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Billy Murray (born October 1941) is a British actor.

Murray was born in London and knew the Kray twins from Bethnal Green who, are said to have funded him to train at East 15 Acting School, London.

His main claim to fame was as corrupt DS Don Beech in the ITV1 Police drama series The Bill playing the role from 1995-2000.

He returned as Don Beech in a spin-off six-part mini-series titled Beech is Back in 2001 and in 2004 for a guest stint in five episodes.

In 2005, he joined the cast of popular BBC Soap opera EastEnders playing a somewhat retired gangster Johnny Allen. He was reported to be the nastiest gangster ever to appear in the soap but after a good start a few months into the character's arrival due to constant script re-writes, poor scripts and changing of executive producers the character of Johnny was often inconsistent. His portrayal of the character was however so convincing he recently received a death warrant over the murder of popular character Dennis Rickman. He is due to depart from the show in 2006 in a dramatic storyline to be screened in March.

Incidently he appeared in small guest roles in both The Bill and EastEnders before going on to play a more well-known regular character many years later. Before playing Don Beech in The Bill he appeared as DI Jackson in 1989 and before playing Johnny Allen in EastEnders he appeared as Mr X in 1991.

In his early career he has played Spike in TV series Rock Follies and has appeared in Casualty, A Touch of Frost and Minder.

His daughter Jaime Murray stars in the series Hustle and (like her father) once had a role in The Bill.

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