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John Soursby Glover Jr. (/ˈɡlʌvər/; born August 7, 1944) is an American actor, known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, including Daniel Clamp in Gremlins 2: The New Batch and Lionel Luthor on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville. He is also the voice of Riddler in the DC Animated Universe making appearances in Batman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures and Superman: The Animated Series.

John Glover
Glover at the 2020 GalaxyCon Richmond
Born	(1944-08-07) August 7, 1944 (age 78) Kingston, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Towson University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1970–present
Spouse	Adam Kurtzman ​ (m. 2016)​

Early life

Glover was born in Kingston, New York[1] and raised in Salisbury, Maryland, the son of Cade (née Mullins) and John Soursby Glover, a television salesman.[2][3] Glover attended Wicomico High School and acted at Towson University.[4]

Glover began his career at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, and later studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse under Milton Katselas.[5]

Career

Glover began his career in television, playing a mentally disturbed kidnapper who kidnapped Joanne, the lead character on Search for Tomorrow. One of his early film performances was a small but pivotal role as a U.S. diplomat in White Nights. His other roles include Alan Raimy in 52 Pick-Up, Bryce Cummings in Scrooged, "Tony Gateworth in Masquerade", Daniel Clamp in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, a mobster in Payback, an advertising spokesman in RoboCop 2, Derek Mills in Night of the Running Man, the Riddler in Batman: The Animated Series, Doctor Jason Woodrue in Batman & Robin, Verad in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Invasive Procedures", the Devil in the series Brimstone, and a recurring role in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd as Cousin Jerry, from Bal'mer, a relative whom no one actually seemed to know.

In 1987, he appeared in the Miami Vice episode "Lend Me an Ear" as Steve Duddy. He also appeared in two episodes of Murder, She Wrote, the first one being "One White Rose for Death" in which he played East German Franz Mueller. Mueller wishes to defect to the United States, but his sister is a celebrated concert violinist. They both become caught up in a case of murder at the British Embassy. The other episode was "When Thieves Fall Out," where he played Andrew Durbin, a man wrongly accused of stealing bonds. He appeared in the TV movie An Early Frost in 1985, the first TV film to confront the issue of AIDS, and received an Emmy nomination for his performance as a gay AIDS patient. In 1986, he appeared in the TV film Apology with Lesley Ann Warren.

He appeared in the role of Max Brodsky, an inmate in concentration camps and later a fighter for Israel's independence, in Ian Sharp's 1989 TV miniseries Twist of Fate (also known as Pursuit). That same year, he played a hard-driving, low-on-morals district sales manager in HBO's Traveling Man. He also received a 1994 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his appearance in Frasier.

Glover is perhaps best known for the role as Lionel Luthor on Smallville from 2001 to 2008 where he first appeared as a guest actor in the show's first season and then appeared as a full cast member from seasons two to seven. He later returned in 2010 and 2011 for the tenth and final season as a parallel universe version of the character.[6]

He had a small appearance in the Woody Allen film Annie Hall (1977) in a flashback in which he tells the title character, "Touch my heart. With your foot." He had a recurring role in Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Declan Gage, an old friend and mentor to Detective Robert Goren. On ABC's Brothers & Sisters he played Henry (the boyfriend of Saul Holden) in 2009. In Heroes he had a brief appearance as Samson Gray, the father of Sylar.

He had made notable appearances on stage, winning a Tony Award for Featured Actor in a Play for his dual roles in the Broadway play Love! Valour! Compassion!, which he reprised in the film version. In 2004, he performed with the Philadelphia Theatre Company staging of Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

He also appeared as "man in the chair/narrator" in The Drowsy Chaperone on Broadway during summer 2007. He played the role of Lucky in a Broadway production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, for which he earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. In 2014, he appeared as Leonato in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing.[7]

