William "Billy" Kimber was an English gangster and head of the Birmingham Boys, the main enemy of Thomas Shelby and the Peaky Blinders. He ran most of the legal tracks outside of London, leading to tensions between Kimber and the Peaky Blinders, who looked to expand their control into inner city...

Billy Kimber is the secondary antagonist of Season 1 of the BBC crime drama series Peaky Blinders. He is the dominant crime boss in Birmingham who runs most of the race tracks outside of London, bringing him into contact with the Peaky Blinders gang.

They held "control" for 30 years until 1920, when a larger gang, the Birmingham Boys, led by Billy Kimber, overtook them. Although they had disappeared by the 1920s, the name "Peaky Blinders" became synonymous slang for any street gang in Birmingham.

2013年12月11日 · For two years from 1924, Sabini was preoccupied by an unsuccessful libel action against the publishers D. C. Thompson that bankrupted him. He then moved to Brighton and set up as a bookmaker. As...

2013年11月12日 · Carl Chinn continues the true story of Billy Kimber, as the London gangs challenge the Brummagem Boys for power

The leader of the Birmingham Boys, Billy Kimber, who appears in Peaky Blinders, was a real-life gangster, along with Charles "Darby" Sabini, a London criminal who controlled the horse racing ...

2022年1月16日 · No one can forget when Tommy Shelby and his crew went head-to-head with notorious gangster Billy Kimber - portrayed by Charlie Creed-Miles - in season one, with it all coming to a tense and...

2022年3月7日 · BBC2 documentary The Real Peaky Blinders, which airs tonight, tells the story of the Victorian mobsters who inspired characters in TV show, including hardened gang leader Sam Sheldon and...

2013年10月8日 · Charlie Creed-Miles as Billy Kimber in Peaky Blinders. It is not known whether Kimber had been a slogger or a peaky blinder, although it seems probable, but unlike the great majority of peaky...

2020年5月18日 · In Peaky Blinders, Billy Kimber was the head of the Birmingham Boys and the main enemy of Peaky Blinder’s leader, Thomas Shelby (played by Cillian Murphy). In the series, Billy ran most...