John Glen

John Glen

1932-05-15 Sunbury-on-Thames, London, England, UK 53 Credits

Biography

John Glen (born 15 May 1932) is a British film director. He was born in Sunbury-on-Thames, England. He is best known for his work as a film editor, and director of five James Bond movies, he also worked as film editor and second unit director on three previous Bond movies: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979). Glen's other films as second unit director include Superman and The Wild Geese, both in 1978.  He also directed the feature films Christo...

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From Roger Moore with Love

From Roger Moore with Love

2024

as Self

7.6
Acting

Friends, family and co-stars take part in this revealing and entertaining look at British icon Roger Moore and his rise to global fame. With rare home...

The Sound of 007

The Sound of 007

2022

as Self

7.0
Acting

Pull back the curtain on the remarkable history of six decades of James Bond music, from Sean Connery’s Dr No through to Daniel Craig’s final outing ...

Petroleum Spirit

Petroleum Spirit

2016

Executive Producer

2.0
Producing

A surreal road movie about a partially deaf teenager hitting the road in a beat up Lada to find the father who abandoned him at birth. The stunning fe...

Bond in Greece

Bond in Greece

2006

as self

6.0
Acting

A documentary about For Your Eyes Only filming in Greece.

Testing the Limits: The Aerial Team

2006

as Narrator

6.0
Acting

Short documentary of the aerial footage of the fight atop the Beechcraft C-45 'Twin Beech' (twin-engine) Beech 18 airplane for the finale of the James...

On the Set with John Glen

2006

6.0
Acting

On set interview with John Glen.

Best Ever Bond

2002

as Self

5.0
Acting

Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.

Bond Girls Are Forever

Bond Girls Are Forever

2002

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ur...

The Point Men

The Point Men

2001

Director

4.1
Directing

Some time after their botched operation to capture a known Palestinian terrorist, a team of Israeli agents starts to get killed off one by one. Their ...

Inside The Living Daylights

Inside The Living Daylights

2000

as Self

8.0
Acting

The making of the film that introduced Timothy Dalton as James Bond, who gave Bond a darker edge for a new generation.

Inside 'A View to a Kill'

Inside 'A View to a Kill'

2000

as Self

6.5
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "A View to a Kill"

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

2000

as Self

6.2
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Living Daylights"

Inside 'Licence to Kill'

Inside 'Licence to Kill'

2000

as Self

6.8
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film 'Licence to Kill'.

Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles

Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles

2000

as Self

4.8
Acting

Documentary exploring the famous title sequences used in the Bond movies. Narrated by Patrick Macnee. Included on the 'You Only Live Twice' Bluray dis...

Inside 'For Your Eyes Only'

Inside 'For Your Eyes Only'

2000

6.3
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "For Your Eyes Only"

Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'

Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'

2000

5.8
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"

Inside 'Moonraker'

Inside 'Moonraker'

2000

as Self

6.8
Acting

Documentary looking at the production of the James Bond movie 'Moonraker'. Narated by Patrick Macnee.

Inside 'Octopussy'

Inside 'Octopussy'

2000

as Self

5.6
Acting

Documentary looking at the production of the James Bond movie 'Octopussy'. Narrated by Patrick Macnee.

Inside Q's Lab

Inside Q's Lab

2000

5.0
Acting

Inside the lab of Q

The Secrets of 007

The Secrets of 007

1997

as Self

7.9
Acting

Behind-the-scenes look at more than three decades of the James Bond feature film series.

30 Years of James Bond

30 Years of James Bond

1992

as Self

5.3
Acting

An examination of why the James Bond films have proved so popular including a discussion between the four actors who have played Bond, an interview wi...

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

1992

Director

4.8
Directing

Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies, by traveling west instead of east, across the un...

Iron Eagle III

Iron Eagle III

1992

Director

4.1
Directing

Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some village people in Peru are at stake, and he decides ...

Checkered Flag

Checkered Flag

1990

Director

2.0
Directing

Unsold TV pilot about two young race car drivers compete on and off the track.

Licence to Kill

Licence to Kill

1989

Director

6.4
Directing

After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered...

The Living Daylights

The Living Daylights

1987

Director

6.5
Directing

After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the...

A View to a Kill

A View to a Kill

1985

Director

6.2
Directing

A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear...

Octopussy

Octopussy

1983

Director

6.4
Directing

James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a...

James Bond in India

James Bond in India

1983

4.0
Acting

The making of the James Bond movie Octopussy (1983) in Udaipur, India during 1982.

For Your Eyes Only

For Your Eyes Only

1981

Director

6.5
Directing

A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructi...

The Sea Wolves

The Sea Wolves

1980

Editor

5.9

A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to un...

Moonraker

Moonraker

1979

Editor, Second Unit Director

6.2
Directing

After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the co...

Superman

Superman

1978

Second Unit Director

7.1
Directing

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the ne...

The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese

1978

Second Unit Director, Editor

6.8
Directing

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and s...

The Spy Who Loved Me

The Spy Who Loved Me

1977

Editor, Second Unit Director

6.8
Directing

Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as Jame...

Seven Nights in Japan

Seven Nights in Japan

1976

Editor

6.5

Handsome Prince George arrives on board his ship in Japan. Youthful, immaculate in naval uniform and smiling broadly, he goes through the complicated ...

Shout at the Devil

Shout at the Devil

1976

Second Unit Director

6.0
Directing

During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battl...

Conduct Unbecoming

Conduct Unbecoming

1975

Editor

5.9

A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow...

London Conspiracy

London Conspiracy

1974

Editor

10.0

Life is never dull where Lord Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde are concerned. But who would expect dire danger, hilarious though it may be, to face them...

Gold

Gold

1974

Second Unit Director, Editor

5.7
Directing

Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drillin...

Dead Cert

Dead Cert

1974

Editor

4.3

As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals themselves in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly, and fa...

A Doll's House

A Doll's House

1973

Editor

5.5

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and li...

Pulp

Pulp

1972

Editor

5.7

A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

Sitting Target

Sitting Target

1972

Editor

6.1

Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beauti...

Catlow

Catlow

1971

Second Unit Director, Supervising Editor

5.1
Directing

An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery.

Murphy's War

Murphy's War

1971

Editor

6.1

Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ends up at...

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1969

Editor, Second Unit Director

6.6
Directing

James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. ...

Baby Love

Baby Love

1969

Editor

5.3

When her mother dies, her attractive young daughter hungry for love moves into the dead woman's house as a quest to seduce its tenants in her desperat...

Koroshi

Koroshi

1968

Editor

Secret agent John Drake (aka Danger Man) goes to Japan to infiltrate a secret society that specializes in murder. - This film was originally conceive...

The Missing Note

The Missing Note

1961

Editor

5.5

Three children track their lost piano with one note missing through London.

The Green Man

The Green Man

1956

Sound Editor

7.0

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing ...

Views on Trial

Views on Trial

1954

as Prosecuting Counsel

5.0
Acting

The demonic Nicholas Diabolus is put on trial accused of interfering with people's lives.

The Long Dark Hall

The Long Dark Hall

1951

Assistant Editor

6.4

A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.