Julian Glover plays the Grail-seeking businessman Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Released in 1989, the film presents Donovan as an American industrialist who finances the search for the Holy Grail. He recruits Indiana Jones after learning that Jones’s father, Henry Jones Sr., has devoted years to Grail research. Donovan’s ambition ultimately leads him to make a fatal choice at the temple.
Julian Glover was an established British actor whose screen career included roles in theater, television, and major films. His performance gives Donovan a polished, authoritative manner that contrasts with the Jones family’s more scholarly and personal motivations.
Viewers sometimes confuse Glover with Denholm Elliott, who plays Marcus Brody, or John Hurt, who plays Henry Jones Sr. River Phoenix portrays the young Indiana Jones in the opening sequence, not Donovan.