1. Brian Glover worked as a teacher and professional wrestler before commencing an acting career which included films, many roles on British television and work on the stage.
20 Facts About Brian Glover
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Brian Glover once said, "You play to your strengths in this game, and my strength is as a bald-headed, rough-looking Yorkshireman".
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Brian Glover was born at the Women's Hospital, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire and he lived in Sheffield until 1937 when his parents moved to Lundwood, near Barnsley.
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Brian Glover's father, Charles Glover, was a wrestler, performing as "the Red Devil".
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Brian Glover adopted that name from a wrestler who did not turn up to a match one night, for whom Glover stood in.
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Brian Glover's wrestling style incorporated a lot of comedy, including the catchphrases "ask 'im, ref" and "'ow about that then".
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Brian Glover taught English and French from 1954 until 1970, some of it at Longcar Central School, Barnsley, where he met Barry Hines, who was teaching there.
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Brian Glover managed to combine this with regular performances as "Leon Arras", whose appearances included bouts on World of Sport, and in Paris, Milan, Zurich and Barcelona.
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Brian Glover's first acting role came playing Mr Sugden, the comically overbearing sports teacher in Ken Loach's film Kes.
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Brian Glover appeared in An American Werewolf in London, The First Great Train Robbery, Jabberwocky, Alien 3, Leon the Pig Farmer and as General Douglas in a Bollywood hit 1942: A Love Story.
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Brian Glover appeared seven times in Play for Today, in three of them as part of a recurring trio of Yorkshiremen: The Fishing Party, Shakespeare or Bust and Three for the Fancy.
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Brian Glover wrote a horror themed episode of Theatre Box called Death Angel, which aired in 1981.
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Brian Glover went on to play Lugg, the endearing rogue manservant to Albert Campion in the series Campion, and the role of a crook, Griffiths, in the Doctor Who story Attack of the Cybermen in 1985.
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Brian Glover played Edouard Dindon in the original London cast of La Cage aux Folles.
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Brian Glover was the voice for the UNO Upholstery TV adverts in 1995 and 1996.
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Brian Glover was married twice, secondly to television producer Tara Prem, the daughter of TV actor Bakhshi Prem, on 2 October 1976.
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Brian Glover had two children, one daughter from his first marriage and one son from his second marriage.
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In September 1996, Brian Glover developed a brain tumour and underwent an operation for it.
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The tumour was removed and it appeared he had made a full recovery but it returned in the summer of 1997 and Brian Glover died in his sleep in a London hospital on 24 July 1997.
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Brian Glover was buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, on 30 July 1997.