He played Telemachus in Yuri Rasovsky's Peabody Award-winning radio dramatization of The Odyssey of Homer and has played in several radio plays of the LA Theatre Works. Glover is receiving increasing recognition for narrating audiobooks. In 2011, he performed the audiobook version of Ghost Story, the thirteenth novel in Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series. In October/November 2011, he performed in David Bar Katz's drama The Atmosphere of Memory at the Bank Street Theatre in New York City, co-starring with Ellen Burstyn in a LAByrinth production. He played the role of Uncle Ben in the 2012 Broadway production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, directed by Mike Nichols. He is seen rehearsing the role of John Kreese in behind-the-scenes pre-production footage from The Karate Kid, indicating he may have been considered for that role.[8] In 2013, Glover starred in the horror anthology Sanitarium. He also guest-starred in an episode of Agent Carter.[9] 2021 Glover appeared as serial killer Theodore "Teddy" Maddox in Fear the Walking Dead. Glover has done various voice-over work for several projects related to Tron: Legacy: the villainous character Abraxas in Tron: Evolution, and Dyson in Tron: Uprising. In 2014, he guest-starred on The Blacklist in the episode titled "Berlin".

Personal life

Glover is gay. He married sculptor Adam Kurtzman in 2016.[10] They began dating in 1993.[11] According to Glover, he slept with Freddie Mercury in the 1970s.[10]

Glover is involved with the Alzheimer's Association. His father had Alzheimer's, leading Glover to become more active in charity and activism surrounding the disorder.[11]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1973	Shamus	Johnnie
1977	Annie Hall	Actor Boy Friend
1977	Julia	Sammy
1978	Somebody Killed Her Husband	Herbert Little
1979	Last Embrace	Richard Peabody
1980	The American Success Company	Ernst
1980	Mountain Men	Nathan Wyeth
1980	Melvin and Howard	Freese – Attorney #2
1981	The Incredible Shrinking Woman	Tom Keller
1982	A Little Sex	Walter
1984	The Evil That Men Do	Briggs
1985	White Nights	Wynn Scott
1986	A Killing Affair	Sheb Sheppard
1986	52 Pick-Up	Alan Raimy
1986	Willy/Milly	Fred Niceman
1988	Masquerade	Tony Gateworth
1988	Rocket Gibraltar	Rolo Rockwell
1988	Scrooged	Brice Cummings
1988	The Chocolate War	Brother Leon
1989	Meet the Hollowheads	Henry Hollowhead
1990	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Daniel Clamp
1990	RoboCop 2	Magnavolt salesman
1993	Ed and His Dead Mother	A. J. Pattle
1994	In the Mouth of Madness	Saperstein
1995	Night of the Running Man	Derek Mills
1995	Automatic	Goddard Marx
1997	Love! Valour! Compassion!	John Jeckyll, James Jeckyll
1997	Batman & Robin	Dr. Jason Woodrue
1997	Medusa's Child	Rogers Henry
1998	Dead Broke	Sam
1997	The Broken Giant	Bennett Hale
1998	Payback	Phil
1999	Macbeth in Manhattan	Richard / Director
2001	The Body	Jesus Christ Street Actor
2001	On Edge	Yuri Moskvin
2002	Mid-Century	Bill Gates
2004	Tricks	Ralph
2004	A Kiss at Kerouac's Grave	Will
2005	The Civilization of Maxwell Bright	Ogden
2013	Sanitarium	Gustav	Segment: "Figuratively Speaking"
2013	Sweet Talk	Professor / Count
2014	Reality	Zog
2015	You Bury Your Own	Detective Gillespie
2016	We Go On	Dr. Ellison
2019	Shazam!	Mr. Sivana	[12]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	Kojak	Billy Jo	Episode: "Elegy In An Asphalt Graveyard"
1984	George Washington	Charles Lee	Episode: "Charles Lee"
1985	ABC Afterschool Specials	Mr. Stewart	Episode: "Don't Touch"
1985	An Early Frost	Victor DiMato
1986	The New Twilight Zone	The Alien Ambassador	Episode segment; “A Small Talent for War”
1986	Murder, She Wrote	Franz Mueller	Episode: "One White Rose for Death"
1987	Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder	Richard Behrens	Episode: 1-3 (entire miniseries)
1987	Miami Vice	Steve Duddy	Episode: "Lend Me an Ear"
1987	Murder, She Wrote	Andrew Durbin	Episode: "When Thieves Fall Out"
1989	Breaking Point	Dr. Gerber	TV movie
1989	Twist of Fate	Max Brodsky	TV miniseries
1991	Tales from the Crypt	Sebastian Esbrook	Episode: "Undertaking Palor"
1992	Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel	Loco Garrison	TV movie
	The Ray Bradbury Theater	Walter Grip	Episode: "Silent Towns"
1993	Frasier	Ned Miller	Episode: "Oops"
	Crime & Punishment	Dennis Atwood	Episode: "Best Laid Plans"; nominated for Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
	The Legend of Prince Valiant	King Edward (voice)	Episode: "The Blackest Poison"
	Animaniacs	Rasputin (voice)	Episode: "Nothing but the Tooth"
	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Verad	Episode: "Invasive Procedures"
1992–1994	Dinosaurs	Babysitter / Prosecutor / Lucius (voices)	3 episodes
	Batman: The Animated Series	Edward Nygma / The Riddler (voice)	3 episodes
1998	Superman: The Animated Series		Episode: "Knight Time"
	The New Batman Adventures		Episode: "Judgement Day"
	The Tempest	Anthony Prosper
1998–1999	Brimstone	The Devil / Angel	13 episodes
1999–2001	Haunted History	Narrator (voice)	25 episodes
2001–2011	Smallville	Lionel Luthor	145 episodes
2006	Numb3rs	Samuel Craft (The Psychic)	Episode 17 “Mind Games”
2006–2008	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Declan Gage	2 episodes
2009	Heroes	Samson Gray	Episode: "Shades of Gray"
2011–2015	The Good Wife	Jared Andrews	4 episodes
2012–2013	Tron: Uprising	Dyson (voice)	4 episodes
2014	The Blacklist	Dr. Bruce Sanders	Episode: "Berlin"
2014	Perception	The Devil	Episode: "Possession"
2015	Marvel's Agent Carter	SSR Informant	Episode: "The Iron Ceiling"
2019	The Good Fight	Jared Andrews	1 episode
	Tales of the City	Bill Schwartz	Episode: "Next Level Sh*t"
	Evil	Byron Duke	Episode: "3 Stars"
2021	Fear the Walking Dead	Theodore "Teddy" Maddox	5 episodes
	Lucifer	Peter Peterson	Episode: "Family Dinner"
2022	Dead in the Water: A Fear the Walking Dead Story	Theodore "Teddy" Maddox	Web series; 1 episode

