John Glover
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
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
Filmography
Woodstockers
2026
as Jupiter
The Home
2025
as Lou
The Motorcycle Man
2025
as Pat
A Natural Selection
2025
as Donald Spar
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
2023
as Rodney (voice)
Fatal Influence: Like. Follow. Survive.
2022
as The Grand Zel
Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water
2022
as Teddy Maddox
And Just Like That…
2021
as Elliot
Shazam!
2019
as Mr. Sivana
Tales of the City
2019
as Bill Schwartz
Evil
2019
as Byron Duke
Every Act of Life
2018
as Self
The Lost Wife of Robert Durst
2017
as Seymour Durst
The Good Fight
2017
as Jared Andrews
We Go On
2016
as Dr. Ellison
Lucifer
2016
as Peter Peterson
Reality
2015
as Zog
You Bury Your Own
2015
as Detective Gillespie
Fear the Walking Dead
2015
as Teddy Maddox
Marvel's Agent Carter
2015
as SSR Informant
Sanitarium
2013
as Gustav
Sweet Talk
2013
as Professor / Count
The Blacklist
2013
as Dr. Bruce Sanders
Perception
2012
as The Devil
The Good Wife
2009
as Jared Andrews
Brothers and Sisters
2006
as Henry Mittner
Heroes
2006
as Samson Gray
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
2005
as Ogden
Numb3rs
2005
as Simon Kraft
Medium
2005
as Carson Churchill
Tricks
2004
as Ralph
Smallville
2002
as Lionel Luthor
On Edge
2001
as Yuri Moskvin
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Declan Gage
Smallville
2001
as Lionel Luthor
Payback
1999
as Phil
Get Real
1999
as Fate
Snoops
1999
as Gary Hyndman
The Tempest
1998
as Anthony Prosper
Dead Broke
1998
as Sam
Haunted History
1998
Brimstone
1998
as The Devil
Batman & Robin
1997
as Dr. Jason Woodrue
Love! Valour! Compassion!
1997
as John & James Jeckyll
Dead by Midnight
1997
as Dr. Armand Drake / Ben Hamill
Medusa's Child
1997
as Rogers Henry
The Broken Giant
1997
as Bennett Hale
The New Batman Adventures
1997
as The Riddler (voice)
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
as The Riddler (voice)
Remember WENN
1996
as Adrian Carr
Arli$$
1996
as Bobby Salmon
Automatic
1995
as Goddard Marx
Night of the Running Man
1995
as Derek Mills
In the Mouth of Madness
1995
as Saperstein
Pinky and the Brain
1995
Caroline in the City
1995
as Hilton Traynor
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
as Maj. Asa Bird Gardiner
Schemes
1994
as Victor Kraft
Chicago Hope
1994
as Max Demming
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
as A.J. Pattle
Frasier
1993
as Ned Miller
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
as Nelson Broyles
South Beach
1993
as Roberts
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
as Verad
Animaniacs
1993
as Rasputin (voice)
Majority Rule
1992
as Bradley Mackin
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
1992
as Loco Garrison
Grass Roots
1992
as Harold Perkerson / Jason Ross
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
as The Riddler (voice)
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
1992
as Loco Garrison
Dead on the Money
1991
as Russell Blake
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991
as Billy Korn
The Legend of Prince Valiant
1991
Dinosaurs
1991
as Lucius (voice)
Dinosaurs
1991
as Prosecutor (voice)
Dinosaurs
1991
as Babysitter (voice)
The Hidden Room
1991
as John Burke
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
as Daniel Clamp
RoboCop 2
1990
as Magnavolt Salesman
El Diablo
1990
as The Preacher
An Enemy of the People
1990
as Dr. Thomas Stockman
Home
1990
as Eric Hochmann
American Dreamer
1990
Meet the Hollowheads
1989
as Henry Hollowhead
Traveling Man
1989
as Chick Beeler
Breaking Point
1989
as Dr. Gerber
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Undertaker
Twist of Fate
1989
as Max Brodsky
The Chocolate War
1988
as Brother Leon
Scrooged
1988
as Bryce Cummings
David
1988
as Charles Rothenberg
Rocket Gibraltar
1988
as Rolo Rockwell
Moving Target
1988
as Dobbins
Masquerade
1988
as Tony Gateworth
Hot Paint
1988
as Algernon
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
1987
Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
1987
as Richard Behrens
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
1987
as Mike Sayles
Willy/Milly
1986
as Fred Niceman
52 Pick-Up
1986
as Alan Raimy
Apology
1986
as Philip
L.A. Law
1986
as Dr. Paul Kohler
A Killing Affair
1985
as Sheb Sheppard
White Nights
1985
as Wynn Scott
Don't Touch
1985
as Mr. Stewart
An Early Frost
1985
as Victor DiMato
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985
Lime Street
1985
The Twilight Zone
1985
as Alien Ambassador (segment "A Small Talent for War")
The Evil That Men Do
1984
as Paul Briggs, U.S. Embassy
A Flash of Green
1984
as Ross Halley
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
1984
as Pierre Lafitte
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Franz Mueller
Miami Vice
1984
as Steve Duddy
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Andrew Durbin
The Face of Rage
1983
The Hitchhiker
1983
as Miles Duchet
Rage of Angels
1983
as Scanlon / Jackson
A Little Sex
1982
as Walter
American Playhouse
1982
as Ross Hailey
American Playhouse
1982
as Dr. Thomas Stockman
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981
as Tom Keller
The American Success Company
1980
as Ernst
Melvin and Howard
1980
as 2nd Attorney (Freese)
The Mountain Men
1980
as Nathan Wyeth
Last Embrace
1979
as Richard Peabody
Somebody Killed Her Husband
1978
as Herbert Little
Julia
1977
as Sammy
Annie Hall
1977
as Actor Boy Friend
The Andros Targets
1977
as Wiggs
Shamus
1973
as Johnnie Brosten
Kojak
1973
as Billy Jo
ABC Afterschool Special
1972
as Mr. Stewart