Glen Murphy
Glen Murphy is a British actor and producer, best known as Firefighter George Green between 1987 and 2002 on the television drama London's Burning.
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.His later work includes as a producer and lead actor in the film " Lords of [London ]". It won best film at the New York Hell's Kitchen Film Festival, and he won the best Actor award at the Abruzzo film festival in Italy; 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 and in the world premiere of " Munich Athens at the Soho Theatre in the West End of London in 1987 & 1995. Consecutively Also 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. He won West Ham, London and Essex championships in association Football and boxing in his youth, & also boxing internationally. And after a short spell in the Professional Boxing world he Started playing semi professional football with Enfield FCAfter spells with Chelsea FC & Charlton FC
Murphy has a 3rd Dan black belt in karate in the Kyokushin style and has trained in martial arts for over 40 years. His brother, Darren Murphy was a guitarist in the punk band Wasted Youth.
His career began in the play Johnny Boxer at Half Moon Theatre in Alie St, East London, and then on to the play Guilty Generation and several musical reviews including Jailhouse Rock which included some of the best Blues Musicians available and staged at his father Terence Murphy pub, The Bridge House E.16 in Canning Town, and then off down the road to Theatre Royal Stratford East in Stratford, London, in their TIE Company Theatre Venturefor a year.