Don Murphy Information & Don Murphy Links at HealthHaven.com

Don Murphy
Don Murphy
Born	1966; New York
Residence	California
Nationality	United States
Education	USC School of Cinema-Television (CNTV)
Alma mater	Georgetown University
Occupation	Film Producer
Home town	Hicksville, New York
Known for	Co-producer, Natural Born Killers (1994); The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); Transformers (2007)
	Website; http://www.donmurphy.net/
	Notes

Don Murphy (born 1966) is an American film producer who produced Natural Born Killers, among many other films.

Personal background and education

Born in April 1966, Murphy grew up in Hicksville, New York, was educated at Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York, and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) from the Business School of Georgetown University, in Washington D.C.^[1] In the 1980s, during the summer, he worked as a copywriter at Diener Hauser Bates, a "now defunct" advertising company then representing "over 70% of the film studios," on ad campaigns for such films as Blow Out (1981), Under the Rainbow (1981) and Ragtime (1981).^[1]

He is married to Susan Montford, a film director, film producer, and screenwriter with whom he frequently collaborates.^[1]

Murphy founded Jane & Don Productions, Inc. with Jane Hamsher, a Stark graduate-student colleague.^[1] Their first project was optioning then-unknown Quentin Tarantino's original screenplay for Natural Born Killers and co-producing that 1994 satirical crime film, which was directed by Oliver Stone.

In 1998, he formed his own company, Angry Films,^[1] which has produced several films, beginning with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) and including Shoot 'em Up (2007), While She Was Out (2008).^[2] Murphy is one of the originating producers of the 2007 Transformers film.^[3] In 2005 and 2007 Variety reported that Angry Films was also producing an adaptation of We3, a Vertigo Comics miniseries, for New Line Cinema;^[4] a feature-film adaptation of Second Sight, the 2000–2001 BBC miniseries starring Clive Owen, for Universal Studios;^[5] and Gemini Man, for Walt Disney Company.^[6]