Jack F. Murphy

Jack F. Murphy is a film producer and distributor. Jack was born in 1943 in Montreal, Canada, where he grew up, and as a teenager began to order films with schools and religious institutions. In 1963, he became the exclusive non-theatrical distributor in the Canadian province of Quebec for Seven Arts Productions, which included pre-1948 Warner Bros films and a theatrical reissue of all of 20th Century Fox's 1956-1962 films. Three years later, Murphy founded Criterion Pictures Corporation and became more

Jack F. Murphy is a film producer and distributor.

Jack was born in 1943 in Montreal, Canada, where he grew up, and as a teenager began to order films with schools and religious institutions. In 1963, he became the exclusive non-theatrical distributor in the Canadian province of Quebec for Seven Arts Productions, which included pre-1948 Warner Bros films and a theatrical reissue of all of 20th Century Fox's 1956-1962 films.

Three years later, Murphy founded Criterion Pictures Corporation and became the exclusive distributor of 16mm films from leading Hollywood studios in Eastern Canada with offices in Halifax, Montreal and Toronto. In the early 1980s, he sold his business to the American company Films, Incorporated. In 1984, he moved to L.A. to found a marketing company to distribute independent film production to the Armed Forces and the home video market.

During his years in the film industry, starting in 1974, Murphy also produced several films, including the horror film Tick and the fantastic thriller Embryo. In 2001, he created Associated Screen Artists, a film production company that included a crime thriller. Krasey. with Anne Hathaway in the lead role.

The producer died on January 6, 2013 after a long struggle with a serious illness.