The film stars Eddie Murphy, who plays an African prince who comes to the United States in hopes of finding a woman he can marry.

Hall plays Reverend Brown, who introduces Randy Watson ( Murphy ) and his band Sexual Chocolate, who perform " Greatest Love of All " at the Black Awareness Rally.

One scene includes Cuba Gooding Jr., who does not speak, and the barber scenes are notable because Murphy plays both Akeem and Clarence simultaneously ( seemingly giving himself a haircut ).

The Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center has also become a much used venue for plays and concerts that come to Baltimore, as well the home of a museum of African-American art.

The Murphy Theater stages productions throughout the year from various acts and ensembles as well as staging musicals and plays from neighboring school districts in the county.

Usually the band performs as follows: Murphy is on lead vocals and plays bass, Pentland is also on lead vocals and plays lead guitar, Ferguson plays rhythm guitar, and Scott plays drums.

The Scarecrow appears in nine video games: Game Boy's Batman: The Animated Series, Super Nintendo and Mega Drive / Genesis's The Adventures of Batman & Robin, Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, Batman Begins ( a tie-in to the 2005 movie, voiced by Cillian Murphy ), Lego Batman: The Videogame, Batman: Arkham Asylum, " Batman: Arkham City " Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame, DC Universe Online and plays a brief boss in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes.

Hagman appeared in four other Broadway plays, God and Kate Murphy, The Nervous Set, The Warm Peninsula and The Beauty Part.

In rare cases, sometimes called autobiopics, the subject of the film plays himself or herself: Jackie Robinson in The Jackie Robinson Story ; Muhammad Ali in The Greatest ; Audie Murphy in To Hell and Back ; Patty Duke in Call Me Anna ; Arlo Guthrie in Alice's Restaurant ; and Howard Stern in Private Parts.

As the orchestra plays in the concert, Ash and Murphy stay out on the courtyard.

The song that he plays on the organ is a variation of " A Fifth of Beethoven " by Walter Murphy, a disco version of Beethoven's " Symphony No. 5 " in C Minor.

Considered by many to be Ireland's greatest living playwright ( a title also often given to Brian Friel ), Tom Murphy was honoured by the Abbey Theatre in 2001 by a retrospective season of six of his plays.

( pilot episode as Mary Murphy ), Hardcastle and McCormick, Time of Your Life, Tales From the Crypt, State of Grace, and Tales of the Gold Monkey ( TV series ), most recently, 7th Heaven, which stars her husband, actor Stephen Collins, who plays Rev.

Witherspoon plays the role of Mr. Jackson, Gerald Jackson ’ s father, and steals the spot light at the Thanksgiving dinner from other stars Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence with his quotes “ Bang!

Murphy can be seen in the films The Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000, where he plays Aretha Franklin's hen-pecked husband.

Daryl Murphy ( born 15 March 1983 ) is an Irish footballer who plays for Ipswich Town on loan from Scottish Premier League club Celtic.

It plays in the scene where Lindsay Lohan's character maggie is tempted by Trip Murphy.

* Ruaidhri Murphy plays Super 15 rugby with the ACT Brumbies

Murphy plays a hostage negotiator in San Francisco.

From the late 1940s he played in more prestigious pictures, including Captain from Castile starring Tyrone Power, Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart, ( 1948 ), Lust for Gold with Glenn Ford ( 1949 ), Broken Arrow ( 1950 ) with James Stewart, War Arrow ( 1953 ) with Maureen O ' Hara, Jeff Chandler and Noah Beery, Jr., Drums Across the River ( 1954 ), Walk the Proud Land ( 1956 ) with Audie Murphy and Anne Bancroft, Alias Jesse James ( 1959 ) with Bob Hope, and Indian Paint ( 1964 ) with Johnny Crawford.

* Eddie Murphy as Chandler Jarrell

Actor Mel Gibson was originally selected to play the role of Chandler Jarrell ; but when Gibson was unavailable, the producers selected Murphy and transformed the movie from a serious adventure drama into a comedy.

Rex Murphy ( born March 1947 ) is a Canadian commentator and author, primarily on Canadian political and social matters.

Murphy demonstrated sympathy for Filipino masses, especially for the land-hungry and oppressed tenant farmers, and emphasized the need for social justice.

The film garnered a 89 % approval rating from 38 critics — an average rating of 7. 2 out of 10 — on the review-aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, which said, " featuring deft interplay between Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, Trading Places is an immensely appealing social satire.

