Brian Glover

AKA:
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1934-04-02

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK

Biography

Brian Glover was an English character actor, writer and wrestler. Glover was a professional wrestler (as 'Leon Arras the Man From Paris'), teacher, and finally a film, television and stage actor, and the voice of Tetley Tea. He was married to writer Tara Prem from 1954 until his death in 1997.

Crew Roles

Sunshine in Brixton
Writer
If a Man Answers
Writer
Pig Bin
Writer
Summer Season
Writer
Laughterhouse
Writer
Keep an Eye on Albert
Writer
Thicker Than Water
Writer
Death Angel
Writer
Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {80}

Chess Player

1981-08-21 7.399

An American Werewolf in London

American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins e ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

Castle Hechman

1991-11-15 6.4

Kafka

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Gallat

1975-04-03 0

Waiting at the Field Gate

Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line? ...
Genre :TV Movie

Andrews

1992-05-22 6.377

Alien³

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Action, Horror

Amorous Boy's Father

1984-09-21 6.318

The Company of Wolves

An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hair ...
Genre :Horror, Fantasy

General Douglas

1994-04-15 5.9

1942: A Love Story

The son of a politician loyal to the British rule falls in love with the daughter of a freedom fighter. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Romance

Mr. Sugden

1970-04-03 7.424

Kes

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he n ...
Genre :Drama

Brian Chadwick

1993-02-26 5.3

Leon the Pig Farmer

An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mac

1977-01-14 6.8

Sweeney!

When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squad detective feels compelled to investigate. He uncovers a conspiracy that reaches the heart of the ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

the first policeman

1978-06-05 6.417

Absolution

At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Go ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Sidney Gore

1976-04-01 7.7

Trial by Combat

A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into their own hands by executing criminals using medieval methods such as jousting. ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Adventure

Production Assistant

1992-12-12 5.5

Six Characters in Search of An Author

Adaptation of Pirandello's play. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Gaoler

1977-03-09 4.818

Joseph Andrews

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Bottom

1981-12-13 5

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the forest pursuing each other while Puck helps his master ...
Genre :Fantasy, Comedy, TV Movie

Furnaceman

1975-11-07 3.3

The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, History, Music

Jack, Doreen's Father

1998-01-23 4.9

Up 'n' Under

The Cobblers Arms have been the best and most feared Amateur Rugby League team for the past ten years. Ex-pro Arthur bets their boss that he could train a bunch of deadbeats to defeat them in a local ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

1976-10-11 6

It's No Joke Living in Barnsley

Brian Glover meets up with locals like Arthur Scargill as he guides us round his home town. ...
Genre :

Art

1972-06-01 10

The Fishing Party

Three miners plan a weekend fishing. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, TV Movie

Henry Boothroyd

1972-12-24 4.8

A Day Out

Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vis ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Man in Brown

1986-01-12 6

The McGuffin

Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reali ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Nobby

1974-12-30 0

Initiation

In a bookbinding factory, Nobby, the foreman, is the master of his domain. Hector, a young new recruit, struggles. Ted, about to retire, refuses to be intimidated. Lorna, a young female employee, atte ...
Genre :

Im

1978-04-21 0

The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon

Rupert Skern's Saturday morning peace is shattered by the arrival of workmen in his garden ...
Genre :

Lars

1997-07-18 6.08

Snow White: A Tale of Terror

When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of all living things. After escaping an attempt on her ...
Genre :Fantasy, Horror

The Boss

1996-08-20 0

Bob's Weekend

Robert Askew goes to Blackpool to prepare an extraordinary end to his extra ordinary life. But this is no ordinary weekend and a succession of magical events conspire to turn a journey of despair into ...
Genre :

Jimmy-the-Bet

1975-03-21 6

Brannigan

A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard but has ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Comedy

1971-05-20 5

The Rank and File

Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike, but they are denied support by their trade union. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Mr Warboys

1973-03-26 0

Speech Day

Speech Day is a bit of a laugh if you are not one of nature's prize-winners. But now that they've finished with school and school with them, what comes next for Ronnie, Wally and Rob? ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Selwyn Price

1993-01-10 5.2

Anna Lee: Headcase

A bright, pretty and determined young lady named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy detective agency, whose members don't look particula ...
Genre :Crime

Caedman

1994-02-23 5.363

Prince of Jutland

A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Nikita Krushchev

1983-06-16 5

Red Monarch

British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed un ...
Genre :Comedy

Captain Jimmy

1978-12-14 6.7

The First Great Train Robbery

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train. ...
Genre :Thriller, Adventure, Drama, Crime

Armourer

1977-03-28 6.002

Jabberwocky

After the death of his father, young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will D ...
Genre :Fantasy, Comedy

Judge

1988-09-07 5.964

To Kill a Priest

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, History

Self

1992-01-31 0

Masters of the Canvas

When pop artist Peter Blake confessed that his fantasy was to be the mysterious masked wrestler Kendo Nagasaki, who never speaks and never removes his mask, little did he know what the consequences wo ...
Genre :Documentary

Strip Club MC

1990-01-01 0

The World of Eddie Weary

Alex Conway is an actor who plays the part of 'Eddie Weary', a sympathetic, down-at-heel, shabby, Northern, working-class private detective, in a TV show. Except Conway is actually a complete idiot in ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Narrator (uncredited)

1979-09-09 7

Black Jack

When honest young Tolly is forced on the run with ‘Black Jack’, a villainous ruffian, adventure and mishap are never far away. As the two enter a world of body-snatchers, private lunatic asylums, and ...
Genre :Adventure, History

Art

1973-01-08 0

Shakespeare or Bust

Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon. ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Painter: The Workers

1982-05-27 6.2

Britannia Hospital

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebrat ...
Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

Griffiths

1985-01-12 7

Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen

An alien distress call draws the Doctor and Peri to Earth, 1985, where they uncover a Cyberman plot to change the course of history. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, TV Movie

Art

1974-04-11 0

Three for the Fancy

Art has a rabbit, Ern a guinea pig and Abe, a mouse. They're off to astound the world of the Fancy with a triple triumph... but what about the Entwhistles! ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Father Christmas

1984-09-01 5

Laughterhouse

A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market. ...
Genre :Comedy

Plantation Foreman/Bassett

1973-03-25 6.8

O Lucky Man!

