Brian Trevor John Murphy is an English actor. Murphy remains best known as the henpecked husband George Roper in the sitcom Man About the House and spinoff George and Mildred.
Murphy was born in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. He was called up to do his national service at RAF Northwood, where he met future The Good Life actor Richard Briers. On leaving the RAF the two aspiring actors both performed in productions by the Dramatic Society at the Borough Polytechnic Institute, now London South Bank University. Murphy was a member of Joan Littlewoods Theatre Workshop , and a jobbing actor in the 1960s and early 1970s, combining his theatre work with appearances in television shows such as The Avengers, ZCars, Callan and Dixon of Dock Green, before being cast in the role which would make him a household name.
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