Johnny Allen (EastEnders)
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| EastEnders character | |||||
| Portrayed by | Billy Murray | ||||
| Duration | 2005–2006 | ||||
| First appearance | Episode 2865 4 January 2005 |
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| Last appearance | Episode 3241 19 October 2006 |
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| Created by | Kathleen Hutchison | ||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||
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| Occupation | Gangster Businessman |
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| Wife | Stephanie Allen |
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| Daughters | Scarlet Allen Ruby Allen |
Jonathan "Johnny" Allen is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Billy Murray. Johnny appears on the show from 4 January 2005 until 19 October 2006, when he suffers a fatal heart attack while serving his prison sentence. Johnny is one of the show's biggest villains, terrorising several other characters and going to extreme lengths to gain the upper hand over his rivals. An old East End gangster, Johnny is responsible for the deaths of Andy Hunter (Michael Higgs) and Dennis Rickman (Nigel Harman) and is also central to the Get Johnny Week storyline that concludes in his eventual departure from the show.
Johnny Allen was born to a deprived family in Walford in the early 1940s. He was educated and grew up where he became familiar with the locals such as the Beale family and Den Watts (Leslie Grantham). Johnny went on to become a boxer from an early age, but got involved in the criminal underworld. In the late 1950s, when he started as an up-and-coming gangster and he employed a well-known prostitute Pat Harris (Pam St. Clement) with whom he had several flings before she married Pete Beale (Peter Dean) in 1961. Johnny also employed a fellow boxer in the late 1960s, named Eric Mitchell. Johnny used to bully Eric because Eric was a better boxer than he was and the two developed a strong feud. Johnny also knew Eric's wife, Peggy (Barbara Windsor), who used to try and seduce him out of desperation but he turned her down. Allen was a well-known man of the underworld and became notorious in the East End of London because he killed and tortured people including those who worked for him. Johnny left Walford when he grew older, presumably in the early 1970s, in order to expand his flourishing business empire named J.A. Enterprises but he still worked as a gangster but lived in his mansion in Essex. He married a woman named Stephanie, and they had two daughters: Scarlett (born 1986) and Ruby (Louisa Lytton), born in 1988. In 1994, he began an affair with Tina Stewart (Charlotte Avery), a barmaid who worked for him but was many years his junior, who went on to become his partner. His wife, Stephanie, and his eldest daughter, Scarlett, were killed in an arson attack by one of his criminal rivals in March 2004.
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