Career
He is best known for being the keyboardist/pianist for the Blues Brothers in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, a role he reprised in the sequel, Blues Brothers 2000. He then started his own band called "Murph and the MagicTones" along with four other ex-Blues Brothers Band members. Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, Willie "Too Big" Hall and Tom "Bones" Malone.
While performing a regular set at the Armada Room in a Chicago area Holiday Inn, Jake and Elwood Blues again approached the band to reform the Blues Brothers band.
After a brief tour, Murph was sent to prison with the rest of the Blues Brothers Band. When the Blues Brothers toured in 1980 to promote the film, Dunne performed live with the band along with Shaffer.
His work can be heard on their 1980 album, Made in America. Dunne also appeared in the disaster spoof The Big Business (1976), Mel Brooks"s High Anxiety (1977), three commercial parody films.
Tunnel Vision (1976), American Raspberry (1977) and Loose Shoes (1980), and the teen comedy Bad Manners (aka: Growing Pains) (1984).
He played a court stenographer in the movie Oh, God! (1977). Later films include The Main Event (1979), The Last Married Couple in America (1980), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), and Perfect (1985). He has also acted in numerous television shows including Night Court as well as working as a voice actor, and can be heard in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex and in the game, Star Trek: Klingon Academy.
