A British stage actor from 1933, Stephen Murray was seldom seen to best advantage in his film appearances. Making his movie debut in 1938 as a constable in Pygmalion, he went on to play more substantial roles like Gladstone in 1941's The Prime Minister and Dr. Manette in the 1958 version of A Tale of Two Cities. Otherwise, he was often wasted in such one-scene assignments as Lewis Carroll in the bizarre English-French production Alice in Wonderland (1951). Stephen Murray closed out his screen career in the 1960s, some two decades before his death.