Julian Glover

 ( 1935 Births ) 

Julian Wyatt Glover (born 27 March 1935) is an English actor with many stage, television, and film roles. Classical acting, he is a recipient of the Laurence Olivier Award and has performed many times for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Glover's well-known film roles have included playing villains in several major motion picture franchises: Maximilian Veers in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Aristotle Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only (1981), and Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). He has also appeared as Brian Harcourt-Smith in The Fourth Protocol (1987), voiced the giant Acromantula spider Aragog in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), and appeared as conductor Andris Davis in the psychological drama Tár (2022).

Glover has also appeared frequently on television, especially in the UK, including guest appearances in series such as The Avengers, The Saint, Thriller, Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Remington Steele, and Inside No. 9. He played the recurring supporting role of Grand Maester Pycelle in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011–2016) and appeared as General Beauvilliers in the BBC drama Spies of Warsaw (2013).

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Early life Glover was born in Hampstead, London, the son of Honor Wyatt, a BBC journalist, and Gordon Glover, a BBC radio producer. Glover and Wyatt divorced in the 1940s, after the birth of a daughter, Prue, and Honor Wyatt subsequently married George Ellidge. Julian Glover's younger half-brother is the musician Robert Wyatt.

Glover attended Bristol Grammar School, where he was in the same class as future actors Timothy West and David Prowse. He also attended Alleyn's School in Dulwich, London. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1954. He also performed national service in the British Army, where he went on the officers' training course.

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Career In the early 1950s, Glover appeared in several shows at Unity Theatre, London, and played Tolen in Ann Jellicoe's The Knack at the Royal Court Theatre in 1962. He also performed at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He became a regular actor in 1960s and 1970s British television series such as The Avengers, The Saint, Strange Report, Doctor Who and Blake's 7.

In 1966, Glover played William the Conqueror in A Choice of Kings, then in 1967 featured as Professor Quatermass's nemesis Colonel Breen in the Hammer Films production of Quatermass and the Pit, an adaptation of Nigel Kneale's 1958–1959 BBC TV original. He also appeared twice in Doctor Who: as Richard the Lionheart in The Crusade (1965); and as the villain Scaroth, last of the Jagaroth, in one of the original run's most popular serials, City of Death (1979). Glover later recorded DVD commentaries for The Crusade episode "The Wheel of Fortune" (from the Lost in Time set) and for City of Death.

In the 1980s, Glover made some of his most notable appearances: the Imperial general Maximilian Veers in 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 collaborator Walter Donovan 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, "By The Sword Divided" on IMBb and played the guest role of surgeon Arnold Richardson in a 1989 episode of the BBC medical drama Casualty (he made a second guest appearance as a different character in 2011, and also appeared as a different character again in the sister series Holby City in 2014). He played a leading role in the British film Brash Young Turks in 2016.

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 epic poem Beowulf since the 1980s and has delivered staged interpretations in various forms, often taking the role of an Anglo-Saxon gleeman or traveller poet, delivering an abridged version of the tale while standing around a mead hall hearth and rendering selected passages in the poem's original Old English. This adaptation has been shown in documentaries on both the English language and Anglo-Saxon England and was also used for historian Michael Wood's documentary on the poem broadcast during the BBC Poetry Season in 2009. He adapted his interpretation in novel form as .

In 2009, Glover played the role of Mr. Brownlow in the West End revival of the musical Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. In the short film Battle for Britain (2010), Glover played a 101-year-old Polish veteran Royal Air Force pilot.

Glover portrayed the character of Grand Maester Pycelle in the HBO series Game of Thrones between 2011 and 2016, appearing in a total of 31 episodes across the first six seasons of the show.

In 2013, Glover played the role of General Beauvilliers in the BBC Four drama series The Spies of Warsaw. In May 2014, he played the character Joe Goodridge in two episodes of the BBC TV medical drama series Holby City ("My Name is Joe" and "No Apologies"). In the same year, he portrayed an old man in horror thriller Backtrack as well as a theater performance as The Interlocutor in the 2014 West End transfer of the Scottsboro Boys in October.

In February 2017, Glover participated as a featured guest at the inaugural Saudi Comic Con in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, alongside fellow Game of Thrones actor Charles Dance.

In 2019, Glover played the role of Nonno in the West End theatre production of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana at the Noël Coward Theatre.

