Directing

John Glenister

Born 1932-10-12 · London, England, UK

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Pygmalion poster
NR

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Pygmalion

1981

No artwork available
NR

George is a leading industrialist, respected and feared by many. Billy, however, has no fear of him, as he shows when chance brings them together.

Contract

1981

Sometime in August poster
8.0

Neil's beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bathe. The situation is resolved by an old woman and a cat.

Sometime in August

1990

Good As Gold poster
NR

Grinding, gruelling and unceasing, Dennis Barker's training sessions push his young swimmers to the limits of their endurance. Outstanding among them is 14-year-old Rachel Southern. Destined for stardom perhaps, but also destined to realise that winning doesn't always mean coming first.

Good As Gold

1986

The House on Highbury Hill poster
NR

The path of righteousness is a stony one. And Lo! for Daniel it is stonier than most.

The House on Highbury Hill

1972

Billy's Last Stand poster
8.0

Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him ...

Billy's Last Stand

1971

Miss Julie poster
8.0

A filmed Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play. Miss Julie, a nineteenth-century aristocrat's daughter, is attracted to one of the servants in her father's house.

Miss Julie

1972

The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories poster
NR

Tom Beauchurch , a successful New England lawyer, takes his wife Ginette to Paris for a second honeymoon. It is a Paris in the throes of the Algerian crisis; a crisis which soon threatens the very foundations of their marriage. A New York bartender refuses to lower his standards even when his boss threatens to sack him. Michael Loomis runs into trouble when he confesses to his beautiful young wife that he can't help eyeing the girls in their summer dresses ...

The Man Who Married a French Wife and Other Stories

1982

The Lady's Maid's Bell poster
10.0

Based on a short story by Edith Wharton. A lady's maid named Hartley finds employment with Mrs. Brympton, a lady who is confined to her country estate because of delicate health. Almost immediately Ms. Hartley realizes something ominous is occurring in the old house.

The Lady's Maid's Bell

1983

No artwork available
NR

Russia 1910: As the celebrated author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" lies on his deathbed, he looks back over his life in the company of peasant girl Katya.

The Power of Dawn

1976

Blunt poster
5.0

Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union. In love with double agent Guy Burgess, he helps Burgess get yet another treasonous British agent to safety in Moscow. When Burgess unexpectedly defects as well, the government becomes suspicious of Blunt, but investigators have trouble believing such a refined and aristocratic gentleman would ever betray his nation and his class.

Blunt

1987

On Your Way, Riley! poster
8.0

Biopic of Arthur Lucan, who portrayed Old Mother Riley for over twenty years on stage and screen.

On Your Way, Riley!

1985

A Thinking Man as Hero poster
NR

A television producer encounters personal problems while making a documentary about the philosopher Wittgenstein.

A Thinking Man as Hero

1973

No artwork available
NR

A small boy runs away from home for no apparent reason. The police find his body in London having died of exposure. Why did he leave home?

The Specialist

1980

A Photograph poster
NR

A man's life is turned upside down when he receives a mysterious photograph in the post.

A Photograph

1977

Misterioso poster
NR

On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her birth father, finds him running a jazz club in London, and learns a lot of happy and sad things about her family that she didn't know before. The title of the film is the classic jazz piece, "Misterioso," by Thelonious Monk, which features prominently in it.

Misterioso

1991

Zigger Zagger poster
NR

Zigger Zagger is a 1967 play by Peter Terson which was the first work to be commissioned by the National Youth Theatre who revived it at Wilton's Music Hall in 2017 for its 50th anniversary. Described as a "football opera" in which the cast sing and chant like a Greek chorus, the play was an instant success. The production was directed by Michael Croft while the Musical Director was Colin Farrell. Adopted later by non-league giant killers, Altrincham FC.

Zigger Zagger

1967

No artwork available
NR

Charlie's carefree bachelor's life in his rented bedsit is shattered when his landlady discovers evidence that he had female company overnight.

A Good Reason for Getting Married?

1966

Rumpole's Return poster
5.8

A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.

Rumpole's Return

1980

The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura poster
7.0

A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four.

The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura

1983

To the Camp and Back poster
NR

Christine, grieving for her fiancé who was shot down by the German Luftwaffe during the war, is persuaded by her cousin to meet a German prisoner-of-war—a Luftwaffe pilot.

To the Camp and Back

1983

No artwork available
10.0

Champagne dialogue alleviates nervousness of sleeping together.

Almost a Vision

1976

The Nuclear Family poster
9.0

1999: A perma-redundant father takes his family on a strange ‘working holiday’, scrubbing floors in an undersea missile base.

The Nuclear Family

1982

Two Men from Derby poster
NR

Two men from Derby County FC are keen to make a new signing, but he is not at home. His wife promises he won't be long and makes conversation with them while attending to her household chores.

Two Men from Derby

1976