Rosemary Murphy (January 13, 1925 – July 5, 2014) was an American actress of stage, film, and television.

[citation needed] Murphy, whose résumé came to include French and German films, attended Manhattanville College and trained as an actress at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and in New York at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio with Sanford Meisner before beginning her career on stage.

She played Maudie Atkinson in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) as well as Callie Hacker in Walking Tall (1973).

[citation needed] Her first soap opera role was Nola Hollister #2 on The Secret Storm (1969–1970).

The following year, she appeared on As the World Turns as Gretel Aldin #2 (a role previously played by Joan Copeland) when her character's son, James Stenbeck, was allegedly murdered.