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8 unusual facts about Eddie Murphy


AKG Acoustics

They received particular notoriety from their prominent display in Eddie Murphy's 1985 music video for "Party All the Time" (which features the K240 Monitor).

All I Fuckin' Know

All I Fuckin' Know is the second compilation album and seventh album overall by comedian/singer, Eddie Murphy.

Eliot Wald

One of many Second City alums to join Saturday Night Live, Wald contributed to the show in an era known for performances by Eddie Murphy and Billy Crystal, often collaborating with another Chicago writer, Nate Herman.

Freddy Lockhart

In 1986, his family then moved to Arizona where he spent his formative years being influenced by Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce and Bill Cosby.

ITV Westcountry

The first programme aired on the channel was a short promo voiced by Bruce Hammal and Trish Bertram (two of Westcountry's first trail voiceovers) welcoming viewers to Westcountry and beginning with the words, "Happy New Year, and welcome to Westcountry, your new ITV station for the South West." The promo was followed by the Eddie Murphy and Dudley Moore film Best Defense.

Paige Butcher

Paige Butcher is an Australian model and girlfriend of actor and stand-up comedian Eddie Murphy.

Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1980–1981

In the sketch, Eddie Murphy's character "Mister Robinson" speaks and presents the show in a similarly stilted manner, but lives in a considerably grittier venue and engages in a number of illegal and unethical activities for money due to his lack of a job, which he educates his young viewers about in each episode while at the same time teaching them cynical views on the government and life in general.

Shawn Ryan

On January 2013, CBS picked up Beverly Hills Cop, an hourlong crime procedural with comedic elements, with Ryan on board to pen the script and executive produce along with his MiddKid Productions partner Marney Hochman and Eddie Murphy.


Absolutely Not

The song first appeared on the soundtrack to the 2001 Eddie Murphy film Dr. Dolittle 2.

Alex Zamm

He will follow up this film with a live action/CGI hybrid theatrical film version of the classic cartoon character Hong Kong Phooey, to be voiced by Eddie Murphy and produced by Alcon Entertainment and Warner Brothers.

Dean Edwards

His work as a voice actor includes Scottie Pippen and Spike Lee in Celebrity Deathmatch, a robot in Robotomy, and Donkey in Scared Shrekless after Eddie Murphy refused to reprise his role (which Edwards is also known for, and impersonated Murphy while providing the voice of Donkey).

I'll Follow the Sun

Glen Phillips (lead singer of Toad the Wet Sprocket) covered the song for the soundtrack of the 2009 Eddie Murphy film Imagine That.

Matthijs Kleyn

In December 2006 Kleyn made headlines all over the world when Eddie Murphy told him in an interview for RTL Boulevard the unborn baby of Mel B is not Murphy's child.

Michael Taliferro

His first film appearance was in the film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit in 1993 playing the role of a 'security guard', he had also made appearances in films like Armageddon, Life which starred Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, and Half Past Dead; in 2006, he had completed his appearance Crime/Drama film A Day in the Life, later he had died of a stroke in May.

Rakefet Abergel

Abergel appeared as Rachel Maccabee in Just Go With It, along with Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler and Nicole Kidman, as Cindy in the upcoming The Youngster and in A Thousand Words with Eddie Murphy.

Rockland Records

The soundtrack to the 1999 Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy movie Life was released on the Rockland label, and Sparkle was the first artist to release an album on the label.

Sherman Klump

Professor Sherman Klump is a fictional character portrayed by actor Eddie Murphy in the 1996 film The Nutty Professor and its 2000 sequel Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, similar to the Julius Kelp character played by Jerry Lewis in the original film.

The Right Kinda Lover

It was released as a single from her 1994 album, Gems, and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Beverly Hills Cop III starring Eddie Murphy.

WDRQ

Its morning drive team of Rogers and Holiday featured comedic "celebrity" drop-ins by the spoofed likes of Rodney Dangerfield, Clint Eastwood and Eddie Murphy, as well as original characters like Mr. Action.


see also

Hollywood Shuffle

That night, he has a nightmare in which the director (Eugene Robert Glazer), writer (Dom Irrera), and casting director (Lisa Mende) hound him to be Eddie Murphy.

Irish Jam

In its review of the DVD release, Empire called it a "worst possible Eddie Murphy knock-off" and questioned why would Ireland still have had an evil aristocratic English landlord in 2006, noting it was filmed in Cornwall because, presumably, any attempts to mount stereotypes this broad, in Ireland, would have seriously offended the people of Ireland.

Nanga Eboko

Eddie Murphy's character in Trading Places dons a thinly-veiled disguise as an exchange student from Cameroon named "Nanga Eboko."

Robert Pastorelli

Supporting Bette Midler and Shelley Long in Outrageous Fortune and Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop II his first substantial film role came with Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves.

Vampire in Brooklyn

Vampire in Brooklyn was the final film produced under Eddie Murphy's exclusive contract with Paramount Pictures, that began with 48 Hrs. and included the Beverly Hills Cop franchise.