Character Relationship Map: Murphy's Romance

Characters

• Emma Moriarty (played by Sally Field) — protagonist

  Emma Moriarty is a 33-year-old divorced mother who moves to a rural Arizona town to earn a living training and boarding horses. She struggles financially while raising Jake Moriarty and allowing Bobby...

• Murphy Jones (played by James Garner) — supporting

  Murphy Jones is an idiosyncratic widower and the town pharmacist who becomes Emma Moriarty's closest ally and romantic partner. Rather than giving charity, he helps her by employing Jake Moriarty and...

• Bobby Jack Moriarty (played by Brian Kerwin) — supporting

  Bobby Jack Moriarty is Emma Moriarty's immature and dishonest ex-husband, who moves back in with Emma and Jake Moriarty. His presence creates a rivalry with Murphy Jones and he tries to obstruct Emma...

• Margaret (played by Georgann Johnson) — supporting
• Jake Moriarty (played by Corey Haim) — supporting

  Jake Moriarty is Emma Moriarty's 12-year-old son and Bobby Jack Moriarty's child. When Emma struggles to make ends meet, Murphy Jones helps the family by giving Jake a part-time job rather than offeri...

• Freeman Coverly (played by Dennis Burkley) — supporting
• Wanda (played by Anna Thomson) — supporting
• Jim Forrest (played by Michael Crabtree) — supporting
• Albert (played by Michael Prokopuk) — supporting
• Larry Le Beau (played by Billy Ray Sharkey) — supporting
• Bessie (played by Dortha Duckworth) — supporting
• Tillie (played by Carole King) — minor
• Voice at Bingo Game (played by C. Ray Cook) — minor
• Ben (played by Tom Rankin) — minor
• Henry Bass (played by Joshua Ravetch) — minor
• Rex Boyd (played by Bruce French) — minor
• Auctioneer (played by Ted Gehring) — minor
• Fred Hite (played by Henry Slate) — minor
• Mrs. Willis (played by Peggy McCay) — minor
• Jesse Parker (played by John C. Becher) — minor