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Glenister has appeared in the television drama series Clocking Off (playing the factory boss), Island at War (playing Baron Heinrich von Rheingarten), State of Play, Hornblower, Sharpe and Vincent, and the film Calendar Girls (playing the photographer). He is probably best known for his role as DCI Gene Hunt in Life On Mars, alongside John Simm's Sam Tyler. Glenister also worked with Simm on State of Play and Clocking Off.

He will reprise the role of Gene Hunt in the spin-off series Ashes To Ashes, currently in pre-production, and will once more work with Simm on the forthcoming 1980s-set crime film Tuesday.

He is currently filming both Tuesday and The Cranford Chronicles, the latter a costume drama for the BBC. (wikipedia.org)