Personal Info
Birth date
1975-01-22 (50 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
Also known as
James Scott Murray
James Murray
Biography
James Murray, also known as Jim Murray, is an English actor. He is best known for his television roles, including Colonel Neil 'Chick' Harding in Masters of the Air, Prince Andrew in The Crown, Niles Pottinger in Defiance, Daniel Coltrane in Cucumber, Stephen Hart in Primeval, and Chief Superintendent John Houseman in McDonald & Dodds.
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
7.532
Overview:
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.Death in Paradise
7.451
Overview:
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.The Crown
8.207
Overview:
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.Masters of the Air
7.777
Overview:
During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.Life with Louie
6.8
Overview:
The 8-year-old Louie is doing his best to grow up and cope with a large family, a doting mother, a pesky little brother, and a by-the-book, military veteran dad. Add to that a slew of holiday family squabbles, a flood, an old Rambler and a huge goldfish, and you have the background for Life with Louie. Each episode is a portrait of humor and warmth drawn from Louie Anderson's real-life experience as a child in the Midwest.CHAOS
6.3
Overview:
A comedic drama about a group of rogue CIA spies in the Office of Disruptive Services (ODS), who combat threats to national security amidst bureaucratic gridlock, rampant incompetence and political infighting.Defiance
6.751
Overview:
In the near future, planet Earth is permanently altered following the sudden—and tumultuous—arrival of seven unique alien races. In the boom-town of Defiance, the newly-formed civilization of humans and aliens must learn to co-exist peacefully.Greg the Bunny
6
Overview:
Greg the Bunny is an American television sitcom that originally aired on Fox TV in 2002. It starred Seth Green and a hand puppet named Greg the Bunny, originally invented by the team of Sean S. Baker, Spencer Chinoy and Dan Milano. Milano and Chinoy wrote and co-produced the Fox show. The show was spun off from The Greg the Bunny Show, a series of short segments that aired on the Independent Film Channel, which were based on the Public-access television cable TV show Junktape. A show spin-off, called Warren the Ape, premiered on June 14, 2010 on MTV.McDonald & Dodds
7.623
Overview:
Two detectives, DCI McDonald and DS Dodds, who seemingly have nothing in common, are thrown together and forge a rumbustious friendship and entertaining partnership.Peak Practice
6.1
Overview:
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.Being Human
6.989
Overview:
Three paranormal roommates, a ghost, a vampire, and a werewolf, struggle to keep their dark secrets from the world, while helping each other navigate the complexities of living double lives.Geek Girl
7.24
Overview:
Awkward teen Harriet has always wanted to fit in. Until she gets scouted by a top London model agent and learns that some people are meant to stand out.Primeval
7.439
Overview:
When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.Monarch of the Glen
7.5
Overview:
Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle.Cutting It
6.714
Overview:
Allie Henshall and Gavin Ferraday are partners in love and business. They own Henshall Ferraday hair salon, where Allie's sisters Darcey and Sydney work alongside them. As Allie and Gavin consider taking over a vacant property across the road, they are rocked by the news that a rival hairdresser has bought it. To make matters worse, Allie discovers that the new salon, Blade Runner, is run by her ex, Finn, and his wife, Mia Bevan. Finn fathered the child Allie claimed to have aborted. He left her when he found out she was pregnant, but he's back in town to try and woo Allie.Cucumber
7.4
Overview:
Original drama series from Russell T Davies exploring the passions and pitfalls of 21st century gay life, beginning with the most disastrous date night in history.Age Before Beauty
3.3
Overview:
Bel, after spending the past 18 years as a homemaker, steps in to save the family business in a failing family run beauty salon in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. Family feuds and bitter rivalries, professional and personal, escalate in the salon amongst the Botox, fillers and facelifts.Doctor Finlay
6
Overview:
Following his service in World War II, Doctor Finlay returns to the practice at Arden House. This is at a time when the National Health Service is about to be instituted.North Square
7.667
Overview:
North Square is an award-winning British television drama series written by Peter Moffat and broadcast by Channel 4 at the end of 2000. Starring an ensemble cast, including Phil Davis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Helen McCrory and Kevin McKidd, the programme is set around the practice of a Leeds Legal Chambers. The series was filmed in and around the real life Park Square, Leeds. This is the area near the city where the majority of legal firms are concentrated. Despite gaining considerable critical acclaim the show failed to garner a substantial audience resulting in only the one series of ten episodes being produced. In Australia the series was broadcast in 2001 on ABC and repeated in 2004 after popular and critical acclaim. The full series was released on DVD for the first time by Acorn Media UK on 5 March 2012.Lee
