
Richard Bernard Murdoch was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey, and Pembroke College, Cambridge University. Whilst at university he participated in the Footlights Dramatic Club's performances.
Murdoch's first appearance in cinema was as an uncredited dancing extra in 1932 film Looking on the Bright Side. In 1937 he was listed among the cast of the "Television Follies", an early BBC Television programme.
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The titles people know Richard from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.

as Worshipful Wizard · 20 episodes
as Cabinet Minister
as Ross, a Lord · 1 episode

as Narrator (voice) · 100 episodes
as Lord Chamberlain

as Dornford · 1 episode
as Sir Alan Sternfield · 1 episode
as Pinman Perry · 1 episode
as Uncle Tom · 23 episodes

as Cmdr. Bissham-Ryley
as Stinker · 9 episodes
as Sitter in Bath Studio

as Flight Lieutenant Murdoch / Capt. Wimpole

as David Felton

as Scott the News Reporter

as Illusionist

as Stinker
as Teddy Deakin

as 'Stinker' Burton

as Stinker Murdoch
as Detective Lewis

as Sergeant Oliver

as Dancer (uncredited)
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