Timothy Patrick Murphy

Timothy Patrick Murphy was an American actor known for Mickey Trotter on Dallas (CBS, 1983–1985). He was gay and died of AIDS-related complications in December 1988, becoming one of the first notable American television actors to die in the epidemic. He was 32 years old. His death was part of the staggering wave of losses that devastated the entertainment industry in the 1980s, when the AIDS crisis killed an entire generation of LGBTQ+ artists whose identities could rarely be acknowledged publicly even in death.