Actor, Disability Advocate. Murphy started caddying and playing golf at the age of eight and won his first caddy championship at thirteen while attending Boston Latin School where he lettered in hockey and golf. In August of 1974, while a freshman at Stonehill College, Murphy and a group of friends, including future director Peter Farrelly, were vacationing on Martha's Vineyard when he dove into shallow water and broke the sixth vertabrae in his neck and became a quadriplegic. After a year of rehabilitation, he returned to college, graduating in 1979 with a Criminal Justice degree and went to work for an insurance company, developing skills in sales and management, where he had a successful career. In 1988, he became heavily involved in the Americans with Disabilities Act as an advocate for Persons With Disabilities (PWDs). In 1995, after chiding Farrelly about not having wheelchair users in his first movie, 'Dumb and Dumber', the director invited him to play a role in his second feature film 'Kingpin' (1996) which led to roles in 'There's Something About Mary' (1998) followed by 'Me, Myself and Irene' (2000). Murphy soon began to study acting in Hollywood, Florida where he co-hosted a TV show called 'Disability Speaking'. In 2000, he relocated to Los Angeles to study and pursue the film business full time while securing roles in theatre and television. He also had the ability to play able-bodied roles in such feature films as 'Say it Isn't So', 'Osmosis Jones' and 'Shallow Hal (all 2001) and would go on to appear in such films as 'Stuck on You' (2003), 'Fever Pitch' (2005) and 'Hall Pass' (2011). While pursuing his acting career, he produced his own theatre and film projects and became very active with the Media Access Office which helps performers with disabilities break into the acting industry and was a participant at the Human Locomotion Research Center at UCLA. After years of advocacy, he was appointed National Vice Chair of the Screen Actors Guild Performers with Disabilities Committee and co-founded an international organization for PWDs representing the three major acting unions: SAG, AFTRA, and Equity. In 2008, he co-founded a new theatre company for performers with disabilities, Blue Zone Productions, and starred in and produced the initial play 'The History of Bowling'. Murphy, who in 2011 relocated back to Florida to be closer to friends and family, died on the exact date of the 40th anniversary of his life-altering accident from cancer, which was diagnosed in January, 2014.