John Glover

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

The Blacklist

Smallville

Lucifer

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The Good Wife

Frasier

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote

All Movies (73)

• Woodstockers2026 · as Jupiter
• A Natural Selection2025 · as Donald Spar
• The Home2025 · as Lou
• The Motorcycle Man2025 · as Pat
• Fatal Influence: Like. Follow. Survive.2022 · as The Grand Zel
• Shazam!2019 · as Mr. Sivana
• Every Act of Life2018 · as Self
• The Lost Wife of Robert Durst2017 · as Seymour Durst
• We Go On2016 · as Dr. Ellison
• You Bury Your Own2015 · as Detective Gillespie
• Reality2015 · as Zog
• Sweet Talk2013 · as Professor / Count
• Sanitarium2013 · as Gustav
• The Civilization of Maxwell Bright2005 · as Ogden
• Tricks2004 · as Ralph
• Smallville2002 · as Lionel Luthor
• On Edge2001 · as Yuri Moskvin
• Payback1999 · as Phil
• The Tempest1998 · as Anthony Prosper
• Dead Broke1998 · as Sam
• Dead by Midnight1997 · as Dr. Armand Drake / Ben Hamill
• Medusa's Child1997 · as Rogers Henry
• The Broken Giant1997 · as Bennett Hale
• Batman & Robin1997 · as Dr. Jason Woodrue
• Love! Valour! Compassion!1997 · as John & James Jeckyll
• Automatic1995 · as Goddard Marx
• In the Mouth of Madness1995 · as Saperstein
• Night of the Running Man1995 · as Derek Mills
• Schemes1994 · as Victor Kraft
• Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker1994 · as Maj. Asa Bird Gardiner
• Ed and His Dead Mother1993 · as A.J. Pattle
• Majority Rule1992 · as Bradley Mackin
• Grass Roots1992 · as Harold Perkerson / Jason Ross
• Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel1992 · as Loco Garrison
• Dead on the Money1991 · as Russell Blake
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1991 · as Billy Korn
• El Diablo1990 · as The Preacher
• RoboCop 21990 · as Magnavolt Salesman
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch1990 · as Daniel Clamp
• An Enemy of the People1990 · as Dr. Thomas Stockman
• Home1990 · as Eric Hochmann
• Meet the Hollowheads1989 · as Henry Hollowhead
• Breaking Point1989 · as Dr. Gerber
• Traveling Man1989 · as Chick Beeler
• Scrooged1988 · as Bryce Cummings
• The Chocolate War1988 · as Brother Leon
• David1988 · as Charles Rothenberg
• Rocket Gibraltar1988 · as Rolo Rockwell
• Hot Paint1988 · as Algernon
• Masquerade1988 · as Tony Gateworth
• Moving Target1988 · as Dobbins
• Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim1987
• Willy/Milly1986 · as Fred Niceman
• 52 Pick-Up1986 · as Alan Raimy
• Apology1986 · as Philip
• White Nights1985 · as Wynn Scott
• Don't Touch1985 · as Mr. Stewart
• A Killing Affair1985 · as Sheb Sheppard
• An Early Frost1985 · as Victor DiMato
• A Flash of Green1984 · as Ross Halley
• Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter1984 · as Pierre Lafitte
• The Evil That Men Do1984 · as Paul Briggs, U.S. Embassy
• The Face of Rage1983
• A Little Sex1982 · as Walter
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman1981 · as Tom Keller
• Melvin and Howard1980 · as 2nd Attorney (Freese)
• The Mountain Men1980 · as Nathan Wyeth
• The American Success Company1980 · as Ernst
• Last Embrace1979 · as Richard Peabody
• Somebody Killed Her Husband1978 · as Herbert Little
• Julia1977 · as Sammy
• Annie Hall1977 · as Actor Boy Friend
• Shamus1973 · as Johnnie Brosten

All TV Shows (58)

• Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai2023 · as Rodney (voice)
• Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water2022 · as Teddy Maddox
• And Just Like That…2021 · as Elliot
• Evil2019 · as Byron Duke
• Tales of the City2019 · as Bill Schwartz
• The Good Fight2017 · as Jared Andrews
• Lucifer2016 · as Peter Peterson
• Fear the Walking Dead2015 · as Teddy Maddox
• Marvel's Agent Carter2015 · as SSR Informant
• The Blacklist2013 · as Dr. Bruce Sanders
• Perception2012 · as The Devil
• The Good Wife2009 · as Jared Andrews
• Heroes2006 · as Samson Gray
• Brothers and Sisters2006 · as Henry Mittner
• Numb3rs2005 · as Simon Kraft
• Medium2005 · as Carson Churchill
• Smallville2001 · as Lionel Luthor
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Declan Gage
• Snoops1999 · as Gary Hyndman
• Get Real1999 · as Fate
• Haunted History1998
• Brimstone1998 · as The Devil
• The New Batman Adventures1997 · as The Riddler (voice)
• Superman: The Animated Series1996 · as The Riddler (voice)
• Arli$$1996 · as Bobby Salmon
• Remember WENN1996 · as Adrian Carr
• Caroline in the City1995 · as Hilton Traynor
• Pinky and the Brain1995
• Chicago Hope1994 · as Max Demming
• Frasier1993 · as Ned Miller
• Animaniacs1993 · as Rasputin (voice)
• South Beach1993 · as Roberts
• Homicide: Life on the Street1993 · as Nelson Broyles
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine1993 · as Verad
• Batman: The Animated Series1992 · as The Riddler (voice)
• Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel1992 · as Loco Garrison
• The Legend of Prince Valiant1991
• The Hidden Room1991 · as John Burke
• Dinosaurs1991 · as Lucius (voice)
• Dinosaurs1991 · as Prosecutor (voice)
• Dinosaurs1991 · as Babysitter (voice)
• American Dreamer1990
• Tales from the Crypt1989 · as Undertaker
• Twist of Fate1989 · as Max Brodsky
• The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd1987 · as Mike Sayles
• Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder1987 · as Richard Behrens
• L.A. Law1986 · as Dr. Paul Kohler
• The Twilight Zone1985 · as Alien Ambassador (segment "A Small Talent for War")
• Lime Street1985
• The Ray Bradbury Theater1985
• Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Franz Mueller
• Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Andrew Durbin
• Miami Vice1984 · as Steve Duddy
• The Hitchhiker1983 · as Miles Duchet
• Rage of Angels1983 · as Scanlon / Jackson
• The Andros Targets1977 · as Wiggs
• Kojak1973 · as Billy Jo
• ABC Afterschool Special1972 · as Mr. Stewart