Personal life

Glover was born in Hampstead, London, the son of Honor Ellen Morgan, née Wyatt - a BBC journalist and close friend of novelist Barbara Pym - and Claude Gordon Glover, a BBC radio producer. His younger half-brother is the musician Robert Wyatt. Glover has been twice married to actresses: Eileen Atkins and Isla Blair, with whom he has a son, actor Jamie Glover.

Career

Glover attended Bristol Grammar School, where he was in the same class as actor Timothy West and the actor who played Darth Vader, David Prowse. He also attended Alleyn's School in Dulwich, London and then trained at the National Youth Theatre, performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In the early 1950s, he appeared in several shows at Unity Theatre, London before becoming a regular in 1960s and 1970s British television series such as The Avengers, The Saint, Strange Report, Doctor Who and Blake's 7.

In 1967, Glover featured as Professor Quatermass' nemesis Colonel Breen in the Hammer Films production of Quatermass and the Pit, an adaptation of Nigel Kneale's 1958-59 BBC TV original. He has also appeared twice in Doctor Who: as Richard the Lionheart in the 1965 serial The Crusade; and, in 1979, as the villain Scaroth, last of the Jagaroth, in one of the original run's most popular serials, City of Death. Glover later recorded DVD commentaries for the The Crusade episode "The Wheel of Fortune" (Lost in Time set) and for City of Death.

In the 1980s, Glover made some of his most notable appearances, such as 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 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, 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 has also played a leading role in the British film Brash Young Turks.

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 Anglo-Saxon 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 stood 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.

Glover recently 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.

Since 2011, Glover has portrayed the character of Grand Maester Pycelle in HBO's Game of Thrones, the television adaptation of George R. R. Martin's fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire.

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 Nazism horror thriller Backtrack.

Glover is an Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Awards

In 1993, Glover was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1992 production of Henry V.

Honours

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

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1963	Tom Jones	Lt. Northerton
1964	Girl with Green Eyes	Malachi Sullivan
1965	Time Lost and Time Remembered	Dr. Matthew Langdon
The Alphabet Murders	Don Fortune
1966	Theatre of Death	Charles Marquis
	I Was Happy Here	Dr. Matthew Langdon
1967	Quatermass and the Pit	Colonel Breen
1968	The Magus	Anton
1969	Alfred the Great	Athelstane
	The Adding Machine	Shrdlu
1970	The Last Grenade	Andy Royal
	Wuthering Heights	Hindley Earnshaw
	The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer	Colonel Moffat
1971	Nicholas and Alexandra	Gapon
1972	Antony and Cleopatra	Proculeius
1973	Luther	The Knight
	Hitler: The Last Ten Days - Gruppenführer	Hermann Fegelein
	The Foundation Trilogy	Hober Mallow
1974	QB VII	Zaminski
	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
1978	Blake's 7	Kayn	episode Breakdown
1979	Henry VIII	Duke of Buckingham
1980	Invasion	Alexander Dubček
	The Empire Strikes Back	General Maximilian Veers
1981	For Your Eyes Only	Aristotle Kristatos
1982	Ivanhoe	King Richard
1983	Heat and Dust	Crawford, the District Collector
1984	Kim	Colonel Creighton
1985	Remington Steele	Inspector Lombard
1987	Hearts of Fire	Alfred
	The Fourth Protocol	Brian Harcourt-Smith
	Mandela	Senior Police Officer
	Cry Freedom	Don Card
1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Walter Donovan
1990	Tusks	Ian Taylor
	Treasure Island	Dr. Livesey
1991	Letters, Riddles and Writs	Joseph Haydn
	King Ralph	King Gustav
1994	Power and Lovers	Matthew
1997	The House of Angelo	Sir Robert Willoughby
	Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger's Drift	Henry Trace
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 in English version)
2006	Scoop	Lord Lyman
2008	Mirrors	Robert Esseker
2009	The Young Victoria	Duke of Wellington
2012	Airborne	George
2013	U.F.O.	John
	The Spies of Warsaw	General Beauvilliers
2015	Brash Young Turks	Lou Hartman

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1965	Doctor Who - The Crusade	Richard the Lionheart	4 episodes
1967	The Avengers	Masgard/Major Peter Rooke/Rupert Lasindall	4 episodes
1974	The Story Of Jacob and Joseph	Esau	TV
1975	Space: 1999	Jarak	episode Alpha Child
1979	Doctor Who - City of Death	Scaroth/Count Scarlioni	4 episodes
1983	Dombey and Son	Mr. Dombey	10 episodes
1987-1989	Wish Me Luck	Colonel James Cadogan	15 episodes
1995	The Chief	Andrew Blake
	The Infiltrator	Ernst Bielert	TV Movie
2006	The Impressionists (BBC drama)	Claude Monet (older)	TV miniseries
2011-present	Game of Thrones	Grand Maester Pycelle	(Recurring, 29 episodes)
2012	Merlin	Lochru	Episode: Arthur's Bane (Part 1)

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