Glynn Edwards

Glynn Edwards

Born: February 2, 1931
Died: May 23, 2018
in Penang, Malaysia
Glynn Edwards was a British television and film actor, probably best known for his role as the barman in the ITV comedy-drama Minder. His film credits included Zulu, The Ipcress File, Get Carter, Burke and Hare, Shaft in Africa, and Under Milk Wood. His first wife was the George and Mildred star Yootha Joyce.

Movies for Glynn Edwards...

The Seventh Sign
Title: The Seventh Sign
Character: Newscaster
Released: April 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse by bloodying rivers, egging on plagues and following scripture word for word.
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Red Monarch
Title: Red Monarch
Character: Vlasek
Released: June 16, 1983
Type: Movie
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
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Title: Jack Of Diamonds
Released: June 3, 1983
Type: TV
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The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
Title: The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something
Character: Policeman
Released: November 4, 1980
Type: Movie
Frank, a young lad from Sheffield, leaves home to seek his fortune in London; he finds the big city not all what he had expected
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Rising Damp
Title: Rising Damp
Character: Cooper
Released: May 3, 1980
Type: Movie
Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medical student, making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, Miss Jones, flirts with Philip rather than him, despite his pitiful attempts at seduction.
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Title: The Enigma Files
Released: April 15, 1980
Type: TV
The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for one series of fifteen episodes in 1980.
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Title: Minder
Character: Dave
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair
Title: Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair
Character: Chief Inspector Evans
Released: June 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Professional astrologer and lothario David Galaxy (Alan Lake, aka Mr Diana Dors), finds himself entangled with the Law and must be able to provide an alibi to clear himself from an incident that involved robbery and murder five years previously.
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The Playbirds
Title: The Playbirds
Character: Chief Superintendent Holbourne
Released: July 6, 1978
Type: Movie
In order to unmask a pathological killer who is targeting the beautiful centrefolds of Playbirds magazine, a sexy policewoman Lucy Sheridan puts her life and reputation on the line by sleeping with millionaire publisher Harry Dougan. The Chief Superintendant and Police Commissioner are keeping a close eye on her, but time is running out fast.
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Title: The Professionals
Character: Alfred Cole
Released: December 30, 1977
Type: TV
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
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Title: Target
Released: September 9, 1977
Type: TV
A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.
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The Stick Up
Title: The Stick Up
Character: Roadblock Policeman
Released: April 10, 1977
Type: Movie
Duke Turnbeau (David Soul) has come to England, in the 1930s, as a way to improve his fortunes. For some reason, he believes that his larcenous ways will bring him prosperity in the country which at one time or another has had rulership over a large portion of the globe. While there, he meets Rosie McCratchit (Pamela McMyler), a lovely Irish gal who could do with some improvement in her fortunes as well. Together, they have a series of legal, quasi-legal and definitely illegal adventures, including Duke's cow-roping and Rosie's response to the mud-wrestling challenge of the Amazon Lady, as well as an attempted armored-car robbery.
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11 Harrowhouse
Title: 11 Harrowhouse
Character: First Guard
Released: September 26, 1974
Type: Movie
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse.
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Title: Man About the House
Released: August 15, 1973
Type: TV
Sitcom exploring the trials and tribulations created by one man and two women flat-sharing in the 70s.
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Shaft in Africa
Title: Shaft in Africa
Character: Vanden
Released: June 14, 1973
Type: Movie
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
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A Place to Die
Title: A Place to Die
Character: Lob
Released: May 26, 1973
Type: Movie
Doctor Bruce Nelson takes over the medical practice of a village general-practitioner. Upon arriving in their new home, the doctor and his wife, Tessa, receive a very warm welcome from all the villagers. Tessa is at first flattered by the villagers' constant fawning and gifts, but soon becomes wary of their strange ways, and begins to suspect there is something evil in the village.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Lob
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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Title: Seven of One
Released: March 25, 1973
Type: TV
Seven of One was a British comedy series that aired on BBC2 in 1973. Starring Ronnie Barker, 7 of One is a series of seven separate comedies that would serve as possible pilots for sitcoms. Originally it was to be called Six of One, which Barker planned to follow up with another series called Half Dozen of the Other. This was a BBC version of a similar showcase for LWT called Six Dates with Barker created in 1971.
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Burke & Hare
Title: Burke & Hare
Character: Hare
Released: February 3, 1972
Type: Movie
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
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Under Milk Wood
Title: Under Milk Wood
Character: Mr Cherry Owen
Released: January 27, 1972
Type: Movie
The delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" in which we meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the 'eyes' of Blind Captain Cat.
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All Coppers Are...
Title: All Coppers Are...
Character: Jock
Released: January 24, 1972
Type: Movie
A young policeman and a small-time crook are both involved with the same girl.
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Title: The Persuaders!
Character: Boris
Released: September 17, 1971
Type: TV
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