Glover is an associate member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

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Awards In 1993, Glover was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1992 production of Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. Theatre critic Michael Billington called his portrayal of the king in that production "superb".

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Honours Glover was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama.

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Personal life Glover has been twice married: to actresses Eileen Atkins and Isla Blair (with whom he has a son, actor Jamie Glover).

In 2020, Glover sold 250 lots of photographs, costumes, props and memorabilia from his career at East Bristol Auctions, including his badge of rank from The Empire Strikes Back and the watch, overcoat and personal script from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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Filmography

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Film

1963	Tom Jones	Lt. Northerton
1964	Girl with Green Eyes	Malachi Sullivan
1965	The Alphabet Murders	Don Fortune
	Time Lost and Time Remembered	Dr. Matthew Langdon	I Was Happy Here alt. title.
1966	Theatre of Death	Charles Marquis
1967	Quatermass and the Pit	Colonel Breen
1968	The Magus	Anton
1969	Alfred the Great	Æthelstan
	The Adding Machine	ETAOIN SHRDLU
1970	The Last Grenade	Andy Royal
	The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer	Colonel Moffat
	Wuthering Heights	Hindley Earnshaw
1971	Nicholas and Alexandra	George Gapon
1972	Antony and Cleopatra	Proculeius
1973		Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein
	Luther	The Knight
	The Foundation Trilogy	Hober Mallow	Radio production
1974	Dead Cert	Lodge
	The Internecine Project	Arnold Pryce-Jones
	Juggernaut	Commander Marder	US title: Terror on the Britannic
1977	Gulliver's Travels		Voice
	The Brute	Teddy
1980	Invasion	Alexander Dubček
	The Empire Strikes Back	Maximilian Veers
1981	For Your Eyes Only	Aristotle "Aris" Kristatos
1983	Heat and Dust	Crawford, the District Collector	a.k.a. The Nineteen Twenties in the Civil Lines at Satipur
1984	Kim	Colonel Creighton
1987	The Fourth Protocol	Brian Harcourt-Smith
	Cry Freedom	Donald Card
	Hearts of Fire	Alfred
1988	Tusks	Ian Taylor
1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Walter Donovan
1991	King Ralph	King Gustav
1994	Power and Lovers	Matthew
1997	The House of Angelo	Sir Robert Willoughby
2000	Vatel	Prince de Condé
2002	The Book of Eve	Burt Smallwood
	Two Men Went to War	Colonel Hatchard
	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Aragog	Voice
2004	Troy	Triopas
	Strings	Kahro	Voice English version
2006	Scoop	Lord Lyman
	Big Nothing	80 Year Old Blind Man
2007	Shoot on Sight	Susan's Father
2008	Mirrors	Robert Esseker
2009	The Young Victoria	Duke of Wellington
	Princess Kaiulani	Theophilus Harris Davies
2012	U.F.O.	John Jones
	Chasing the Bear	Mentor / Studio Head
	Airborne	George
2014	Backtrack	The Old Man
2015	The Timber	Howell
2016	Brash Young Turks	Lou Hartman
	We Still Steal the Old Way	Sir Edward
	Gangster Kittens	Lord Clarence Beaverbrook
2017	Amy and Sophia	Jim
2019	The Pride of Atticus Lee	Atticus Lee	Short
2021	The Toll	Magnus
	Nemesis	Sebastian
	Nobody Has to Know	Angus
	The Laureate	Alfred Graves
2022		Lord Ashford
	Tár	Andris Davis
2023	The Reverend and Mrs. Simpson	Older Charles Wilson
	Forever Young	Jim Petrak Senior
2024	An Irish Angel	Father Reitel
	Banking on Mr. Toad	Vicar Burntwhistle	Pre-production

