American film director
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.
Owned Dudley Murphys Holiday House, a popular oceanfront restaurant and hotel in Malibu from the 1950s through the 1970s that was frequented by many Hollywood stars.
Idiosyncratic American director of the 1920s and 30s, a former journalist. Output varied wildly from modernist avant-garde to routine studio programmers.
