John Glover

Acting

Born 07/08/1944
Salisbury, Maryland, USA

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.

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Known For

Woodstockers
2026
A Natural Selection
2025
The Home
2025
The Motorcycle Man
2025
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
2023
Fatal Influence: Like. Follow. Survive.
2022
Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water
2022
And Just Like That…
2021
Evil
2019
Tales of the City
2019
Shazam!
2019
Every Act of Life
2018
The Lost Wife of Robert Durst
2017
The Good Fight
2017
We Go On
2016
Lucifer
2016
You Bury Your Own
2015
Fear the Walking Dead
2015
Reality
2015
Marvel's Agent Carter
2015
The Blacklist
2013
Sweet Talk
2013
Sanitarium
2013
Perception
2012
The Good Wife
2009
Heroes
2006
Brothers and Sisters
2006
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
2005
Numb3rs
2005
Medium
2005
Smallville
2002
Smallville
2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
On Edge
2001
Snoops
1999
Get Real
1999
Payback
1999
The Tempest
1998
Haunted History
1998
Brimstone
1998
Dead Broke
1998
Dead by Midnight
1997
Medusa's Child
1997
The New Batman Adventures
1997
The Broken Giant
1997
Batman & Robin
1997
Love! Valour! Compassion!
1997
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
Arli$$
1996
Remember WENN
1996
Caroline in the City
1995
Pinky and the Brain
1995
Automatic
1995
In the Mouth of Madness
1995
Night of the Running Man
1995
Chicago Hope
1994
Schemes
1994
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
Frasier
1993
Animaniacs
1993
South Beach
1993
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
Majority Rule
1992
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
Grass Roots
1992
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
1992
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
1992
The Legend of Prince Valiant
1991
The Hidden Room
1991
Dead on the Money
1991
Dinosaurs
1991
Dinosaurs
1991
Dinosaurs
1991
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991
American Dreamer
1990
El Diablo
1990
RoboCop 2
1990
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
Meet the Hollowheads
1989
Breaking Point
1989
Traveling Man
1989
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Twist of Fate
1989
Scrooged
1988
The Chocolate War
1988
David
1988
Rocket Gibraltar
1988
Hot Paint
1988
Masquerade
1988
Moving Target
1988
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
1987
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
1987
Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
1987
Willy/Milly
1986
52 Pick-Up
1986
L.A. Law
1986
Apology
1986
White Nights
1985
Don't Touch
1985
A Killing Affair
1985
The Twilight Zone
1985
Lime Street
1985
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985
An Early Frost
1985
A Flash of Green
1984
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Miami Vice
1984
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
1984
The Evil That Men Do
1984
The Hitchhiker
1983
Rage of Angels
1983
A Little Sex
1982
American Playhouse
1982
American Playhouse
1982
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981
Melvin and Howard
1980
The Mountain Men
1980
The American Success Company
1980
Last Embrace
1979
Somebody Killed Her Husband
1978
Julia
1977
Annie Hall
1977
The Andros Targets
1977
Kojak
1973
Shamus
1973
ABC Afterschool Special
1972