John Glover

John Glover

Nascimento : 1944-08-07, Salisbury, Maryland, USA

História

​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.

Perfil

John Glover
John Glover
John Glover

Filmes

Fatal Influence: Like. Follow. Survive.
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 shadowy power, until all that remains is the content they were willing to do.
Shazam!
Mr. Sivana
Billy Batson tem apenas 14 anos de idade, mas recebeu de um antigo mago o dom de se transformar num super-herói adulto chamado Shazam. Ao gritar a palavra SHAZAM!, o adolescente se transforma nessa sua poderosa versão adulta para se divertir e testar suas habilidades. Contudo, ele precisa aprender a controlar seus poderes para enfrentar o malvado Dr. Thaddeus Sivana.
Every Act of Life
Self
The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for gay rights, addiction and recovery, finding true love, and the relentless pursuit of inspiration.
O Sumiço De Kathie Durst
Seymour Durst
Uma jovem inocente se apaixona herdeiro do ramo imobiliário. Mas após o casamento, sua relação se torna obscura e perigosa. Tudo piora quando ela desaparece, e seus familiares e amigos temem que as autoridades não levem a sério o seu caso.
We Go On
Dr. Ellison
Miles Grissom está oferecendo uma gorda recompensa para a primeira pessoa que puder lhe mostrar um fantasma, um anjo, um demônio - qualquer coisa para provar que há vida após a morte. Ele restringe as opções a três candidatos viáveis - um cientista, um médium e um empresário comum – e junto com sua mãe protetora, ele embarca em uma perigosa aventura através de Los Angeles que se transforma em um pesadelo inimaginável.
You Bury Your Own
Detective Gillespie
A soldier returns home to New York to solve the mystery behind his younger brother's sudden violent death.
Reality
Zog
Jason (Alain Chabat), um tranquilo operador de câmera, sonha em dirigir seu primeiro filme, um longa de horror. O produtor Bob Marshal (Jonathan Lambert) aceita financiar seu projeto, mas impõe uma condição: Jason terá dois dias para encontrar o grito mais perfeito do cinema. A insana busca logo o leva à loucura.
Sweet Talk
Professor / Count
A blocked writer and a troubled young woman who meet over a phone-sex line go on a journey together.
Sanitarium
Gustav
Num sanatório, vivem diversos pacientes que nunca melhoram, e nunca saem da instituição. Três deles são estudados pelo psiquiatra chefe do local, Dr. Stenson (Malcolm McDowell). Cada paciente é fruto de um episódio, filmado por um diretor diferente, mas tendo em comum os limites e as doenças da mente humana.
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
Ogden
After a series of bad relationships, a man orders a mail order bride and receives more than he bargained for.
Tricks
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 girls are from all walks of life. This is love at a price.
O Troco
Phil
Porter e Val Resnick assaltam uma gangue de chineses e roubam 140 mil dólares. Porter se dá por satisfeito, apesar de esperar entre 350 mil e meio milhão de dólares, mas Val não, pois precisava de 130 mil dólares para saldar suas dívidas e ser aceito na Organização. Assim, com a ajuda de Lynn, a esposa de Porter, Val o trai e Porter é baleado e dado como morto. Mas após algum tempo ele reaparece, decidido a receber os 70 mil dólares da sua parte, mesmo que para isto tenha de enfrentar toda a "Organização". Mas existe uma forte possibilidade que ele morra tentando e nesta louca tentativa conta apenas com Rosie, uma garota de programa bastante exclusiva com quem tinha se envolvido, quando era seu segurança e motorista.
Fúria da Tempestade
Anthony Prosper
A aventura, a fantasia e a magia se unem neste épico único original. Adaptado do clássico A Tempestade, de William Shakespeare, Fúria da Tempestade mostra a saga de Gideon Prosper (Peter Fonda). Traído pelo seu próprio irmão, o ganancioso Anthony (John Glover), ele é forçado a abandonar suas terras e fugir através dos pântanos do Mississipi. Durante anos, Gideon, sua filha Miranda (Katherine Heigl), e o ex-escravo Ariel (Haold Perrineu Jr.) enfrentam os horrores da fuga, das privações, e da Guerra Civil, numa aventura repleta de emoção, magia negra e efeitos especiais.
Dead Broke
Sam
A detective investigates a murder that has taken place outside a debt collection agency in Brooklyn. A motley assortment of suspects includes the employees of the agency.
The Broken Giant
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 a welcome distraction from his humdrum life. And although she can barely speak, Clio makes quick work of capturing Ezra's attention -- and pulling him away from his girlfriend. Chris Noth ("Sex and the City") and Brooke Smith (Silence of the Lambs) co-star in this dark, brooding drama.
Dead by Midnight
Dr. Armand Drake / Ben Hamill
Just when he's beginning to take his perfect life and marriage for granted, John (Timothy Hutton) discovers that he's the result of a failed government experiment to spawn a race of perfect assassins. But the closer he gets to finding out what went wrong, the weirder the truth becomes.
