Brian Glover Filmography

Up 'N' Under

Actors: Gary Olsen, Richard Ridings, Samantha Janus, Ralph Brown, Neil Morrissey

Synopsis: John Godber scripted and made his directorial debut with this adaptation of his 1984 play about an amateur rugby team. Decorator and ex-Rugby League player Arthur (Gary Olsen) accepts a high-stakes bet from Reg Welch (Tony Slattery), manager of the tough Cobbler Arms team. Arthur must train a team Read More

Snow White: A Tale of Terror

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Gil Bellows, Monica Keena, Miroslav Táborský

Synopsis: Once upon a time, pursuing wolves frighten horses drawing a carriage, and it tumbles down a hill. Dying, the pregnant woman inside orders her grieving husband Frederick (Sam Neill) to cut the baby from her womb, so that at least it might live. Years later, the infant is now headstrong young Lilli (Taryn Davis Read More

Bob's Weekend

Synopsis: Night security guard Bob finds himself inexorably losing control of his life. His job is so boring that he entertains himself on duty by memorizing encyclopedias; he is only up to the letter B. At home, his wife withholds conjugal affection and his stepdaughter loathes him. Things only get worse Read More

Royal Deceit

Actors: Christian Bale, Gabriel Byrne, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox, Steven Waddington

Synopsis: This European historical saga presents the true tale of intrigue, regicide, incest, and insanity on which Shakespeare based Hamlet. It begins in the ancient Danish kingdom of Jutland in the sixth century. There ambitious Prince Fenge (Gabriel Byrne) murders his brother the king and one of his Read More

Alien ³

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover

Synopsis: Acclaimed director David Fincher's promising career was lucky to survive this astonishingly wrong-headed, almost universally despised second sequel to Alien (1979). The film careens into oblivion virtually from the beginning, as Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor of a Read More

Leon The Pig Farmer

Actors: Mark Frankel, Janet Suzman, Brian Glover, Connie Booth, David de Keyser

Synopsis: A Jewish Londoner embarks on a journey to find himself after learning some shocking news about his past in this eccentric British comedy. As the film begins, Leon (Mark Frankel) is already in a time of transition, having quit his job for moral reasons and assumed a position in his mother's Read More

Kafka

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm, Jeroen Krabbé

Synopsis: Steve Soderbergh did a 180 degree turnaround from his debut film sex, lies, and videotape with Kafka, a stark art-film fable for literature majors. Jeremy Irons plays a fictional Franz Kafka, living in Prague in 1919. By day, Kafka works in a massive, impersonal insurance company. At night, he Read More

Campion: Sweet Danger

Actors: Peter Davison, Brian Glover, Andrew Burt, Lisette Anthony, Iain Cuthbertson

Synopsis: Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel Sweet Danger. On this occasion, Campion endeavors to prove that Britain's Fitton family are the rightful heirs to a Balkan throne. Disguising himself as the Read More

Campion: Mystery Mile

Actors: Peter Davison, Brian Glover, Andrew Burt, Brian Greene, Gary Parker

Synopsis: Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel Mystery Mile. An American judge named Crowdy Lobbett (Brian Greene) has been targetted for extermination by a criminal organization known as "Simister" Read More

Campion: Flowers for the Judge

Actors: Peter Davison, Brian Glover, Andrew Burt, Robert Lang, Barrie Ingham

Synopsis: Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel Flowers for the Judge. Campion finds it curous that no one seems terribly concerned when the director of London's prestigious House of Barnabas publishing Read More

Campion: Dancers in Mourning

Actors: Peter Davison, Brian Glover, Andrew Burt, Ian Ogilvy, Patricia Brake

Synopsis: Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel Dancers in Mourning (published in the US as Who Killed Chloe?. A new musical production starring 1930s song-and-dance favorite Jimmy Sutane (Ian Ogilvy) may Read More

To Kill a Priest

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Joanne Whalley, Joss Ackland, David Suchet

