Julian Glover

Actor Mar 27 (age 91) London, England 1951–2025 (74 year career)

6.2 avg rating

Biography

Primarily a classical stage actor, Julian Glover trained at the National Youth Theatre, performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and became a familiar face to British television viewers by appearing in many popular series during the 1960s and 1970s. His talent for accents and cold expression made him an ideal choice for playing refined villains. During the 1980s, Glover achieved some fame in Hollywood by playing roles in such popular films as Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1…

Known For

Film

The Empire Strikes Back

General Veers

Film

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Aragog (voice)

Film

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Walter Donovan

Film

Troy

Triopas

Film

TÁR

Andris Davis

Film

The Young Victoria

Duke of Wellington

Film

For Your Eyes Only

Aristotle Kristatos

Film

Scoop

Lord Lyman

Filmography

Acting (177)

Movies (102)

Doctor Who: Gallifrey

2025

Borley Rectory: The Awakening

2025

as Harry Bull

Forever Young

2024

as Jim Petrak Senior

5.5

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

2024

as self

6.0

Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing

as Self

The Laureate

as Alfred Graves

TÁR

as Andris Davis

Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher

2022

as Lord Ashford

6.2

The Reverend and Mrs Simpson

as Older Charles

Nobody Has to Know

as Angus

An Irish Angel

as Father Luke Reitel

The Toll

as Magnus

Nemesis

as Sebastian

The Doctors: Villains!

2018

Nothing Like a Dame

2018

as Self (archive footage)

6.8

We Still Steal the Old Way

2017

as Sir Edward

5.8

Amy and Sophia

2017

as Jim

Gangster Kittens

2016

as Lord Clarence Beaverbrook

1.0

Brash Young Turks

2016

as Louis Hartman

1.0

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

as Pycelle

Backtrack

as the Old Man

Mr Invisible

Doctor Who: Gallifrey

as Sennec

Airborne

as George

LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out

2012

as General Veers (voice)

U.F.O.

as John Jones

The Halloween Kid

as The Teacher

Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey

as Self

Exit

as Geeles

Perfect

as Lucien

The Young Victoria

as Duke of Wellington

Mirrors

as Robert Esseker

Shoot on Sight

as Susan's Father

Scoop

as Lord Lyman

Big Nothing

as 80 year old Blind Man

6.4

Paris in the Springtime

Troy

as Triopas

Strings

as Kahro

Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy

2003

as Self

8.2

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

as Aragog (voice)

Two Men Went To War

as Col. Hatchard

The Book of Eve

as Burt Smallwood

Vatel

as Prince de Conde

The Dance of Shiva

as General Willis

The Infiltrator

1995

as Bielert

5.9

Power and Lovers

1994

as Matthew

Money For Nothing

as Mr Farquharson

King Ralph

as King Gustav

Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs

as Joseph Haydn

Treasure Island

as Dr. Livesey

Who Bombed Birmingham?

1990

as Igor Judge QC

7.0

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

as Walter Donovan

Tusks

as Ian Taylor

Scarfe's Follies

The Secret Garden

as Colonel McGraw

Cry Freedom

as Don Card

Hearts of Fire

as Alfred

The Fourth Protocol

as Brian Harcourt-Smith

6.3

Mandela

1987

as Senior Police Officer

Kim

as Col. Creighton

Heat and Dust

as Crawford

Ivanhoe

as King Richard

For Your Eyes Only

as Aristotle Kristatos

6.5

The Search for Alexander the Great

1981

as Philip II

5.0

The Journal of Bridget Hitler

1981

as Interviewer

The Empire Strikes Back

as General Veers

Invasion

as Alexander Dubcek

Henry VIII

as Duke of Buckingham

6.5

Doctor Who: City of Death

1979

as Count Scarlioni / Captain Tancredi / Scaroth

9.0

Henry V

1979

as The Constable of France

Gulliver's Travels

as (voice)