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Television

1962, 1964	Z-Cars	Derek/Harold Bolton	Episodes: "Day Trip"/"Lucky Partners"
1963	Espionage	Tovarich	Episode: "Never Turn Your Back on a Friend"
1964, 1968	The Saint	Ramon Falconi/Hilloran	Episodes: "The Lawless Lady"/"Invitation to Danger"
1965	Doctor Who	Richard the Lionheart	Serial: "The Crusade"
1965-9	The Avengers	Vogel/Masgard/Major Peter Rooke/Rupert Lasindall	4 episodes
1968	The Champions	Anderson	Episode: "The Fanatics"
1971	Jason King	John	Episode: "Variations on a Theme"
	Play for Today	Wixon	Episode: Michael Regan
1972	Spy Trap	Commander Anderson	36 episodes
	Callan	Karskyy	Episode: "That'll Be the Day"
1973	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Alfred Barton	Episode: "The Moabite Cypher"
1974	QB VII	Zaminski	TV miniseries
	The Story of Jacob and Joseph	Esau	TV movie
1975	Churchill's People	Richard de Anstey	Episode: "A Sprig of Boom"
	The Sweeney	Bernard Stone	Episode: "Queen's Pawn"
	Dixon of Dock Green	Lewis Naylor	Episode: "A Slight Case of Love"
		Jarak	Episode: "Alpha Child"
1978	Blake's 7	Kayn	Episode: "Breakdown"
1979	Henry VIII	Duke of Buckingham	TV movie
1979	Doctor Who	Scaroth/Count Scarlioni	Serial: "City of Death"
1982	Ivanhoe	King Richard	TV movie
	Nancy Astor	Lord Revelstoke	2 episodes
	Q.E.D.	Dr. Stefan Kilkiss	3 episodes (#1, #2, and #4 only)
1983	Dombey and Son	Mr. Dombey	10 episodes
	By the Sword Divided	Sir Martin Lacey	9 episodes
1983-4	Crown Court	Anthony Belgrave	2 episodes
1984	Travelling Man	Farmer	Episode: "On the Hook"
	Six Centuries of Verse	Himself	Reader
1985	Jenseits der Morgenröte	Kilian von Roggenburg	TV miniseries
	Remington Steele	Inspector Lombard	Episodes: "Steele Searching, Part 1" and "Steele Searching, Part 2"
	Magnum, P.I.	Duncan Scott / Police Inspector Stokesay	Episodes: "Deja Vu, Part 1" and "Deja Vu, Part 2"
1986	Ladies in Charge	Ernest	Episode: "Zoe's Fever"
		Colonel Kobylinski	TV movie
1987	Mandela	Senior Police Officer
1987–1989	Wish Me Luck (2025). 9781622732906, Vernon Press. ISBN 9781622732906	Colonel James Cadogan	15 episodes
1989	Casualty	Arnold Richardson	Episode: "Hanging On"
1990	Treasure Island	Dr. Livesey	TV movie
1991	Letters, Riddles and Writs	Joseph Haydn
1992	Rumpole of the Bailey	Sir Sebastian Pilgrim	Episode "Rumpole and the Reform of Joby Jonson"
1993	The Darling Buds of May	George Harran	2 episodes
	The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries	Sir Hubert Handesley	Episode: "A Man Lay Dead"
1995	The Chief	Andrew Blake	7 episodes
	Taggart	Supt. Drummond	Episode: "Black Orchid"
	The Infiltrator	Ernst Bielert	TV movie
1996	Cadfael	Leoric Ashby	Episode: "The Devil's Novice"
1997	Midsomer Murders	Henry Trace	Episode: "The Killings at Badger's Drift"
2003	Born and Bred	Derek	Episode: Old Flames
2004	Waking the Dead	William Laurence	Episode: "The Hardest Word" (Parts 1 and 2)
2006	The Impressionists	Claude Monet (older)	TV miniseries
2007	Silent Witness	Henry Markham	Episode: "Apocalypse"
2009	Clouds Over the Hill	Alfred Thayer Mahan	TV miniseries
2011	Silent Witness	Istvan Sandór	Episode: "Bloodlines"
2011–2016	Game of Thrones	Grand Maester Pycelle	Recurring role 31 episodes
2012		General Maxmilian Veers	Voice; Television special
2012	Merlin	Lochru	Episode: "Arthur's Bane (Part 1)"
2013	Spies of Warsaw	General Beauvilliers	TV miniseries
2016	Grantchester	Albert Tannen	Christmas special
2018	Black Earth Rising	Mark Viner	3 episodes
2019	The Crown	Cecil Boyd-Rochfort	Episode: "Coup"
2021	Inside No. 9	Ralph	Episode: "Last Night of the Proms"
2023	Willow	Zeb	Episode: "Beyond the Shattered Sea"
2024	Moresnet	Stephan Pineau	2 episodes
2025	Surface	William Huntley	2 episodes

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