Ben Murphy

AKA: Benjamin Edward Castleberry Jr., Ben Castleberry, Benjamin Edward Murphy
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1942-03-06

Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA

Biography

Ben Murphy (born Benjamin Edward Castleberry Jr.) is an American actor. He has appeared primarily in television roles and is best known for his role as Kid Curry in the 1971-1973 ABC television series Alias Smith and Jones.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {68}

1972-01-01 0

Death Follows a Psycho

Private eye Wade Griffin finds himself in an intense stand-off with a "human time-bomb", who is holding four people hostage and will kill them all unless Griffin delivers the person that the bomber re ...
Genre :Thriller

Prof. Douglas McCadden

1982-11-01 4.1

Time Walker

From deep within the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Professor Douglas McCadden ships the coffin of Ankh-Vanharis to the California Institute of Sciences where X-rays reveal five diamond-lik ...
Genre :Horror, Science Fiction

Jeff Rayburn

1975-04-30 2.5

Sidecar Racers

You're going to get us both killed with your grandstanding...! Two guys, one girl, and no brakes! Death defying daredevils burning up the track in thrill-a-minute action. Burning the track like its ne ...
Genre :Drama

Larry

1968-04-24 6.9

Yours, Mine and Ours

When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family? ...
Genre :Comedy

Lt. Archer

1969-07-15 6

The Thousand Plane Raid

In 1943, Colonel Greg Brandon, stationed at an United States Army Air Forces 8th Air Force, 103rd Bomb Group base in England, repeatedly attempts to persuade superiors that massive daylight bombing wi ...
Genre :Adventure, War

Mike Murdoch

1978-01-23 0

The Case of the Baltimore Girls

Former police captain and his assistant investigate extortion and murder at a dating service. ...
Genre :Crime, TV Movie

Les Reever

1973-09-29 5.3

Runaway!

A group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside. ...
Genre :Thriller, TV Movie

Frank Taylor

1974-01-26 5.9

Heatwave!

A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Shaving Fraternity Brother (uncredited)

1967-12-21 7.6

The Graduate

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Comedy

Wild Bill Hickok

1974-12-17 0

This Is the West That Was

A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters. ...
Genre :Western, TV Movie

Sam Casey

1976-01-01 2.6

Riding with Death

Agent Sam Casey is in a satellite explosion and the radiation turns him invisible. He gets a watch that keeps him visible, and he uses it to switch from visible to invisible. He is assigned to transpo ...
Genre :Science Fiction, TV Movie, Action, Thriller

Buck Wheeler

1980-11-29 3.5

The Secret War of Jackie's Girls

This prospective pilot to a series tells the improbable story of five American female pilots recruited into the British RAF, before the USA joined the war, to fly a new top-secret aircraft -- the heli ...
Genre :Action, Drama, War, TV Movie

Jim Merritt

1983-01-22 0

Uncommon Valor

The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team of firefighters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headed by dauntless battalion chief Tom Riordan (Mitchell ...
Genre :TV Movie

General Dwight Rourke

2007-01-18 6.4

McBride: Semper Fi

Mike McBride is a curmudgeon with a heart of gold. He takes cases based on their merit rather than on their monetary value, which often leads to terse notices from bill collectors. A disillusioned mem ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

Patrick Forrester

1969-06-13 6

Anatomy of a Crime

Private detective David Ross has two apparently unconnected cases to investigate in the same day. In the first he is hired by a millionaire who paid a large ransom for his kidnapped daughter twelve ye ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Crime, Mystery

Joe Randolph

1973-03-06 6.2

The Letters

Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Kit Carson

1976-09-10 0

Bridger

The story of famous frontiersman Jim Bridger, who is given 40 days to cut a trail through the Rocky Mountains to the California coast and told that if he can't do it, the territory will be lost to Eng ...
Genre :

Dr. Richard Carroll

1983-05-24 4

The Cradle Will Fall

Kathy DeMaio checks into the hospital and thinks she sees a body being loaded into the trunk of a car. When the body turns up later and the murderer, Dr. Highley, thinks that DeMaio can identify him, ...
Genre :Thriller, Horror, Drama, TV Movie

