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
Complete Filmography

Borley Rectory: The Awakening
2025
as Harry Bull
Prequel to The Ghosts of Borley Rectory
Doctor Who: Gallifrey
2025
Ian Levine's AI construction of an unproduced serial for season twenty-three of Doctor Who.

Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
as self
The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and admired him.

Forever Young
2024
as Jim Petrak Senior
An aging woman is given the chance to be young again and right her past but is faced with a dilemma when her husband declines to join her.

The Laureate
2023
as Alfred Graves
Set against the glamorous backdrop of Britain's roaring '20s, The Laureate tells the story of young British War Poet Robert Graves, who is married wit...

Charlton Heston: Radical to Right Wing
2023
as Self
A look at the life and work of the iconic US actor Charlton Heston (1923-2008); the embodiment of many mythic heroes who was both a staunch defender o...

An Irish Angel
2022
as Father Luke Reitel
Aine is a secondary school girl from the wrong side of the tracks, who lives in Portrush, NI with her mother Margaret, who works as a cleaner for a lo...

TÁR
2022
as Andris Davis
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.

Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher
2022
as Lord Ashford
At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.

The Reverend and Mrs Simpson
2022
as Older Charles
The discovery of human remains at a churchyard connects to the hardships faced by a German woman and her son 40 years earlier as they tried to build a...

Nobody Has to Know
2022
as Angus
After a stroke and no memories from his past, Phil encounters Millie who inhabits a desert part of Isle of Lewis. She will shortly entrust him with hi...

The Toll
2021
as Magnus
Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. When he finally gets rumbled,...

Nemesis
2021
as Sebastian
An underworld kingpin's past catches up with him when he returns to London, igniting an explosive chain of events which ends in revenge and murder.

The Doctors: Villains!
2018
This documentary includes five in-depth interviews with IAN COLLIER (Omega - Arc of Infinity), BERNARD ARCHARD (Marcus Scarman - Pyramids of Mars), DA...

Nothing Like a Dame
2018
as Self (archive footage)
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen togeth...

Amy and Sophia
2017
as Jim
Two troubled girls, who come together as friends through their imagination of art, creating their own fantasy world where they can finally be free.

We Still Steal the Old Way
2017
as Sir Edward
The explosive follow-up to We Still Kill The Old Way (2014). Regarded as the best in the business, The Archer Gang is an aging criminal outfit who car...

Gangster Kittens
2016
as Lord Clarence Beaverbrook
An uncompromising portrait of the struggles of a resplendent teenager with an anarchic spirit, fighting to maintain her existence in the bleak urban l...

Brash Young Turks
2016
as Louis Hartman
From award winning director Naeem Mahmood, comes Brash Young Turks, a bold debut feature telling a fast paced struggle of love, crime and power, again...

Backtrack
2015
as the Old Man
When four friends go camping on the South Downs, they are quite literally tortured by their past.

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
as Pycelle
The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to de...
Mr Invisible
2013
A lonely old man seems invisible to the world around him. But when he journeys to the heart of London, being 'invisible' proves to be his greatest wea...

U.F.O.
2012
as John Jones
A group of friends awake one morning to find all electricity and power shut off and an immense alien aircraft hovering in the air above their heads. S...

LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out
2012
as General Veers (voice)
Luke Skywalker embarks on a mission to destroy an Imperial base, but is relentlessly chased by a group of fanatic girls who think of him as a celebrit...

The Halloween Kid
2012
as The Teacher
Henry is a lonely child who lives for his favourite holiday.

Airborne
2012
as George
As a snow storm closes in, one final plane takes off. The plane reports to the ground that both pilots are dead, while the slowly dwindling number of ...
Exit
2011
as Geeles
At a country manor in Edwardian England, a parlor trick becomes a bewitching, as one of the guests gets his dark desire.

Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey
2011
as Self
Feature-length documentary chronicling Charlton Heston's life while filming Ben Hur. Includes behind-the-scenes content and home-movie footage from th...

Perfect
2009
as Lucien
A sometimes fantastical love story set in Notting Hill, Perfect tells the story of what happens when Adam and Liberty's paths cross and how their worl...

The Young Victoria
2009
as Duke of Wellington
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mot...

Mirrors
2008
as Robert Esseker
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

Shoot on Sight
2007
as Susan's Father
Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer of Scotland Yard, is asked to hunt-down suspected suicide-bombers against the backdrop of July 7 bombings in London...

Big Nothing
2006
as 80 year old Blind Man
A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.

Scoop
2006
as Lord Lyman
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.

Paris in the Springtime
2005
A 45-minute look at the making of City of Death, and in particular, the contribution of writer and script editor Douglas Adams.

Strings
2004
as Kahro (voice)
Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to avenge the death of his father. To his surprise he dis...

Troy
2004
as Triopas
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leav...

Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
2003
as Self
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg tell the struggles and the passion for making the Indiana Jones Trilogy.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Aragog (voice)
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger aw...

Two Men Went To War
2002
as Col. Hatchard
Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.

The Book of Eve
2002
as Burt Smallwood
A Romanian immigrant uses good food, good humor and good conversation to break down the walls around a reclusive woman's heart.

Vatel
2000
as Prince de Conde
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants ...

The Dance of Shiva
1998
as General Willis
In the trenches of the Western Front in 1915, a British army chaplain is forced to question his faith as he witnesses hundreds of Hindu soldiers riski...