Medusa's Child
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 thermonuclear bomb capable of generating a continent-sized electro-magnetic pulse; such EMP could effectively destroy a computer-based society. He dupes Vivian into bringing it to the Pentagon to exact his final revenge on the government, rigging it so it will explode before its count-down if Vivian's pacemaker isn't within fifteen feet of it. Medusa arms itself in the air aboard Scott Nash's 737 cargo plane, and with Hurricane Sigrid about to hit the coast, nobody wants to let them land. Based on the novel by John J. Nance.
Batman & Robin
Dr. Jason Woodrue
A dupla enfrenta dois terríveis vilões: o gélido Mr. Freeze e a delicada Poison Ivy. Mas, para poder livrar Gotham City das suas garras, Batman e Robin contam com uma nova companheira, a Batgirl.
Entre Amigos
John & James Jeckyll
Oito amigos gays se reúnem numa bela casa de praia para passar os feriados relaxando e se divertindo. Nos dias em que permanecem juntos eles deparam com questões como fidelidade, sexualidade, companheirismo, ciúmes, sonhos, frustrações, Aids, amor e morte.
Automatic
Goddard Marx
Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks. But one night, an Automatic named J269 discovers a Robgen executive trying to rape a female employee named Nora Rochester. While trying to stop the crime, he inadvertently kills the executive. At this point, J269 then calls Goddard Marx (his creator and a Robgen chairman) to inform him of the incident. Marx tells the android to stay there with Rochester until help arrives, but Marx is intent on sweeping the fiasco under the rug by sending mercenaries to eliminate both J269 and Rochester. Now the two are fugitives on the run from a para-military hit squad.
À Beira da Loucura
Saperstein
Com o desaparecimento do escritor de terror Sutter Cane, todo o Inferno está se soltando ... literalmente! Autor Cane, parece, tem um jeito para descrição que realmente traz seus malvados rastejantes para a vida. O investigador de seguros John Trent é enviado para investigar o misterioso desaparecimento de Cane e acaba na pacata cidadezinha de Hobb's End, na costa leste.
Sádica Perseguição
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 will stop at nothing to recover the money and dispose of all witnesses.
Schemes
Victor Kraft
In this intricate tale of deception, extortion, and murder, a successful architect learns that although beautiful strangers may be dangerous, it is friends who are deadly. Devastated by his wife's death, Paul begins to emerge from depression when he meets a new woman, Laura. But his newfound happiness is destroyed when his best friend, Evelyn, learns that Laura is a con-artist. Regretting her treachery and trying to redeem herself, Laura discovers Evelyn's violent obsession with Paul. Fighting blackmail and threats by Evelyn and a ruthless former lover, Laura courageously reveals the explosive news that Paul's wife was really murdered. -
Julgamento em West Point
Maj. Asa Bird Gardiner
O ano é 1881, um tempo em que a discriminação racial era um sentimento forte e impregnado em cada americano, Johnson Wittaker (Seth Gillian), é um dos primeiros negros a despontar no meio social até então destinado somente aos brancos. Ele é admitido na mais importante instituição educacional dos estados Unidos: a Academia Militar de West Point. Na Academia, Johnson é submetido a todo tipo de humilhação e é levado injustamente aos tribunais. Baseado em fatos reais, Julgamento em West Point é o retrato cruel de um passado doloroso da sociedade norte-americana.
Ed e Sua Mãe Morta
A.J. Pattle
A mãe de um jovem rapaz falece e ele recebe uma estranha proposta de um homem: trazê-la de volta à vida.
Majority Rule
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 power.
Grass Roots
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. Senate at the same time he is forced by a local judge to defend a young man in a murder trial. On top of this, he becomes the target of an assassin hired by a white-supremacist organization.
A Guerra das Drogas: Cartel de Medellín
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 bring down billionaire drug lords Don Pablo Escobar Gaviria and José Rodriguez Gacha, leaders of the infamous Medellin Cartel.
Dead on the Money
Russell Blake
An actress is persuaded by a charming man to join him in a scheme of revenge against his cousin.
O Que Terá Acontecido a Baby Jane?
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
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 cowboy skills of his own, he signs on a speedy gunslinger (Joe Pantoliano) and a no-nonsense cowboy (Louis Gossett Jr.) to help. Now, Smith may just have a chance at capturing his man: the merciless bandit El Diablo (Robert Beltran).
RoboCop 2
Magnavolt Salesman
Policial-andróide enfrenta gangue de traficantes de drogas. Ao mesmo tempo, o império corporativo que o criou está lançando um robô aperfeiçoado que torna necessária a eliminação de Robocop.
Gremlins 2: A Nova Geração
Daniel Clamp
