10 Facts About Don Murphy

Don Murphy was born on April 1967 and is an American film producer who produced Natural Born Killers, Real Steel, Splice and many other films, including Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Don Murphy attended Georgetown University and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the McDonough School of Business.

Don Murphy was the film critic for the Georgetown school newspaper, The Hoya, for three years, and in summer jobs at his father's advertising agency worked on ad campaigns for such films as Blow Out, Under the Rainbow and Ragtime.

In 1986 Don Murphy realized that his calling lay in films rather than law; he enrolled in the School of Cinema-Television in California, where he had classmates including eventual directors Bryan Singer, Jon Turteltaub, Gary Fleder, and Stephen Sommers, and received a Master of Fine Arts.

Don Murphy is married to Susan Montford, a film director, film producer, and screenwriter with whom he frequently collaborates.

Don Murphy had an opportunity to see an unfinished cut of The Usual Suspects, which was directed by Singer, a classmate from USC.

Don Murphy then worked as producer on the 2001 film Bully; its director, Larry Clark, was not impressed with the original screenplay, but committed to the film after Don Murphy encouraged him to read the book.