The Infiltrator
1995
as Bielert
In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bri...

Power and Lovers
1994
as Matthew
Two brothers start to bicker and battle when Nick, an aggressive businessman, finds himself thwarted by a group of scientists, headed by his brother T...

Money For Nothing
1993
as Mr Farquharson
The story of an ambitious schoolboy, Gary Worrall (played by Christien Anholt), who sets out to make £1M during his half term school break! He is aide...

King Ralph
1991
as King Gustav
As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.

Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs
1991
as Joseph Haydn
Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

Who Bombed Birmingham?
1990
as Igor Judge QC
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted t...

Treasure Island
1990
as Dr. Livesey
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led...

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989
as Walter Donovan
In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval his...

Tusks
1988
as Ian Taylor
Roger Singh is an animal poacher with hate in his heart, and revenge on his mind. Embittered by a recent stint in prison, Singh returns to the forbidd...

Scarfe's Follies
1988
Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looks at that most English of things - the folly.

The Secret Garden
1987
as Colonel McGraw
When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country ma...

Hearts of Fire
1987
as Alfred
A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her ...

Cry Freedom
1987
as Don Card
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods...

Mandela
1987
as Senior Police Officer
Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revol...

The Fourth Protocol
1987
as Brian Harcourt-Smith
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A cr...

Kim
1984
as Col. Creighton
A friendly street kid in India, during the last years of the nineteenth century, looks and considers himself Indian, but is in fact a Brit. The Brits ...

Heat and Dust
1983
as Crawford
Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her g...

Ivanhoe
1982
as King Richard
Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John a...

For Your Eyes Only
1981
as Aristotle Kristatos
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 Search for Alexander the Great
1981
as Philip II
Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes.

The Journal of Bridget Hitler
1981
as Interviewer
An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-First World War Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law – a young man named Adolf Hitler. Years later s...
Invasion
1980
as Alexander Dubcek
Docu-drama surrounding the events leading to the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

The Empire Strikes Back
1980
as General Veers
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Dar...

Henry V
1979
as The Constable of France
The life of King Henry the Fifth.

Doctor Who: City of Death
1979
as Count Scarlioni / Captain Tancredi / Scaroth
While taking in the sights of Paris in 1979, the Doctor and Romana sense that someone is tampering with time. Who is the mysterious Count Scarlioni? W...

Henry VIII
1979
as Duke of Buckingham
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powe...

Gulliver's Travels
1977
as (voice)
Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu episode. It was made partly in live action and partly...

The Brute
1977
as Teddy
Glamour model Diane Shepherd is routinely being beaten by her husband Tim, who accuses her of infidelity. When she can't take it anymore, she finds sh...

Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin
1975
as Gifford
After two of her roommates disappear while out for a job interview, a woman answers a want ad for the same job.

Electra
1974
as Aegisthus
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

Juggernaut
1974
as Cmdr. Marder
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.

The Internecine Project
1974
as Arnold Pryce-Jones
Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when he was a spy.

Dead Cert
1974
as Lodge
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...

The Story of Jacob and Joseph
1974
as Esau
This film recounts the tales of the Biblical figures, Jacob and Joseph. The first part tells the story of Jacob fleeing his tribe when he cheats his b...

Luther
1974
as Knight
A 16th-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
as Fegelein
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provide...

Antony and Cleopatra
1972
as Proculeius
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. Th...

Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Gapon
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Michael Regan
1971
as Wixon
Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his home, threatening the lives of his wife and child.

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970
as Colonel Moffat
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into p...

Wuthering Heights
1970
as Hindley Earnshaw
A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Hea...

The Last Grenade
1970
as Andy Royale
Two ruthless mercenaries break their friendship when one of them changes sides.

Alfred the Great
1969
as Shrdlu
While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land...

The Adding Machine
1969
as Shrdlu
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.

The Magus
1968
as Anton
A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.

Quatermass and the Pit
1967
as Colonel Breen
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.

Theatre of Death
1967
as Charles Marquis
The Theatre of Death in Paris specialises in horror presentations. A police surgeon finds himself becoming involved in the place through his attractio...

I Was Happy Here
1966
as Dr. Matthew Langdon
Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor Langdon, but soon realised she wanted to return to...

The Alphabet Murders
1965
as Don Fortune
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

Doctor Who: The Crusade
1965
as Richard the Lionheart
In 12th century Palestine, the Doctor and his friends are drawn into the holy war between the forces of King Richard the Lionheart and the Saracen rul...

Girl with Green Eyes
1964
as Malachi Sullivan
A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.

Tom Jones
1963
as Northernton
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
The Cruel Necessity
1962
as Colonel Tomlinson
A story of choices leading to redemption or further from it, set against a backdrop of human nature and societal constraints.

The Awakening
N/A
as Mason Snr.
The Awakening follows Jason and Rebecca as they uncover a conspiracy to control the world. Their investigation leads them into a maze of secrets and d...

Michael Wood on Beowulf
N/A
as Self - Storyteller
Historian Michael Wood returns to his first great love, the Anglo-Saxon world, to reveal the origins of our literary heritage. Focusing on Beowulf and...

War Is Hell
N/A
A young man has vivid dreams of participating in World War 2 battles, and enlists the help of a psychic friend when these past life memories begin app...