Steve Graves

1986-05-14 0

Stark: Mirror Image

Sequel to the original movie about a hard-boiled Kansas City cop finds him tracking a colleague's killer to Las Vegas. ...
Genre :TV Movie

Ron Levering

1985-06-01 6

Gidget's Summer Reunion

Former beach bunny/girl surfer Francine “Gidget” Lawrence is an adult and married to her long-term beau Jeff “Moondoggie” Griffin. She deals with a variety of marital spats, as well as running her own ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Jed 'Kid' Curry (alias Thaddeus Jones)

1971-09-16 0

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

Hayes visits con-artist Silky O'Sullivan at his San Francisco mansion and discovers that Kid Curry is on trial for murder in Colorado. Heyes rushes to the town and sees Curry in the audience; the man ...
Genre :Western, TV Movie

Frank Swerdlow

1996-03-02 5.341

Pacific Blue

Pacific Blue is an American crime drama series about a team of police officers with the Santa Monica Police Department who patrolled its beaches on bicycles. The show ran for five seasons on the USA N ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime, War & Politics

Scott Lodge

1984-09-30 7.5

Murder, She Wrote

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Phillip Hallett

2000-10-07 6.8

The District

The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department. ...
Genre :Drama

1979-09-23 6.5

Trapper John, M.D.

Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran o ...
Genre :Drama

Brad Vickers

1999-09-19 7.494

Judging Amy

Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge ...
Genre :Drama

2006-09-18 7.349

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

A behind-the-scenes look at a fictional sketch-comedy TV show. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1985-09-27 7.751

The Twilight Zone

This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery

Travis Whitman (2006)

2003-09-28 7.787

Cold Case

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated t ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jed 'Kid' Curry (alias Thaddeus Jones)

1971-01-05 6.968

Alias Smith and Jones

Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of cousin outlaw ...
Genre :Western, Crime

1982-08-21 6.8

Hotel

Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the ser ...
Genre :Drama, Soap

1991-11-07 6.045

Silk Stalkings

Silk Stalkings is a crime drama television series. The series portrays the daily lives of two detectives who solve sexually-based crimes of passion among the ultra-rich of Palm Beach, Florida. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure

Ethan Cooper

1993-01-01 7.614

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868. ...
Genre :Western, Drama

John Farrow

1995-09-23 7.3

JAG

Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of m ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

1998-10-07 6.9

Seven Days

"Ever wish you could live your last week all over again? Well, my name's Frank B. Parker, and I do it all the time. I work for a secret government project experimenting in time travel. When things rea ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

1989-09-12 6.5

Life Goes On

Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in suburban Chicago: Drew, his wife Elizabeth, and their ...
Genre :Drama, Family

1976-11-13 6

Battle of the Network Stars

Battle of the Network Stars was a series of competitions where television stars from ABC, CBS, and NBC would compete in various sporting events. A total of nineteen of these competitions were held, al ...
Genre :Comedy

1982-09-26 6.2

Matt Houston

Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling. ...
Genre :Drama

1985-01-05 5

Berrenger's

Berrenger's is an American primetime television soap opera created by Diana Gould that aired on NBC in 1985. The series revolved around the Berrenger family, a New York dynasty which owned the glamoro ...
Genre :Soap, Drama

Patrick Flaherty

1983-09-09 5.5

Lottery!

