Personal Info
Birth date
1931-02-02 (94 Years)
Day of death
2018-05-23
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Penang, Malaysia
Also known as
Glyn Edwards
John Glyn Edwards
Glynn Edwards
Biography
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.
Filmography
Thirty-Minute Theatre
3.8
Overview:
An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.No Hiding Place
3.7
Overview:
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.The Avengers
7.73
Overview:
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).Dixon of Dock Green
5.3
Overview:
Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.The Saint
7.3
Overview:
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.The Wednesday Play
4.5
Overview:
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.Sir Francis Drake
4.5
Overview:
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.The Main Chance
7.7
Overview:
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.Public Eye
7.8
Overview:
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."Minder
6.833
Overview:
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.The Persuaders!
7.6
Overview:
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.Please Sir!
6.75
Overview:
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.The Professionals
7.43
Overview:
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.Callan
7
Overview:
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'.Manhunt
6.5
Overview:
Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide.The Human Jungle
8.2
Overview:
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.Detective
NYR
Overview:
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.King of the River
NYR
Overview:
A completely lost BBC1 drama series centred on the King family, who love, live, fight and work around a harbour in the Thames estuary.Thriller
6.6
Overview:
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.Target
6.5
Overview:
A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.The Sentimental Agent
6
Overview:
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.Man About the House
7.1
Overview:
Sitcom exploring the trials and tribulations created by one man and two women flat-sharing in the 70s.Seven of One
7
Overview:
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.The Enigma Files
5.5
Overview:
The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for a single series of fifteen episodes in 1980. Detective Chief Inspector Nick Lewis is tasked with investigating unsolved crimes.The Seventh Sign
6
Overview:
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.Zulu
7.385
Overview:
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.The Ipcress File
6.814
Overview:
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.Get Carter
6.995
Overview:
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.Acting
1988The Seventh Sign as Newscaster
1983Red Monarch as Vlasek
1983Jack Of Diamonds (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1982Legacy of Murder (1 Episode) as Thug
1980The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something as Policeman
1980Rising Damp as Cooper
1980The Enigma Files (1 Episode) as Chief Supt. Evans
1979Minder (107 Episodes) as Dave
1979Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair as Chief Inspector Evans
1978The Playbirds as Chief Superintendent Holbourne
1977The Professionals (1 Episode) as Alfred Cole
1977Target (1 Episode) as Det. Chief Supt. Dyer
1977The Stick Up as Roadblock Policeman
197411 Harrowhouse as First Guard
1973Man About the House (1 Episode) as Unknown
1973Shaft in Africa as Vanden
1973A Place to Die as Lob
1973Thriller (1 Episode) as Lob
1973Seven of One (1 Episode) as Unknown
1972Burke & Hare as Hare
1972Under Milk Wood as Mr Cherry Owen
1972All Coppers Are... as Jock
1971The Persuaders! (1 Episode) as Boris
1971Get Carter as Albert Swift
1970Fragment of Fear as CID Superintendent
1970Season of the Witch as Mr. Bates
1970Manhunt (1 Episode) as Emile Boudin
1969The Main Chance (1, 19 Episode) as Len Smith, Walter Clegg
1968Please Sir! (0, 2 Episode) as Unknown, Mr. Dix
1968The Bofors Gun as Sergeant Major West
1968The Blood Beast Terror as Sgt. Allan
1967Dial M for Murder as Sgt. Edwards
1967Robbery as Squad Chief
1967Callan (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966Dead Silence as Det. Sgt. Bob Bedford
1966King of the River (1 Episode) as Jack Elliot
1965Thirty-Minute Theatre (1 Episode) as George Blackwell
1965Three Clear Sundays as Prisoner Officer Johnson
1965The Ipcress File as Police Station Sergeant
1965Public Eye (1 Episode) as Alfred Bain
1964The Wednesday Play (1 Episode) as Bernie the Tweedler
1964Detective (1 Episode) as Unknown
1964Zulu as Cpl. Allen
1964Smokescreen as Inspector Wright
1963The Hi-Jackers as Bluey
1963The Sentimental Agent (1 Episode) as Unknown
1963The Human Jungle (1 Episode) as Albert Stokes
1963Sparrows Can't Sing as Charlie's Friend
1962A Prize of Arms as Breakdown Truck Crewman
1962The Saint (2 Episodes) as Leander
1961Sir Francis Drake (1, 1, 2 Episode) as Will Martin, Martin Armstrong, Martin
1961The Avengers (1 Episode) as Blackie
1959No Hiding Place (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1957The Heart Within as 1st Constable
1955Dixon of Dock Green (1, 1 Episode) as David Caley, Det. Sgt. Frank Harvey