7.096
Overview:
The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.6 Underground
6.347
Overview:
After faking his death, a tech billionaire recruits a team of international operatives for a bold and bloody mission to take down a brutal dictator.Clocking Off
7.4
Overview:
How much do you know about the person working next to you? From the outside, life at Mackintosh Textiles appears to run smoothly, but in a community with so many secrets to hide, things are far from straightforward. In six powerful, self-contained dramas, everyday life is fractured by tumultuous marriages, snatched passions, disappearing husbands and gang harassment.Robson and Jim's Icelandic Fly-Fishing Adventure
NYR
Overview:
Actors and best friends Robson Green and Jim Murray travel across Iceland in the fishing adventure of a lifetime, showing how fishing changes lives, enriches communities and connects the most diverse of people.Punisher: War Zone
5.8
Overview:
Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw. With the "Punisher Task Force" hot on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more of his evil deeds go unpunished.Shoestring
6.8
Overview:
Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 one hour-long episodes. Star Trevor Eve decided not to return to the role after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre roles, so the same production team changed the format to be based in Jersey and created Bergerac, also about a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.Other People's Children
NYR
Overview:
Other People's Children is a four-episode 2000 British television drama, adapted by Leigh Jackson from Joanna Trollope's 1998 novel of the same name. The series tells the story of how three women and two men deal with new marriages and the consequences of the new spouses or partners having to deal with their partner's children of different ages from previous marriages.Raffles
8
Overview:
Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely faithful adaptations of the stories in the books, though occasionally two stories would be merged to create one episode such as "The Gold Cup" which featured elements from both "A Jubilee Present" and "The Criminologist's Club".Keen Eddie
8.4
Overview:
Keen Eddie is an American action, comedy-drama television series that aired in 2003 on the Fox Network. The series follows a brash NYPD detective who goes to London when one of his cases goes sour and remains to work with New Scotland Yard. The basic premise of the show bears a close resemblance to the popular 1980s British series Dempsey & Makepeace, the only notable difference being that the female partner has been replaced by a female housemate. Stylistically, the series derived inspiration from British feature films by Guy Ritchie, such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. The soundtrack and incidental music for the first episode was provided by British techno duo Orbital. Daniel Ash of Love and Rockets scored the rest of the series.1990
6
Overview:
The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.Kevin & Perry Go Large
5
Overview:
When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party island Ibiza, they see it as their big chance to become superstar club DJs and, more importantly, to lose their virginities. But they aren't prepared for the interference of top DJ Eyeball Paul, not to mention the embarrassment factor of Kevin's long-suffering parents.Acting
TBABeautiful People (1 Episode) as Gregory
2024Lee as Colonel Spencer
2024Geek Girl (4 Episodes) as Mr. Fiennes
2024Masters of the Air (5 Episodes) as Col. 'Chick' Harding
2021Robson and Jim's Icelandic Fly-Fishing Adventure (4 Episodes) as Self - Host
2020McDonald & Dodds (5 Episodes) as Chief Superintendent John Houseman
20196 Underground as Caleb
2018Age Before Beauty (6 Episodes) as Wesley Finch
2016The Crown (13 Episodes) as Prince Andrew
2015Cucumber (8 Episodes) as Daniel Coltrane
2013Defiance (13 Episodes) as Mayor Niles Pottinger
2012Beautiful People as Gregory
2011Death in Paradise (1 Episode) as Ronnie Stuart
2011CHAOS (13 Episodes) as Billy Collins
2011Being Human (1 Episode) as Councilman #1
2009It's Alive as Frank Davis
2009The Last New Year as David
2008Punisher: War Zone as Bodyguard #2
2007Primeval (13 Episodes) as Stephen Hart
2005Under The Greenwood Tree as Dick Dewy
2003Keen Eddie (1 Episode) as Unknown
2002Cutting It (12 Episodes) as Liam Carney
2002Greg the Bunny (3 Episodes) as Unknown
2001Phoenix Blue as Rick
2000North Square (10 Episodes) as Unknown
2000Other People's Children (4 Episodes) as Lucas
2000Kevin & Perry Go Large as Candice's Adonis
2000Monarch of the Glen (1 Episode) as Unknown
2000Clocking Off (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1999All the King's Men as Pvt. Will Needham
1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as Ollie Tabori
1994Life with Louie (1 Episode) as Unknown
1993Peak Practice (1 Episode) as Marcus Johnson
1993Doctor Finlay (1 Episode) as Gordon
1993Commander Toad in Space as Commander Toad (voice)
1979Shoestring (1 Episode) as Unknown
19771990 (1 Episode) as Unknown
1977Raffles (1 Episode) as Unknown