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Get Carter
Title: Get Carter
Character: Albert Swift
Released: February 3, 1971
Type: Movie
Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.
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Fragment of Fear
Title: Fragment of Fear
Character: CID Superintendent
Released: September 3, 1970
Type: Movie
A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
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Season of the Witch
Title: Season of the Witch
Character: Mr. Bates
Released: January 7, 1970
Type: Movie
A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.
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Title: Manhunt
Character: Emile Boudin
Released: January 2, 1970
Type: TV
Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide.
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Title: The Main Chance
Character: Walter Clegg
Released: June 18, 1969
Type: TV
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
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Title: The Main Chance
Character: Len Smith
Released: June 18, 1969
Type: TV
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
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Title: Please Sir!
Released: November 8, 1968
Type: TV
Please Sir! is a London Weekend Television produced situation comedy, created by writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and featured the actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Erik Chitty and Richard Davies. The series ran for 55 episodes between 1968 and 1972.
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Title: Please Sir!
Character: Mr. Dix
Released: November 8, 1968
Type: TV
Please Sir! is a London Weekend Television produced situation comedy, created by writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and featured the actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Erik Chitty and Richard Davies. The series ran for 55 episodes between 1968 and 1972.
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The Bofors Gun
Title: The Bofors Gun
Character: Sergeant Major West
Released: April 4, 1968
Type: Movie
A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
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The Blood Beast Terror
Title: The Blood Beast Terror
Character: Sgt. Allan
Released: February 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A Scotland Yard Detective must investigate a series of murders perpetrated by a giant blood-sucking moth that can take human form.
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Dial M for Murder
Title: Dial M for Murder
Character: Sgt. Edwards
Released: November 15, 1967
Type: Movie
A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.
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Robbery
Title: Robbery
Character: Squad Chief
Released: August 1, 1967
Type: Movie
In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.
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Title: Callan
Released: July 8, 1967
Type: TV
Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. The series starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, a reluctant professional killer for a shadowy branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section'.
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Dead Silence
Title: Dead Silence
Character: Det. Sgt. Bob Bedford
Released: September 10, 1966
Type: Movie
A Chief Inspector of Police is behaving rather erratically during a murder investigation.
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Three Clear Sundays
Title: Three Clear Sundays
Character: Prisoner Officer Johnson
Released: April 7, 1965
Type: Movie
Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.
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The Ipcress File
Title: The Ipcress File
Character: Police Station Sergeant
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.
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Title: Public Eye
Character: Alfred Bain
Released: January 23, 1965
Type: TV
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
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Title: Detective
Released: March 30, 1964
Type: TV
A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.
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Zulu
Title: Zulu
Character: Cpl. Allen
Released: January 22, 1964
Type: Movie
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
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Smokescreen
Title: Smokescreen
Character: Inspector Wright
Released: January 2, 1964
Type: Movie
A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.
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The Hi-Jackers
Title: The Hi-Jackers
Character: Bluey
Released: December 13, 1963
Type: Movie
A self-employed lorry driver is determined to find the criminals responsible for hijacking him.
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Title: The Sentimental Agent
Released: September 28, 1963
Type: TV
The Sentimental Agent is a television drama series spin-off from Man of the World. It was produced in the United Kingdom in 1963 by Associated Television and distributed by ITC Entertainment. It stars Carlos Thompson as Argentinian Carlos Varela, a successful import-export agent based in London. The series ran for 13 one-hour monochrome episodes. Some of the episodes were edited into a 1962 feature film Our Man in the Caribbean.
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Albert Stokes
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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Sparrows Can't Sing
Title: Sparrows Can't Sing
Character: Charlie's Friend
Released: March 26, 1963
Type: Movie
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.
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A Prize of Arms
Title: A Prize of Arms
Character: Breakdown Truck Crewman
Released: December 11, 1962
Type: Movie
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Leander
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Martin Armstrong
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Will Martin
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Martin
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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Title: The Avengers
Character: Blackie
Released: January 7, 1961
Type: TV
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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The Heart Within
Title: The Heart Within
Character: 1st Constable
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
This is one of David Hemming's earliest performances in the cinema: the star actor was just 15 when he portrayed a teenager who determines to clear a black friend on the run who is accused of murder.