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Eddie Murphy
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
48hrs (48 Hours) (1982)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Annette O'Toole… - Eddie Murphy excels in his film debut as a street–smart ex–con who teams up with veteran cop Nick Nolte to track down some bad…
Eddie Murphy - Delirious (1983)
- Feat. Eddie Murphy
- Classic stand–up with the proudly profane Eddie Murphy, before he was blanded out by the Hollywood machine.
Trading Places (1983)- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Don Ameche… - A sturdy comic conceit – for a bet, two interfering millionaires swap the lives of a rich man (Dan Aykroyd) and a poor man (Eddie Murphy) – makes…
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)- Dir. Martin Brest
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Steven Berkoff - Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley has never been funnier than in this winning combo of action and comedy.
Golden Child, The (1986)- Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance - Hot off BEVERLY HILLS COP, Eddie Murphy plays a private detective specializing in missing children who is charged with finding a special child whom…
Beverly Hills Cop 2 (1987)- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Brigitte Nielsen… - Slick, though belated sequel to the action–comedy smash which launched Eddie Murphy to superstardom.
Eddie Murphy - Raw (1987)- Feat. Eddie Murphy
- Eddie Murphy captured live and, er, raw. Something here to amuse and offend just about everyone – live from the Flet Forum, New York.
Coming to America (1988)- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones - Wacky Eddie Murphy classic in which an African Prince (Murphy) accompanied by his side–kick (Arsenio Hall) pilgrimage to America in search of…
Harlem Nights (1989)- Dir. Eddie Murphy
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx… - An excellent comic cast can't save this mismatched black American riff on THE GODFATHER series, set amid the 1930s jazz–club underworld of…
Another 48 Hours (1990)- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James… - Barely adequate sequel to the buddy–cop smash hit.
Boomerang (1992)- Dir. Reginald Hudlin
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens, Halle Berry… - Sparkling Eddie Murphy vehicle in which he sends up his own womanising image. He gets a dollop of his own medicine when he falls for…
Distinguished Gentleman, The (1992)- Dir. Jonathan Lynn
Feat. Eddie Murphy - Perennial con–man Eddie Murphy wangles his way to Washington and discovers his petty untruths are small potatoes compared to the corruption…
Saturday Night Live - 15th Anniversary Special (1992)- Feat. Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks…
- Compilation of some of the best sketches from the first fifteen years of the US TV–show 'Saturday Night Live'. This programme was a training…
Beverly Hills Cop 3 (1994)- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Hector Elizondo… - Second and final sequel in the Axel Foley comedy–action series. Nominally concerning a counterfeit ring in L.A., this is definitely better than…
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett - Eddie Murphy and the ever–dynamic Angela Bassett team up for horror specialist Wes Craven, who injects a mix of comedy and gothic romance into…
Nutty Professor, The (1996)- Dir. Tom Shadyac
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith - Eddie Murphy finds what used to make him funny in this surprisingly inspired refresher of the Jerry Lewis comedy classic about a nerdy college…
Metro (1997)- Dir. Thomas Carter
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Michael Wincott - Wisecracking hostage negotiator Eddie Murphy has the smile wiped off his face when his girlfriend is taken hostage by psychopath Michael Wincott.…
Dr. Dolittle (1998)- Dir. Betty Thomas
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt… - Slick remake of the 1967 musical replaces songs with tech wizardry and the comic mugging of Eddie Murphy as the medic who can 'talk to the…
Mulan (1998)- Feat. Eddie Murphy, Donny Osmond, Ming Na
- Animated epic based on a kind of Chinese Joan of Arc character from the Wei Dynasty, who disguises herself as a man so she can take her father's…
Holy Man (1998)- Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum, Kelly Preston - Bravely playing against his profane persona, the unholy Eddie Murphy gets to fill a pair of Gandhi pajamas in this ironic 'messiah comedy'. But after…
Life (1999)- Dir. Ted Demme
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence - Something of a surprise for an Eddie Murphy comedy, this 50–year saga of two black cell–buddies ambitiously lifts its feel from LIFE IS…
Bowfinger (1999)- Dir. Frank Oz
Feat. Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy - Steve Martin (as writer and actor) ropes in fellow fallen comic legend Eddie Murphy and scores a return to the form of his heyday. The concept is…
Shrek (2001)- Dir. Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson
Feat. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, John Lithgow… - Flipping the rules of fairy–tales (and especially the Walt Disney incarnations) on their head, the ‘hero’ of this animation is in fact…
Showtime (2001)- Dir. Tom Dey
Feat. Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, William Shatner… - Rehashing 48HRS with 15 MINUTES, this works reasonably hard to inject new pizzazz into the cop buddy–movie, with old–hand Robert De Niro…
I-Spy (2002)- Dir. Betty Thomas
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen - The 60s TV–series of the same name fashioned as a slick but silly buddy comedy and a shameless star vehicle for two tried–and–true…
Adventures of Pluto Nash, The (2002)- Dir. Ron Underwood
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson… - Sci–fi comedy set in 2080 and following a lunar nightclub owner and ex–convict (Eddie Murphy) who is trying to keep the mafia out of his…
Daddy Day Care (2003)- Dir. Steve Carr
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Steve Zahn - Two unemployed dads open their own day–care centre in this charming, if overly restrained comedy. Eddie Murphy is present in heavy doses,…
Haunted Mansion, The (2003)- Dir. Rob Minkoff
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Tilly, Terence Stamp… - Inspired by Disneyland's famous funride, this ghostly comedy has real estate agent Eddie Murphy and kin inadvertantly spending the night in a spooky…
Dreamgirls (2006)- Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Eddie Murphy… - Dazzling musical numbers and sassy performances jive in this acclaimed Motown musical charting the rise of fictional girl group, 'The Dreamettes', in…
Norbit (2007)- Dir. Brian Robbins
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Thandiwe Newton, Cuba Jr. Gooding - Bottom–of–the–barrel vehicle for the once–funny Eddie Murphy sees the actor scrape out the remains of a thousand disposed…
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