley Murphy's Holiday House, a popular oceanfront restaurant and hotel in Malibu (CA) from the 1950s through the 1970s that was frequented by many Hollywood stars.
- His father, prominent Boston School painter Herman Dudley Murphy, was head of the art school at Harvard University.
- His children include: a stillborn son, son Michael, and daughters Poco and Erin (born in 1951).
- He has a grandson, Sebastian Li.
- Idiosyncratic American director of the 1920s and '30s, a former journalist. Output varied wildly from modernist avant-garde to routine studio programmers.
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