Tomás Murray

@tomasjmurray.bsky.social

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Lean left • Tom will do • Far from the West of Ireland now • Fond of cats, Georgia, jazz, old films, poetry, stout, & Sylvia 🎺 https://tinyurl.com/3bvnbyfb 🎬 https://tinyurl.com/47stke59 • https://tinyurl.com/2jan4tzd

With Thelma Ritter & Marilyn Monroe on the set of ‘The Misfits’ (1961)

With Anjelica on the set of ‘Prizzi’s Honor’ (1985)

With Marilyn Monroe on the set of ‘The Asphalt Jungle’ (1950)

With Elizabeth Taylor (visiting) & Richard Burton on the set of ‘The Night of the Iguana’ (1964)

With Katharine Hepburn during filming of ‘The African Queen’ (1951)

With Elizabeth Taylor on the set of ‘Reflections in a Golden Eye’ (1967)

With Robert Mitchum & Deborah Kerr on the set of ‘Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison’ (1957)

With Marilyn Monroe & Arthur Miller on the set of ‘The Misfits’ (1961)

With Anjelica Huston & Donal McCann on the set of ‘The Dead’ (1987)

With Christopher Plummer & Michael Caine on the set of ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ (1975)

With Bogart & Bacall on the set of ‘Key Largo’ (1948)

With Arthur Miller et al on the set of ‘The Misfits’ (1961)

With Anjelica at his St. Clerans estate in Co. Galway, Ireland

With Anjelica on the set of ‘The Dead’ (1987)

With Hepburn & Bogart on the set of ‘The African Queen’ (1951)

Carson McCullers & John Huston

“Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?”

Robert Hayden

Herb Ellis

Hayden Carruth

Cathleen Nesbitt (c. 1913)

Rupert Brooke

Ernest Dowson

“She was a high Anglican, not belonging, therefore, to that great middle section of the Church of England which is said to be the religious backbone (so far as it has one) of our nation. I too am high, even extreme, but somewhat lapsed, which is a sound position, as you belong to the best section of the best branch of the Christian Church, but seldom attend its services.”

(Rose Macaulay, ‘The Towers of Trebizond’)

(Rose Macaulay, ‘Crewe Train’)

Rose Macaulay

My sister Máire (October 8, 1970–August 1, 2025)

With Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Tadd Dameron, Milt Orent, Dixie Bailey, & Jack Teagarden (NYC, 1947)

Hank & his brother Elvin

Art Kane’s ‘A Great Day in Harlem’ (1958). Hank is to the bottom left.

Hank Jones

Henry Moore’s ‘Sheep with Lamb IV’ (1972), Tate Britain

Another shot of Laughton & de Banzie in ‘Hobson’s Choice’ (1954)

With Basil Rathbone in ‘Fedora’ (1920)

With Herbert Beerbohm Tree in ‘The School for Scandal’ (1909)

Beatrix Potter’s ‘Frontispiece: The Tailor Mouse’ (c. 1902), Tate Britain

Marie Lohr

With John Mills in ‘Hobson’s Choice’ (1954)

With Roger Livesey & Joan Plowright in ‘The Entertainer’ (1960)

A Marie Lohr postcard

Another shot of Lohr, Coward & Thorndike

With Charles Laughton in ‘Hobson’s Choice’ (1954)

With Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, Robert Donat, & Margaret Leighton in ‘The Winslow Boy’ (1948)

With Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, & Laurence Olivier in ‘The Entertainer’ (1960)

With Sid James, George Cole et al in ‘Too Many Crooks’ (1959)

‘Venus Observed’ (1950)

With James Robertson Justice in ‘Doctor at Sea’ (1955)

With Noël Coward & Sybil Thorndike (July 29, 1960). Lohr & Thorndike were in Coward’s ‘Waiting in the Wings’.

With Robert Donat, Margaret Leighton, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, & Frank Lawton in ‘The Winslow Boy’ (1948)

With Joan Plowright & Roger Livesey in ‘The Entertainer’ (1960)

With Doris Day on the set of ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’ (1956)

With O. B. Clarence, Leslie Howard, & Scott Sunderland in ‘Pygmalion’ (1938)

Brenda de Banzie & John Mills in ‘Hobson’s Choice’ (1954). My favourite Lean.

Marie Lohr