Joe Murphy

Joe Murphy was born on May 16, 1877 in USA. Joe Murphy's big-screen debut came with A Little Princess directed by Marshall Neilan in 1917, strarring Leader of Forty Bandits (uncredited). Joe Murphy is known for The Man Who Laughs directed by Paul Leni, Mary Philbin stars as Dea and Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine. The upcoming new movie Joe Murphy plays is When G-Men Step In which will be released on Mar 17, 1938.

Attended Horace Mann school in San Jose. Once belonged to a bicycle club there, known as the Garden City Wheelmen. His nickname in those days was "Spike", but thanks to the fame garnered from playing the comic strip character in the silent Universal short subject series, he would let himself be known as "Andy Gump". (San Jose Evening News, 25 April 1928)