Se passaram cinco anos desde o incidente dos Gremlins em Kingston Falls. Agora Billy e Kate se mudaram para Nova York. Com o falecimento do velho chinês, Gizmo foge da loja e é pego e levado para o mesmo prédio onde Billy trabalha, quando um funcionário da empresa, ao tentar consertar um bebedouro, acaba molhando Gizmo. Logo uma nova espécie de Gremlins é criada e eles logo aprisionam Gizmo. Kate leva para casa um destes novos Gremlins, pensando que é Gizmo. Quando Billy chega em casa e vê que aquele Mogwai não é Gizmo, conclui logo que algo grave aconteceu e algo infinitamente mais grave acontecerá se os Gremlins se alimentarem após a meia-noite.
Meet the Hollowheads
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 the slime factory in which he works and decides to bring his boss home for dinner and to meet the family. Henry's perverted boss doesn't know what he's up against when he tries to make advances with Mrs. Hollowhead
Breaking Point
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 officers who know where the allies will strike, is a professional who the Nazis know will never succumb to torture. They hatch a diabolical plan to deceive him into thinking that the war is over and he's recuperating from memory loss in a US hospital in Germany. His doctor (John Glover) and nurse (Joanna Pacula) head an elite Nazi psychological team that attempt to convince Pike into revealing the top secret. But as time slips away, Pike's captors decide he must reach his BREAKING POINT... or die.
Traveling Man
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 rookie he has been teamed up with.
Os Fantasmas Contra-Atacam
Bryce Cummings
Frank Cross (Bill Murray) é um diretor de uma rede de televisão que é frio e só pensa na audiência. Ele se encontra com Lew Hayward (John Forsythe), um falecido amigo, que o avisa sobre três fantasmas (o do Natal Passado, o do Presente e do Futuro) que irão visitá-lo e diz para ele estar atento a tudo que eles mostrarem, pois esta é a única oportunidade de Frank se salvar.
The Chocolate War
Brother Leon
A surreal portrait of a Catholic Private School and its hierarchy. A new student must submit to the bizarre rituals of his peers and the expectations of the school's administration by selling chocolates.
David
Charles Rothenberg
David is a six-year-old boy who is caught in the middle of his two feuding (& divorced) parents. His father, Charles, kidnaps him to California, where he eventually sets him on fire as a means of revenge against Marie, David's mother (Young David receives third-degree burns over 90% of his body). This movie chronicles David's struggle to recover and the obstacles he faces along the way.
O Rochedo de Gibraltar
Rolo Rockwell
Um belo filme. Levi Rockwell (Burt Lancaster) é um homem de idade, cujos filhos e netos chegam à sua casa para o seu aniversário. O avô é popular entre as crianças e os diverte com histórias sobre vikings e confessa que gostaria de ser sepultado no mar na forma viking, o seu corpo estar em um barco e o barco incendiado por uma flecha flamejante. As crianças ouvem fascinada. Poucos dias depois, no dia de seu aniversário, as crianças descobrem o seu avô, morto. Lembrando seus desejos, eles se recusam a deixar os adultos descobrirem, sabendo que eles vão enterrá-lo e ele vai ser devorado por vermes no chão. Eles decidem homenagear o seu último desejo. Uma história bonita e emocionante. Este foi o primeiro filme de Macaulay Culkin. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Hot Paint
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, selfish character-here named Gus - and he suckers Willy (Gregory Harrison) into his scheme to rob the mansion. The two losers have to try to figure out how to sell the valuable but high-profile item without getting busted. They travel the world looking for potential buyers but always end up short. Everyone can see that they are novices in the art world and buffoons in general.
A Farsa
Tony Gateworth
Após a morte da mãe, a herdeira de uma grande fortuna se envolve com um jovem capitão de iates que parece amá-la intensamente. Ao descobrir que o amante está completamente falido, ela passa a desconfiar das suas intenções.
Moving Target
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.
Willy/Milly
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 her best friend's little brother offers her a potion which can make her deepest wish come true during a solar eclipse. She goes through with it and ends up with male genitals, additionally. So she has to decide if she wants to life as boy or girl. Her father, who always wanted a son, supports her in checking out life as a boy. Hence Milly changes school and starts out as Willy.
A Hora da Brutalidade
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 confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
Apology
Philip
For her upcoming exhibition, "Apology," Lily, a New York conceptual artist, is designing a sound and sculpture installation inspired by the testimony of anonymous phone callers who, after responding to a public advert inviting them to spill their guts, leave messages on her answering machine. When one caller confesses to a murder, Lily begins to suspect that the mystery man may be intending a little "performance" of his own: her death.
