Charles Thomas McKinnon "Chic" Murray was a Scottish comedian and actor.
12 Facts About Chic Murray
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Chic Murray appeared in various roles on British television and film, most notably in the 1967 version of Casino Royale, and portrayed Liverpool Football Club manager Bill Shankly in a musical.
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Chic Murray began his career as a musician in amateur groups such as "The Whinhillbillies" and "Chic and His Chicks" while an apprentice at the Kincaid shipyard in 1934.
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Chic Murray's mother was the welfare officer and put Maidie up in her home.
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Maidie and Chic Murray had had much success at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London.
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Later, working as a solo act, with a forbidding expression and omnipresent bunnet, Chic Murray offered a comic vision of the world that was absurd and surreal.
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Chic Murray acted in films such as Casino Royale and Gregory's Girl, in which he played a Scottish secondary school headmaster.
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Chic Murray played former Liverpool Football Club manager Bill Shankly in the musical play You'll Never Walk Alone.
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Chic Murray made cameo appearances as an itinerant poacher in a few episodes of STV's soap Take The High Road and appeared alongside Judi Dench in Saigon: Year of the Cat as a bank manager.
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Chic Murray died in Edinburgh in 1985 after he suffered a perforated ulcer at the age of 65, next door to his former wife Maidie's bedroom.
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The Chic Murray Story was a play written by Andrew Dallmeyer and performed by Doug Healy at the 1997 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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In 2005, Chic Murray was named The Comedian's Comedian, in a poll where comedians chose their favourite or most influential comedian.