The Brute

as Teddy

Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin

1975

as Gifford

Juggernaut

1974

as Cmdr. Marder

6.2

The Internecine Project

1974

as Arnold Pryce-Jones

5.9

The Story of Jacob and Joseph

as Esau

Luther

as Knight

Dead Cert

as Lodge

Electra

as Aegisthus

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

as Fegelein

Antony and Cleopatra

as Proculeius

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971

as Gapon

6.9

Michael Regan

1971

as Wixon

Wuthering Heights

as Hindley Earnshaw

The Last Grenade

as Andy Royale

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

as Colonel Moffat

Alfred the Great

as Shrdlu

The Adding Machine

as Shrdlu

The Magus

as Anton

Quatermass and the Pit

as Colonel Breen

Theatre of Death

as Charles Marquis

I Was Happy Here

as Dr. Matthew Langdon

6.1

Doctor Who: The Crusade

1965

as Richard the Lionheart

The Alphabet Murders

as Don Fortune

Girl with Green Eyes

as Malachi Sullivan

Tom Jones

as Northernton

The Cruel Necessity

as Colonel Tomlinson

The Awakening

as Mason Snr.

Michael Wood on Beowulf

as Self - Storyteller

War Is Hell

Apollo in Ascension

as Narrator (voice)

The Awakening 2

as Mason, Snr.

Television (75)

Moresnet

as Stephan Pineau

Surface

as William Huntley

Willow

as Zeb

Black Earth Rising

as Mark Viner

The Crown

as Cecil Boyd-Rochfort

Inside No. 9

as Ralph

Atlantis

as Eunapius

Spies of Warsaw

as General Beauvilliers

6.6

Game of Thrones

2011

as Grand Maester Pycelle

Merlin

as Lochru

The Impressionists

as Claude Monet - older

7.5

In Search of Shakespeare

as Self

Born and Bred

as Derek

Waking the Dead

as William Laurence

Midsomer Murders

as Henry Trace

Trial & Retribution

Silent Witness

as Henry Markham

Cadfael

as Leoric Ashby

The World of Hammer

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

The Darling Buds of May

as George Harran

The Chief

as Andrew Blake

TECX

Wish Me Luck

as Colonel James Cadogan

Casualty

as Arnold Richardson

Lovejoy

as Frank Whymark

Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna

1986

as Colonel Kobylinski

6.6

Ladies in Charge

1986

5.0

Jenseits der Morgenröte

1985

as Kilian von Roggenburg

Travelling Man

1984

as Bill Sheridan

5.0

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

1984

as Andrei Volkov

5.0

Six Centuries of Verse

as Self - Reader

Taggart

as Supt. Drummond

By the Sword Divided

Dombey and Son

as Paul Dombey

Remington Steele

as Inspector Lombard

Nancy Astor

as Lord Revelstoke

Q.E.D.

Bergerac

as Per Wemstrom

Magnum, P.I.

as Duncan Scott / Inspector Stokesay

Blake's 7

as Professor Kayn

The Sweeney

as Bernard Stone

Space: 1999

as Jarak

Rumpole of the Bailey

The Hanged Man

as Joe Denver

Quiller

as Shroder

Playhouse

as Interviewer

Churchill's People

as Richard de Anstey

QB VII

as Zaminski

Boy Dominic

as Jackson

Thriller

as Gifford

Spy Trap

as Commander Anderson

6.0

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

as Alfred Barton

Jason King

Play for Today

Manhunt

as Paul

Paul Temple

Strange Report

as James Hanson

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

as Frank

The Champions

as Anderson

Callan

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Aegisthus

5.0

Thirty-Minute Theatre

as Spangle

The Wednesday Play

Doctor Who

as King Richard

Espionage

World in Action

Z-Cars

The Saint

as Hilloram

Out of This World

as Dave Sheridan

The Avengers

as Andrei Vogel

An Age of Kings

as Lord Marshal

Androcles and the Lion

1960

as The Captain

No Hiding Place

Dixon of Dock Green

as Lewis Naylor

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Colonel McGraw

8.6