Biography

Gabriel Murray was born in Ireland. Originally studied Fine Art at National Colege of Art and Design. He went on to study film Direction /Screenwriting at Dun Laoghire College of Art. He studied History of film from Irish film historian Kevin Rockett at NCAD.

Murray founded the Visual Arts Centre and was awarded the Young Ireland Iniative award by Arts Council/Irish Press and Dublin Corporation. He was also a founding member of the Young Irish Film Makers Workshop(Dublin). He has written fifteen scripts and two novels. He has optioned various scripts; The Boys are Back in Town - Phil Lynott Story

• Mary Breen Farrelly(Space Truckers) Goddess - based on the book by

Anthony Summers. His novel The Golden Flame(Athens Olympics 1896) has been developed for a major European Co- Production. He goes to great lengths on his research and spent two years researching a script on the murder of Tsar Nicholas 11 with research from Geli Ryabov ,the man who found the bones of the Tsar. He recently began directing his own scripts winning Waterford Film Festival (2008) for his Documentary feature-The Lost World of the Crystal Skull.
- IMDb mini biography by: Simon Cole

The Lost World of the Crystal Skull won best feature documentary at Waterford Film Festival, Ireland. (2008).

Published historical novels before he started writing scripts and directing. His bestselling novel The Golden Flame, the story of Baron De Coubertin and the foundation of the Olympic Games (Athens 1896) was published in America for the Atlanta Games (1996)and in Greece for Athens Games (2004).

Member of the Jury Monaco International Film Festival (2007).

Attended the same school at Ralph Fiennes - St Kierans College Kilkenny. Ralph lived there in 1973. Gabriel was a prefect in his class.