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Robert Glenister
Born
Robert Lewis Glenister

(1960-03-11) 11 March 1960 (age 64)
Watford, Hertfordshire, England
OccupationActor
Years active1979–present
Spouses
(m. 1984; div. 1992)
Celia de Wolff
(m. 1999)
Children2
ParentJohn Glenister (father)
RelativesPhilip Glenister (brother)

Robert Lewis Glenister (born 11 March 1960) is an English actor. He is best known for his television roles as Ash "Three Socks" Morgan in the crime drama series Hustle (2004–2012) and Nicholas Blake in the spy drama series Spooks (2006–2010).

Early life

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Glenister was born in Watford on 11 March 1960.[1] He is the son of Joan Fry Lewis and television director John Glenister, and the older brother of actor Philip Glenister. Until the age of eight he had a slight speech impediment. After starting school, he began to show a talent for acting. He decided to pursue a professional acting career after being encouraged by his father and leaving Harrow Weald Grammar School. He started his career by taking several theatre roles.[2]

Career

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Glenister made his television debut in the BBC sitcom Sink or Swim, which ran from 1980 until 1982.[3] He has also appeared in shows such as Soldier Soldier,[4] Only Fools and Horses (as Myles the millionaire garden centre owner and chairman of the SWANS committee),[5] A Touch of Frost[6] and Inspector George Gently[7] as well as several films.

He had a starring role in the BBC drama Hustle as Ash Morgan, a high-level con-man who has to convincingly play various roles or characters to pull off a con and lure a 'mark'. He is the only actor who has appeared in every episode of the series. He has also had regular starring roles in the BBC drama Spooks and appeared in Spartacus.[8][9] He appeared as an Irish-American mob boss in Ben Affleck's crime drama Live by Night, which was released in December 2016.[10] He has been cast twice in Doctor Who, playing Salateen in The Caves of Androzani (1984) (opposite his Sink or Swim co-star Peter Davison) and Thomas Edison in "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror" (2020).[11]

In June 2022 he appeared as Detective Inspector Salisbury in Sherwood, a BBC serial written by James Graham.[12] In 2024, he plays Tony, a cab driver in the Channel 5 thriller series The Night Caller.[13]

Personal life

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Glenister married actor Amanda Redman in 1984; the couple had a daughter before they divorced in 1992.[14] He later married BBC Radio producer and director Celia de Wolff, with whom he has a son.[15][16]

In April 2019, it was reported that lawyers acting for a company owned by Glenister – Big Bad Wolff – had lost an appeal in a long-running battle with HM Revenue and Customs regarding liability for National Insurance contributions.[17] Glenister subsequently said that he would have to sell or remortgage his house as a result of the ruling, since he now faced a bill of £147,000 plus interest.[18]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1979 Birth of the Beatles Replacement Drummer
1981 Strike: The Birth of Solidarity Jurek Borowczak Television film
1983 The Campaign Jon Lansman Television film
1985 Me and the Girls Harry Television film
1986 Watching Tom Anderson Television film
1987 Hyper Combat Unit Dangaioh Gil Berg Direct-to-video; Voice role; English version
1989 Ending Up Keith Television film
1991 Arslân Senki Gardeep / Zante Direct-to-video; Voice role; English version
1992 Arslân Senki II Gardeep / Zante Direct-to-video; Voice role; English version
1993 The Secret Rapture Jeremy
1995 Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing Aristophanes Television film
2000 You Can't Dance Short film
2001 Just Visiting Earl of Warwick
Lover's Prayer Count Malevsky
2002 Safe Conduct Captain Townsend
2003 Eroica Gerhardt Television film
Victoria Station The Controller Short film
2004 The Badness of King George IV Television film
Who Killed Thomas Becket? Narrator Television film; Voice role
2005 Legless Simon Carter Television film
2006 The Sally Lockhart Mysteries: The Ruby in the Smoke Samuel Selby Television film
2007 Get Off My Land Farmer Short film
2009 Creation Sir Henry Holland
2011 Of Mary Peter Short film
2012 We'll Take Manhattan Ted Shrimpton Television film
Worm Dad / Worm Short film
2014 Cryptic Robert
2016 Live by Night Albert White
2017 Journey's End The Colonel
2019 The Aeronauts Ned Chambers
2020 Villain Roy Garrett
Spanish Pigeon Harry Gold Short film
2022 National Theatre Live: The Seagull Pyotr Nikolayevich Sorin

