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Acting

Robert Glenister

Titles: 30movies54TV shows

Career: Active from 1980 to 2025, busiest in 2022 and 2025 with 3 main titles each.

Leading roles: 18
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: Sherwood
80/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 54 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Robert Glenister Catalog average

Crime
6.6average 3.7
Mystery
6.0average 4.1
Historical
4.0average 2.6
Tension
7.1average 6.0
Psychological
6.6average 5.6
Social Commentary
5.9average 4.9
Melancholy
5.6average 4.7
Wit & Wordplay
4.4average 3.7

Rarely in their work

Physical Comedy
0.9, average 2.4
Wonder
2.1, average 3.4
Fantasy
0.4, average 1.7
Absurdist Humor
0.8, average 2.0

Main genres

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Drama 23
Crime 10
Comedy 8
Mystery 6
Action 3
History 2

Recurring tags

Psychological Thriller 5
Character Study 4
Character-Driven 4
Slow-Burn Suspense 2
British Crime Drama 2
Social Commentary 2
Crime Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

81

Group by

Newest first Oldest first

2020s

14 titles · average score 63

The Death of Bunny Munro

TV show · as Geoffrey

National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession

as Sir George Crofts

A Thousand Blows

TV show · as Indigo Jeremy

Still Waters

TV show · as Robert Davies

The Hack

TV show · as DCI Callum Lockhart

The Night Caller

TV show · as Tony Conroy

Sherwood

TV show · as DI Kevin Salisbury

The Light in the Hall

TV show · as Robert Davies

National Theatre Live: The Seagull

as Sorin

Suspicion

TV show · as Martin Copeland

Grace

TV show · as Gavin Daly

Villain

as Roy Garrett

All 14 titles from the 2020s

2010s

13 titles · average score 64

The Aeronauts

as Ned Chambers

Journey's End

as Colonel / The Colonel

Paranoid

TV show · as Bobby Day

Live by Night

as Albert White

Close to the Enemy

TV show · as Brigadier Wainwright

Code of a Killer

TV show · as DCC Chapman

Cryptic

as Robert

The Musketeers

TV show · as Duke of Lorraine

The Great Train Robbery

TV show · as DI Frank Williams

Appropriate Adult

TV show · as Detective Superintendent John Bennett

Vera

TV show · as Owen Preece

The Café

TV show · as Phil Porter

All 13 titles from the 2010s

2000s

26 titles · average score 67

Get Off My Land

as Farmer

Jane Hall

TV show · as Dave Searle

Doctor Who

TV show · as Thomas Edison

Class of '76

as Frank Thompson

Hustle

TV show · as Ashley Morgan

Agatha Christie's Marple

TV show · as Father Brophy

Pilate: The Man Who Killed Christ

as Narrator

Victoria Station

as The Controller

Sirens

TV show · as DI Clive Wilson

Spooks

TV show · as Nicholas Blake / Home Secretary

Murder

TV show · as Robert Weldon

TV show · as Tubes

All 26 titles from the 2000s

1990s

12 titles · average score 71

Midsomer Murders

TV show · as John Field

Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing

as Aristophanes

Kavanagh Q.C.

TV show · as Clive Pendle

Bramwell

TV show · as Charles Sheldon

Persuasion

as Captain Harville

Pie in the Sky

TV show · as DCI Fields

The Secret Rapture

as Jeremy

A Touch of Frost

TV show · as Det Sgt Terrence Reid / DS Reid

Heartbeat

TV show · as Oliver Langley

Soldier Soldier

TV show · as Colour Sergeant Ian Anderson

Prime Suspect

TV show · as Chris Hughes

TV show · as Pete

1980s

13 titles · average score 69

as Keith

Casualty

TV show · as Duncan

Me and the Girls

as Harry

Screen Two

TV show · as Jessel

Cover Her Face

TV show · as Derek Pullen

Long Term Memory

as Peter

The Lonelyhearts Kid

TV show · as Ken

The Bill

TV show

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani

as Salateen

Little Girls Don't

as Billy

Sink or Swim

TV show · as Steve Webber

TV show · as Lorenzo

All 13 titles from the 1980s

1970s

1 title

Strangers

TV show · as Student

1960s

2 titles · average score 76

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Billy

Doctor Who

TV show · as Salateen