Synopsis: One of the first films by Polish director Agnieszka Holland to gain international acclaim, this drama is a joint French-American production based loosely on the real-life story of the dissident Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko. In the early 1980s, as the democracy and labor movement known as Read More

Campion: Police at the Funeral

Actors: Peter Davison, Brian Glover, Andrew Burt, Timothy West, Mary Morris

Synopsis: Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel Police at the Funeral. This time, Campion finds himself in Cambridge, at the ancestral home of the dissolute Faraday family. Most of the family members are Read More

Campion: Look to the Lady

Actors: Peter Davison, Brian Glover, Andrew Burt, Robin Lermette, Sarah Finch

Synopsis: Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel Look to the Lady. Set in Suffolk, England during the 1930s, the story concerns the Gyrth Chalice, a 1000-year-old artifact stolen from a once-prominent family Read More

Campion: The Case of the Late Pig

Actors: Peter Davison, Brian Glover, Moray Watson, Amanda Elwes, John Fortune

Synopsis: Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel The Case of the Late Pig. The title character is Roland Isidore "Pig" Peters (Mike Charles), a lifelong bully who had been Campion's principal tormentor Read More

Campion: Death of a Ghost

Actors: Peter Davison, Brian Glover, Andrew Burt, Jean Anderson, Shaughan Seymour

Synopsis: Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel Death of a Ghost. Each year, the friends of a deceased painter gather to unveil one of his final 12 paintings. It is during one of these annual unveilings Read More

Absolution

Actors: Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, Dai Bradley, Billy Connolly, Andrew Keir

Synopsis: Two Catholic boarding school students (Dominic Guard and Dai Bradley) embark upon a carefully calculated campaign to drive their hated headmaster (Richard Burton) insane. The boys launch their scheme by cooking up the most bizarre and depraved of imaginary sins, then recite these infractions in Read More

Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen, Episode 2

Actors: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Maurice Colbourne, Brian Glover, David Banks

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the two-part story "Attack of the Cybermen" (originally telecast on January 12, 1985), the title characters have captured the TARDIS, making it difficult for the Doctor (Colin Baker) to prevent the Cybermen from destroying the Earth with Halley's Comet. The crisis intensifies Read More

Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen, Episode 1

Actors: Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Maurice Colbourne, Brian Glover, David Banks

Synopsis: "Attack of the Cybermen," Doctor Who's 22nd-season opener, began its two-episode run on January 5, 1985. Having already captured a time vessel, the dreaded Cybermen also snatch the TARDIS. This action prevents the Doctor (Colin Baker) and his new allies, the alien Cryons, from thwarting the Read More

The McGuffin

Actors: Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Ritza Brown, Francis Matthews, Phyllis Logan

Synopsis: In this standard suspense thriller, Paul Hatcher (Charles Dance) 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 reality and the silver screen separate. But then a Read More

The Company of Wolves

Actors: Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Stephen Rea, Tusse Silberg, Sarah Patterson

Synopsis: Company of Wolves is Little Red Riding Hood for the Alien generation. Sheltered 13-year-old Sarah Patterson, living on the edge of a foreboding woods, is visited by her grandmother Angela Lansbury. The old lady delights in telling Sarah the most horrific stories, usually involving what happens to Read More

Singleton's Pluck

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Singleton (Ian Holm) is a determined British farmer with a gaggle of holiday geese ready for market. It should be a simple task for Singleton to get his honking cargo to town, but it isn't. For starters, his drivers have gone on strike, so Singleton must take the geese himself. The hundred-mile Read More

Ordeal by Innocence

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Christopher Plummer, Ian McShane, Sarah Miles, Diana Quick

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and set in the late 1950s, this unevenly told film starts when Dr. Arthur Calgary (Donald Sutherland) comes back to England after two years on an Antarctic expedition and discovers that the man he is searching for has been executed for murder. At the beginning Read More

