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