Brian Glover

Brian Glover

Birthday: 1934-04-02

Place of Birth: 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.

Movies

An American Werewolf in London
An American Werewolf in London

American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the...

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Kafka
Kafka

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are...

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Waiting at the Field Gate
Waiting at the Field Gate

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

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Alien³
Alien³

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a priso...

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The Company of Wolves
The Company of Wolves

An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, ...

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1942: A Love Story
1942: A Love Story

The son of a politician loyal to the British rule falls in love with the daughter of a freedom fight...

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Kes
Kes

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy ...

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Leon the Pig Farmer
Leon the Pig Farmer

An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accident...

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Sweeney!
Sweeney!

When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squ...

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Absolution
Absolution

At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an ...

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Trial by Combat
Trial by Combat

A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into ...

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Six Characters in Search of An Author
Six Characters in Search of An Author

Adaptation of Pirandello's play....

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Joseph Andrews
Joseph Andrews

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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...

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The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of d...

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Up 'n' Under
Up 'n' Under

The Cobblers Arms have been the best and most feared Amateur Rugby League team for the past ten year...

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It's No Joke Living in Barnsley
It's No Joke Living in Barnsley

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

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The Fishing Party
The Fishing Party

Three miners plan a weekend fishing....

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A Day Out
A Day Out

Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing...

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The McGuffin
The McGuffin

Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into dee...

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Initiation
Initiation

In a bookbinding factory, Nobby, the foreman, is the master of his domain. Hector, a young new recru...

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The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon
The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon

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

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Snow White: A Tale of Terror
Snow White: A Tale of Terror

When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an ...

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Bob's Weekend
Bob's Weekend

Robert Askew goes to Blackpool to prepare an extraordinary end to his extra ordinary life. But this ...

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Brannigan
Brannigan

A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradit...

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The Rank and File
The Rank and File

Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies,...

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Speech Day
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 fi...

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Anna Lee: Headcase
Anna Lee: Headcase

A bright, pretty and determined young lady named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of a...

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Prince of Jutland
Prince of Jutland

A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne....

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Red Monarch
Red Monarch

British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampan...

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The First Great Train Robbery
The First Great Train Robbery

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a mov...

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Jabberwocky
Jabberwocky

After the death of his father, young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventu...

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To Kill a Priest
To Kill a Priest

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it....

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Masters of the Canvas
Masters of the Canvas

When pop artist Peter Blake confessed that his fantasy was to be the mysterious masked wrestler Kend...

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The World of Eddie Weary
The World of Eddie Weary

Alex Conway is an actor who plays the part of 'Eddie Weary', a sympathetic, down-at-heel, shabby, No...

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Black Jack
Black Jack

When honest young Tolly is forced on the run with ‘Black Jack’, a villainous ruffian, adventure and ...

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Shakespeare or Bust
Shakespeare or Bust

Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon....

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Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by...

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Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen

An alien distress call draws the Doctor and Peri to Earth, 1985, where they uncover a Cyberman plot ...

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Three for the Fancy
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 w...

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O Lucky Man!
O Lucky Man!

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to ...

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Laughterhouse
Laughterhouse

A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 500 geese ...

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Ordeal by Innocence
Ordeal by Innocence

Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Arg...

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Stiff Upper Lips
Stiff Upper Lips

Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory pro...

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Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'
Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³'

The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaust...

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Angry George Irons
Angry George Irons

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

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