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Jon Glover
Born
Jonathan Philip Glover

(1952-12-26) 26 December 1952 (age 71)
Crediton, Devon, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationActor
Years active1972–present

Jonathan Philip Glover (born 26 December 1952) is an English actor. He has appeared in various television programmes including Play School, Survivors, the Management consultant in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Casualty, Bodger & Badger and Peak Practice.

He provided the voices of several characters in the Animals of Farthing Wood animated series, and is also known for voice-acting for Noah's Island, Spitting Image[1] and the character King Trode in the English language version of the PlayStation 2 game Dragon Quest VIII. He often appears in radio plays for Radio 4.[2][3] He was a regular on the Radio 4 satirical programme Week Ending during the 1980s. He played the upper crust English character Mr Cholmondley-Warner in spoof 1940s government documentaries in Harry Enfield's Television Programme with excessive Received Pronunciation.

His voices for Spitting Image included the Duke of Edinburgh, weather forecaster Ian McCaskill, Melvyn Bragg, Oliver Reed, South African State President P.W. Botha and snooker player Steve Davis.

He also did voices on other animated programmes such as Little Ghosts, The Adventures of Paddington Bear, Mr. Bean (2002), Ludwig, and Metalheads.

Glover has played theatrical agent Maurice Skellern in BBC Radio 4 adaptations of the Charles Paris mysteries;[4][5] and in May 2013 played the roles of Lord Portico & Stockton in a BBC radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, adapted by Dirk Maggs.

References

  1. ^ Arnell, Stephen (5 March 2020). "'And what about the vegetables?'". mediatel.co.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  2. ^ Hemley, Matthew (1 November 2012). "BBC Radio celebrates Michael Frayn's 80th | News". The Stage. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Mr Standfast - S1 - Episode 1". Radio Times. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  4. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - A Charles Paris Mystery, Cast in Order of Disappearance, Episode 1". BBC. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  5. ^ gk_g10i (23 September 2019). "Charles Paris: Murder Unprompted: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisati…". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)