Julian Glover

Julian Glover CBE
Julian Glover in 2014.
Born	(1935-03-27) 27 March 1935 (age 81) Hampstead, London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1958–present
Spouse(s)	Eileen Atkins (m. 1957; div. 1966) Isla Blair (m. 1968)
Children	Jamie Glover

Julian Wyatt Glover CBE (born 27 March 1935) is an English actor whose film roles have included a wide range of iconic characters, including General Maximilian Veers in The Empire Strikes Back, the James Bond villain Aristotle Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only, Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Brian Harcourt-Smith in . He also voiced the giant spider Aragog in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and played the recurring role of Grand Maester Pycelle in HBO's Game of Thrones from 2011 to 2016 and, in January 2013, appeared as General Beauvilliers in the BBC drama Spies of Warsaw.

Glover was born in Hampstead, London, the son of Honor Ellen Morgan, née Wyatt – a BBC journalist and Claude Gordon Glover, a BBC radio producer. His younger half-brother is the musician Robert Wyatt. Glover has been twice married to actresses: Eileen Atkins and Isla Blair, with whom he has a son, actor Jamie Glover.

Glover attended Bristol Grammar School, where he was in the same class as actor Timothy West and the actor who played Darth Vader, David Prowse. He also attended Alleyn's School in Dulwich, London and then trained at the National Youth Theatre, performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In the early 1950s, he appeared in several shows at Unity Theatre, London before becoming a regular in 1960s and 1970s British television series such as The Avengers, The Saint, Strange Report, Doctor Who and Blake's 7.