Murphy Dunne

George "Murphy" Dunne In the late 1960s he became Precinct Captain of the 42nd ward, also known as Rush Street. Rush Street was home to many music venues and while visiting the clubs Dunne decided to pursue an active career in show business. He started playing piano in a back room of Lake Shore Park and joined one of the early 1970s comedy ensembles, The Conception Corporation.

In 1968 he joined the improvisational theatre company The Second City. along with four other ex-Blues Brothers Band members; Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, Willie "Too Big" Hall and Tom "Bones" Malone. While performing a regular set at the Armada Room in a Chicago area Holiday Inn, Jake and Elwood Blues again approached the band to reform the Blues Brothers band. After a brief tour, Murph was sent to prison with the rest of the Blues Brothers Band.

When the real-life Blues Brothers toured in 1980 to promote the film, Dunne performed live with the band along with Shaffer. His work can be heard on their 1980 live album, Made in America.

Film career Dunne also appeared in Chesty Anderson, USN (1976), the disaster spoof The Big Bus (1976), Mel Brooks's High Anxiety (1977) as a lounge-room piano player, three commercial parody films: Tunnel Vision (1976), Prime Time a.k.a. American Raspberry (1977) and Loose Shoes (1980); and the teen comedy Bad Manners ( Growing Pains) (1984). He played a court stenographer in the movie Oh, God! (1977). Later films include The Main Event (1979), The Last Married Couple in America (1980), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), Perfect (1985), Hero and the Terror (1988), Phoenix (1998) and The Mothman Prophecies (2002). He has also acted in numerous television shows including Night Court as well as working as a voice actor, and can be heard in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and in the game, Star Trek: Klingon Academy.

Discography 1977: The Love Theme Loose Shoes / Coming Attractions (Atlantic) 1992: Nevertheless (Angst Music) 2011: Pavlov Rang My Bell (self-produced)