Philip Glenister

Personal Info

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Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1963-02-10 (62 years old)

Place of Birth

Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK

Philip Glenister

Biography

Philip Haywood Glenister is an English actor, known for his role as DCI Gene Hunt in British television series Life On Mars and its sequel Ashes To Ashes. He also played DCI William Bell in State of Play (2003) and Reverend Anderson in Outcast (2016–2018). Glenister was born on 10 February 1963 in Harrow, Middlesex, and grew up in Hatch End. He is the son of director John Glenister and Joan Fry Lewis, and the younger brother of fellow actor Robert Glenister. He attended Hatch End High School. In his early career, he worked as a runner for the Robert Stigwood Organisation. Following this, he worked until the age of 23 as a film publicist, ...

Acting

2003

Calendar Girls

as Lawrence Sertain

2023

Sheene

as Narrator (voice)

2001

1995

I.D.

as Charlie

2008

Tu£sday

as Earp

1997

Sharpe's Justice

as Matt Truman

2003

The Other Boleyn Girl

as William Strafford

1995

Loved Up

as Ray

2021

2019

1991

London Kills Me

as Suited Man

2012

Bel Ami

as Charles Forestier

1992

A Fatal Inversion

as Young Detective

1996

True Love

as Phil

2003

Byron

as William Fletcher

2001

1997

2005

The Walk

as Eddie

2005

2003

Lloyd & Hill

as Daniel Lloyd

Production

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