Alec Murdock

Alec was raised on Long Island, NY, earned his BFA at California Institute of the Arts, and made one of his first professional appearances as villain Simon Fernando (1970-71) in North Carolina's long-running "The Lost Colony," then directed by Joe Layton. Thanks to Arthur J. Beer and others, Alec directed or acted in more than 100 stage productions by the time he landed his first prime-time TV role at the age of 24. While building a screen career, he continued performing live as a founding member of the DeVera Marcus improv group "Sunday Funnies" and for years in Mona Charles's "Die Laughing" mystery weekends, as well as traditional play productions. In addition to his IMDB Filmography credits, Alec appeared in daytime shows "The Young and The Restless," "Santa Barbara," "Divorce Court, and "Superior Court." And he played the recurring lead role of attorney Ed Remick (1987-89) in "The Judge." After getting his start in national commercials playing an alien for Coleco Toys, Alec was a principal in dozens of spots for advertisers as varied as American Express, Bartles & Jaymes, Coldwell Banker, Prudential, Pepto Bismol, Accenture, and Arbys. He portrayed a distraught father for Microsoft's Business Software Alliance and starred in a comic series of spots for Sizzler as a crazed newscaster. He played roles in the famous shadow series for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes and in the legendary "Got Milk" campaign. He acted in an early Apple spot for director Joe Pytka, in a series of Nintendo Donkey Kong spots for Mark Story, and in an award-winning Mercedes commercial directed by Leslie Dektor. He was seen in regional spots for KNBC News, WCBS News, BellSouth, California Lottery, and others. He was on-camera spokesman for Coast Savings (1987-88). Alec performed voice-over work as spokesman for Schwartau Jams (1983-89), Chicago's Field Museum, PBS series "On Common Ground," the "Mission Impossible" video game, and more. He dubbed foreign-language films, worked in looping, and recorded audio books. In corporate and government videos, Alec limited himself to on-camera spokesman work, performing for Toyota/Lexus, Nissan, Chevron, J.P.L., the D.O.D., Massachusetts, Los Angeles, Drucker School of Business, Home Savings, Farmers Insurance, General Casualty, MetLife, Adventist Health, Motorola Pagers, Nabisco, and many more. Several of his industrials won awards, including "Toyota Traditions," produced in 1999 and still shown to new Toyota employees as late as 2016. Alec frequently portrayed newscasters. For several years (1988-94), he was also a real news anchor, news writer, and managing editor for award-winning cable and radio newscasts on L.A.'s west side and at KULR-TV, the NBC affiliate in Billings, Montana. After 32 years based in L.A., Alec moved to the Monterey Peninsula and founded Arrowkite Productions. He directed commercials and began writing in earnest. 16 years later, Alec left California for Western North Carolina where he works and enjoys life with his wife, Kim.