John Glover

Acting

The MovieWise Take

Refining cinematic analysis...

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

Lucifer

Peter Peterson

Shazam!

Mr. Sivana

Batman & Robin

Dr. Jason Woodrue

Fear the Walking Dead

Teddy Maddox

Smallville

Lionel Luthor

Annie Hall

Actor Boy Friend

The Blacklist

Dr. Bruce Sanders

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Daniel Clamp

Full Filmography

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

Quick Facts

John Glover

The MovieWise Take

Biography

Known For

Full Filmography

Cinema in your inbox.