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Horace Murphy
3 June 1880
Horace Murphy played in 5 movies in the Western, Action, Comedy, Music, Music, Adventure, Mystery, Romance genres.
Horace Murphy got succeed with average imdb rating 5.5.
The son of a physician, 'Horace Murphy' (qv) started his career as a child actor on showboats on the Mississippi. He later played the cornet in the band and eventually became half-owner of the showboat "Cottonblossom Floating Palace". After two seasons he sold his interest and organized a string of dramatic tent shows from New Orleans to Los Angeles, each of which also had a baseball team. Later he sold these and built two theaters, one in Los Angeles and one in Burbank. He entered movies in 193... 6 and went on to a career mostly in B-Westerns. He is perhaps best known as "Ananias", Tex Ritter's partner in a string of films. He also appeared on radio with Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.Read more Less
