Born 1930, Steve Kahan is the cousin of film writer, producer and director Richard Donner.
Kahan may be best known for playing the bedraggled “Captain Ed Murphy” trying to keep Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in check in the “Lethal Weapon” series of films. He has appeared in several television series as recurring characters as well.
He has appeared in fourteen films directed by his cousin Richard Donner: Superman (1978), Inside Moves (1980), The Toy (1982), Lethal Weapon (1987), Scrooged (1988), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Radio Flyer (1992), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), Maverick (1994), Assassins (1995), Conspiracy Theory (1997), Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), Timeline (2003) and 16 Blocks (2006).

Steve Kahan Biography / Wiki
Name | Steve Kahan |
Also Know | |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | New York |
Date of Birth | 1930-01-01 |
Age(as in 2022) | 92 |
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Steve Kahan Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Conspiracy Theory | Mr. Wilson | 1997-08-08 | A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he h… |
Warlock: The Armageddon | Will Travis | 1993-05-01 | Every six hundred years, a great evil has the opportunity to escape and unleash Armageddon. A group of five stones has the power to either free the ev… |
Lethal Weapon 3 | Captain Ed Murphy | 1992-05-15 | Archetypal buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh are back for another round of high-stakes action, this time setting their collective sights on bringing down … |
Assassins | Alan Branch | 1995-10-06 | Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him — with grisly resul… |
Inside Moves | Burt | 1980-12-19 | After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. Wh… |
Lethal Weapon 2 | Captain Ed Murphy | 1989-07-07 | In the opening chase, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat wh… |
Destination: America | Bambeck | 1987-04-03 | A patrician family’s estranged, black-sheep son forsakes his blue-collar life to return home and soon finds himself wrongly accused of his father’s mu… |
Lethal Weapon 4 | Captain Ed Murphy | 1998-07-10 | In the combustible action franchise’s final installment, maverick detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh square off against Asian mobster Wah Sing… |
Demolition Man | Captain Healy | 1993-10-08 | Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, escapes during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incap… |
Predator 2 | Sergeant | 1990-11-20 | A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents – and that he is the next … |
The Toy | State Trooper | 1982-12-10 | On one of his bratty son Eric’s annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eri… |
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home | Captain Nilson | 1995-07-19 | Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale’s jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from … |
The Favor | Helpful Fisherman | 1994-04-29 | Kathy is married to Peter. Now she can’t help but wonder how things could have been if she got together with her old boyfriend, Tom. Being married pre… |
Timeline | Baker | 2003-11-26 | A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century F… |
Out Cold | Powder Room Bartender | 2001-11-21 | Rick Rambis and his friends are having the time of their lives on Bull Mountain—until the legendary Papa Muntz’ son decides to sell the mountain to … |
The Last Fling | Amigo de Jason | 1987-02-09 | Television comedy about a young woman who decides to have one more romantic escapade before marrying her dull fiance…. |
Radio Flyer | Coffee Shop Manager | 1992-02-21 | A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. W… |
Lethal Weapon | Captain Ed Murphy | 1987-03-06 | Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who — distraught after his wife’s death — has a dea… |
16 Blocks | Resturant Owner | 2006-03-01 | An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse, but they find themselves running t… |
Dead On: Relentless II | Ibsen | 1992-02-26 | Detective Sam Dietz is paired with a shady FBI agent to track down another serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles…. |
Police Story: The Freeway Killings | Paulis | 1987-05-03 | Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers…. |
Scrooged | Technician | 1988-11-22 | Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after fi… |
Maverick | Dealer | 1994-05-20 | Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a winner-takes-al… |
Superman | Officer 1 (uncredited) | 1978-12-13 | Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the ne… |
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