Horace Murphy(1880-1975)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
The son of a physician, Horace Murphy started his career as a child actor on
showboats on the Mississippi. He later played the cornet in the band
and eventually became half-owner of the showboat "Cottonblossom
Floating Palace". After two seasons he sold his interest and organized
a string of dramatic tent shows from New Orleans to Los Angeles, each
of which also had a baseball team. Later he sold these and built two
theaters, one in Los Angeles and one in Burbank. He entered movies in
1936 and went on to a career mostly in B-Westerns. He is perhaps best
known as "Ananias", Tex Ritter's partner in a string of films. He also
appeared on radio with Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.
