Political Activity
In politics, Murray came out as a Conservative Party supporter in 1983. He is a lifelong teetotaller. He once broke down on live television after his son, Michael Murray James, who had been a pupil at Wycliffe College, also an actor, committed suicide at age 27, and afterwards he gave talks on coping with family tragedy.
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