John Glover

Known for: Acting

Born: 1944-08-07 (age 81)

From: 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.

Filmography (129)

MOVIE
Woodstockers
2026
as Jupiter
MOVIE
A Natural Selection
2025
as Donald Spar
MOVIE★ 6.9
The Home
2025
as Lou
MOVIE
The Motorcycle Man
2025
as Pat
TV★ 8.4
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
2023
as Rodney (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.5
Fatal Influence: Like. Follow. Survive.
2022
as The Grand Zel
TV★ 6.9
Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water
2022
as Teddy Maddox
TV★ 7.2
And Just Like That…
2021
as Elliot
TV★ 7.8
Evil
2019
as Byron Duke
TV★ 6.8
Tales of the City
2019
as Bill Schwartz
MOVIE★ 7.0
Shazam!
2019
as Mr. Sivana
MOVIE★ 6.4
Every Act of Life
2018
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.8
The Lost Wife of Robert Durst
2017
as Seymour Durst
TV★ 7.5
The Good Fight
2017
as Jared Andrews
MOVIE★ 5.8
We Go On
2016
as Dr. Ellison
TV★ 8.4
Lucifer
2016
as Peter Peterson
MOVIE★ 4.3
You Bury Your Own
2015
as Detective Gillespie
TV★ 7.6
Fear the Walking Dead
2015
as Teddy Maddox
MOVIE★ 7.1
Reality
2015
as Zog
TV★ 7.5
Marvel's Agent Carter
2015
as SSR Informant
TV★ 7.6
The Blacklist
2013
as Dr. Bruce Sanders
MOVIE★ 5.4
Sweet Talk
2013
as Professor / Count
MOVIE★ 4.7
Sanitarium
2013
as Gustav
TV★ 7.2
Perception
2012
as The Devil
TV★ 7.6
The Good Wife
2009
as Jared Andrews
TV★ 7.4
Heroes
2006
as Samson Gray
TV★ 7.1
Brothers and Sisters
2006
as Henry Mittner
MOVIE★ 4.5
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
2005
as Ogden
TV★ 7.0
Numb3rs
2005
as Simon Kraft
TV★ 7.5
Medium
2005
as Carson Churchill
MOVIE★ 10.0
Tricks
2004
as Ralph
MOVIE★ 7.0
Smallville
2002
as Lionel Luthor
TV★ 8.2
Smallville
2001
as Lionel Luthor
TV★ 7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Declan Gage
MOVIE★ 5.2
On Edge
2001
as Yuri Moskvin
TV★ 7.5
Snoops
1999
as Gary Hyndman
TV★ 7.7
Get Real
1999
as Fate
MOVIE★ 6.8
Payback
1999
as Phil
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Tempest
1998
as Anthony Prosper
TV★ 8.5
Haunted History
1998
TV★ 7.5
Brimstone
1998
as The Devil
MOVIE★ 10.0
Dead Broke
1998
as Sam
MOVIE★ 5.0
Dead by Midnight
1997
as Dr. Armand Drake / Ben Hamill
MOVIE★ 5.8
Medusa's Child
1997
as Rogers Henry
TV★ 8.0
The New Batman Adventures
1997
as The Riddler (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.0
The Broken Giant
1997
as Bennett Hale
MOVIE★ 4.4
Batman & Robin
1997
as Dr. Jason Woodrue
MOVIE★ 6.2
Love! Valour! Compassion!
1997
as John & James Jeckyll
TV★ 7.7
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
as The Riddler (voice)
TV★ 6.8
Arli$$
1996
as Bobby Salmon
TV★ 7.8
Remember WENN
1996
as Adrian Carr
TV★ 6.6
Caroline in the City
1995
as Hilton Traynor
TV★ 7.7
Pinky and the Brain
1995
MOVIE★ 4.9
Automatic
1995
as Goddard Marx
MOVIE★ 7.2
In the Mouth of Madness
1995
as Saperstein
MOVIE★ 5.8
Night of the Running Man
1995
as Derek Mills
TV★ 7.2
Chicago Hope
1994
as Max Demming
MOVIE★ 5.0
Schemes
1994
as Victor Kraft
MOVIE★ 6.3
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
as Maj. Asa Bird Gardiner
TV★ 7.7
Frasier
1993
as Ned Miller
TV★ 8.0
Animaniacs
1993
as Rasputin (voice)
TV★ 5.7
South Beach
1993
as Roberts
MOVIE★ 5.5
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
as A.J. Pattle
TV★ 8.1
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
as Nelson Broyles
TV★ 7.9
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
