Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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
Complete Filmography

The Home
2025
A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building ...

Fatal Influence: Like. Follow. Survive.
2022
as The Grand Zel
A social-media ambassador assembles a class of rising influencers. To gain followers they enter into a dangerous game of chance with a mysterious shad...

DC Fandome 2021
2021
A global live online event uniting DC Comics creations and adaptations with fans around the globe.

Shazam!
2019
as Mr. Sivana
A boy is given the ability to become an adult superhero in times of need with a single magic word.

Every Act of Life
2018
as Self
The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for gay righ...

The Lost Wife of Robert Durst
2017
as Seymour Durst
Young and wide-eyed, Kathie falls in love with charming yet quirky real estate scion Robert Durst, only to find their marriage turning stranger, darke...

We Go On
2016
as Dr. Ellison
Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom takes out an advert offering $30,000 in reward money to the first person who can show him evidence of an...

You Bury Your Own
2015
as Detective Gillespie
A soldier returns home to New York to solve the mystery behind his younger brother's sudden violent death.

Reality
2015
as Zog
A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.

Sweet Talk
2013
as Professor / Count
A blocked writer and a troubled young woman who meet over a phone-sex line go on a journey together.

Sanitarium
2013
as Gustav
Malcom McDowell, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert Englund star in three separate stories set in an eerie mental asylum.

The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
2005
as Ogden
After a series of bad relationships, a man orders a mail order bride and receives more than he bargained for.
Tricks
2004
as Ralph
Laurel, Jane and Candy. We meet them as children, we know them as prostitutes and we come to understand them as women. The town is Chicago and the gir...

Smallville
2002
as Lionel Luthor
Inside the idyllic community of Smallville, the intertwined destinies of Clark Kent, Lana Lang, and Lex Luthor begin to take shape while an imminent d...

Payback
1999
as Phil
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and lea...

The Tempest
1998
as Anthony Prosper
An adaptation of Shakespeare's classic is set in the Mississippi bayous during the Civil War.

Dead Broke
1998
as Sam
A detective investigates a murder that has taken place outside a debt collection agency in Brooklyn. A motley assortment of suspects includes the empl...

The Broken Giant
1998
as Bennett Hale
When a fragile young woman named Clio (Missy Yager) seeks asylum in a New England church, rural preacher Ezra Caton (Will Arnett) sees her presence as...

Dead by Midnight
1997
as Dr. Armand Drake / Ben Hamill
Just when he's beginning to take his perfect life and marriage for granted, John discovers that he's the result of a failed government experiment to s...

Medusa's Child
1997
as Rogers Henry
Fuming over the departure of his wife Vivian and the cutting of his research funding, crazy nuclear scientist Rogers Henry constructs Medusa, a thermo...

Batman & Robin
1997
as Dr. Jason Woodrue
Batman and Robin deal with relationship issues while preventing Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from attacking Gotham City.

Love! Valour! Compassion!
1997
as John & James Jeckyll
A group of gay friends spend summer weekends together at a lakeside house in upstate New York. As the season progresses and secrets begin to surface, ...

Automatic
1995
as Goddard Marx
Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks....

In the Mouth of Madness
1995
as Saperstein
An insurance investigator begins discovering the impact a horror writer's books has on his fans is more than inspirational.

Night of the Running Man
1995
as Derek Mills
A Las Vegas cab driver finds a million dollars of stolen money in his cab after his fare is murdered. Soon after, a ruthless hitman is in persuit; he ...

Schemes
1994
as Victor Kraft
In this intricate tale of deception, extortion, and murder, a successful architect learns that although beautiful strangers may be dangerous, it is fr...

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
1994
as Maj. Asa Bird Gardiner
The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets

Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
as A.J. Pattle
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.

Majority Rule
1992
as Bradley Mackin
A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in the battle: corruption and the dangerous game of p...

Grass Roots
1992
as Harold Perkerson / Jason Ross
This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Sen...

Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
1992
as Loco Garrison
This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to ...

Dead on the Money
1991
as Russell Blake
An actress is persuaded by a charming man to join him in a scheme of revenge against his cousin.

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991
as Billy Korn
An elderly, bedridden former movie star is "cared for" by her sister, who hates her and keeps her a virtual prisoner in the family mansion.

