Philip Glenister Filmography

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Tu£sday

Actors: Philip Glenister, John Simm, Ashley Walters, Cristian Solimeno, Kevin McNally, Dylan Brown, Gregor Truter

Synopsis: In the tradition of such nothing-goes-right heist films as Big Deal on Madonna Street and Dog Day Afternoon comes Tu£sday - the seriocomic exploration of the chaos that can ensue when three different groups of criminals make the disastrous decision to rob the same bank on the very same day. In one Read More

2008
Cranford

Actors: Judi Dench, Philip Glenister, Francesca Annis, Michael Gambon, Simon Woods

Synopsis: The small town gossip, secrets, and romance of Mary Gaskells' popular series of novels comes to the small screen in this BBC drama series from director Simon Curtis. The year is 1842, and Cranford is a modest Cheshire market town on the verge of great change. The railway is reaching to Cranford Read More

2007
Life on Mars: Series 01

Actors: John Simm, Philip Glenister, Liz White, Marshall Lancaster, Dean Andrews

2006
Kingdom of Heaven

Actors: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis: Ridley Scott directed this epic-scale historical drama inspired by the events of the Crusades of the 12th century. Balian (Orlando Bloom) is a humble French blacksmith who is searching for a reason to go on after the death of his wife and children. Balian is approached by Godfrey of Ibelin (Liam Neeson Read More

5/6/05
Island at War

Actors: James Wilby, Clare Holman, Philip Glenister, Saskia Reeves

Synopsis: Spanning over six and a half hours, this U.K. television movie chronicles the harrowing experiences of the citizens of the Channel Islands during World War II. Produced for Masterpiece Theatre, Island at War is a fictionalized account of the five years spent under Nazi rule by the British Read More

2004
Calendar Girls

Actors: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie

Synopsis: Nigel Cole directs the feel-good comedy Calendar Girls, based on the true story of a group of working-class British housewives who became overnight celebrities by posing for a nude calendar in order to raise more than 500-thousand pounds for a new leukemia unit. The film follows the adventures of Read More

12/19/03
Byron

Synopsis: The BBC biopic Byron recreates the life and times of early 19th century scribe Lord George Gordon Byron (Jonny Lee Miller of Trainspotting), widely considered one of the finest English-language belletrists in history. Though Byron culled enormous repute for the scandalous, taboo-breaking lead Read More

2003
The Other Boleyn Girl

Actors: Natascha McElhone, Jodhi May, Jared Harris, Steven Mackintosh, Philip Glenister

Synopsis: U.K. documentary filmmaker Philippa Lowthorpe brings an experimental approach to the costume drama The Other Boleyn Girl, produced for television by BBC Films. Shot with a handheld digital camera, the film is a largely improvised project based on the best-selling novel by Philippa Gregory. In 16th Read More

2003
Vanity Fair

Actors: Natasha Little

Synopsis: Though not the most ambitious British TV adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 19th century novel Vanity Fair, this six-part BBC1 version was arguably the most expensive and elaborate. Natasha Little was cast as scheming country lass Becky Sharp, who managed to climb to the top of the Read More

1998
Sharpe's Justice

Actors: Sean Bean

Synopsis: Based on novels by Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe details the exploits of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier who fights Napoleon on the battlefield and his devious wife on the home front. Sean Bean plays Sharpe, while Abigail Cruttenden portrays Jane. In "Sharpe's Justice," Sharpe faces both professional Read More

1997
I.D.

Actors: Reece Dinsdale, Richard Graham, Claire Skinner, Sean Pertwee, Saskia Reeves

Synopsis: An undercover cop finds that the line between his own personality and that of the character he's created have begun to dangerously blur in this drama. John (Reece Dinsdale) is a British police detective whose skill is matched only by his arrogance. Acts of brutal hooliganism have become Read More

1995
London Kills Me

Actors: Justin Chadwick, Steven Mackintosh, Emer McCourt, Roshan Seth, Fiona Shaw

Synopsis: Screenwriter Hanif Kureishi marked his directorial debut in this slice-of-life chronicle about a collection of drug-dealing slackers in London. Centering on a band of delinquents calling themselves "the posse," the group is led by an ambitious male hustler named Muffdiver (Steven Mackintosh). His Read More

8/7/92