Robert Glenister: movies and TV shows
Robert Glenister has 88 credits in the archive: 33 films and 55 TV series, from 1963 to 2025. Highest rated: Pie in the Sky (8.3/10).
Career timeline
1963 – 2025 · busiest year: 2002 (5 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Hack | DCI Callum Lockhart | TV | 6.6 | 65 |
| 2025 | A Thousand Blows | Indigo Jeremy | TV | 6.6 | 65 |
| 2025 | Still Waters | Robert Davies | TV | 6.0 | 65 |
| 2025 | The Death of Bunny Munro | Geoffrey | TV | 5.5 | 65 |
| 2025 | National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren's Profession | Sir George Crofts | Film | — | 65 |
| 2024 | Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story | Piers Morgan | TV | 5.3 | 64 |
| 2024 | The Night Caller | Tony Conroy | TV | 7.2 | 64 |
| 2022 | Suspicion | Martin Copeland | TV | 6.7 | 62 |
| 2022 | Sherwood | DI Kevin Salisbury | TV | 6.9 | 62 |
| 2022 | The Light in the Hall | Robert Davies | TV | 5.5 | 62 |
| 2022 | Here We Go | Michael | TV | 6.4 | 62 |
| 2022 | National Theatre Live: The Seagull | Sorin | Film | 5.0 | 62 |
| 2021 | Grace | Gavin Daly | TV | 6.8 | 61 |
| 2020 | Villain | Roy Garrett | Film | 5.5 | 60 |
| 2019 | The Aeronauts | Ned Chambers | Film | 6.8 | 59 |
| 2019 | Borderforce USA: The Bridges | Self - Narrator | TV | 7.5 | 59 |
| 2017 | Journey's End | Colonel | Film | 6.3 | 57 |
| 2017 | Journey's End | The Colonel | Film | 6.3 | 57 |
| 2016 | Live by Night | Albert White | Film | 6.3 | 56 |
| 2016 | Paranoid | Bobby Day | TV | 6.3 | 56 |
| 2016 | Close to the Enemy | Brigadier Wainwright | TV | 5.1 | 56 |
| 2015 | Code of a Killer | DCC Chapman | TV | 7.3 | 55 |
| 2014 | The Musketeers | Duke of Lorraine | TV | 7.1 | 54 |
| 2014 | Cryptic | Robert | Film | 4.5 | 54 |
| 2013 | The Great Train Robbery | DI Frank Williams | TV | 6.7 | 53 |
| 2013 | The Last Days of Anne Boleyn | Self- Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 53 |
| 2012 | We'll Take Manhattan | Ted Shrimpton | Film | 5.7 | 52 |
| 2011 | Vera | Owen Preece | TV | 7.4 | 51 |
| 2011 | The Café | Phil Porter | TV | 6.8 | 51 |
| 2011 | Appropriate Adult | Detective Superintendent John Bennett | TV | 6.7 | 51 |
| 2010 | Touched by Frost: Goodbye Jack | Self/D.S. Terry Reid | Film | — | 50 |
| 2010 | Chain Reaction | Film | — | 50 | |
| 2009 | Law & Order: UK | D.S. Jimmy Valentine / Narrator | TV | 7.0 | 49 |
| 2009 | Law & Order: UK | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | TV | 7.0 | 49 |
| 2009 | Moving On | Frankie | TV | 7.4 | 49 |
| 2009 | Creation | Dr. Holland | Film | 6.4 | 49 |
| 2008 | Inspector George Gently | Empton | TV | 7.9 | 48 |
| 2007 | Get Off My Land | Farmer | Film | — | 47 |
| 2007 | Heroes and Villains | TV | 7.0 | 47 | |
| 2006 | The Ruby in the Smoke | Samuel Selby | Film | 6.4 | 46 |
| 2006 | Jane Hall | Dave Searle | TV | 6.6 | 46 |
