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