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name: "Tab Murphy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tab-murphy"
roles: ["Screenwriter","Writer"]
born: "12 May 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T06:29:22.232819+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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# Tab Murphy

Screenwriter and writer. Born 12 May 1963 in Olympia, Washington, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Screenwriter, Writer
- **Born:** 12 May 1963, Olympia, Washington, United States
- **Also known as:** تاب ميرفي
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3512683, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0614742/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/61950

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Hunchback of Notre Dame*](https://film.one/film/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Tab Murphy is an American screenwriter, film producer and director. He attended Washington State University, studying forestry and wildlife biology, before transferring to the University of Southern California to study directing and screenwriting.

His first major credit was the story for *Gorillas in the Mist* (1988), which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. He made his directorial debut with *Last of the Dogmen* (1995), which he also wrote. Murphy then spent nearly a decade at Disney, contributing to the screenplays or stories for *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1996), *Tarzan* (1999), *Atlantis: The Lost Empire* (2001) and *Brother Bear* (2003).

Later work includes screenplays for Warner Bros. Animation projects such as *Batman: Year One* (2011) and *Superman/Batman: Apocalypse* (2010), as well as the thriller *Dark Country* (2009).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1996), Fi1m 70, Screenplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame.md)

## Also known for

- *Tarzan* (1999), Screenplay
- *Brother Bear* (2003), Screenplay
- *Atlantis: The Lost Empire* (2001), Story, Screenplay
- *Batman: Year One* (2011), Screenplay
- *Superman/Batman: Apocalypse* (2010), Screenplay
- *Teen Titans Go!* (2013), Writer, Story, Teleplay
- *Tarzan & Jane* (2002), Characters
- *Gorillas in the Mist* (1988), Story

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