John Glover

Known for: Acting
Born: August 7, 1944, Salisbury, Maryland, USA
Movies: 73

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.0

Shazam!

2019

4.4

Batman & Robin

1997

7.7

Annie Hall

1977

6.5

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

1990

6.0

RoboCop 2

1990

6.8

Payback

1999

7.2

In the Mouth of Madness

1995

6.8

Scrooged

1988

7.1

Reality

2015

6.8

The Home

2025

Filmography

2026	Woodstockers	Jupiter
2025	A Natural Selection	Donald Spar
2025	The Home	Lou
2025	The Motorcycle Man	Pat
2022	Fatal Influence: Like. Follow. Survive.	The Grand Zel
2019	Shazam!	Mr. Sivana
2018	Every Act of Life	Self
2017	The Lost Wife of Robert Durst	Seymour Durst
2016	We Go On	Dr. Ellison
2015	You Bury Your Own	Detective Gillespie
2015	Reality	Zog
2013	Sweet Talk	Professor / Count
2013	Sanitarium	Gustav
2005	The Civilization of Maxwell Bright	Ogden
2004	Tricks	Ralph
2002	Smallville	Lionel Luthor
2001	On Edge	Yuri Moskvin
1999	Payback	Phil
1998	The Tempest	Anthony Prosper
1998	Dead Broke	Sam
1997	Dead by Midnight	Dr. Armand Drake / Ben Hamill
1997	Medusa's Child	Rogers Henry
1997	The Broken Giant	Bennett Hale
1997	Batman & Robin	Dr. Jason Woodrue
1997	Love! Valour! Compassion!	John & James Jeckyll
1995	Automatic	Goddard Marx
1995	In the Mouth of Madness	Saperstein
1995	Night of the Running Man	Derek Mills
1994	Schemes	Victor Kraft
1994	Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker	Maj. Asa Bird Gardiner
1993	Ed and His Dead Mother	A.J. Pattle
1992	Majority Rule	Bradley Mackin
1992	Grass Roots	Harold Perkerson / Jason Ross
1992	Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel	Loco Garrison
1991	Dead on the Money	Russell Blake
1991	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	Billy Korn
1990	El Diablo	The Preacher
1990	RoboCop 2	Magnavolt Salesman
1990	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Daniel Clamp
1990	An Enemy of the People	Dr. Thomas Stockman
1990	Home	Eric Hochmann
1989	Meet the Hollowheads	Henry Hollowhead
1989	Breaking Point	Dr. Gerber
1989	Traveling Man	Chick Beeler
1988	Scrooged	Bryce Cummings
1988	The Chocolate War	Brother Leon
1988	David	Charles Rothenberg
1988	Rocket Gibraltar	Rolo Rockwell
1988	Hot Paint	Algernon
1988	Masquerade	Tony Gateworth
1988	Moving Target	Dobbins
1987	Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
1986	Willy/Milly	Fred Niceman
1986	52 Pick-Up	Alan Raimy
1986	Apology	Philip
1985	White Nights	Wynn Scott
1985	Don't Touch	Mr. Stewart
1985	A Killing Affair	Sheb Sheppard
1985	An Early Frost	Victor DiMato
1984	A Flash of Green	Ross Halley
1984	Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter	Pierre Lafitte
1984	The Evil That Men Do	Paul Briggs, U.S. Embassy
1983	The Face of Rage
1982	A Little Sex	Walter
1981	The Incredible Shrinking Woman	Tom Keller
1980	Melvin and Howard	2nd Attorney (Freese)
1980	The Mountain Men	Nathan Wyeth
1980	The American Success Company	Ernst
1979	Last Embrace	Richard Peabody
1978	Somebody Killed Her Husband	Herbert Little
1977	Julia	Sammy
1977	Annie Hall	Actor Boy Friend
1973	Shamus	Johnnie Brosten

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