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Fantasy, Drama

Executioner

1984-06-22 4.875

Ordeal by Innocence

Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed for the murder of his mother. Calgary can prove th ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Eric

1998-06-12 5.2

Stiff Upper Lips

Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, ...
Genre :Comedy

Self (archive footage)

2003-12-02 7.8

Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaustive detail. Many interviews with the cast and crew give us an idea of how hard of a time David Finch ...
Genre :Documentary

1992-01-01 0

Angry George Irons

A bilious misanthrope finds enlightment via heaven, hell and the kitchen cupboard. ...
Genre :

Moose

1975-01-02 7.8

The Sweeney

Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime

Flint

1973-01-09 7.7

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour sequel to the mid-1960s hit The Likely Lads. It was cre ...
Genre :Comedy

Griffiths

1963-11-23 7.888

Doctor Who

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Cpl. Emil Schnorr

1977-09-07 7.5

Secret Army

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo. ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Mr. Rottweiller

1991-09-17 7.893

Bottom

Richie Richard (socially awkward, sexually inexperienced) and Eddie Hitler (carefree alcoholic ) are two social outcasts living on the dole. Trapped together in a squalid flat in Hammersmith, London t ...
Genre :Comedy

Chuck Windell

1955-07-09 5.3

Dixon of Dock Green

Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were l ...
Genre :Drama

Selwyn Price

1994-02-27 6.938

Anna Lee

Anna Lee is a British television series produced by Brian Eastman and Carnival Films for London Weekend Television. Following a 1993 pilot, five two-hour programmes were produced in 1994, loosely base ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1995-05-24 0

Rumble

Genre :

Magersfontein Lugg

1989-01-22 5.6

Campion

Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Comedy

Heslop

1974-09-05 8.1

Porridge

Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

1982-05-04 4.5

Wogan

Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities. ...
Genre :Talk

1965-10-19 5

BBC Play of the Month

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stag ...
Genre :Drama

Sergeant

1975-08-29 0

Quiller

Quiller is a British drama television . Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by English novelist Elleston Trevor who featured in a series of Cold War thrillers written under the pseudonym " ...
Genre :Drama

Tiger Dan

1978-07-03 7.3

The Famous Five

The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton. It was broadcast on ITV over two series in 1978 and 1979. It was produced by Southern Tele ...
Genre :Family, Action & Adventure, Mystery, Crime

1987-10-21 3.5

Daytime Live

Genre :

1969-11-23 7

Paul Temple

Paul Temple is a British-German television series . It features Francis Matthews as Paul Temple, the fictional detective created by Francis Durbridge, who solves crimes with the assistance of his wife ...
Genre :Crime

1972-02-21 1

The Regiment

The Regiment was a British television drama series produced by the BBC. First broadcast on BBC One in 1972 it starred Christopher Cazenove and followed the story of a British Army regiment from the vi ...
Genre :Drama

Yorkie

1979-10-29 6.8

Minder

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

1969-04-30 4.5

Sez Les

Sez Les was a British comedy sketch show that starred Les Dawson, produced by Yorkshire Television, airing on ITV from 1969 to 1976. Roy Barraclough also joined from series four and would go on to bec ...
Genre :Comedy

God / Cayphas

1985-12-22 0

The Mysteries

National Theatre Cottesloe production filmed for Channel 4 ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Threeways

1989-01-16 7.5

Press Gang

The activities of the staff at The Junior Gazette, a children's weekly newspaper produced by a group of school pupils. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Self

1978-01-08 5.3

An Audience with...

An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guest ...
Genre :Talk

Sam Plackett

1978-09-10 7

Return of the Saint

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure

Mr Dawson

1978-01-08 7.756

All Creatures Great and Small

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Tommy Beamish

1986-10-24 4.2

Lost Empires

In 1913, young Richard Herncastle joins his Uncle Nick's magic act and is introduced to the enchanted world of the British music hall. Travelling from one city to the next, assisting at conjuring acts ...
Genre :

Adolf Verloc

1988-01-10 0

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pir ...
Genre :Documentary

Allen

1972-09-29 5.8

The Protectors

The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his sec ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

Porter

1972-07-07 8.5

The Frighteners

A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale. ...
Genre :Drama

Floor Manager

1991-10-05 6

Performance

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances. ...
Genre :Drama

Bagley

1970-09-24 5.5

On the House

Follows the problems of foreman Charlie Cattermole, top man Gussie Sissons, and the team of characters who are building a upmarket housing estate. ...
Genre :Comedy

Labour Party Agent

1977-09-09 6.3

Target

A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Goatman

1989-06-05 5.5

The Nineteenth Hole

A harassed secretary at a private golf club steeped in bigotry faces challenges amidst its desperate financial straits. Key events unfold in the club's bar, The Nineteenth Hole. The series was widely ...
Genre :Comedy

Billy Purvis

1977-02-25 8

Raffles

Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Jim Debbitts

1975-09-03 5.7

Shadows

Shadows is a British Supernatural television anthology series produced by Thames Television for ITV between 1975 and 1978. Extending over three seasons, it featured ghost and horror dramas for childre ...
Genre :Drama