Philip Glenister

About

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, but developed an interest in acting after watching his brother perform in a student play about the Sex Pistols. With the encouragement of his then-sister-in-law, Amanda Redman, he pursued acting and attended the Central School of Speech and Drama....

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Agatha Christie's PoirotSeries • 1989Silent WitnessSeries • 1996FoundationSeries • 2021HeartbeatSeries • 1992MinderSeries • 1979Inside No. 9Series • 2014Kingdom of HeavenMovie • 2005The Ruth Rendell MysteriesSeries • 1987Drop the Dead DonkeySeries • 1990The ViceSeries • 1999The Hollow CrownSeries • 2012OutcastSeries • 2016Ashes to AshesSeries • 2008Urban MythsSeries • 2017The ChiefSeries • 1990HornblowerSeries • 1998The DetectivesSeries • 1993CranfordSeries • 2007The Rubbish World of Dave SpudSeries • 2019Life on MarsSeries • 2006Duck Quacks Don't EchoSeries • 2014In Suspicious CircumstancesSeries • 1991BergeracSeries • 2025Bel AmiMovie • 2012