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Acting

Robert Glenister

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

Rarely in their work

Physical Comedy
1.0, average 2.4
Wonder
2.1, average 3.4
Absurdist Humor
0.8, average 2.0
Fantasy
0.5, average 1.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Psychological Thriller 5
Character Study 4
Character-Driven 3
British Crime Drama 2
Social Commentary 2
Crime Drama 2
Slow-Burn Suspense 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

81

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

14 titles · average score 63

The Death of Bunny Munro

76

TV show · as Geoffrey

Still Waters

TV show · as Robert Davies

A Thousand Blows

76

TV show · as Indigo Jeremy

National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession

as Sir George Crofts

The Hack

71

TV show · as DCI Callum Lockhart

The Night Caller

67

TV show · as Tony Conroy

Sherwood

80

TV show · as DI Kevin Salisbury

The Light in the Hall

58

TV show · as Robert Davies

National Theatre Live: The Seagull

54

as Sorin

Suspicion

48

TV show · as Martin Copeland

Grace

65

TV show · as Gavin Daly

Villain

63

as Roy Garrett

2010s

13 titles · average score 64

The Aeronauts

65

as Ned Chambers

Journey's End

74

as The Colonel / Colonel

Paranoid

63

TV show · as Bobby Day

Live by Night

49

as Albert White

Close to the Enemy

56

TV show · as Brigadier Wainwright

Code of a Killer

74

TV show · as DCC Chapman

Cryptic

47

as Robert

The Musketeers

72

TV show · as Duke of Lorraine

The Great Train Robbery

69

TV show · as DI Frank Williams

Appropriate Adult

71

TV show · as Detective Superintendent John Bennett

Vera

60

TV show · as Owen Preece

The Café

74

TV show · as Phil Porter

2000s

26 titles · average score 67

Law & Order: UK

77

TV show · as D.S. Jimmy Valentine / Narrator / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Get Off My Land

as Farmer

Jane Hall

TV show · as Dave Searle

Doctor Who

78

TV show · as Thomas Edison

Hustle

73

TV show · as Ashley Morgan

Agatha Christie's Marple

75

TV show · as Father Brophy

Pilate: The Man Who Killed Christ

as Narrator

Victoria Station

as The Controller

Sirens

58

TV show · as DI Clive Wilson

Spooks

80

TV show · as Nicholas Blake / Home Secretary

Murder

TV show · as Robert Weldon

TV show · as Tubes

1990s

12 titles · average score 71

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as John Field

Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing

as Aristophanes

Kavanagh Q.C.

75

TV show · as Clive Pendle

Bramwell

40

TV show · as Charles Sheldon

Persuasion

74

as Captain Harville

Pie in the Sky

80

TV show · as DCI Fields

The Secret Rapture

as Jeremy

Heartbeat

80

TV show · as Oliver Langley

A Touch of Frost

51

TV show · as Det Sgt Terrence Reid / DS Reid

Soldier Soldier

68

TV show · as Colour Sergeant Ian Anderson

Prime Suspect

89

TV show · as Chris Hughes

TV show · as Pete

1980s

13 titles · average score 69

as Keith

Casualty

62

TV show · as Duncan

Me and the Girls

as Harry

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Jessel

Cover Her Face

71

TV show · as Derek Pullen

The Bill

77

TV show

The Lonelyhearts Kid

TV show · as Ken

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani

as Salateen

Little Girls Don't

as Billy

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

as Jurek Borowczak

Sink or Swim

TV show · as Steve Webber

TV show · as Lorenzo

1970s

1 title

Strangers

TV show · as Student

1960s

2 titles · average score 76

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Billy

Doctor Who

76

TV show · as Salateen