Other Notable Film Performances
He had an important role as Reverend Samuel Runt in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975). In the video-project Stanley and Us, Melvin talks about Kubrick’s “57 takes (plus 20)”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op8D_Vwr42c
He appeared in the Swinging Sixties comedy Smashing Time (1967), which also featured Bruce Lacey and his robots. Ken Russell had made a film about Lacey called The Preservation Man (1962).
He co-starred with Russell regular Oliver Reed in Richard Fleischer’s film of The Prince and the Pauper Crossed Swords (1977) and in Alberto Lattuada’s lavish four-part television film 'Christopher Columbus (1985).
Peter Medak cast Murray Melvin in five films: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972), starring Alan Bates; Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973, starring Peter Sellers); The Krays (1990); Let Him Have It (1991); and as Dr. Chilip in David Copperfield (2000).
He has featured in two films by Christine Edzard, Little Dorrit (1988), and As You Like It (1992).
In 2004 he appeared as Monsieur Reyer, the musical director and conductor of the Opera Populaire, in Joel Schumacher’s film adaptation of the musical The Phantom of the Opera.
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