John Glover

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John Glover
Gender: Male
Date of birth: 7 August 1944
Place of birth: Salisbury, Maryland, USA
Characters: Verad Dax

John Glover (born 7 August 1944; age 63) 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.

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

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