Were huge fans atQuatermass And The Pitat Den Of Geek, and its great to see it reissued.

How did you get involved, and what are your memories of making it?

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I got involved because I was asked to do it.

In those days, casting was up to the director.

You didnt have to go through seven different producers or 17 different people.

Back then, directors just used to ring you up and asked if youd like to do it.

If Im going to play a baddie, I may as well play this one.

And thats how I got into it.

It turned out to be a very entertaining film, and a really pleasant shoot.

We all got on terribly well which doesnt always happen, as you know.

And then there was the supporting cast Peter Copley, Robert Morris.

It was a very good shoot.

Roy behaved himself and was very nice quite strict, but I generally do as Im told.

Its a stylish film on quite a low budget.

Yes, very low budget.

As I said, Baker was a very demanding director.

Hed say, Youve got to be horrible there, or Dont be so cruel here.

You cant just play a baddie, because baddies dont think theyre baddies they do things for a reason.

Theres a reason for everything.

So I played him as a thicko, actually, and one of those people without common sense.

Normally in Hammer films, youre good or bad youre a sucker or you get sucked.

ButQuatermass And The Pitwasnt like that.

It was quite brave of Hammer, at the time, to bring in Baker.

And now, of course, Hammers going again.

Itll be interesting to see what they produce.

I think its high time someone produced a newQuatermassmovie or TV series.

I thinkQuatermass And The Pitcould do with remaking.

They still look good in the original film.

It looked really good in the television series, but not as good as it did in the film.

Our film was better, and I think they could do an even better film now.

Looking back over your career so far, your work ethic has been astounding.

I think youve been in at least one TV show or movie per year since 1963.

Is that about right?

I think it might be even more than that.

Ive been very lucky.

Of course, in the early days, on television, there were so many things you could do.

I dont think another actors done that.

Ive been jolly lucky.

And Ive got a very nice wife!

[Laughs]

One of those franchises was obviouslyStar Wars.What are your memories of working onThe Empire Strikes Back?

How did that compare to your experience onQuatermass?

Star Warsis mostly a technical exercise.

I think theyve lost their way.

I think theyre so technical now, theyve really lost the plot.

But anyway, thats beside the point.

I dont mind playing a cipher, as long as I know who the cipher is.

What I found, going onStar Warsconventions and things, is that hes a very recognisable character.

Working on it, we all just did what we had to do.

Number three wasnt nearly so good.

We had no idea at the time we were in the best of the lot.

We didnt know what a triumph it was going to be.

Its marvellous in a way.

One of my favourite performances of yours is as Walter Donovan inIndiana Jones And The Last Crusade.

That was just such a lovely job to do.

It was just a lovely shoot.

All the supporting actors were so great.

And we got to go abroad we got to go to Spain and things, which was nice.

Some of them got to go to Lebanon, though I didnt.

I came out of a preview of that with my son and my wife.

My son was about 18, and he said, It is damn good, isnt it?

And thats exactly what it is.

So being the baddie in that was great.

But people say, Oh, horrible bloke, wasnt he?

And Id say, what would you do, Ryan, for the secret of eternal life?

What would you do?

Quite a lot, wouldnt you do?

Youd do some things that were a bit naughty.

So that was my justification for Walter Donovan!

[Laughs]

What was that final scene like to do, where you drink from the wrong grail?

It took three days to shoot that.

They did that the other way around.

They pulled the hair up and shot it in reverse, so you see it going down.

They did it frame by frame with me getting older it is what it is.

And after a certain point, I turned into a skeleton but I couldnt do that.

Im not that good an actor!

[Laughs] But it was a very exciting sequence.

Most recently, youve appeared inGame Of Thrones.

Yes, Im still doing that.

Im in the second series.

Is that a character youll keep returning to?

Oh yes, he keeps going.

He keeps plodding along, being an old fucker.

But he isnt really beneath it all hes still strong and virile, but he hides it.

Thats his way of surviving.

There are some interesting developments in the second series.

Its wonderfully done, isnt it?

The thing about the first series, was killing the leading man was such a brave thing to do.

I couldnt believe it when I read the script.

At first I thought Id misread it they cant kill Sean Bean off!

Theyd killed off their leading actor.

A great big leading actor like that.

But theyve caught their audience by the throat, and everybodys watching it.

Theyre really spending money on it.

Not on the actors, though, unfortunately!

Julian Glover, thank you very much.

Quatermass And The Pit is out on Blu-ray on 10th October.

further reading: Game of Thrones Season 8: Everything We Know