- Owned Dudley Murphy's Holiday House, a popular oceanfront restaurant and hotel in Malibu (CA) from the 1950s through the 1970s that was frequented by many Hollywood stars.
- His father, prominent Boston School painter Herman Dudley Murphy, was head of the art school at Harvard University.
- His children include: a stillborn son, son Michael, and daughters Poco and Erin (born in 1951).
- He has a grandson, Sebastian Li.
- Idiosyncratic American director of the 1920s and '30s, a former journalist. Output varied wildly from modernist avant-garde to routine studio programmers.
- He has directed three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: St. Louis Blues (1929), Black and Tan (1929) and The Emperor Jones (1933).
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