Brian Glover
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.079 |
| Birthday | 1934-04-02 |
| Place of Birth | Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1981
An American Werewolf in London
7.4/2376
American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. Retiring to the home of a beautif...
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An American Werewolf in London
1991
Kafka
6.4/133
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all...
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Kafka
1975
Waiting at the Field Gate
0/0
Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line?
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Waiting at the Field Gate
1992
Alien³
6.4/5582
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. Unfo...
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Alien³
1984
The Company of Wolves
6.312/319
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 i...
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The Company of Wolves
1994
1942: A Love Story
6/25
The son of a politician loyal to the British rule falls in love with the daughter of a freedom fighter.
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1942: A Love Story
1970
Kes
7.5/379
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,...
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Kes
1993
Leon The Pig Farmer
5.3/15
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...
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Leon The Pig Farmer
1977
Sweeney!
6.8/22
When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squad detective feels compelled to investigate. He un...
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Sweeney!
1978
Absolution
6.3/37
At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confess...
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Absolution
1976
Trial by Combat
7.7/3
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 medie...
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Trial by Combat
1992
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1/1
Adaptation of Pirandello's play.
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Six Characters in Search of An Author
1977
Joseph Andrews
4.7/9
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 An...
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Joseph Andrews
1981
A Midsummer Night's Dream
4/1
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 fore...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1975
The Old Curiosity Shop
4/1
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...
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The Old Curiosity Shop
1998
Up 'n' Under
5.1/14
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 tra...
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Up 'n' Under
1976
It's No Joke Living in Barnsley
6/1
Brian Glover meets up with locals like Arthur Scargill as he guides us round his home town.
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It's No Joke Living in Barnsley
1972
The Fishing Party
10/1
Three miners plan a weekend fishing.
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The Fishing Party
1972
A Day Out
4.75/5
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...
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A Day Out
1986
The McGuffin
6/1
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 awhi...
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The McGuffin
1974
Initiation
0/0
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...
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Initiation
1978
The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon
0/0
TV Play by Henry Livings
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The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon
1997
Snow White: A Tale of Terror
6.066/250
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 al...
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Snow White: A Tale of Terror
1996
Bob's Weekend
0/0
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...
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Bob's Weekend
1975
Brannigan
5.8/91
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 Am...
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Brannigan
1971
The Rank and File
5/2
Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike,...
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The Rank and File
1973
Speech Day
0/0
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 come...
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Speech Day
1993
Anna Lee: Headcase
6/5
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 de...
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Anna Lee: Headcase
1994
Royal Deceit
5.6/35
A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.
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Royal Deceit
1983
Red Monarch
4.7/9
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...
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Red Monarch
1978
The First Great Train Robbery
6.7/359
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
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The First Great Train Robbery
1977
Jabberwocky
6/271
A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. T...
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Jabberwocky
1988
To Kill a Priest
6/25
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
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To Kill a Priest
1992
Masters of the Canvas
0/0
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...
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Masters of the Canvas
1990
The World of Eddie Weary
0/0
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 s...
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The World of Eddie Weary
1979
Black Jack
7/20
In this fascinating adventure of the England of the 1750s, the huge Frenchman Black Jack (Jean Franval) miraculously survives a hanging by the British...
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Black Jack
1973
Shakespeare or Bust
0/0
Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.
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Shakespeare or Bust
1982
Britannia Hospital
6.4/60
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...
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Britannia Hospital
1985
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
6.2/4
An alien distress call draws the Doctor and Peri to Earth, 1985, where they uncover a Cyberman plot to change the course of history.
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Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
1974
Three for the Fancy
0/0
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 Entwhis...
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Three for the Fancy
1973
O Lucky Man!
6.8/95
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
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O Lucky Man!
1984
Laughterhouse
5/3
A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.
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Laughterhouse
1984
Ordeal by Innocence
4.5/20
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...
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Ordeal by Innocence
1998
Stiff Upper Lips
6.1/8
Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Alt...
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Stiff Upper Lips
2003
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
7.7/19
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...
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