Britannia Hospital

Actors: Leonard Rossiter, Graham Crowden, Malcolm McDowell, Joan Plowright, Jill Bennett

Synopsis: This dark comedy charts the chaos that results when the panicked staff of a major English hospital attempts to prepare for a visit by the Queen Mother, only to face every problem imaginable. Britannia Hospital clearly attempts to recapture the anarchic bite of director Lindsay Anderson's previous Read More

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Actors: Helen Mirren

Synopsis: This play gets its title from the name of a British holiday called Midsummer Day, the feast of John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24 with merrymaking. On Midsummer Night, witches, goblins, and fairies materialized to hold a festival of their own. Shakespeare's play capitalizes on the magic of Read More

An American Werewolf in London

Actors: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine, Brian Glover

Synopsis: While wandering the English moors on vacation, college yanks David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) happen upon a quaint pub with a mysterious patronage who warn them not to leave the road when walking after dark. Irreverent of such advice as characters in horror films always are, the two Read More

The Great Train Robbery

Actors: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Wayne Sleep, Malcolm Terris, Michael Elphick

Synopsis: Not a remake of the landmark 1903 Edwin S. Porter film, The Great Train Robbery is a dramatization of the famous first hold-up of a moving train in 1855 England. The conspirators in this undertaking are Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), Agar (Donald Sutherland) and Clean Willy (Wayne Sleep). Pierce is Read More

Joseph Andrews

Actors: Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Beryl Reid, Jim Dale

Synopsis: Tony Richardson attempts to re-create the glory days of Tom Jones in this adaptation of the 1742 Henry Fielding novel. Peter Firth stars in this picaresque tale as Joseph Andrews, a young servant switched at birth who undergoes a series of romantic escapades. Joseph even has the fortune of Read More

Jabberwocky

Actors: Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Max Wall, Deborah Fallender, John Le Mesurier, Annette Badland, Warren Mitchell

Synopsis: An innocent country farmer experiences a number of improbable misadventures that culminate in a battle against the titular beast in this broadly comic fantasy. The first solo outing of director Terry Gilliam, who served as animator and co-director on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, returns to the Read More

Sweeney!

Actors: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Barry Foster, Ian Bannen, Colin Welland

Synopsis: In this feature-film version of the popular British television cop show, Regan (John Thaw) and Carter (Dennis Waterman) are two British Scotland Yard detectives who find themselves involved with the exchange of oil resources on the political and economic fate of the world. Ian Bannen plays Baker Read More

A Choice of Weapons

Synopsis: A former policeman investigates a series of murders by centering on an organization which re-creates medieval battles. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Brannigan

Actors: John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, Mel Ferrer, John Vernon

Synopsis: This offbeat John Wayne vehicle casts the Duke as Detective Jim Brannigan, an Irish-American detective at large in London. After the requisite culture-clash routines, it's down to business as Brannigan teams with Scotland Yard official Commander Swann (Richard Attenborough) to corral a crook who Read More

The Old Curiosity Shop

Actors: Anthony Newley, David Hemmings, David Warner, Michael Hordern, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: The musical Mr. Quilp was based on one of Dickens' grimmest works, The Old Curiosity Shop, which has as its highlight the death of its heroine. The principal character is a villain, a hunchbacked usurer who wishes to take over the business of an antique dealer. Anthony Newley plays the horrid Mr. Read More

O Lucky Man!

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Helen Mirren

Synopsis: One man's dreams of success take him on a Byzantine journey through the various stations of the British class system in this politically charged black comedy from director Lindsay Anderson. Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is an ambitious young man who is looking to get his foot on the first rung of Read More

Kes

Actors: David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover

Synopsis: In this 1969 Ken Loach film, a 15-year-old named Billy Casper (played by acting newcomer David Bradley) suffers abuse both at home and at school in Yorkshire, England. At his home in the working-class section of Barnsley, Billy's brother beats him and his family neglects him. At school, most of Read More