Justice Lionel Murphy wrote most broadly of the Franklin Dam decision's broader environmental and social implications in terms of the UNESCO Convention's common heritage of humanity principle, stating that " The preservation of the world's heritage must not be looked at in isolation but as part of the co-operation between nations which is calculated to achieve intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind and so reinforce the bonds between people which promote peace and displace those of narrow nationalism and alienation which promote war ... he encouragement of people to think internationally, to regard the culture of their own country as part of world culture, to conceive a physical, spiritual and intellectual world heritage, is important in the endeavour to avoid the destruction of humanity.

Gerald Clery Murphy and Sara Sherman Wiborg were wealthy, expatriate Americans who moved to the French Riviera in the early 20th century and who, with their generous hospitality and flair for parties, created a vibrant social circle, particularly in the 1920s, that included a great number of artists and writers of the Lost Generation.

Born in Thomasville, GA on 2 July 1926, Murphy began his career as an African specialist while serving as visiting lecturer in social anthropology at South Africa's University College of Fort Hare ( then the only college for non-whites in apartheid South Africa ).

The five patients were Ralph Orlando, a construction worker seriously injured in a scaffold collapse, John O ' Connor, a middle aged dispatcher suffering from fever that has reduced him to a delirious wreck, Peter Luchesi, a young man who severs his hand in an accident, Sylvia Thompson, an airline passenger who suffers chest pains, and Edith Murphy, a mother of three who is diagnosed with a life threatening disease.

The son of a steel worker, Murphy graduated from John Carroll University in Cleveland in 1967 and received a graduate degree from Hunter College in urban studies in 1973.

He was found guilty of reckless driving yesterday by Traffic Judge George T. Murphy, who continued his no-driving probation for another year and ordered him to spend 15 days in the Detroit House of Correction.

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

His films include To Hell and Back, the autobiography of Audie Murphy, who is considered the most decorated soldier in the military history of the United States ; John Wayne's war film The Green Berets ( 1968 ), and opposite Gregory Peck in the space story Marooned about three stranded astronauts.

According to Murphy ’ s parody, when the television cameras were turned off, the sweet Gumby reverted to his true self: a cigar chomping, irascible celebrity who was highly demanding of the production executives.

In an aside, he cited the single mother title character in the television program Murphy Brown as an example of how popular culture contributes to this " poverty of values ", saying, " It doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown — a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman — mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another ' lifestyle choice.

The potato chip remained otherwise unseasoned until an innovation by Joe " Spud " Murphy ( 1923 – 2001 ), the owner of an Irish crisp company called Tayto, who developed a technology to add seasoning during manufacture in the 1950s.

Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy ( who called themselves the " Two Guys from Andromeda "), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek ( the theme song itself is a parody of the Star Wars theme ), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft.

Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe, who had already worked together on the Sierra game The Black Cauldron, wanted to create a funny science fiction adventure game.

The sub-genre became a popular trend in the 1980s when actors who were known for their background in comedy such as Eddie Murphy, began to take roles in action films.

In an interview conducted by Nick Spark, George Nichols, another engineer who was present, stated that Murphy blamed the failure on his assistant after the failed test, saying, " If that guy has any way of making a mistake, he will.

The most famous was the French-Irish Marie-Louise O ' Murphy, who after two years as the king's young lover, made the fatal mistake of trying to unseat Madame de Pompadour and supplant her as favorite.

In the barbershop scenes, Murphy and Hall play elderly barbers Clarence and Morris, who engage in furious debate with Saul, the old Jewish man ( played by Murphy ), about the boxing skills of Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, and Rocky Marciano.

Trading Places is again referenced as the royal entourage leaves the Waldorf-Astoria in the final New York – based scene in the movie: the driver of Akeem and Semmi's limo is played by the same actor who played the Dukes ' driver in Trading Places, from whom Billy Ray Valentine ( Murphy ) seeks counsel when the Dukes pick him up after bailing him out of jail.

Murphy, who was working in a printing factory, decided to give it a try, despite never having written any lyrics or music.

* Eddie Murphy starred in a 1983 Saturday Night Live sketch, playing the role of Clarence Walker, a man who claimed to be the fifth Beatle.

It is implied that he and Bleeding Gums Murphy are long-lost brothers ; Hibbert says he has a long-lost brother who is a jazz musician, and Murphy says he has a brother who is a doctor that chuckles at inappropriate times, but somehow the two don't put these clues together.