Mariah Gale
Michael Gambon
Romola Garai
Jimmy Gardner
William Gaskill
John Gay
Peter Geddis
Pam Gems
The General from America
Jean Genet
Michel de Ghelderode
Ghosts
John Gielgud
The Gift of the Gorgon
Alexandra Gilbreath
Peter Gill
Jean Giraudoux
Iain Glen
Robert Glenister
Jamie Glover
Julian Glover
The Glowing Manikin
God Bless
Derek Godfrey
Patrick Godfrey
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nikolai Gogol
Golden Girls
Carlo Goldoni
Stella Gonet
Good
Buzz Goodbody
Henry Goodman
Goodnight Children Everywhere
Rupert Goold
Marius Goring
Maxim Gorky
Gordon Gostelow
Orlando Gough
The Government Inspector
Fraser Grace
Nickolas Grace
Michael Grandage
Harley Granville-Barker
Günter Grass
Trystan Gravelle
Simon Gray
Great Expectations
The Great White Hope
The Greeks
Graham Greene
Paul Greenwood
David Greig
Richard Griffiths
Trevor Griffiths
Pippa Guard
Vladimir Gubaryev
Peter Guinness
Mike Gwilym
One of the talented actors produced by Stratford in the late 1950s, Julian Glover was effectively an apprentice for three seasons, playing small roles and walk-ons: in 1957, Lord/Forrester in the Peggy Ashcroft/Richard Johnson As You Like It (Glen Byam Shaw), a Gaoler in King John (Douglas Seale), Varro/Citizen in Julius Caesar (Shaw), a Gaoler/Soldier in Cymbeline (Peter Hall), and a Mariner in the John Gielgud The Tempest (Peter Brook, also Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); in 1958, Gregory in the Richard Johnson/Dorothy Tutin Romeo and Juliet (Shaw), Lord/Sailor in Twelfth Night (Hall), Barnardo in the Michael Redgrave Hamlet (Shaw, also Leningrad and Moscow), First Fisherman in Pericles (Tony Richardson, 1958), and Conrade in Much Ado About Nothing (Seale, 1958); and in 1959, Montano in Othello (Richardson), Snug in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hall), Second Roman Citizen in the Laurence Olivier Coriolanus (Hall), and Albany in King Lear (Shaw). He went on to appear at the Royal Court in Jean-Paul Sartre's Altona (John Berry, 1961); John Osborne's Luther (Tony Richardson, 1961); Derek Marlowe's The Scarecrow (Corin Redgrave, 1961); Twelfth Night (George Devine, 1962); Ann Jellicoe's The Knack (Jellicoe/Keith Johnstone, 1962); and Pirandello's Naked (David William, 1963).
Glover has always been an all-rounder, less a theatre star than a highly regarded character actor in motion pictures and television dramas. That he has grown in stature with age is demonstrated by his RSC career—The Baron in Gorki's The Lower Depths (Toby Robertson, Arts Theatre, 1962); Mr Medley in The Man of Mode (Terry Hands, Aldwych, 1971); Rogozhin in Robert Montgomery's Subject to Fits (A.J. Antoon) and Brian Leary in The Oz Trial (Buzz Goodbody, The Place, 1971); the Earl of Warwick in Henry VI 1-3 and Aufidius to Alan Howard's Coriolanus (Hands, RST, Aldwych, 1977-78); Gordon in David Mercer's Cousin Vladimir (Jane Howell) and Alonzo in The Changeling (Hands, Aldwych, 1978); Henry—a poignant depiction of a strong man in decline—in Henry IV (Adrian Noble, Olivier for Best Supporting Actor) and Escalus/Chorus in Romeo and Juliet (David Leveaux, RST, Barbican, 1991-92); Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet (Noble) and, reunited with Peter Hall at Stratford after thirty-six years, Cassius in Julius Caesar (RST, Barbican, 1995-96).
Among Julian Glover's other theatre work of the 1990s and 2000s were: the one man show Beowulf (various venues); playing the Ghost and directing his son Jamie Glover (title role) and wife Isla Blair (Gertrude) in Hamlet (Norwich Playhouse, 1996); the Wing Commander in Chips With Everything (Howard Davies, NT Lyttelton, 1997); Peter Hall's 1997 season at the Old Vic—the father in Sebastian Barry's Prayers of Sherkin (John Dove) and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot (Hall, also Piccadilly, 1998); Theseus, alongside Diana Rigg, Toby Stephens, David Bradley and Barbara Jefford, in Racine's Phèdre (Jonathan Kent, Almeida at Malvern and the Albery, 1998); Prospero in The Tempest (Patrick Sandford, Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, 2000); Sebastian opposite Isla Blair in Rattigan's In Praise of Love (Tour, 2001); the title role in King Lear (Barry Kyle, Globe, 2001); Duncan/Porter in the Sean Bean Macbeth (Edward Hall, Albery, 2002); Furtwangler in Ronald Harwood's Taking Sides (Deborah Bruce, Tour, 2003-04); Galileo in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Galileo's Daughter and Mr Malone in Shaw's Man and Superman (Hall, Theatre Royal, Bath, 2004); and Sir in Harwood's The Dresser (Hall, Tour, 2004, Duke of York's, 2005).
Glover's movies include: Tom Jones (Tony Richardson, 1963); I Was Happy Here (Desmond Davis, 1965); Quartermass and the Pit (Roy Ward Baker, 1967); The Magus (Guy Green, 1968); Alfred the Great (Clive Donner, 1969); Nicholas and Alexandra (Franklin Schaffner, 1971); Hitler: the Last Ten Days (Ennio de Concini, 1973); The Internecine Project (Ken Hughes, 1974); The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980); For Your Eyes Only (John Glen, 1981); Heat and Dust (James Ivory, 1982); Cry Freedom (Richard Attenborough, 1987); The Fourth Protocol (John Mackenzie, 1987); Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Spielberg, 1989); King Ralph (1991); In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter, 1994); Vatel (Roland Joffé, 2000); Two Men Went to War (2002); Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002); Troy (Wolfgang Petersen, 2004).
Television: Doctor Who (BBC, 1965); The Avengers (ITV, 1967); Callan (ITV, 1972); The Sweeney (ITV, 1975); Buckingham in Henry VIII (BBC, 1979); Nancy Astor (BBC, 1984); By the Sword Divided (BBC, 1983); Kim (1984); P.D. James's Cover Her Face (ITV, 1985); Remington Steel (1985); Wish Me Luck (ITV, 1987); Bergerac (BBC, 1990); The Chief (ITV, 1990); Taggart (ITV, 1995); Cadfael (ITV, 1996); Midsomer Murders (ITV, 1997); and Born and Bred (BBC, 2002).
Education: RADA
RSC: Joined 1957; Associate Artist (since 1992)
Seasons: 1957 (Strat.); 1958 (Strat./USSR Tour); 1959 (Strat.); 1962 (Lond.); 1971 (Lond.); 1977 (Strat.)-78 (Lond.); 1991 (Strat.)-92 (Lond.); 1995 (Strat.)-96 (Lond.)
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