Instead, the true comeback would hit in 2019: Dolemite Is My Name, where he plays bold and brash blaxploitation legend Rudy Ray Moore, and for which he received the most glowing reviews of his career.
It seemed like that moment might have been four years later with 2016’s Mr. Murphy peaced out from filmmaking until a time audiences and critics would be more appreciative of his talents, hopefully with the movies to back it up. Yet his brilliance is wasted in this sloppy sequel to the classic 1988 film Coming to America. A Best Supporting Actor Oscar nom for Dreamgirls in 2006 was quickly overshadowed by the pile-up disasters of Norbit, Meet Dave, Imagine That, and A Thousand Words. Eddie Murphy is one of the most talented actors alive. ( The Golden Child apparently had not worked.) In-between, Murphy was still able to put out more adult-oriented movies like Bowfinger and Life.īut the cracks began to show with The Adventures of Pluto Nash, one of the more notorious bombs in Hollywood history, along with The Haunted Mansion and Daddy Day Care, where audiences slowly started to turn on his family material (the critics were already out). Eddie Murphy starred in a number of successful movies including Trading Places (1983), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987). Dolittle, and Shrek, suddenly every kid out there knew his name. But it was the softening of Murphy’s image that propelled him into the blockbuster stage of his career with The Nutty Professor, where he performs seven separate roles. Harlem Nights was a highlight in his immediate post- America career, if only in having Murphy in the director’s chair, and luring Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx into the same movie. And if you needed even more raw (literally) material, you could turn to his hard-hitting stand-up movies. Beverly Hills Cop (1984) After starring with. Combined with his other seminal ’80s movie, Coming to America, Murphy was the king of American comedy. In a film filled with comedic geniuses, like Dan Aykroyd and Don Ameche, Eddie Murphy truly outshines them all as the star of Trading Places. His presence represented a shake-up in the comedy status quo: Provocative jokes, tough action, and even some social commentary. Movies, Films and Trivia 7, Boomerang, Marcus Graham 8, Bowfinger, Kit Ramsey/Jeffernson Jiff Ramsey 9, Coming to America, Prince Akeem/Clarence/Randy.
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(Photo by Paramount Pictures/ courtesy Everett Collection) All Eddie Murphy Movies RankedĮddie Murphy’s movie career came roaring out of the gate in the early ’80s, with three yearly successive Certified Fresh classics in a row: 48 HRS, Trading Places, and Beverly Hills Cop. Eddie Murphy filmography The following is the filmography of American actor Eddie Murphy that includes his work in film and television.
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