Glen Murphy

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Glen Murphy MBE (born 6 April 1957) is a British actor and producer, best known as Firefighter George Green between 1988 and 2002 on the television drama London's Burning .

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Career

Murphy was the only actor to remain throughout the entire run of London's Burning, which attracted 18.92 million viewers for its 5th series, and averaging 15 million in its 14-year reign. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1992. After London's Burning he appeared in The Bill , Tank Malling , the Karl Howman directed drama Fathers of Girls , and alongside Joely Richardson in Shoreditch . [1]

His later work includes as a producer and lead actor in the film " Lords of London "(2014). [2] It won best film at the New York Hell's Kitchen Film Festival, [3] and he won the best Actor award at the Abruzzo film festival in Italy;[ citation needed ] it is released in the United States by Lionsgate on 1 September 2015.

In 2020, he appeared in the Freddie Mills biopic Finger of Suspicion. He had a leading role in the Royal National Theatre production of Patrick Marber's Dealer's Choice (Writers Guild Award & Evening Standard Awards) in the West End of London in 1995.[ citation needed ] Glen played the lead in the national tour of A Gentle Hook in 2004-05.

Early life

He attended St Bonaventure's Catholic School in Forest Gate, where he was a guitarist in a local blues band, Bon's Boy. [4] He won London and Essex championships in football and boxing in his youth, also boxing internationally. Murphy has a 3rd Dan black belt in karate in the Kyokushin style and has trained in martial arts for over 40 years. [5] His brother, Darren Murphy, was a guitarist in the punk band Wasted Youth. [6]

His career began in the play Johnny Boxer at Half Moon Theatre in Alie St, East London, and then on to Guilty Generation staged at his father Terence Murphy's pub, The Bridge House in Canning Town, [7] and then off down the road to Theatre Royal in Stratford, London, in their TIE Company Theatre Venture for a year.

He qualified as a sports therapist in 2005 and runs his own sports injury clinic in Essex and Italy, and is a member of the Sports Therapy Association.

Awards

He was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 1995. He was awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2007 for his charity work. [8] [9]

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