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes
1994	The Adventures of Batman & Robin	The Riddler
2003	Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo	Help Points
2010	Tron: Evolution	Abraxas / Jalen

Audiobooks

Year	Title	Author
1992	The Thief of Always (abridged)	Clive Barker
1999	Night Shift	Stephen King
	The Lawnmower Man	Stephen King
	Gray Matter	Stephen King
	Thank You for Smoking	Christopher Buckley
2009	Level 26: Dark Origins	Anthony E. Zuiker
2010	Worst Case	James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
	The Bride Collector	Ted Dekker
	The Tempest	William Shakespeare
	Red Harvest	Joe Schreiber
2011	Gideon's Sword	Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
	Dracula (Dramatized)	Bram Stoker and Charles Morey

References

External links

• John Glover on Twitter
• John Glover at IMDb 
• John Glover at the Internet Broadway Database
• John Glover at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• John Glover at the TCM Movie Database
• John Glover at AllMovie
• Interview with John Glover

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[es] John Glover

John Glover (Salisbury; 7 de agosto de 1944) es un actor estadounidense. Durante toda su carrera se ha especializado en aparecer en papeles en series de televisión y algunas películas de forma secundaria o antagónica. Se hizo bastante famoso a raíz de interpretar a Lionel Luthor en la serie de televisión Smallville, la cual se emitió entre 2001 y 2011. Actualmente trabaja en su fundación de Alzheimer.

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[ru] Гловер, Джон

Джон Со́рсби Гло́вер-младший (англ. John Soursby Glover Jr.; род. 7 августа 1944) — американский актёр. Лауреат премии «Тони» и пятикратный номинант на премию «Эмми».

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