Cast & creator
John Glover
Best known for The Blacklist, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Smallville
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.
Also known as: John Soursby Glover Jr., Jon Glover, جان گلاور
73
film credits
60
television credits
133
1972–2026 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (133)
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The Blacklist
Dr. Bruce Sanders
2013
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Declan Gage
2001
Smallville
Lionel Luthor
2001
Lucifer
Peter Peterson
2016
Frasier
Ned Miller
1993
The Good Wife
Jared Andrews
2009
Chicago Hope
Max Demming
1994
Heroes
Samson Gray
2006
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Verad
1993
Medium
Carson Churchill
2005
Murder, She Wrote
Franz Mueller
1984Murder, She Wrote
Andrew Durbin
1984
Numb3rs
Simon Kraft
2005
L.A. Law
Dr. Paul Kohler
1986
American Playhouse
Ross Hailey
1982American Playhouse
Dr. Thomas Stockman
1982
Miami Vice
Steve Duddy
1984
Fear the Walking Dead
Teddy Maddox
2015
Batman: The Animated Series
The Riddler (voice)
1992
The Good Fight
Jared Andrews
2017
Animaniacs
Rasputin (voice)
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
Nelson Broyles
1993
Brothers and Sisters
Henry Mittner
2006
The Twilight Zone
Alien Ambassador (segment "A Small Talent for War")
1985
Evil
Byron Duke
2019
Arli$$
Bobby Salmon
1996
Superman: The Animated Series
The Riddler (voice)
1996
Dinosaurs
Lucius (voice)
1991Dinosaurs
Prosecutor (voice)
1991Dinosaurs
Babysitter (voice)
1991
Perception
The Devil
2012
Tales from the Crypt
Undertaker
1989
Caroline in the City
Hilton Traynor
1995
ABC Afterschool Special
Mr. Stewart
1972
The Hitchhiker
Miles Duchet
1983
And Just Like That…
Elliot
2021
Kojak
Billy Jo
1973
Marvel's Agent Carter
SSR Informant
2015
The New Batman Adventures
The Riddler (voice)
1997
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1985
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
Rodney (voice)
2023
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Mike Sayles
1987
Pinky and the Brain
1995
Shazam!
Mr. Sivana
2019
Batman & Robin
Dr. Jason Woodrue
1997
Brimstone
The Devil
1998
The Hidden Room
John Burke
1991
Remember WENN
Adrian Carr
1996
The Legend of Prince Valiant
1991
Get Real
Fate
1999
Tales of the City
Bill Schwartz
2019
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Daniel Clamp
1990
Snoops
Gary Hyndman
1999
Payback
Phil
1999
RoboCop 2
Magnavolt Salesman
1990
Scrooged
Bryce Cummings
1988
In the Mouth of Madness
Saperstein
1995
American Dreamer
1990
Annie Hall
Actor Boy Friend
1977
The Andros Targets
Wiggs
1977
Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
Richard Behrens
1987
The Home
Lou
2025
South Beach
Roberts
1993
The Mountain Men
Nathan Wyeth
1980
Lime Street
1985
Twist of Fate
Max Brodsky
1989
Rage of Angels
Scanlon / Jackson
1983
52 Pick-Up
Alan Raimy
1986
Last Embrace
Richard Peabody
1979
Smallville
Lionel Luthor
2002
Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water
Teddy Maddox
2022
White Nights
Wynn Scott
1985
Julia
Sammy
1977
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
Loco Garrison
1992
The Evil That Men Do
Paul Briggs, U.S. Embassy
1984
Haunted History
1998
Masquerade
Tony Gateworth
1988
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Tom Keller
1981
Night of the Running Man
Derek Mills
1995
The American Success Company
Ernst
1980
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker
Maj. Asa Bird Gardiner
1994
Ed and His Dead Mother
A.J. Pattle
1993
Rocket Gibraltar
Rolo Rockwell
1988
Every Act of Life
Self
2018
Shamus
Johnnie Brosten
1973Home
Eric Hochmann
1990
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
1987
Dead on the Money
Russell Blake
1991
Sweet Talk
Professor / Count
2013
The Lost Wife of Robert Durst
Seymour Durst
2017
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
Loco Garrison
1992
El Diablo
The Preacher
1990
Melvin and Howard
2nd Attorney (Freese)
1980
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Billy Korn
1991
Dead Broke
Sam
1998
Somebody Killed Her Husband
Herbert Little
1978
The Tempest
Anthony Prosper
1998
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
Pierre Lafitte
1984
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
Ogden
2005
A Little Sex
Walter
1982
Reality
Zog
2015
An Early Frost
Victor DiMato
1985
Woodstockers
Jupiter
2026
Willy/Milly
Fred Niceman
1986
Automatic
Goddard Marx
1995
Love! Valour! Compassion!
John & James Jeckyll
1997
Moving Target
Dobbins
1988
Majority Rule
Bradley Mackin
1992
Medusa's Child
Rogers Henry
1997
You Bury Your Own
Detective Gillespie
2015
We Go On
Dr. Ellison
2016The Face of Rage
1983
Hot Paint
Algernon
1988
A Flash of Green
Ross Halley
1984
Sanitarium
Gustav
2013
The Chocolate War
Brother Leon
1988
Grass Roots
Harold Perkerson / Jason Ross
1992
Schemes
Victor Kraft
1994
Meet the Hollowheads
Henry Hollowhead
1989
Traveling Man
Chick Beeler
1989
A Killing Affair
Sheb Sheppard
1985
Fatal Influence: Like. Follow. Survive.
The Grand Zel
2022
David
Charles Rothenberg
1988An Enemy of the People
Dr. Thomas Stockman
1990
Breaking Point
Dr. Gerber
1989
Apology
Philip
1986
Dead by Midnight
Dr. Armand Drake / Ben Hamill
1997
Don't Touch
Mr. Stewart
1985
On Edge
Yuri Moskvin
2001
The Broken Giant
Bennett Hale
1997
The Motorcycle Man
Pat
2025
A Natural Selection
Donald Spar
2025Tricks
Ralph
2004