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Michael Murphy (born May 5, 1938) is an American character actor. After working as a high school teacher for two years he pursued an acting career. He played Woody Allen's friend Yale in the film Manhattan. He has worked frequently with director Robert Altman, and gave his best-known performances for Altman as political operative John Triplette in Nashville and as presidential candidate Jack Tanner in the acclaimed 1988 HBO miniseries Tanner '88
. He played Mayor Hamilton Hill in Batman Returns
, and sleazy journalist Pete Curtis in Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously
.

He can now be seen on the Canadian series This is Wonderland, for which he won Gemini Awards in 2004 and 2005. That same year, he appeared in the film Childstar with Don McKellar. His TV credits also include Law & Order and its spinoff, Criminal Intent.

He is married to Canadian actress Wendy Crewson.

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