Kevin Wagner Murphy (born November 3, 1956) is a United States actor and puppeteer. For eleven years he was a writer for the Peabody Award-winning comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000, for nine of those years playing and operating Tom Servo, one of the show's puppet characters.

After the end of MST3K, Murphy spent the year 2001 going to a different movie every day (including September 11) and wrote a book about this experience, entitled A Year at the Movies - One Man's Filmgoing Oddyssey (ISBN 0060937866). During his year at the movies, Murphy samples theaters from small-town boxes to urban megaplexes, attempts (and rejects) a theater food diet, suffers a kidney stone, visits both the Sundance and Cannes film festivals, sneaks Thanksgiving dinner into a showing of Monsters, Inc., and records all of these experiences, both good and bad. Murphy lives in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area with his wife, Jane.

Murphy holds a B.A. in Journalism and an M.A. in Directing for the Stage and Screen, both from University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin.

External link

• Kevin W. Murphy's website