Philip Glenister stands at a height of 6 feet (1.83 m) tall.
Philip Haywood Glenister is an English actor. He is best known for his role as DCI Gene Hunt in the BBC series Life on Mars and its sequel Ashes to Ashes. He also played DCI William Bell in State of Play and Reverend Anderson in Outcast.
In the early 1990s, Glenister appeared in various TV series including Minder, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Heartbeat, The Chief, Dressing for Breakfast, and Silent Witness.
From 1998 to 1999, Glenister co-starred as a mini-cab driver who aspires to be a rock star in the series Roger Roger. He also played factory boss Mack Mackintosh in the first three series of Clocking Off from 2000 to 2002. In 2001, he appeared in two of the Hornblower TV films as Horatio’s antagonist Gunner Hobbs.
In April 2006, Glenister read the Bedtime Story for the BBC’s children’s channel, CBeebies. He returned to the slot in February/March 2007.
Glenister starred in the final episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, starring David Suchet, entitled “Curtain” in 2013. He also played the role of Mr. Trevor Gunn, a lothario PE teacher in David Walliams’ BBC One comedy series Big School.
In 2017, Glenister starred in an episode of Inside No. 9 called The Bill. He also worked with his Clocking Off co-star, Lesley Sharp in Living the Dream. This show was about a British family that moved to America. It ran for 2 series before being canceled in 2019.
Glenister appeared in Julian Fellowes’ 2020 television adaptation Belgravia, based on Fellowes’ novel of the same name. It aired on ITV in the UK and Epix in the USA.