Joe Murphy

Actor

Date of birth : 05/15/1877

Date of death : 07/31/1961

City of birth : San Jose, California, USA

Attended Horace Mann school in San Jose. Once belonged to a bicycle club there, known as the Garden City Wheelmen. His nickname in those days was "Spike", but thanks to the fame garnered from playing the comic strip character in the silent Universal short subject series, he would let himself be known as "Andy Gump". (San Jose Evening News, 25 April 1928)