1907-04-06 ( 118 years old ) in Keston, Kent, England, UK
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.
He received his big professional break in the British Broadcasting Corporation's comedy radio programme Band Waggon in 1938 as part of a double act with the then rising star Arthur Askey, acquiring the nickname "Stinker" in mocking reference to his superior formal education.
As Askey moved from radio performing into cinema at the end of the 1930s Murdoch went with him and they appeared in a number of Askey star vehicle films together, Murdoch's tall athletic physique, good looks and upper middle class English Home Counties demeanor contrasting comedically with Askey's short stature, homely appearance, Lancashire provincial accent and working class performance persona. Their working partnership broke up during World War 2 when Murdoch joined the Armed Forces, but they briefly reprised it in the late 1950s for the television series Living It Up.
Murdoch was conscripted into the Royal Air Force in 1941, serving as a junior intelligence officer with Bomber Command, before being posted to the Department of Allied Air Force and Foreign Liaison as a Flight Lieutenant. In 1943 he joined the Directorate of Administrative Plans at the Air Ministry, where he shared an office with Wing Commander Kenneth Horne, being responsible for the supply of aircraft and air equipment to Russia. He finished the war with the rank of Squadron Leader.
Movies
Whoops Apocalypse
1986-05-06
The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls
1980-12-28
Under the Table You Must Go
1970-01-02
Not a Hope in Hell
1960-10-01
Strictly Confidential
1959-01-01
The Magic Box
1952-01-01
Lilli Marlene
1950-12-08
Golden Arrow
1949-12-31
It Happened in Soho
1948-06-24
One Exciting Night
1944-12-04
I Thank You
1941-10-20
The Ghost Train
1941-05-05
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
1940-08-31
Band Waggon
1940-03-23
The Terror
1938-05-02
Over She Goes
1937-08-16
Looking on the Bright Side
1932-03-14
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