Lottery! is an American drama series that premiered on ABC on September 9, 1983. The series aired for one season of 17 episodes and starred Ben Murphy as Patrick Sean Flaherty, and Marshall Colt as Er ...
Genre :Drama

Sam Casey

1976-05-10 6.9

Gemini Man

Sam Casey is an agent for INTERSECT, a government think-tank and operations center specializing in secret missions. While on a diving assignment, Sam was affected by the radiation from an underwater e ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Beauclaire

1985-01-21 4.5

MacGruder and Loud

MacGruder and Loud is an American crime drama from Aaron Spelling Productions that aired on ABC in 1985. The series stars John Getz and Kathryn Harrold as married police officers Malcolm MacGruder an ...
Genre :Drama

1973-09-29 5

Griff

Griff is an American crime drama starring Lorne Greene and Ben Murphy, which aired on ABC from September 29, 1973, to January 4, 1974. ...
Genre :Drama

Will Chisholm

1979-03-29 6.2

The Chisholms

The Chisholms is a CBS western miniseries starring Robert Preston, which aired from March 29, 1979, to April 19, 1979; and continued as a television series from January 19, 1980, to March 15, 1980. Th ...
Genre :Western

1990-10-10 6

Shades of L.A.

Shades of L.A. is an American crime drama television series that aired from October 10, 1990 until April 6, 1991. Det. Michael Burton of the Los Angeles Police Department is a casual cop until he find ...
Genre :Drama

1995-06-11 0

High Sierra Search and Rescue

High Sierra Search and Rescue is a short-lived American television series that aired on NBC in 1995. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Lt. Danko

1988-04-30 7.4

The Dirty Dozen

Tv show made up of 14 episodes. ...
Genre :War & Politics, Drama

Alan Peterson

1969-09-23 6.5

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside man ...
Genre :Drama

Warren Henry

1983-02-06 7.2

The Winds of War

Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters ...
Genre :War & Politics, Drama

Self

1961-12-11 5.4

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went in ...
Genre :Comedy, Talk

Cornelius Stratton

1998-10-03 5.8

Air America

Air America is an American action/adventure television series starring Lorenzo Lamas, and premiering on October 4, 1998. The series is not based on the 1990 film Air America. ...
Genre :Drama

Joe Sample

1968-09-20 6.8

The Name of the Game

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering w ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Matthew Saver

1977-09-24 6.3

The Love Boat

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

King Pineau

1968-01-09 7.24

It Takes a Thief

Convicted cat burglar Alexander Mundy gets an offer he can't refuse from the United States government: If he puts his formidable thieving skills to work for them, he'll be released from prison. Alexan ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Reverend henderson

1995-09-13 6.503

The Drew Carey Show

Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with co-worker Mimi, his hobbies include drinking beer and not ...
Genre :Comedy

Wes Manning

1962-09-19 6.4

The Virginian

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more b ...
Genre :Western, Drama

David Carson

1984-09-22 5.7

Finder of Lost Loves

The Finder of Lost Loves TV show was a 60 minute drama series on ABC about a private investigator who specialized in finding lost loves from the past for his heartbroken clients. ...
Genre :Drama

Captain Veitch

2003-09-23 7.623

NCIS

From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has any connection to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure

Paul Dunbar

1977-09-24 6.3

The Love Boat

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Bob

1968-09-24 6.2

The Mod Squad

The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Pete Cochren, Peggy L ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Robert Houston

1995-09-30 6.2

Baywatch Nights

Baywatch Nights is an American police and science fiction drama series that aired in syndication from 1995 to 1997. Created by Douglas Schwartz, David Hasselhoff, and Gregory J. Bonann, the series is ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Patrick Forrester

1968-09-18 5.2

The Outsider

The Outsider was the story of David Ross, a go-it-alone private investigator who's always where the action is. Darren McGavin played Ross, a man living in an off-beat, always-dangerous world. The seri ...
Genre :Drama

Nathan Paul

1977-09-24 6.3

The Love Boat

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Joseph Sample

1968-09-20 6.8

The Name of the Game

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering w ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Self

1962-10-01 6.2

The Merv Griffin Show

Genre :Talk

Alan Chamberlain

1983-10-03 6.425

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime

1979-01-26 0

$weepstake$

An anthology depicting the lives of people who hope to win a large amount of money in a sweepstakes and what happens after they win — or do not win — the money. ...
Genre :Drama

Mike Bradbury

1962-09-19 6.4

The Virginian

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more b ...
Genre :Western, Drama