Jon Glover is a British

United Kingdom

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 actor. He has appeared in various television programmes including Play School, Survivors

Survivors

Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977...

, the Management consultant in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)

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, Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

, Bodger and Badger

Bodger and Badger

Bodger and Badger is a BBC children's comedy programme which was first broadcast in 1989. It starred Andy Cunningham as Simon Bodger, who had a badly behaved companion, a talking badger with a love for mashed potatoes.- Plot :...

and Peak Practice

Peak Practice

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time...

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He provided the voices of several characters in the Animals of Farthing Wood animated series, and is also known for voice-acting for Noah's Island

Noah's Island

Noah's Island was an animated TV serial made by the creators of The Animals of Farthing Wood and commissioned by the European Broadcasting Union. It was directed by Philippe Leclerc and Alan Simpson and written by Elphin Lloyd-Jones and John M. Mills. Each episode, of which there were 39, ran for...

, Spitting Image

Spitting Image

Spitting Image is a British satirical puppet show that aired on the ITV network from 1984 to 1996. It was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Television. The series was nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards, winning one for editing in 1989....

and the character King Trode in the English language

English language

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 version of the PlayStation 2

PlayStation 2

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 game Dragon Quest VIII

Dragon Quest VIII

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. He often appears in radio plays for Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

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. He was a regular on the Radio 4 satirical programme Week Ending

Week Ending

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during the 1980s. He played the upper crust

Upper crust

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 English character Mr Cholmondley-Warner in spoof 1940s government documentaries in Harry Enfield's Television Programme

Harry Enfield's Television Programme

Harry Enfield's Television Programme was a British sketch show starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse...

with excessive Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation

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He also did voices on other animated programmes such as Little Ghosts

Little Ghosts

Little Ghosts are a UK indie rock band formed late 2008. The band consists of members Johnny Ghosts, Dan Chavalier, Bish Bishop and Aaron Plows. Johnny Ghosts is the catalyst of the band as well as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist. Johnny writes a large percentage of the songs and plays a major...

, The Adventures of Paddington Bear

The Adventures of Paddington Bear

The Adventures of Paddington Bear was a Canadian/French animated childrens television series. It was based on the book Paddington Bear by Michael Bond and written by Bruce Robb. It was produced by Cinar and Protecrea. The show had 117 episodes....

, Mr. Bean (2002), Ludwig

Ludwig

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, Metalheads, The Baskervilles

The Baskervilles

The Baskervilles is an animated children's TV show about a British family living in the most twisted theme park in the world. The show was originally created by series co-director Nick Martinelli and series co-writer Alastair Swinnerton, and eventually distributed and co-financed by CINAR and...

, Zombie Hotel

Zombie Hotel

Zombie Hotel is an animated children's program about a hotel run by zombies, produced by French production company Alphanim and shown internationally. The main characters are Fungus and Maggot, two child zombies who pretend to be human to get into their local school, and their family and boarders...

and Dennis the Menace.

Voices for Spitting Image included the Duke of Edinburgh

Duke of Edinburgh

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, weather forecaster Ian McCaskill

Ian McCaskill

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, Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg FRSL FRTS FBA, FRS FRSA is an English broadcaster and author best known for his work with the BBC and for presenting the The South Bank Show...

, Oliver Reed

Oliver Reed

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, South African State President P. W. Botha and snooker player Steve Davis

Steve Davis

Steve Davis, OBE is an English professional snooker player. He has won more professional titles in the sport than any other player, including six World Championships during the 1980s, when he was the world number one for seven years and became the sport's first millionaire...

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His theatre work includs playing Sapiens in a Discovering Lost Musicals concert staging of By Jupiter

By Jupiter

By Jupiter is a musical with a book by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers, music by Rodgers, and lyrics by Hart. The musical is based on the play The Warrior's Husband by Julian F. Thompson, set in the land of the Amazons...

 at Barbican Cinema 1 in 1992.

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