| 2005 | Doctor Who | Thomas Edison | TV | 7.6 | 45 |
| 2005 | Class of '76 | Frank Thompson | Film | 5.7 | 45 |
| 2005 | Class of '76 | Frank Thompson | TV | 10.0 | 45 |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Father Brophy | TV | 7.8 | 44 |
| 2004 | Hustle | Ashley Morgan | TV | 7.7 | 44 |
| 2004 | Pilate: The Man Who Killed Christ | Narrator | Film | — | 44 |
| 2003 | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Anton Drexler | TV | 7.1 | 43 |
| 2003 | Victoria Station | The Controller | Film | 9.0 | 43 |
| 2003 | Between The Sheets | Clive Stevenson | TV | 5.2 | 43 |
| 2003 | Eroica | Gerhardt | Film | 7.5 | 43 |
| 2002 | Spooks | Home Secretary | TV | 7.7 | 42 |
| 2002 | Spooks | Nicholas Blake | TV | 7.7 | 42 |
| 2002 | Safe Conduct | Capt. Townsend | Film | 6.5 | 42 |
| 2002 | Murder | Robert Weldon | TV | 4.3 | 42 |
| 2002 | Sirens | DI Clive Wilson | TV | 4.8 | 42 |
| 2001 | Just Visiting | Earl of Warwick | Film | 4.8 | 41 |
| 2001 | All Forgotten | Count Malevsky | Film | 4.3 | 41 |
| 2000 | My Fragile Heart | Stephen 'Squeal' Blake | Film | 8.0 | 40 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | John Field | TV | 7.5 | 37 |
| 1995 | Kavanagh Q.C. | Clive Pendle | TV | 7.3 | 35 |
| 1995 | Bramwell | Charles Sheldon | TV | 4.2 | 35 |
| 1995 | Persuasion | Captain Harville | Film | 7.2 | 35 |
| 1995 | Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing | Aristophanes | Film | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1994 | Pie in the Sky | DCI Fields | TV | 8.3 | 34 |
| 1994 | A Landing on the Sun | Film | 7.0 | 34 | |
| 1993 | The Secret Rapture | Jeremy | Film | 4.8 | 33 |
| 1992 | Heartbeat | Oliver Langley | TV | 7.2 | 32 |
| 1992 | A Touch of Frost | DS Reid | TV | 7.5 | 32 |
| 1992 | A Touch of Frost | Det Sgt Terrence Reid | TV | 7.5 | 32 |
| 1991 | Prime Suspect | Chris Hughes | TV | 7.8 | 31 |
| 1991 | Soldier Soldier | Colour Sergeant Ian Anderson | TV | 6.9 | 31 |
| 1989 | Ending Up | Keith | Film | — | 29 |
| 1986 | Casualty | Duncan | TV | 6.2 | 26 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Jessel | TV | 7.1 | 25 |
| 1985 | Me and the Girls | Harry | Film | 3.0 | 25 |
| 1985 | Cover Her Face | Derek Pullen | TV | 6.7 | 25 |
| 1985 | Long Term Memory | Peter | Film | — | 25 |
| 1984 | The Bill | TV | 6.8 | 24 | |
| 1984 | The Lonelyhearts Kid | Ken | TV | 7.0 | 24 |
| 1984 | Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani | Salateen | Film | 9.8 | 24 |
| 1981 | Little Girls Don't | Billy | Film | 7.0 | 21 |
| 1981 | Strike: The Birth of Solidarity | Jurek Borowczak | Film | — | 21 |
| 1980 | Sink or Swim | Steve Webber | TV | 7.0 | 20 |
| 1980 | Escape | Lorenzo | TV | — | 20 |
| 1978 | Strangers | Student | TV | 7.3 | 18 |
| 1967 | ITV Playhouse | Billy | TV | 7.0 | 7 |
| 1963 | Doctor Who | Salateen | TV | 7.9 | 3 |