El Diablo
1990
as The Preacher
When mild-mannered teacher Billy Ray Smith (Anthony Edwards) vows to bring a student's kidnapper to justice, he needs a bit of help. Lacking any cowbo...

RoboCop 2
1990
as Magnavolt Salesman
After a successful deployment of the RoboCop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develop...

Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
as Daniel Clamp
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But...

Meet the Hollowheads
1989
as Henry Hollowhead
The Hollowheads are a strange, futuristic family that live in a Jetsons type world complete with many cool gadgets. Henry is hoping for a promotion at...

Breaking Point
1989
as Dr. Gerber
With D-Day less than 72 hours off, top US intelligence officer Jefferson Pike (Corbin Bernsen), is captured by the enemy. Pike, one of handful of offi...

Traveling Man
1989
as Chick Beeler
A poignant comedy about a middle-aged salesman trying to get his life and career back on track while being pushed and antagonized by an aggressive roo...

Scrooged
1988
as Bryce Cummings
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after fi...

The Chocolate War
1988
as Brother Leon
Jerry, a new student at an elite Catholic prep school, must face the hazing practices handed down by the Vigils, a group of powerful students. When te...

David
1988
as Charles Rothenberg
The true story of David Rothenberg whose disturbed father set him on fire.

Rocket Gibraltar
1988
as Rolo Rockwell
A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect. Howev...

Hot Paint
1988
as Algernon
Two losers rob a rich guy and discover that, among the loot, they've taken a rare painting worth $2.8 million. John Larroquette plays his usual rude, ...

Masquerade
1988
as Tony Gateworth
A recently orphaned heiress meets a young racing yacht captain on Long Island. He shows interest in her and, being heiress to $200,000,000, love may n...

Moving Target
1988
as Dobbins
A teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home empty and his family gone.

Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
1987
Paul Reiser brings his sophisticated observational humor to home video in this rare showcase of his acclaimed talent as both actor and stand-up comedi...

Willy/Milly
1986
as Fred Niceman
Milly is annoyed whenever her mom tells her to behave more appropriate for a girl. She's just not interested in fancy dresses or prom dances. Some day...

52 Pick-Up
1986
as Alan Raimy
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers...

Apology
1986
as Philip
For her upcoming exhibition, "Apology," Lily, a New York conceptual artist, is designing a sound and sculpture installation inspired by the testimony ...

White Nights
1985
as Wynn Scott
After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch an...
Don't Touch
1985
as Mr. Stewart
A teenager babysitting a young girl discovers that she is being molested by a family friend when harrowing memories of her own past molestation by her...

A Killing Affair
1985
as Sheb Sheppard
Peter Weller stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kathy Baker) living in West Virginia takes in the man...

An Early Frost
1985
as Victor DiMato
Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine, father, Nick, and grandmother Bea...

A Flash of Green
1984
as Ross Halley
A reporter at a local Florida newspaper is torn between his friendship with a corrupt real estate developer and his love for an activist opposing the ...
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
1984
as Pierre Lafitte
TV movie biopic depicting the life, career, and family of comedian Ernie Kovacs.

The Evil That Men Do
1984
as Paul Briggs, U.S. Embassy
A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Mahe...
The Face of Rage
1983
Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the made-for-TV The Face of Rage is set in a rehabilitation facility. Here a group of rapists are required to con...

Rage of Angels
1983
as Scanlon / Jackson
Based on Sidney Sheldon's novel. A young assistant district attorney is used by a ruthless attorney to get his client off. She is fired and almost dis...

A Little Sex
1982
as Walter
Michael and Katherine have enjoyed a long relationship together even before they tie the knot. But Michael does not hide the fact he's a womanizer and...

The Incredible Shrinking Woman
1981
as Tom Keller
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warm...

Melvin and Howard
1980
as 2nd Attorney (Freese)
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

The Mountain Men
1980
as Nathan Wyeth
The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Runn...

The American Success Company
1980
as Ernst
A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and frie...

Last Embrace
1979
as Richard Peabody
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum,...

Somebody Killed Her Husband
1978
as Herbert Little
A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

Julia
1977
as Sammy
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

Annie Hall
1977
as Actor Boy Friend
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

Shamus
1973
as Johnnie Brosten
Millions in diamonds are stolen from a New York City safe, and later the burglar is killed. Shamus is paid $10,000 by the owner to find the diamonds o...