Murray Melvin was an English actor. Murray Melvin died on April 14 2023, at the age of 90 from complications from a December fall according to Kerry Kyriacos Michael MBE, creative director at Theatro Technis.

“It’s with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Murray Melvin – actor, director and theatre archivist,” said Kyriacos in a Twitter message.

“He had a fall in December, from which he never fully recovered. He died at St Thomas’ Hospital on Friday, 14th April, aged 90. He was one of my closest friends and will be missed by so many of us who had the privilege to know him.”

Melvin was born in St. Pancras, London, on August 10, 1932, to Hugh Victor Melvin and Maisie Winifred, née Driscoll.

In 1957, he made his stage debut as Macbeth at the Theatre Royal in Stratford. He went on to appear in films such as Alfie (1966), Michael Caine, Barry Lyndon (1975), and The Phantom of the Opera (2004).

Along the way, he received the BAFTA film award for Most Promising Newcomer and the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award for his role in A Taste of Honey (1961).