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name: "Murphy Guyer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/murphy-guyer"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 December 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 62
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T13:00:49.607661+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Murphy Guyer

Actor. Born 25 December 1952 in Dover, Delaware, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 December 1952, Dover, Delaware, USA
- **Active:** 2011–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 62, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 66 (2), 2020s 54 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 62 to 63 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 2, Thriller 2
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,286m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_Guyer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21067325, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0349881/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/155547

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Mildred Pierce*](https://film.one/tv/mildred-pierce.md) (70)

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## Biography

Murphy Guyer is an American actor, playwright, writer and director. Born on 25 December 1952 in Dover, Delaware, he moved to New York City at the age of nineteen to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts on an acting scholarship. He began his professional career writing for stand-up comics and improv groups before turning to playwriting in the early 1980s.

His plays, including *Eden Court* and *The American Century*, have been produced Off-Broadway and at regional theatres. Between 1996 and 2003 he served as Associate Artistic Director for Playwriting at the Cleveland Play House. Guyer began acting in television and film in 1991, with an early role in *Law & Order*.

On screen he has appeared in *The Devil's Advocate* (1997), *The Jackal* (1997), *Rounders* (1998), *House of Cards* (2013) as Oren Chase, *Joker* (2019) as Barry O'Donnell and *Joker: Folie à Deux* (2024) as the White Chapel Minister. He played Mr. Pierce in the 2011 miniseries *Mildred Pierce*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Joker: Folie à Deux* (2024), Fi1m 54, as White Chapel Minister — [page](https://film.one/film/joker-folie-a-deux.md)
- *Joker* (2019), Fi1m 63, as Barry O'Donnell — [page](https://film.one/film/joker.md)
- *Mildred Pierce* (2011), Fi1m 70, as Mr. Pierce — [page](https://film.one/tv/mildred-pierce.md)

## Complete filmography (51)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Joker: Folie à Deux* (2024), as White Chapel Minister — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/joker-folie-a-deux.md)
- *The American Buffalo* (2023), series, as (voice)
- *The Right Stuff* (2020), series, Acting
- *Good Friday* (2020), as Paul Chasse
- *I Can Change* (2020), as Father
- *Joker* (2019), as Barry O'Donnell — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/joker.md)
- *NOS4A2* (2019), series, as FBI Agent Daltry
- *New Amsterdam* (2018), series, as Warden Hughes
- *Paterno* (2018), as Gary Schultz
- *Wonderstruck* (2017), as Security Chief
- *The Deuce* (2017), series, as Donal Merrell, Donald Merrell — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-deuce.md)
- *The Good Fight* (2017), series, as Captain Peter Vorchek
- *Bull* (2016), series, as AUSA Reynolds
- *Billions* (2016), series, as Chief Mueller
- *House of Cards* (2013), series, as Oren Chase
- *Elementary* (2012), series, as Detective Whitaker
- *Person of Interest* (2011), series, as Bruce Dunphy — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/person-of-interest.md)
- *Arthur* (2011), as Officer Kaplan
- *Mildred Pierce* (2011), series, as Mr. Pierce — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/mildred-pierce.md)
- *Blue Bloods* (2010), series, as Sam Ellis
- *Red Dead Redemption: The Man from Blackwater* (2010), as Aquila (voice)
- *The Mercy Man* (2009), as Leary
- *White Collar* (2009), series, as Sean Loomis
- *The National Parks: America's Best Idea* (2009), series, Acting
- *Conviction* (2006), series, as Kim's Dad
- *The Feast of the Goat* (2006), as Turk
- *America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie* (2005), as Aldo Leopold (voice)
- *Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson* (2004), as Other Voices (voice)
- *She Hate Me* (2004), as John Erlichman
- *The Jury* (2004), series, Acting
- *24* (2001), series, as Chuck Toland
- *Ed* (2000), series, as Judge
- *Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder* (2000), as John Eller
- *Third Watch* (1999), series, as Lieutenant
- *The Sopranos* (1999), series, as S.E.T. #2 — Fi1m 94, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sopranos.md)
- *Money Kings* (1998), as Shaughnessy
- *Rounders* (1998), as Detweiler
- *Liberty!* (1997), series, as Benjamin Gilbert
- *The Jackal* (1997), as NSC Representative
- *Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery* (1997), series, as William Clark (voice)
- *The Devil's Advocate* (1997), as Barbara's Father
- *The Peacemaker* (1997), as INS Agent
- *Oz* (1997), series, as Officer Eddie Hunt — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/oz.md)
- *Love Walked In* (1997), as Howard's Boss
- *Parallel Sons* (1996), as Sheriff Mott
- *Firehouse* (1996), as Det. Leo Patillo
- *City Hall* (1996), as Captain Florian
- *Vanishing Son II* (1994), as Cole
- *Vanishing Son* (1994), series, as Cole
- *Homicide: Life on the Street* (1993), series, as Detective L.Z. Austin — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/tv/homicide-life-on-the-street.md)
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Jeffrey Brandt, Cass Holliman, Mr. Weber, Defense Attorney Leslie Stanton

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