John Glover

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John Glover

John Glover (born 7 August 1944; age 79) is the actor from Salisbury, Maryland, who played Verad Dax in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Invasive Procedures".

Glover has earned several Emmy Award nominations for guest appearances on such television shows as Frasier (with Kelsey Grammer and Richard Poe) and L.A. Law (with Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake). He also played the Devil on the cult series Brimstone, co-starring Lori Petty. However, he is currently best known for his role as Lionel Luthor on the television series Smallville.

He is widely recognized for his roles in such films as 52 Pick-Up (1986, with Clarence Williams III and Alex Henteloff), Scrooged (1988, with Alfre Woodard, Michael J. Pollard, Roy Brocksmith, and Logan Ramsey), and Payback (1999, with Gregg Henry and Alex Henteloff). He has also gained praise for his role as Daniel Clamp in 1990's Gremlins 2: The New Batch, in which he co-starred alongside Robert Picardo (The Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager). In addition, the film featured fellow Star Trek alumni Zach Galligan, Dick Miller, Keye Luke, Ron Fassler, Jerry Goldsmith, Kenneth Tobey, and Henry Gibson.

One of Glover's earliest film appearances was a small role in Woody Allen's classic 1977 comedy, Annie Hall, in which Mark Lenard also appeared. Glover also co-starred with Star Trek: Enterprise guest actor Peter Weller in the films A Killing Affair (1986, with Bill Smitrovich) and RoboCop 2 (1990, with Robert Doqui, Mark Rolston, Stephen Lee, Jeff McCarthy, Gabriel Damon, and Bill Bolender), as well as the 1986 television movie Apology.

Glover co-starred with TNG actor Jonathan Frakes in the 1987 mini-series Nutcracker: Money, Madness, and Murder, which also featured Frank Military, Daniel Hugh Kelly, George D. Wallace, and Noble Willingham. In 1990, Glover co-starred with Star Trek: Voyager actor Robert Beltran in the television movie El Diablo, also featuring Jim Beaver.

John Glover voiced the character of The Riddler in several episodes of Batman: The Animated Series. Frank Gorshin, who guest-starred in the Star Trek: The Original Series, played the character in the Batman series of the 1960s. Glover himself would make a cameo as a mad scientist in the 1997's Batman & Robin.

Other Star Trek connections

Addtional projects in which Glover appeared with other Star Trek performers include:

• Julia (1977 film, with Mark Metcalf)
• Last Embrace (1979 film, with Charles Napier)
• The Mountain Men (1980 film, with Brian Keith, Stephen Macht, Seymour Cassel, and William Lucking)
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981 film, with Henry Gibson)
• A Little Sex (1982 film, with Wallace Shawn and Bill Smitrovich)
• Kennedy (1983 TV mini-series, with Kelsey Grammer)
• George Washington (1984 TV mini-series, with Richard Kiley, Stephen Macht, Clive Revill, DS9 co-star Megan Gallagher, and Kelsey Grammer)
• The Evil That Men Do (1984, with Antoinette Bower)
• An Early Frost (1985 TV movie, with Terry O'Quinn)
• Hot Paint (1988 TV movie, with John Larroquette, Mike Starr, and Scott Thompson)
• Masquerade (1988 film, with Kim Cattrall)
• Meet the Hollowheads (1989 film, with Lee Arenberg and Logan Ramsey)
• A Season of Giants (1991 TV movie, with F. Murray Abraham and Steven Berkoff)
• Majority Rules (1992 TV movie, with Richard Herd)
• Breaking Point (1989 TV movie, with Corbin Bernsen, Lawrence Pressman)
• Dead on the Money (1991 TV movie, with Corbin Bernsen)
• Grass Roots (1992 TV movie, with Joanna Cassidy)
• Ed and His Dead Mother (1993 film, with Warren Munson and Biff Yeager)
• Automatic (1994 film, with Jeff Kober)
• In the Mouth of Madness (1995 film, with David Warner and Bernie Casey)
• Dead Man's Gun (1997 TV movie, with Matt Frewer)
• Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997 film, with Jason Alexander)
• On Edge (2001 film, with Jason Alexander and Suzie Plakson).
• Dead Broke (2005 film, with Paul Sorvino; filmed in 1997)

External links

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• John Glover at Wikipedia