Glen Murphy MBE (born 6 April 1957) is an English actor.
He is perhaps best known as George Green between 1988 and 2002 on the television drama London's Burning.
He has also had roles on The Bill, "Shine on Harvey Moon (tv series)" "Murphys Mob" Casualty and Doctor Who (in the 1986 story "The Mysterious Planet" as Dibber) and more recently Fathers of Girls, Karl Howman's feature debut starring Ray Winstone.
He was awarded an MBE in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours for his charity work.
Glen Murphy was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 1995.
He now lives in Italy and Essex with his wife Linda, they have four children.
Glen Murphy supports West Ham United and also likes horse riding. His father (Terence Murphy), his uncles (Joe Lucy and Eddie Wright), were all champion boxers. Glen's first fight was at the age of nine. He became a British Schoolboy Champion and went onto fight internationally. He trained in Karate for 6 years under Dickie Wu, Terry Stewart & Jamie O'Keefe. He graded for shodan in November 1989 and now trains in the kyokushin style with the BKK under Liam Keaveney. He has also studied fencing, tang soo doo,and shooting. Glen also played football for Chelsea as a schoolboy and became an apprentice with Charlton.and was registered with Enfield Town FC and Rainham Town FC in the FA Cup and has played at Wembley 10 times.
Glen is the patron of the SupportLine charity. SupportLine provides a confidential telephone helpline offering emotional support to individuals on any issue.
He speaks English, Italian and some Japanese.
He has a production company, Omerta Films, and has four films in development and is in the final stages of post production on Lost in Italy (New York Hells Kitchen World Cinema Best Film Award) and has started pre production with his next feature Sabini due to shoot later in the year.
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