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American actor

John Soursby Glover Jr. ('/ɡ//l//ʌ//v//ər/) 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 in Smallville. He is also the voice of Riddler in the DC Animated Universe.

Glover was born in Kingston, New York, and raised in Salisbury, Maryland, the son of Cade (née Mullins) and John Soursby Glover, a television salesman. Glover attended Wicomico High School and acted at Towson University. Glover began his career at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, and later studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse under Milton Katselas.

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 role as a U. S. diplomat in His other roles include Alan Raimy in 52 Pick Up, Bryce Cummings in Scrooged, Tony Gateworth in , Daniel Clamp in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, a mobster in , 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 , 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, "One White Rose for Death" and "When Thieves Fall Out". He appeared in the television film 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. 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. 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. In 2013, Glover starred in the horror anthology Sanitarium. He also guest starred in an episode of Agent Carter. Glover has done various voice over work for several projects related to Tron: Legacy: the villain Abraxas in Tron: Evolution, and Dyson in Tron: Uprising. In 2014, he guest starred on The Blacklist in the episode titled "Berlin".

Glover is gay. He married sculptor Adam Kurtzman in 2016, whom he had been dating since 1993. Glover returns to Towson annually to work with theater students. The theater department awards a scholarship in his name.

YearTitleRoleNotes1973ShamusJohnnie1977Annie HallActor Boy Friend1977JuliaSammy1978Somebody Killed Her HusbandHerbert Little1979Last EmbraceRichard Peabody1980 The American Success CompanyErnst1980 The Mountain MenNathan Wyeth1980Melvin and HowardFreese – Attorney #21981 The Incredible Shrinking WomanTom Keller1982 A Little SexWalter1984 The Evil That Men DoBriggs1985White NightsWynn Scott1986 A Killing AffairSheb Sheppard198652 Pick UpAlan Raimy1986Willy/MillyFred Niceman1988DavidCharles Rothenberg1988MasqueradeTony Gateworth1988Rocket GibraltarRolo Rockwell1988ScroogedBrice Cummings1988 The Chocolate WarBrother Leon1989Meet the HollowheadsHenry Hollowhead1990Gremlins 2: The New BatchDaniel Clamp1990RoboCop 2Magnavolt salesman1993Ed and His Dead MotherA. J. Pattle1994In the Mouth of MadnessSaperstein1995Night of the Running Man Derek Mills1995AutomaticGoddard Marx1997Love! Valour! Compassion!John Jeckyll, James Jeckyll1997Batman & RobinDr. Jason Woodrue1997Medusa's ChildRogers Henry1998Dead BrokeSam1997 The Broken GiantBennett Hale1999PaybackPhil1999Macbeth in ManhattanRichard, Director2001 The BodyJesus Christ Street Actor2001On EdgeYuri Moskvin2002Mid CenturyBill Gates2004TricksRalph2004 A Kiss at Kerouac's GraveWill2005 The Civilization of Maxwell BrightOgden2013SanitariumGustav Segment: "Figuratively Speaking"2013Sweet TalkProfessor, Count2014RealityZog2015You Bury Your OwnDetective Gillespie2016We Go OnDr. Ellison2019Shazam!Mr. Sivana

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