
Acting
Richard Bernard Murdoch was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey, and Pembroke College, Cambridge University. Whilst at university he participated in the Footlights Dramatic Club's performances.
Murdoch's first appearance in cinema was as an uncredited dancing extra in 1932 film Looking on the Bright Side. In 1937 he was listed among the cast of the "Television Follies", an early BBC Television programme.
He received his big professional break in the British Broadcasting Corporation's comedy radio programme Band Waggon in 1938 as part of a double act with the then rising star Arthur Ask…

Whoops Apocalypse
as Cabinet Minister
The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls
as Lord Chamberlain

Under the Table You Must Go
as Self
Not a Hope in Hell

Strictly Confidential
as Cmdr. Bissham-Ryley

The Magic Box
as Sitter in Bath Studio

Lilli Marlene
as Flight Lieutenant Murdoch / Capt. Wimpole

Golden Arrow
as David Felton
It Happened in Soho
as Scott the News Reporter

One Exciting Night
as Illusionist