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John Soursby Glover, Jr. (born August 7, 1944) is a Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American actor. He is perhaps best known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, including Lionel Luthor in the TV series Smallville. is the 219th day of the year (220th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location in Maryland Coordinates: , County Founded 1732 Incorporated 1854 Government - Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman Area - City 29. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... A Tony Award for the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play has been awarded since 1949. ... Love! Valour! Compassion! is a 1995 play by Terrence McNally following the summer of a group of gay men and their family and friends at a summer home in New York. ... is the 219th day of the year (220th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... An Emmy Award. ... Bad guy redirects here. ... Lionel Luthor is a fictional character in the CW Network television series Smallville, played by John Glover. ... Smallville is an American television series created by writer/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and was initially broadcast by The WB. After its fifth season, the WB and UPN merged to form The CW, which is the current broadcaster for the show in the United States. ...

Biography

Personal life

Glover was born in Salisbury, Maryland, the son of Cade (née Mullins) and John Soursby Glover, Sr., a television salesman.^[1] Glover attended Wicomico High School and acted at Towson University.^[2] His partner is the sculptor Adam Kurtzman.^[3] Nickname: Location in Maryland Coordinates: , County Founded 1732 Incorporated 1854 Government - Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman Area - City 29. ... NÃ©e redirects here. ... Wicomico High School is a high school located in Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland. ... Towson University, often referred to as TU or simply Towson for short, is an American public university located in Towson in Baltimore County, Maryland, USA. It is part of the University System of Maryland. ...

Glover is also actively involved with the Alzheimer's Association. His inspiration for joining this cause was his own father's experience with Alzheimer's Disease.^[3] The Alzheimers Association, founded on April 10, 1980, is the only national, voluntary organization which specializes in research for the diagnosis, cure, treatment, and prevention of Alzheimers disease. ... Alzheimer redirects here. ...

Career

His notable roles include Alan Ramey in 52 Pickup, Bryce Cummings in Scrooged, Daniel Clamp in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, a mobster in Payback, an advertising spokesman in Robocop 2, The Riddler in Batman: The Animated Series, Doctor Jason Woodrue in Batman and Robin, Verad in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Invasive Procedures", The Devil in the series Brimstone, and the aforementioned role on Smallville. For the film, see 52 Pick-Up. ... Scrooged is a hit 1988 comedy film based on Charles Dickens classic story, A Christmas Carol. ... Payback is a 1999 action film starring Mel Gibson and directed by Brian Helgeland. ... RoboCop 2 is a 1990 science fiction film set in the near future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan. ... Detective Comics #140 (October 1948), the first appearance of The Riddler. ... The animated Batman shoots his grappling gun from a rooftop in a scene from the episode, On Leather Wings. ... The film Batman and Robin, directed by Joel Schumacher, is considered by most to be less serious than the 1989 Batman movie and sequels Batman Returns (1992) and Forever (1995). ... -1... Space station Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 or STDS9 or DS9 for short) is a science fiction television series produced by Paramount and set in the Star Trek universe. ... Invasive Procedures is the fourth episode of the second season of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ... The Devil is the name given to a supernatural entity who, in most Western religions, is the central embodiment of evil. ... Brimstone (1998-1999) is a short-lived Fox television series, featuring a dead detective whose mission (assigned by the Devil) is to return 113 spirits who have escaped from Hell to Earth. ...

He has also 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. He also appeared as "man in the chair/narrator" in The Drowsy Chaperone on Broadway during Summer 2007. What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... A Tony Award for the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play has been awarded since 1949. ... For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... Love! Valour! Compassion! is a 1995 play by Terrence McNally following the summer of a group of gay men and their family and friends at a summer home in New York. ... The Drowsy Chaperone is a musical with a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar and music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morisson. ...

Glover also had a small appearance in the Woody Allen film Annie Hall. In a flashback to a scene from the title character's past he utters the line: "Touch my heart. With your foot". He had a supporting role in the sixth season opener of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.And he had a twoappereeng role in new hit film The Queen (film). Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian and playwright. ... Annie Hall is a 1977 romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. ... In literature and film, a flashback (also called analepsis) takes the narrative back in time from the point the story has reached, to recount events that happened before and give the back-story. ... Law & Order: Criminal Intent is a United States crime drama television series that began in 2001. ... This article is about the film. ...

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