John Glover
Acting • Born 1944-08-07
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Soursby Glover Jr. (born August 7, 1944) is an American actor, perhaps best known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, including Lionel Luthor on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville.
Filmography
128 credits
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Movie • 1990
Daniel Clamp
Batman & Robin
Movie • 1997
Dr. Jason Woodrue
Payback
Movie • 1999
Phil
Tricks
Movie • 2004
Ralph
A Killing Affair
Movie • 1985
Sheb Sheppard
RoboCop 2
Movie • 1990
Magnavolt Salesman
The American Success Company
Movie • 1980
Ernst
The Chocolate War
Movie • 1988
Brother Leon
Melvin and Howard
Movie • 1980
2nd Attorney (Freese)
Scrooged
Movie • 1988
Bryce Cummings
Julia
Movie • 1977
Sammy
The Face of Rage
Movie • 1983
White Nights
Movie • 1985
Wynn Scott
Last Embrace
Movie • 1979
Richard Peabody
Automatic
Movie • 1995
Goddard Marx
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Movie • 1997
John & James Jeckyll
Willy/Milly
Movie • 1986
Fred Niceman
Meet the Hollowheads
Movie • 1989
Henry Hollowhead
52 Pick-Up
Movie • 1986
Alan Raimy
Night of the Running Man
Movie • 1995
Derek Mills
The Evil That Men Do
Movie • 1984
Paul Briggs, U.S. Embassy
David
Movie • 1988
Charles Rothenberg
The Mountain Men
Movie • 1980
Nathan Wyeth
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
Movie • 1987
Rocket Gibraltar
Movie • 1988
Rolo Rockwell
A Flash of Green
Movie • 1984
Ross Halley
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
Movie • 1984
Pierre Lafitte
Somebody Killed Her Husband
Movie • 1978
Herbert Little
Apology
Movie • 1986
Philip
Smallville
Movie • 2002
Lionel Luthor
The Tempest
Movie • 1998
Anthony Prosper
Sanitarium
Movie • 2013
Gustav
Sweet Talk
Movie • 2013
Professor / Count
Reality
Movie • 2015
Zog
Moving Target
Movie • 1988
Dobbins
In the Mouth of Madness
Movie • 1995
Saperstein
Dead on the Money
Movie • 1991
Russell Blake
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
Movie • 2005
Ogden
Majority Rule
Movie • 1992
Bradley Mackin
Fatal Influence: Like. Follow. Survive.
Movie • 2022
The Grand Zel
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
Movie • 1992
Loco Garrison
Grass Roots
Movie • 1992
Harold Perkerson / Jason Ross
Masquerade
Movie • 1988
Tony Gateworth
Dead by Midnight
Movie • 1997
Dr. Armand Drake / Ben Hamill
Hot Paint
Movie • 1988
Algernon
Annie Hall
Movie • 1977
Actor Boy Friend
Medusa's Child
Movie • 1997
Rogers Henry
Don't Touch
Movie • 1985
Mr. Stewart
A Little Sex
Movie • 1982
Walter
You Bury Your Own
Movie • 2015
Detective Gillespie
We Go On
Movie • 2016
Dr. Ellison
Shamus
Movie • 1973
Johnnie Brosten
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Movie • 1994
Maj. Asa Bird Gardiner
Schemes
Movie • 1994
Victor Kraft
El Diablo
Movie • 1990
The Preacher
The Lost Wife of Robert Durst
Movie • 2017
Seymour Durst
Ed and His Dead Mother
Movie • 1993
A.J. Pattle
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Movie • 1981
Tom Keller
Dead Broke
Movie • 1998
Sam
Traveling Man
Movie • 1989
Chick Beeler
Every Act of Life
Movie • 2018
Self
Breaking Point
Movie • 1989
Dr. Gerber
Shazam!
Movie • 2019
Mr. Sivana
The Broken Giant
Movie • 1997
Bennett Hale
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Movie • 1991
Billy Korn
An Early Frost
Movie • 1985
Victor DiMato
The Home
Movie • 2025
Lou
The Motorcycle Man
Movie • 2025
Pat
A Natural Selection
Movie • 2025
Donald Spar
On Edge
Movie • 2001
Yuri Moskvin
An Enemy of the People
Movie • 1990
Dr. Thomas Stockman
Woodstockers
Movie • 2026
Jupiter
Home
Movie • 1990
Eric Hochmann
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Dr. Paul Kohler
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Franz Mueller
American Dreamer
TV • 1990
The Legend of Prince Valiant
TV • 1991
Numb3rs
TV • 2005
Simon Kraft
Brothers and Sisters
TV • 2006
Henry Mittner
Heroes
TV • 2006
Samson Gray
Pinky and the Brain
TV • 1995
Caroline in the City
TV • 1995
Hilton Traynor
Miami Vice
TV • 1984
Steve Duddy
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Undertaker
Frasier
TV • 1993
Ned Miller
Kojak
TV • 1973
Billy Jo
Get Real
TV • 1999
Fate
Superman: The Animated Series
TV • 1996
The Riddler (voice)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Declan Gage
Smallville
TV • 2001
Lionel Luthor
The New Batman Adventures
TV • 1997
The Riddler (voice)
Medium
TV • 2005
Carson Churchill
The Ray Bradbury Theater
TV • 1985
Homicide: Life on the Street
TV • 1993
Nelson Broyles
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Max Demming
Haunted History
TV • 1998
Lime Street
TV • 1985
The Hitchhiker
TV • 1983
Miles Duchet
South Beach
TV • 1993
Roberts
The Blacklist
TV • 2013
Dr. Bruce Sanders
Fear the Walking Dead
TV • 2015
Teddy Maddox
Lucifer
TV • 2016
Peter Peterson
ABC Afterschool Special
TV • 1972
Mr. Stewart
The Andros Targets
TV • 1977
Wiggs
Perception
TV • 2012
The Devil
Batman: The Animated Series
TV • 1992
The Riddler (voice)
Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water
TV • 2022
Teddy Maddox
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Andrew Durbin
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
TV • 1992
Loco Garrison
And Just Like That…
TV • 2021
Elliot
The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Jared Andrews
Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
TV • 1987
Richard Behrens
Rage of Angels
TV • 1983
Scanlon / Jackson
Twist of Fate
TV • 1989
Max Brodsky
Marvel's Agent Carter
TV • 2015
SSR Informant
Dinosaurs
TV • 1991
Lucius (voice)
Dinosaurs
TV • 1991
Prosecutor (voice)
Dinosaurs
TV • 1991
Babysitter (voice)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TV • 1993
Verad
Tales of the City
TV • 2019
Bill Schwartz
Brimstone
TV • 1998
The Devil
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
TV • 1987
Mike Sayles
Evil
TV • 2019
Byron Duke
The Good Fight
TV • 2017
Jared Andrews
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
Alien Ambassador (segment "A Small Talent for War")
Remember WENN
TV • 1996
Adrian Carr
Snoops
TV • 1999
Gary Hyndman
Arli$$
TV • 1996
Bobby Salmon