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1979 Crown Court Kevin Laurence Episode: "Forever"
1980 Escape Lorenzo Episode: "The Cartland Murders"
Strangers Student Episode: "Clowns Don't Cry"
1980–82 Sink or Swim Steve Webber Series regular; 19 episodes
1981 ITV Playhouse Billy Episode: "Little Girls Don't"
1982 Panorama Kowalczyk Episode: "Two Weeks in Winter: How the Army Took Over Poland"
1984 Doctor Who Salateen Story: "The Caves of Androzani"
The Lonelyhearts Kid Ken Series regular; 6 episodes
1985 Cover Her Face Derek Pullen Miniseries; 4 episodes
Summer Season Peter Episode: "Long Term Memory"
Juliet Bravo Inspector Roger Beavers Episode: "Inspection"
1988 The Bill Sam Rice Episode: "Blue for a Boy"
1989 Megazone 23 Bishop / Jacker Miniseries; Voice role; English version
1990 Chancer Colin Morris Series regular; 11 episodes
Blood Rights Pete Miniseries; 3 episodes
Casualty Duncan Episode: "Salvation"
1991 Kinsey Mike Hoskyns Recurring role; 4 episodes
Soldier Soldier Colour Sergeant Ian Anderson Recurring role; 7 episodes
1992 The Bill D.I. Baker Episode: "Lost Boy"
Boon Mr. Richards Episode: "Whispering Grass"
Only Fools and Horses Myles Episode: "Mother Nature's Son"
1993 Medics Steven Nelson Episode: "Series 3, Episode 5"
1993–95 Arslân Senki II Gardeep / Zante Miniseries; Voice role; English version
1994 Screen Two Brian Jessel Episode: "A Landing on the Sun"
Casualty Chris Wilson Episode: "Grand Rational"
Pie in the Sky D.C.I. Fields Episode: "An Innocent Man"
1995 Kavanagh QC Clive Pendle Episode: "Heartland"
Screen Two Captain Harville Episode: "Persuasion"
Prime Suspect Chris Hughes Episode: "The Lost Child"
The Bill Paramedic Episode: "Good Intentions"
1996 Bramwell Charles Sheldon Episode: "Series 2, Episode 7"
1997 Drovers' Gold Markby Miniseries; 1 episode
2000 Dirty Work Tubes Series regular; 6 episodes
My Fragile Heart Stephen 'Squeal' Blake Miniseries; 2 episodes
2001 Midsomer Murders John Field Episode: "Dark Autumn"
2001–03 A Touch of Frost D.S. Terrence Reid Recurring role; 4 episodes
2002 Heartbeat Oliver Langley Episode: "The Shoot"
Murder Robert Weldon Miniseries; 4 episodes
Sirens D.I. Clive Wilson Miniseries; 2 episodes
2003 Hitler: The Rise of Evil Anton Drexler Miniseries; 2 episodes
Roger Roger Dr. Geoff Episode: "Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose"
Between the Sheets Clive Stevenson Miniseries; 6 episodes
2004–12 Hustle Ash Morgan Series regular; 48 episodes
2005 Class of '76 Frank Thompson Miniseries; 2 episodes
2006 Jane Hall Dave Searle Series regular; 6 episodes
2006–10 Spooks Nicholas Blake Recurring role; 15 episodes
2008 Heroes and Villains Marcus Licinius Crassus Episode: "Spartacus"
Inspector George Gently Empton Episode: "The Burning Man"
2009 Law & Order: UK D.S. Jimmy Valentine Episode: "Honour Bound"
2009–14 Law & Order: UK Narrator Series regular; Voice role; Uncredited
2010 Moving On Frankie Episode: "Skin Deep"
2011 Appropriate Adult Detective Superintendent John Bennett Miniseries; 2 episodes
2013 Agatha Christie's Marple Father Brophy Episode: "Greenshaw's Folly"
The Café Phil Porter Series regular; 7 episodes
The Great Train Robbery DI Frank Williams Miniseries; 2 episodes
2014 Vera Owen Preece Episode: "Death of a Family Man"
Masterpiece Mystery! Father Raphy Episode: "Agatha Christie's Miss Marple VII: Greenshaw's Folly"
2015 Code of a Killer DCC Chapman Miniseries; 2 episodes
2016 The Musketeers Duke of Lorraine Recurring role; 2 episodes
Paranoid Bobby Day Miniseries; 8 episodes
2016 Close to the Enemy Brigadier Wainwright Miniseries; 7 episodes
2017 Cold Feet George Kirkbright Recurring role; 5 episodes
2019 Curfew Jared Grieves Series regular; 6 episodes
2020 Doctor Who Thomas Edison Episode: "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror"
Isolation Stories Ron Episode: "Ron & Russell"
Strike Jasper Chiswell Story: "Lethal White"
2022 Suspicion Martin Copeland Series regular; 6 episodes
Sherwood DI Kevin Salisbury Series regular; 6 episodes
2023 The Night Caller Tony Miniseries; 4 episodes
2024 Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story Piers Morgan Miniseries; 1 episode

