John Glover

Actor Aug 7 (age 81) Salisbury, Maryland, USA 1972–2026 (54 year career)

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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.

Known For

Film

Smallville

Lionel Luthor

Film

Shazam!

Mr. Sivana

Film

Annie Hall

Actor Boy Friend

Film

In the Mouth of Madness

Saperstein

Film

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Daniel Clamp

Film

Payback

Phil

Film

Scrooged

Bryce Cummings

Film

RoboCop 2

Magnavolt Salesman

Filmography

Acting (129)

Movies (75)

Woodstockers

2026

as Jupiter

The Home

2025

as Lou

6.7

The Motorcycle Man

2025

as Pat

A Natural Selection

2025

as Donald Spar

Fatal Influence: Like. Follow. Survive.

as The Grand Zel

Shazam!

as Mr. Sivana

Every Act of Life

as Self

The Lost Wife of Robert Durst

as Seymour Durst

We Go On

as Dr. Ellison

You Bury Your Own

as Detective Gillespie

Reality

as Zog

Sweet Talk

as Professor / Count

Sanitarium

as Gustav

Payback: Straight Up

as Phil

The Civilization of Maxwell Bright

2005

as Ogden

4.1

Tricks

2004

as Ralph

Smallville

as Lionel Luthor

On Edge

as Yuri Moskvin

Payback

as Phil

The Tempest

as Anthony Prosper

Dead Broke

as Sam

Batman & Robin

as Dr. Jason Woodrue

Medusa's Child

as Rogers Henry

Love! Valour! Compassion!

1997

as John & James Jeckyll

6.1

Dead by Midnight

1997

as Dr. Armand Drake / Ben Hamill

3.5

The Broken Giant

1997

as Bennett Hale

1.0

In the Mouth of Madness

as Saperstein

Automatic

as Goddard Marx

Night of the Running Man

as Derek Mills

Schemes

as Victor Kraft

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

1994

as Maj. Asa Bird Gardiner

6.2

Ed and His Dead Mother

as A.J. Pattle

Majority Rule

as Bradley Mackin

Grass Roots

as Harold Perkerson / Jason Ross

Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel

as Loco Garrison

Dead on the Money

as Russell Blake

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1991

as Billy Korn

4.5

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

1990

as Daniel Clamp

6.5

An Enemy of the People

1990

as Dr. Thomas Stockman

RoboCop 2

1990

as Magnavolt Salesman

El Diablo

as The Preacher

Home

as Eric Hochmann

Traveling Man

as Chick Beeler

Meet the Hollowheads

as Henry Hollowhead

Breaking Point

as Dr. Gerber

Scrooged

as Bryce Cummings

Hot Paint

as Algernon

Rocket Gibraltar

as Rolo Rockwell

Masquerade

as Tony Gateworth

Moving Target

as Dobbins

The Chocolate War

as Brother Leon

David

as Charles Rothenberg

6.4

Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim

52 Pick-Up

as Alan Raimy

Willy/Milly

as Fred Niceman

Apology

as Philip

A Killing Affair

as Sheb Sheppard

White Nights

as Wynn Scott

An Early Frost

as Victor DiMato

Don't Touch

as Mr. Stewart

The Evil That Men Do

1984

as Paul Briggs, U.S. Embassy

5.7

A Flash of Green

1984

as Ross Halley

4.7

Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter

as Pierre Lafitte

The Face of Rage

A Little Sex

as Walter

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

1981

as Tom Keller

5.4

The American Success Company

as Ernst

The Mountain Men

as Nathan Wyeth

Melvin and Howard

as 2nd Attorney (Freese)

6.4

Last Embrace

1979

as Richard Peabody

5.4

Somebody Killed Her Husband

as Herbert Little

Annie Hall

as Actor Boy Friend

Julia

as Sammy

Shamus

as Johnnie Brosten

Payback: Straight Up

as Phil

Television (54)

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

2023

as Rodney (voice)

8.2

Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water

as Teddy Maddox

And Just Like That…

as Elliot

Evil

as Byron Duke

Tales of the City

as Bill Schwartz

The Good Fight

as Jared Andrews

Lucifer

as Peter Peterson

Fear the Walking Dead

2015

as Teddy Maddox

7.6

Marvel's Agent Carter

as SSR Informant

The Blacklist

as Dr. Bruce Sanders

Perception

as The Devil

The Good Wife

as Jared Andrews

Brothers and Sisters

as Henry Mittner

Heroes

as Samson Gray

Numb3rs

as Simon Kraft

Medium

as Carson Churchill

Smallville

as Lionel Luthor

Smallville

as Lionel Luthor

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Declan Gage

Get Real

as Fate

Snoops

as Gary Hyndman

Brimstone

as The Devil

Haunted History

The New Batman Adventures

1997

as The Riddler (voice)

8.0

Arli$$

1996

as Bobby Salmon

6.7

Superman: The Animated Series

1996

as The Riddler (voice)

Remember WENN

as Adrian Carr

Caroline in the City

as Hilton Traynor

Pinky and the Brain

Chicago Hope

as Max Demming

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

as Verad

Frasier

as Ned Miller

Homicide: Life on the Street

as Nelson Broyles

South Beach

as Roberts

Batman: The Animated Series

1992

as The Riddler (voice)

8.6

Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel

as Loco Garrison

Dinosaurs

as Lucius (voice)

The Legend of Prince Valiant

American Dreamer

Tales from the Crypt

as Undertaker

Twist of Fate

as Max Brodsky

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

1987

as Mike Sayles

6.0

Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder

as Richard Behrens

L.A. Law

as Dr. Paul Kohler

The Twilight Zone

as Alien Ambassador (segment "A Small Talent for War")

7.8

The Ray Bradbury Theater

Lime Street

Murder, She Wrote

as Franz Mueller

Miami Vice

as Steve Duddy

The Hitchhiker

as Miles Duchet

Rage of Angels

as Scanlon / Jackson

The Andros Targets

as Wiggs

Kojak

as Billy Jo

ABC Afterschool Special

1972

as Mr. Stewart

6.4