Johnnie Murphy — Violent Playground Character Profile

About Johnnie Murphy

Leader of a Liverpool youth gang. After accidentally killing Alexander while fleeing police, he takes a classroom hostage with a machine gun, shoots a student, and is arrested.

Character Facts

Played by

David McCallum

Appears in

Violent Playground (1958)

Role

Supporting

More characters from Violent Playground

• Detective Sergeant Jack Truman (Stanley Baker)
• Cathie Murphy (Anne Heywood)
• Father Laidlaw (Peter Cushing)
• Alexander (Michael Chow)
• Sgt. Walker (John Slater)
• Mrs. Catlin (Sheila Raynor)
• Primrose (Tsai Chin)
• Boy (uncredited) (Ali Allen)
• Slick (Sean Lynch)
• Tommy (Freddie Starr)
• Customer in Grocer's Shop (uncredited) (Grace Arnold)
• Headmaster Evans (Clifford Evans)