Julian Glover

For the British journalist and speechwriter, see Julian Glover (journalist).

Julian Glover
Glover in 2011
Born	Julian Wyatt Glover 27 March 1935 (1935-03-27) Hampstead, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1950s–present
Spouse	Eileen Atkins (1957–1966) Isla Blair (1968–present)

Julian Wyatt Glover (born 27 March 1935) is a British actor best known for such roles as General Maximilian Veers in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, the Bond villain Aristotle Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only, and Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Personal life

Glover was born in Hampstead, 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. 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. In 2006, he held the role of Edward Alleyn Club President.

Career

Glover attended Bristol Grammar School in Bristol, England, where he was in the same class as actors Timothy West and Darth Vader actor David Prowse, and also Alleyn's School in Dulwich. Glover 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. During the 1960s and 1970s, Glover frequently appeared in British television shows, including The Avengers, Doctor Who, The Saint, Strange Report and Blake's 7.

Julian Glover also appeared in 1967's Quatermass and the Pit, a Hammer Films adaptation of Nigel Kneale's 1950s BBC television original, in which he portrayed Quatermass' nemesis, Colonel Breen, a military man, initially sceptical of the ancient origin of an archaeologically excavated extraterrestrial spacecraft, who is later ironically in thrall to the murderous energy released from the craft. In 1979, he appeared as the villain, Scaroth, last of the Jagaroth, in the Doctor Who story City of Death, one of the most popular serials in the original run. He later recorded DVD commentaries for recently rediscovered The Crusade episode "The Wheel of Fortune" (from the Lost in Time (Doctor Who) DVD set) and City of Death.

Glover also appeared opposite Roger Moore in the episode of The Saint titled "Invitation to Danger."

He made some of his most notable appearances during the 1980s as the Imperial General Maximilian Veers in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the ruthless Greek villain Aris Kristatos in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981), and the deceptive American Nazi Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). During the 1980s, he played the leading role in the BBC television drama series, By the Sword Divided.

He voiced the giant spider Aragog in the 2002 film version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

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 whilst stood around a mead hall hearth. This powerful Old English text, set in the dark age 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. Most recently, it was shown in Michael Wood's documentary 'Beowulf', broadcast during the BBC Poetry Season on BBC Four and BBC Two in 2009.

He recently played the role of Mr. Brownlow in the West End revival of the musical Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Glover plays a 101-year-old Polish veteran RAF pilot in the short film "Battle for Britain" (2010).

Since 2011 he portrays the character of Grand Maester Pycelle in HBO's Game of Thrones, the TV adaptation of the first volume of George R.R. Martin's fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire.

He is an Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

In 2011 he appeared in Casualty as an elderly man named Sebastian who was crushed by his mobility scooter.

Awards

• His performance in the title role of the Royal Shakespeare Company's staging of Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, at the Barbican Centre in London, earned him the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in 1993.
• He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award in 1993 (1992 season) for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Henry V at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Filmography

• Tom Jones (1963) – Lt. Northerton
• Girl with Green Eyes (1964) – Malachi Sullivan
• Time Lost and Time Remembered (1965) – Dr. Matthew Langdon
• The Alphabet Murders (1965) – Don Fortune
• Doctor Who – The Crusade (1965) – Richard the Lionheart
• Theatre of Death (1966) – Charles Marquis
• Quatermass and the Pit (1967) – Col. Breen
• The Avengers – The Living Dead (1967) — Masgard
• The Magus (1968) – Anton
• Alfred the Great (1969) – Athelstane
• The Adding Machine (1969) – Shrdlu
• The Last Grenade (1970) – Andy Royal
• Wuthering Heights (1970) – Hindley Earnshaw
• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970) – Col. Moffat
• Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) – Gapon
• Antony and Cleopatra (1972) – Proculeius
• Luther (1973) – The Knight
• Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) – Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein
• Dead Cert (1974) – Lodge
• Terror on the Britannic (1974) – Commander Marder
• The Internecine Project (1974) – Arnold Pryce-Jones
• Juggernaut (1974) – Commander Marder
• Space: 1999 – Alpha Child (1975) – Jarak
• Gulliver's Travels (1977) – (voice)
• The Brute (1977) – Teddy
• Henry VIII (1979 BBC & Time-Life film) (1979) - Duke of Buckingham
• Doctor Who – City of Death (1979) – Scaroth/Count Scarlioni
• Invasion (1980) – Alexander Dubcek
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) – General Maximilian Veers
• For Your Eyes Only (1981) – Aristotle Kristatos
• Ivanhoe (1982) – King Richard
• Dombey and Son – Mr. Dombey
• Heat and Dust (1983) – Crawford, the District Collector
• Hearts of Fire (1987) – Alfred
• The Fourth Protocol (1987) – Brian Harcourt-Smith
• Cry Freedom (1987) – Don Card
• Wish Me Luck (1987–1989) – Colonel James Cadogan
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) – Walter Donovan
• Tusks (1990) – Ian Taylor
• Treasure Island (1990) – Dr. Livesey
• Letters, Riddles and Writs – Joseph Haydn
• King Ralph (1991) – King Gustav
• Power and Lovers (1994) – Matthew
• The Chief (1995) – Andrew Blake
• The House of Angelo (1997) – Sir Robert Willoughby
• Vatel (2000) – Prince de Condé
• The Book of Eve (2002) – Burt Smallwood
• Two Men Went to War (2002) – Col. Hatchard
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) – Aragog (voice)
• Troy (2004) – Triopas
• Strings (2004) – Kahro (English version voice)
• Scoop (2006) – Lord Lyman
• Mirrors (2008) – Robert Esseker
• The Young Victoria (2009) – Duke of Wellington
• Game of Thrones (2011) – Grand Maester Pycelle
• Airborne (2012) - George
• U.F.O. (2013) — John

External links

• Julian Glover at the Internet Movie Database
• Julian Glover at AllRovi
• The Strange Case of Springheel'd Jack New audio series starring Julian Glover