Selected theatre

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Radio

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Alexandre Dumas."The Three Musketeers" [Athos] 1994 6 episodes Radio Play. BBC Radio 4

Audio drama

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Audiobook

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References

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  1. ^ "Robert Glenister - Rotten Tomatoes". www.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  2. ^ Christie, Darnell (14 September 2021). "Philip Glenister's famous older brother who was in The Bill, Spooks & Only Fools". MyLondon. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  3. ^ a b Greenstreet, Rosanna (23 July 2022). "Robert Glenister: 'I wish I wasn't quite as arrogant when I got successful'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  4. ^ "BBC - Drama - Hustle - Ash Morgan (Robert Glenister)". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  5. ^ Quinn, Angie (13 June 2022). "Sherwood star Robert Glenister is unrecognisable in Only Fools and Horses". MyLondon. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  6. ^ "A Touch of Frost Season 8". Radio Times. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  7. ^ "The Burning Man (2008)". BFI. Archived from the original on 3 August 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  8. ^ "Hustle: Robert Glenister". Manchester Evening News. 19 April 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  9. ^ "Spartacus (2008)". BFI. Archived from the original on 25 October 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  10. ^ a b "Hustle actor 'breaks down' on stage midway through West End performance". The Independent. 11 November 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  11. ^ "Doctor Who announces ER's Goran Višnjić and Hustle's Robert Glenister for new guest roles". Radio Times. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  12. ^ "Sherwood". Radio Times: 65, 66, 74, 76. 18–24 June 2022.
  13. ^ "Sherwood and Casualty stars to lead new thriller series Black Cab". Digital Spy. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  14. ^ Whiting, Kate (13 July 2009). "Amanda Redman: The laughing policemen are back in New Tricks". Chester Chronicle. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  15. ^ Roy, David (7 August 2019). "Robert Glenister on Brian Friel, Hustle and working with brother Philip – one day". The Irish News. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  16. ^ Clark, Alex (27 August 2019). "Lost airtime? BBC Radio 4's search for Proust's masterpiece". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  17. ^ "Actor Robert Glenister on losing side after tribunal tax fight". Belfast Telegraph. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  18. ^ "Spooks actor Robert Glenister slams 'secret police' as he faces £150K tax bill". ITV News. 21 April 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
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