Kevin Wagner Murphy

Kevin Wagner Murphy (born November 3, 1956) is a United States actor and puppeteer. For eleven years he was a writer for the Peabody Award-winning comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000, for nine of those years playing and operating Tom Servo, one of the show's puppet characters.

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November 3 - 1956 - United States - Actor - Puppeteer - Peabody Award - Comedy - Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Tom Servo

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After the end of MST3K, Murphy spent the year 2001 going to a different movie every day (including September 11) and wrote a book about this experience, entitled A Year at the Movies - One Man's Filmgoing Oddyssey (ISBN 0060937866). During his year at the movies, Murphy samples theaters from small-town boxes to urban megaplexes, attempts (and rejects) a theater food diet, suffers a kidney stone, visits both the Sundance and Cannes film festivals, sneaks Thanksgiving dinner into a showing of Monsters, Inc., and records all of these experiences, both good and bad. Murphy lives in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area with his wife, Jane.

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2001 - September 11 - Theater food - Diet - Kidney stone - Sundance - Cannes - Film festival - Thanksgiving - Dinner - Monsters, Inc. - Minneapolis-St. Paul

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Murphy holds a B.A. in Journalism and an M.A. in Directing for the Stage and Screen, both from University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin.

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University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin

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