murphy can be heard on film soundtracks including the first six "star wars" films (his first role as principal trumpet in the lso), "superman: the movie", "raiders of the lost ark", "gangs of new york", "johnny english", "reign of fire", a solo in "mr. holland’s opus", "philadelphia", "batman", the "alien" movies, "frankenstein", "gladiator", "who framed roger rabbit", "we were soldiers" and many more.