A Killing Affair
Sheb Sheppard
Peter Weller (Robocop) 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 (Weller) whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she begins to fall for him, but continues to question whether or not she can trust him.Directed by David Saperstein and based on a novel by Robert Houston, A Killing Affair features twists and turns up until the end.
O Sol da Meia-Noite
Wynn Scott
Nikolai Rodchenko (Mikhail Baryshnikov) é um bailarino da União Soviética exilado nos Estados Unidos que é aprisionado pela KGB quando seu avião sofre uma pane e pousa em território soviético. Lá tem contato com um bailarino americano, que desertou do exército na época da Guerra do Vietnã, foi morar em Moscou e está casado com uma russa.
AIDS - Aconteceu Comigo
Victor DiMato
Um advogado descobre que tem AIDS e se vê obrigado a contar para a família e amigos do trabalho que é homossexual, que está infectado e que sua morte é inevitável, uma vez que a doença, nos anos 1980, ainda não tinha tratamento adequado.
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
Pierre Lafitte
This is a splendid little sleeper of a movie. Ernie Kovacs was one of the giants of early television. I think he would be pleased with the way Jeff Goldbloom captures his wonky personality. Melody Anderson also distills that of Edie Adams. There is a very basic heart tugging story about the search for Kovacs' two abducted daughters. But at the same time the film is funny --- Cloris Leachman is a hoot as Kovacs impossible mom --- and has many of the offbeat and innovative qualities of the old Kovacs show itself.
A Flash of Green
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 developer's latest project.
Justiça Selvagem
Paul Briggs, U.S. Embassy
Holland (Charles Bronson) é um matador profissional convencido a sair da sua aposentadoria para eliminar o cruel ditador de uma república sul-americana - um médico sádico cuja maior satisfação é torturar brutalmente os presos políticos.
The Face of Rage
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 confront their victims face-to-face. The film concentrates on the bitter verbal sparring session between assaulter Richard (Graham Bechel) and assaultee Rebecca (Dianne Weist). Director Donald Wrye co-wrote the screenplay for Face of Rage with Hal Sitowicz, drawing much of the dialogue from real-life transcripts. The film was first aired as an "ABC Theatre" presentation on March 20, 1983, preceded with an all too appropriate "parental guidance" proviso.
Rage of Angels
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 disbarred but fights back to become a top attorney, torn between two lovers: Morell and a married lawyer with political aspirations.
A Little Sex
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 sex addict, cheating on Katherine during their pre-married relationship. Because Katherine is genuinely in love with him, she is willing to overlook this and believes that perhaps marriage will change things.
A Incrível Mulher Que Encolheu
Tom Keller
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.
Melvin and Howard
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.
Homens Da Montanha
Nathan Wyeth
No Velho Oeste Bill Tyler (Charlton Heston), um comerciante de peles, tenta achar com seu melhor amigo, Henry Frapp (Brian Keith), o lendário vale conhecido pela enorme quantidade de animais para caçar. Mas acaba encontrando uma jovem de origem indígena, que está fugindo de um casamento indesejado, e resolve protegê-la a todo custo.
The American Success Company
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 friends and get a lot richer in the process.
O Abraço da Morte
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, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.
Alguém Matou Seu Marido
Herbert Little
A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.
Júlia
Sammy
Na década de 30, a escritora americana Lillian Hellman tenta reencontrar Julia, amiga de infância que se juntou ao movimento de resistência contra os nazistas. Ela acaba contrabandeando dinheiro para ajudar na fuga das vítimas do nazismo.
Noivo Neurótico, Noiva Nervosa
Actor Boy Friend
Alvy Singer (Woody Allen), um humorista judeu e divorciado que faz análise há 15 anos, acaba se apaixonando por Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), uma cantora em início de carreira com uma cabeça um pouco complicada. Em um curto espaço de tempo eles estão morando juntos, mas, depois de um certo período, crises conjugais começam a surgir entre os dois.
Paixão Pelo Perigo
Johnnie Brosten
Burt Reynolds é Shamus McCoy, um detetive privado aficionado por bilhar, dinheiro sujo e mulheres. Um perturbante homicídio está relacionado ao roubo de um diamante de um milhão de dólares. O excêntrico proprietário da jóia roubada contrata McCoy para encontrar o assassino... e a mercadoria roubada. Mas o estranho cliente parece atrás de algo mais que os diamantes...