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Salisbury, Maryland, USA
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
- Woodstockers — Jupiter2026
- The Home — Lou2025
- The Motorcycle Man — Pat2025
- A Natural Selection — Donald Spar2025
- Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai — Rodney (voice)2023
- Fatal Influence: Like. Follow. Survive. — The Grand Zel2022
- Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water — Teddy Maddox2022
- And Just Like That… — Elliot2021
- Shazam! — Mr. Sivana2019
- Tales of the City — Bill Schwartz2019
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1944-08-07 ) August 7, 1944 (age 81) , Kingston, New York , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Towson University
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1970–present
- Spouse
- Adam Kurtzman ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2016 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Glover
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kingston
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- John Glover Photo Op GalaxyCon Richmond 2020.jpg
- Residence
- Salisbury
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- name in native language
- John Glover
- Commons category
- John Glover (actor)
- different from
- Jon Glover
- date of birth
- 1944-08-07
- start of work period
- 1973-00-00
- social media followers
- 29318
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- John Soursby Glover Jr.
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Encyclopedic overview
John Glover (/ˈɡlʌvər/ born August 7, 1944) is an American actor who has played a range of quirky and villainous roles in films and television, such as Lionel Luthor in Smallville, Dr. Jason Woodrue in Batman & Robin and the voice of Riddler in the DC Animated Universe. He also played the role of Daniel Clamp in Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990).
Early life
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