Actor John Glover

John Soursby Glover Jr. was born August 7, 1944 in Kingston, New York, to parents Cade (née Mullins) and John Soursby Glover Sr. He grew up in Salisbury, Maryland where he attended Wicomico High School. Later he went to Towson State Teachers College, now Towson University, where he became involved in acting. For three summers during college he worked at a small theater in southern Virginia, and made his stage debut in Look Homeward, Angel at the Barter Theater in Virginia in 1963. John moved to New York City in 1967 to continue his acting career and in 1969 appeared in A Scent of Flowers at the Martinique Theatre.

John continued appearing in a prolific number of theatrical roles throughout the 1970s, and first made a notable screen appearance in a small role in Woody Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall. His breakout screen role, however, would come with 1986's 52 Pick-Up, where he played the delightfully evil and memorable villain Alan Raimy. John would continue to work in stage, film and television throughout the 80s and 90s, winning both Tony and Drama Desk awards for his dual-role performance in 1994 in Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion!

John's appearance as Lionel Luthor in the 2001 series Smallville was originally only to be a recurring guest character. However, for the show's second series he became a full cast member and would appear on and off throughout it's ten-season run. Since the end of Smallville, John continues to appear in stage and television roles, and in 2012 will be seen in the upcoming Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman. When not appearing around the country in various stage productions, John lives in the Los Angeles area with his partner, artist Adam Kurtzman.

More information at Wikipedia
John Glover Biography at Film Reference
John Glover Biography at the IMdB

I actually became a fan of John's thanks to the sadly short-lived TV series Brimstone. In Brimstone, John played perhaps the most wicked role imaginable - The Devil himself. The series was dark and quite different from what anyone was used to seeing on television, yet it also was intelligently written, occasionally quite humorous and featured wonderful performances from both John and series main star Peter Horton.

After the end of the series I grew interested in checking out John's past TV and film work and spent many hours hunting them down and enjoying them on video. Then one day I found out he was actually in New York City appearing in a play, so I hopped the train from Philadelphia to catch what ended up being the final performance of Give Me Your Answer, Do! As much as I'd loved John's screen work, seeing him perform on stage just blew me away. I started following theater news more closely to see when and where he'd be performing, and eventually got to meet him in person at the stage door after one performance. Over the course of several years, this became a bit of a ritual, and I had set up a small fan site in appreciation of his work. Eventually we connected in Philadelphia when he was on a break from Smallville and appearing in the play The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia? and made arrangements to convert my website from "unofficial" to "official" status.

There are more amusing details to the story, which you can read about in my short article for Yahoo! TV, My Experience as Webmaster for "Smallville" Star John Glover.

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