Julian Glover
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| Born | Julian Wyatt Glover 27 March 1935 Hampstead, London, England, U.K. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1950s–present |
| Spouse(s) | Eileen Atkins (1957–1966) Isla Blair (1968–present) |
| Children | Jamie Glover (born 1969) |
Julian Wyatt Glover (born 27 March 1935) is an English actor best known for film roles such as General Maximilian Veers in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, the James Bond villain Aristotle Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only, Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Brian Harcourt-Smith in The Fourth Protocol. More recently, in January 2013, he has appeared as General Beauvilliers in the BBC drama, Spies of Warsaw and he has played the recurring role of Grand Maester Pycelle on HBO's Game of Thrones since 2011.
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Personal life [edit]
Glover was born in Hampstead, London, the son of Honor Ellen Morgan (née Wyatt), a BBC journalist and a close friend of novelist Barbara Pym, and Claude Gordon Glover, a BBC radio producer.[1][2] His younger half-brother is the musician Robert Wyatt. Glover has been twice married to actresses: Eileen Atkins and Isla Blair, with whom he has a son, actor Jamie Glover.
Career [edit]
Glover attended Bristol Grammar School – where he was in the same class as actors Timothy West and Darth Vader actor David Prowse – and also Alleyn's School in Dulwich, London. He then trained at the National Youth Theatre and performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In the early 1950s, he appeared in several shows at Unity Theatre, London before regularly appearing in British television series during the 1960s and 1970s such as The Avengers, The Saint, Strange Report and Blake's 7.
In 1967, Glover featured as Professor Quatermass' nemesis Colonel Breen in the Hammer Films production of Quatermass and the Pit, an adaptation of Nigel Kneale's 1950s BBC TV original. He has also appeared twice in Doctor Who: as Richard the Lionheart in the 1965 serial The Crusade; and, in 1979, as the villain Scaroth, last of the Jagaroth, in one of the original run's most popular serials,[citation needed] City of Death. Glover later recorded DVD commentaries for the recently rediscovered The Crusade episode "The Wheel of Fortune" (from the Lost in Time DVD set) and for City of Death.
In the 1980s, Glover made some of his most notable appearances, such as the Imperial General Maximilian Veers in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the ruthless Greek villain Aristotle Kristatos in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981) and the deceptive American Nazi Walter Donavan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). On television, he played the leading role of Sir Martin Lacey in the BBC English Civil War drama series By the Sword Divided.[citation needed]
In the 2002 film version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Glover voiced the giant spider Aragog.
Glover has been associated with the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf since the 1980s, delivering various forms of staged interpretation. Taking the role of an Anglo-Saxon gleeman or traveller poet, he delivers an abridged version of the tale while stood around a mead hall hearth. This Old English text, set in the dark Nordic–Germanic world of the Geats, examines Anglo-Saxon concepts of honour and comitatus. The performance is interspersed with Glover rendering selected passages in the original Old English. This adaptation has been shown in documentaries on both the English language and Anglo-Saxon England. It was shown in Michael Wood's documentary Beowulf, broadcast during the BBC Poetry Season on BBC Four and BBC Two in 2009.
Glover recently[when?] played the role of Mr. Brownlow in the West End revival of the musical Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.[citation needed] In the short film Battle for Britain (2010), Glover played a 101 year-old Polish veteran Royal Air Force pilot.[3]
Since 2011, Glover has portrayed the character of Grand Maester Pycelle in HBO's Game of Thrones, the television adaptation of the first three volumes of George R. R. Martin's fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire. Glover is an Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Glover played the role of General Beauvilliers in the BBC Four drama series The Spies of Warsaw in 2013.[4]
Awards [edit]
- He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award in 1993 (1992 season) for Best Supporting Actor for Henry V at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Filmography [edit]
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References [edit]
- ^ Julian Glover Biography (1935–)
- ^ "Theatre and film". Times Online. 10 January 2005. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
- ^ Battle for Britain – Film
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01psbj3
External links [edit]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Julian Glover |
- Julian Glover at the Internet Movie Database
- Julian Glover at the TCM Movie Database
- Julian Glover at AllRovi
- The Strange Case of Springheel'd Jack New audio series starring Julian Glover
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- 1935 births
- Actors from London
- English film actors
- English stage actors
- English television actors
- Living people
- National Youth Theatre members
- People educated at Bristol Grammar School
- People from Hampstead
- Royal Shakespeare Company members
- People educated at Alleyn's School
- Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
