Murphy married twice. First to Wanda Hendrix (November 3, 1928 - February 1, 1981). The two were together less than a year. The marriage was negatively impacted by Murphy's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She had appeared in a few movies when Murphy saw her on a magazine cover and asked to be introduced. They were married in 1949 and divorced in 1951. She had a hard time finding good roles afterward, and in a few years remarried and largely retired from acting, though she made occasional appearances in television shows such as "My Three Sons" and "Bewitched". Her two marriages subsequent to Murphy both ended in divorce before she died of double pneumonia at age 52 in 1981. Murphy then married Pamela Archer, an airline stewardess who had been an army nurse. Pamela was the mother of his two