In 1899, Mile-a-Minute Murphy became the first man to ride his bicycle a mile in under a minute, which he did by drafting a locomotive at New York's Long Island.

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.

* 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.

After the death of Owen in 1999, Compo was replaced at various times by his real-life son, Tom Owen, as equally unkempt Tom Simmonite, Keith Clifford as Billy Hardcastle, a man who fancied himself a descendant of Robin Hood, and Brian Murphy as the childish Alvin Smedley.

alt = The man in the middle of the cover is Lenny Murphy

As the taxi pulled alongside Crossen, Murphy jumped out and hit the man with a wheel brace to disorientate him.

Murphy immediately attacked the man as the taxi was driven back to the safety of the Shankill.

Murphy and Moore shot dead Edward McQuaid, a Catholic man, on the Cliftonville Road on 10 January 1976.

Several of the Butchers, including John Murphy, were questioned about a serious assault in April 1977 in Union Street, near Belfast city centre, on a man they believed wrongly was a Catholic.

When Murphy continued to insist that the Black man had to go, Feldstein put it on the line.

; Stewart " Irish " Murphy: Wal's other neighbour, a brutish man who does not welcome visitors and shoots any dog that strays onto his property, or mercifully hang them by their heels on the fence.

Mentioned in A Whistle in the Dark ( Act 1, p31 ) by Tom Murphy: ' in the words of the great Gene Tunney, a man must fight back.

Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952.

In movies, Murphy was famous as a song-and-dance man, appearing in many big-budget musicals such as Broadway Melody of 1938, Broadway Melody of 1940 and For Me and My Gal.

The Crying Game and Breakfast on Pluto both concern a transgender character ( played by Jaye Davidson and Cillian Murphy, respectively ), both concern the Troubles, and both feature frequent Jordan leading man Stephen Rea.

ince agreeing to testify against McKevitt, Rupert has come under pressure to give evidence against other Real IRA and Continuity IRA figures, including Colm Murphy, the only man convicted of offences relating to the Omagh bomb attack.

David Davies, MP for Monmouth once said: " Paul Murphy is clearly a very experienced member of parliament and whilst I and my colleagues will disagree with his policies and his government's policies and will certainly take him to task for that, he's a man who is, I think I probably can say, is widely respected on all sides of the House of Commons.

Private James Bergin, a very tall man, used his bayonet to cut a hole in the hedge and Drummer Michael Magner climbed onto his shoulders through the hedge in the gap and dragged Bergin up behind him as Ensign Conner and Corporal Murphy helped shove from below.

However, he found the situation unsettling and Patrick Murphy, a sports journalist, writes that it " served to drive a reserved man further in on himself.

Murphy demonstrated his versatility and ability to attract mainstream audiences with the two films that followed: Māori western Utu ( 1983 ) and the last man on earth piece The Quiet Earth ( 1985 ), both starring Bruno Lawrence.

It revolves around a con man named Jeff Johnson ( played by Eddie Murphy ) who tricks people into electing him for the United States Congress, with plans to earn money by scamming people for donations and campaign contributions.

* A Saturday Night Live episode featured a short film starring Eddie Murphy called " White Like Me " where they used make-up effects to turn Murphy into a white man.

The commander of the Shankill Butchers gang was Lenny Murphy.

By now Murphy was using the upper floor of the Brown Bear pub, at the corner of Mountjoy Street and the Shankill Road near his home, as an occasional meeting-place for his unit.

Enraged, Murphy had the gunman, former loyalist prisoner Noel " Nogi " Shaw, brought before a kangaroo court in the Lawnbrook Club, one of his Shankill drinking-dens.

On 29 August 1982, Murphy killed Jim Galway ( 33 ), a part-time Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) soldier from the Lower Shankill area who had been passing information to the UVF and was involved with its Ballymena units.

The Shankill Butchers ' last victim was killed off Brookmount Street ( pictured ), where Lenny Murphy owned a house

On 9 February 1976, Murphy and three of his gang shot and killed two Protestant men, Archibald Hanna and Raymond Carlisle, wrongly believing that they were Catholics on their way to work across the Shankill.

In 1975, Moore met Lenny Murphy in the Brown Bear pub on the Shankill Road.

Murphy, who was assembling the gang that become known as the Shankill Butchers, recruited Moore into the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF )

The UVF would continue to be active on the Shankill throughout the Troubles, most notoriously with the Shankill Butchers led by Lenny Murphy, as well as the likes of William Marchant and Frankie Curry, the latter a member of the UVF's elite Red Hand Commando.

The " Lawnbrook Social Club " in Centurion Street, one of the drinking dens used by Lenny Murphy and the Shankill Butchers

The " Brown Bear " pub which loyalist Lenny Murphy used as his headquarters to direct his notorious murder gang-the Shankill Butchers-was located on the corner of the Upper Shankill and Mountjoy Street.

Murphy was a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) and leader of the infamous Shankill Butchers gang which became notorious for its torture and murder of Catholic men.

Murphy was the youngest of three sons of Joyce and William Murphy from the loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast.

The Murphy family changed their residence several times ; in 1957 they returned to Joyce's family home in the lower Shankill, at 28 Percy Street.

With his brother William he soon formed a gang of more than twenty men that would become known as the Shankill Butchers, one of his lieutenants being William Moore. Brookmount Steet ( 2009 ), where Murphy lived close to the top of the Shankill Road

Murphy achieved status though his paramilitary activity and was widely known in the Shankill.

Dillon notes that the police believed Murphy was involved in the Shankill Butcher murders.

In late August, Murphy killed a part-time UDR soldier from the Lower Shankill area who was closely involved with the UVF in Ballymena and was allegedly an informer.

On 16 November 1982, Murphy had just pulled up outside the rear of his girlfriend's house in the Glencairn area of the upper Shankill when two Provisional IRA gunmen emerged from a black van nearby and opened fire with an assault rifle and a 9 mm pistol.