as Verad
MOVIE★ 6.0
Majority Rule
1992
as Bradley Mackin
TV★ 8.6
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
as The Riddler (voice)
MOVIE★ 8.0
Grass Roots
1992
as Harold Perkerson / Jason Ross
MOVIE★ 5.0
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
1992
as Loco Garrison
TV★ 7.0
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
1992
as Loco Garrison
TV★ 6.7
The Legend of Prince Valiant
1991
TV★ 6.0
The Hidden Room
1991
as John Burke
MOVIE★ 5.3
Dead on the Money
1991
as Russell Blake
TV★ 7.8
Dinosaurs
1991
as Lucius (voice)
MOVIE★ 4.9
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991
as Billy Korn
TV★ 5.3
American Dreamer
1990
MOVIE★ 5.6
El Diablo
1990
as The Preacher
MOVIE★ 6.0
RoboCop 2
1990
as Magnavolt Salesman
MOVIE★ 6.5
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
as Daniel Clamp
MOVIE★ 8.0
An Enemy of the People
1990
as Dr. Thomas Stockman
MOVIE★ 7.7
Home
1990
as Eric Hochmann
MOVIE★ 5.9
Meet the Hollowheads
1989
as Henry Hollowhead
MOVIE★ 5.3
Breaking Point
1989
as Dr. Gerber
MOVIE★ 4.0
Traveling Man
1989
as Chick Beeler
TV★ 8.0
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Undertaker
TV★ 6.0
Twist of Fate
1989
as Max Brodsky
MOVIE★ 6.8
Scrooged
1988
as Bryce Cummings
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Chocolate War
1988
as Brother Leon
MOVIE★ 6.9
David
1988
as Charles Rothenberg
MOVIE★ 6.0
Rocket Gibraltar
1988
as Rolo Rockwell
MOVIE★ 8.0
Hot Paint
1988
as Algernon
MOVIE★ 5.7
Masquerade
1988
as Tony Gateworth
MOVIE★ 6.1
Moving Target
1988
as Dobbins
MOVIE★ 8.0
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
1987
TV★ 7.0
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
1987
as Mike Sayles
TV★ 7.7
Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
1987
as Richard Behrens
MOVIE★ 5.4
Willy/Milly
1986
as Fred Niceman
MOVIE★ 6.1
52 Pick-Up
1986
as Alan Raimy
TV★ 7.1
L.A. Law
1986
as Dr. Paul Kohler
MOVIE★ 5.1
Apology
1986
as Philip
MOVIE★ 6.7
White Nights
1985
as Wynn Scott
MOVIE
Don't Touch
1985
as Mr. Stewart
MOVIE★ 8.0
A Killing Affair
1985
as Sheb Sheppard
TV★ 7.7
The Twilight Zone
1985
as Alien Ambassador (segment "A Small Talent for War")
TV★ 6.0
Lime Street
1985
TV★ 6.9
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985
MOVIE★ 5.8
An Early Frost
1985
as Victor DiMato
MOVIE★ 5.1
A Flash of Green
1984
as Ross Halley
TV★ 7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Franz Mueller
TV★ 7.4
Miami Vice
1984
as Steve Duddy
MOVIE★ 4.5
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
1984
as Pierre Lafitte
MOVIE★ 5.8
The Evil That Men Do
1984
as Paul Briggs, U.S. Embassy
TV★ 6.3
The Hitchhiker
1983
as Miles Duchet
MOVIE★ 5.0
The Face of Rage
1983
TV★ 5.9
Rage of Angels
1983
as Scanlon / Jackson
MOVIE★ 3.6
A Little Sex
1982
as Walter
TV★ 6.6
American Playhouse
1982
as Ross Hailey
MOVIE★ 5.4
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981
as Tom Keller
MOVIE★ 6.5
Melvin and Howard
1980
as 2nd Attorney (Freese)
MOVIE★ 5.9
The Mountain Men
1980
as Nathan Wyeth
MOVIE★ 5.2
The American Success Company
1980
as Ernst
MOVIE★ 5.4
Last Embrace
1979
as Richard Peabody
MOVIE★ 5.0
Somebody Killed Her Husband
1978
as Herbert Little
MOVIE★ 6.5
Julia
1977
as Sammy
MOVIE★ 7.7
Annie Hall
1977
as Actor Boy Friend
TV★ 7.0
The Andros Targets
1977
as Wiggs
TV★ 7.2
Kojak
1973
as Billy Jo
MOVIE★ 6.2
Shamus
1973
as Johnnie Brosten
TV★ 6.5
ABC Afterschool Special
1972
as Mr. Stewart