man's voice once more. He also made cameo appearances as an itinerant poacher in a few episodes of STV's soap Take The High Road (1984) and appeared alongside Judi Dench in Saigon: Year of the Cat (1983). One of Murray's last TV appearances was as a first-footer on the BBC Scotland Hogmanay show Live into 85. He died in Edinburgh in 1985 after he suffered a perforated ulcer at the age of 65, next door to his former wife Maidie's bedroom (they had divorced in the 1970s but remained on good terms). Tributes during his funeral at Mortonhall Crematorium were led by fellow Scottish comedian Billy Connolly. Legacy The Chic Murray Story was a play written by Andrew Dallmeyer and performed by Doug Healy at the 1997 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Although initially successful, later performances led to legal threats from the Murray family who felt the use of his material breached copyright. Chic Murray: A Funny Place for a Window, written and directed by Stuart Hepburn, and starring Dave Anderson in the title role, was performed in the A Play, a Pie and a Pint lunchtime series of plays at the Òran Mór in Kelvinside, Glasgow in May 2018. Chic's wife, Madie Dickson was played by Maureen Carr. The third member of the cast, Brian O'Sullivan, played 'the ensemble'. The Glasgow Herald review of the play said, '"The most animated thing in the production was the energetic and multi-talented O’Sullivan charging on and off stage as he switched characters." A performance was filmed for the BBC and broadcast on 1 September 2019. In 2005, Murray was named The Comedian's Comedian, in a poll where comedians chose their favourite or most influential comedian. Neither Here nor There is a BBC Radio 2 programme about Murray's life, devised and scripted by Simon Treves and originally broadcast in August 2007. Filmography References Further reading Robbie Grigor, Just Daft: The Chic Murray Story (Birlinn, 2008), . Andrew Yule, The Best Way to Walk: The Chic Murray Story (Mainstream Publishing, 1989), . Andrew Yule, The Best Way to Laugh: The Chic Murray Bumper Fun Book (Corgi, 1991), . External links This entry based with permission on web site which includes A collection of some of Chic's jokes Gazetteer for Scotland: Charles (Chic) Murray THE BOAT (1975) (A Chic Murray comedy short about a man who inherits a cabin cruiser – from the National Library of