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Murray was a founder member of the Actors' Centre and was its chairman for four years during which time he started a centre in Manchester in honour of Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop.
In 1991, thirty-four years after first making the tea and sweeping the stage at the Theatre Royal he was invited to become a member of the Board of the theatre, a position he held until 2011. It is partly in this role that he is becoming widely known as a learned and popular film historian — he can be seen and heard, for example, on the BFI DVD release of the Bill Douglas Trilogy.
In 1992 he became the Theatre Royal’s voluntary archivist and in 2009 he was appointed a member of the Theatre Workshop Trust. He led the successful campaign to erect a statue of Joan Littlewood.
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