Murray Melvin  

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Murray Melvin (1932 – 2023) was an English actor. He was best known for his acting work with Joan Littlewood, Ken Russell and Stanley Kubrick.

Selected filmography

• The Criminal (1960) – Antlers
• Suspect (1960) – Teddy Boy
• A Taste of Honey (1961) – Geoffrey Ingham
• Petticoat Pirates (1961) – Kenneth
• Solo for Sparrow (1962) – Larkin
• H.M.S. Defiant (1962) – Wagstaffe
• Sparrows Can't Sing (1963) – Georgie
• The Ceremony (1963) – First Gendaime
• Alfie (1966) – Nat
• Kaleidoscope (1966) – Aimes
• Smashing Time (1967) – 1st Exquisite
• The Fixer (1968) – Priest
• Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) – Blind Man
• The Devils (1971) – Mignon
• The Boy Friend (1971) – Alphonse
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972) – Doctor
• Gawain and the Green Knight (1973) – Seneschal
• Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973) – Hamidos
• Ghost Story (1974) – Mc Fayden
• Lisztomania (1975) – Hector Berlioz
• Barry Lyndon (1975) – Rev. Samuel Runt
• Shout at the Devil (1976) – Lt. Phipps
• The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976) – Blifil
• The Ballad of Salomon Pavey (1977)
• Gulliver's Travels (voice, 1977)
• Joseph Andrews (1977) – Beau Didapper
• The Prince and the Pauper (1977) – Prince's Dresser
• Stories from a Flying Trunk (1979) – Hans Christian Andersen
• Nutcracker (1982) – Leopold
• Sacred Hearts (1985) – Father Power
• Christopher Columbus (1985) – Father Linares
• Comrades (1986) – Clerk
• Funny Boy (1987) – Arthur
• Little Dorrit (1988) – Dancing Master
• Testimony (1988) – Film Editor
• Slipstream (1989) – Man on Stairs
• The Krays (1990) – Newsagent
• The Fool (1990) – Jeremy Ruttle
• Let Him Have It (1991) – Secondary School Teacher
• Prisoner of Honour (1991) – Bertillon
• As You Like It (1992) – Sir Oliver Martext
• Princess Caraboo (1994) – Lord Motley
• England, My England (1995) – Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury
• Alice in Wonderland (1999) – Chief Executioner
• The Emperor's New Clothes (2001) – Antommarchi
• The Phantom of the Opera (2004) – Reyer
• The Grey Mile (2012) – Professor Worth
• The Lost City of Z (2016) – Lord James Bernard