Jon Glover

Acting

Jon Glover

Born 1952-12-26 · Crediton, Devon, England, UK

Jonathan Philip Glover is an English actor. He has appeared in various television programmes including Play School, Survivors, the Management consultant in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Casualty, Bodger & Badger and Peak Practice.

Acting credits

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl poster
7.5

Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again!

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

2024

Momo poster
7.1

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.

Momo

2025

Ragnarok poster
4.8

Three exciting stories of science fiction adventure set many years in the future. The Earth, once the hub of the Galaxy and its judicial system, is now wasteland. This and its survivors are all that is left of a bygone age after the most vicious intergalactic war ever seen. The Earth's colonies are devoid of any law enforcement system. It is the survival of the fittest (or meanest). The only law left is Ragnarok, a hard-hitting enforcer and his alien friend Smith, who travel the Universe in an attempt to see fair play.

Ragnarok

1983

Best Ever Spitting Image poster
NR

A documentary about Spitting Image (1984) and the impact it had, including clips of the most memorable moments and contributions from many of the cast, crew and some of celebrities portrayed on the show.

Best Ever Spitting Image

2006

Spitting Image: The Ronnie & Nancy Show poster
8.0

As First Lady Nancy Reagan holds an celebrity-filled anniversary party at the White House, President Ronald Reagan's aides desperately attempt to prevent an unprovoked nuclear attack he accidentally ordered.

Spitting Image: The Ronnie & Nancy Show

1988

No artwork available
NR

A Mashup comedy thriller using old movies re-edited and re-dubbed by some of the best comedy talent in the UK. The Falcon, an English detective and part-time impressionist, working in Los Angeles, becomes embroiled in an alien plot to destroy the world when his voice is used to redub Barack Obama. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes and pornstar Barrett Blade, the Falcon sets out to stop Obama making a speech in which, unwittingly, he will insult the major nations of the world and spark a global war. This insane, unique piece of storytelling stars the greatest cast ever assembled in a movie including Cary Grant, Basil Rathbone, Tom Conway, Marilyn Monroe, Steve Reeves, Jack Nicholson, John Wayne and Rosalind Russell.

Mashup Movie

2009

Micro Men poster
7.1

In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry, in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students, set up his own, rival firm to Sinclair Radionics, Acorn. Acorn beat Sinclair to a lucrative contract supplying the BBC with machines for a computer series. From here on it is a battle for supremacy to gain the upper hand in the domestic market.

Micro Men

2009

Spitting Image: The Sound of Maggie poster
NR

The Sound of Maggie! was a special episode of Spitting Image featuring numerous parodies of songs from both musicals and films, sung by the puppet cast of the show.

Spitting Image: The Sound of Maggie

1989

Red Dwarf: Back to Earth poster
4.0

Hurled through a portal, the Red Dwarf crew discover they’re just characters in a TV series. Can they track down their creators and discover how long they have left to live?

Red Dwarf: Back to Earth

2009

Squaring the Circle poster
5.0

An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.

Squaring the Circle

1984

Alice in Wonderland poster
NR

Anglia Television's 5 episode TV miniseries adaption of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland was inspired and based upon an early production put on by the famous Da Silva Puppets group at the Norwich Puppet Theatre.

Alice in Wonderland

1985

Tracey Ullman: A Class Act poster
10.0

A short series of 15 minute programmes, really expanded sketches, in which Tracey Ullman and Michael Palin play various roles satirizing the British class system.

Tracey Ullman: A Class Act

1993

Margot Rourke & The Boys Club poster
NR

Before Lisa Lampanelli and Sarah Silverman shocked audiences with dirty jokes and raised questions of a woman's place in comedy, there was Mae West. And at the same time as Mae West, there was Margot Rourke, who nobody has heard of but who was responsible for the greatest dirty ditty of all time. This is her story — a short film about the first female fart comic.

Margot Rourke & The Boys Club

2013

Spitting Image: Election Special '87 poster
NR

Alastair Burnet announces the predicted results of the general election. Then he announces that the polls are now closed, shortly to be followed by the hospitals, the schools, and the BBC.

Spitting Image: Election Special '87

1987

Spitting Image: Best Of - Is Nothing Sacred? poster
NR

The best of Spitting Image

Spitting Image: Best Of - Is Nothing Sacred?

1991

Spitting Image: A Non-Denominational Holiday Special poster
NR

Christmas Special featuring a fancy dress party at Number Ten, another boring Perry Como Special, various spoofs of classic Christmas pop songs, as well as "The Snow Man in the Kalahari" and "Temporary Postman Pratt".

Spitting Image: A Non-Denominational Holiday Special

1987

Spitting Image: Bumbledown – The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan poster
8.0

Please join us now as we pass through history's golden years to illuminate the illustrious life of actor, lifeguard, underpants salesman, GE spokesman, husband of Jane Wyman, friend of Frank Sinatra, Governor of California and finally President of the United States: Ronald Wilson Reagan. Let the real truth be told.

Spitting Image: Bumbledown – The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan

1988

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7.5

Adapted as a movie release from the animated BBC television series, originally based on the books by Colin Dann. Re-dubbed, edited, and titled Journey Home: The Animals of Farthing Wood, for US release.

The Animals of Farthing Wood: The Journey Begins

1995

Between Iraq and a Hard Place poster
10.0

The impressionist Rory Bremner and comedians Bird and Fortune take a look at the history of Iraq through a series of sketches, monologues and jokes. They begin with the formation of Iraq by the British in the early 20th Century, through the bombing of villages to control the tribes, the establishment of a king in the area through to the modern day trade meetings with Saddam Hussein.

Between Iraq and a Hard Place

2003