Brian Murphy (actor) Brian Murphy (actor) Brian Trevor John Murphy (born 25 September 1932) is an English actor and comedian, best known as the henpecked husband George Roper in the popular sitcom "Man About the House" and its spin-off series "George and Mildred", and as Alvin Smedley in "Last of the Summer Wine". Murphy was born in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, the son of Gerald, a grocer's assistant and Mabel Murphy, both of whom later became restaurateurs. His two brothers Ken and Eric were killed during active service in the Second World War. He was called up to do his national service at
Brian Murphy (writer) Pope John Paul II and investigative reports on radical Islam and the rise of Christianity in Africa. Brian Murphy (writer) Brian Murphy (born 1959) is a journalist at the Washington Post and the author of several non-fiction books, including "The New Men," a chronicle of American seminarians in Rome, and "The Root of Wild Madder," about the carpet trade in Iran and Afghanistan. In 2015, Da Capo Press published Murphy's "81 Days Below Zero," the story of World War II Army aviator Leon Crane and his solo survival in the Alaskan wilderness. He is a graduate of Boston College, where