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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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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 .
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.
He attended St Bonaventure's Catholic School in Forest Gate. Where he was a Blues Guitarist in the school band ref name=SLP>Support Line, Bon's Boy.</ref> He won London & Essex championships in Football & 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. [4] His brother, Darren Murphy, was a guitarist in the punk band Wasted Youth. [5]
His career began in the play "Johnny Boxer" at Half Moon Theatre in Alie St, east London and then on to a Guilty Generation, staged at his father Terence Murphy pub The Bridge House in Canning Town . [6] 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 is a member of the Sports Therapy Association
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. [7] [8]
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