Timothy Patrick Murphy (November 3, 1959 – December 6, 1988) was an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Mickey Trotter on the popular CBS prime time soap opera '' Dallas'' from 1982–83.

Career

Murphy started his acting career as an adolescent in several television commercials and from there he went on to act in the 1978 miniseries '' Centennial''. Other than his role in ''Dallas'', he spent more than a year playing a young conman on the CBS daytime soap drama '' Search for Tomorrow'', and also had a regular role on the short-lived 1984 ABC prime-time drama '' Glitter''. In addition to this, he appeared in episodes of the television shows '' Quincy, M.E.'', '' CHiPs'', '' Teachers Only'', '' Hotel'', '' The Love Boat'' and ''

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''. He appeared in the 1981 film ''

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''. One of Murphy's most substantial roles was in the 1984 feature film '' Sam's Son'', the film biography of the early life of actor

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, in which he played the character of Gene Orowitz (the young Landon). In 1984 he won the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor (Guest) in a TV Series for his work on ''The Love Boat''.

Personal life and death

Murphy was gay and had a romantic relationship with actor

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during the 1980s. Murphy died of

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on December 6, 1988 in

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, aged 29, and was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. His younger brother, actor Patrick Sean Murphy (born January 29, 1965), was killed in the North Tower of World Trade Center during the attacks of September 11, 2001. He was 36 years old.

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