Murray Moston

Actor

June 12, 1919 (79 years)

† November 29, 1998

New York City, New York

Biography

Murray Moston was born on June 12, 1919 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Mean Streets (1973), After Hours (1985) and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). He died on November 29, 1998 in New York, New York, USA.

Filmography

8.1

Taxi Driver

Iris' Time Keeper

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

7.5

After Hours

Subway Attendant

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

7.1

Mean Streets

Oscar

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

6.7

Saturday Night Fever

Haberdashery Salesman

Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.

7.0

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Jacobs

After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.

7.2

Smoke

Waiter

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.

6.5

New York, New York

Horace Morris

An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.

7.0

The Front

Boss

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

4.8

Exposed

Hotel Manager

Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a vernissage she's approached by a mysterious man whose motives are unclear...

6.2

The Owl and the Pussycat

Rikers Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Meek, owlish Felix and strident, catty Doris live in the same apartment building. His incessant typing bothers her; her gentlemen callers bother him. Felix informs the landlord of her activities, so Doris moves in on Felix. When they both get thrown out, they move in with Barney... until they drive him out! That's when Felix and Doris finally decide to put theory into practice. But do opposites attract?

3.9

The Happy Hooker

Customs Agent

Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own.

6.4

Fingers

Dr. Fry

A wanna-be concert pianist spends his days making a living by collecting debts for his Mafioso father, a lifestyle that could eventually ruin his dreams of a musical career.

9.0

Night-Flowers

Giovanni

Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey city. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold down real work, struggle to get noticed at the VA and fail to connect with women. This changes for Tom when he meets Marcella and they begin a relationship. However, he can't escape his past with Nordi and the toxic bond soon takes a gruesome turn.

5.3

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Barber

Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Bernice gives her much more than she bargained for.

6.8

Contract on Cherry Street

Richie Saint

A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.

6.6

That's the Way of the World

Coleman Buckmaster's Father

Record executives want a highly-regarded record producer to focus on a white pop act whom they feel has the sound America wants. To keep his creative integrity, Buckmaster carefully begins to fight the system that has made him the respected producer he has become.

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