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John Glover received Tony and Obie Awards for his performance in Love! Valour! Compassion!. He last appeared at the Roundabout Theatre Company in the revival of Waiting for Godot for which he received a Tony Award nomination. His previous Roundabout appearances include Give Me Your Answer, Do!, The Marriage of Bette and Boo and The Paris Letter, which earned a Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award and Drama League Award nominations. He was seen recently on Broadway in the Lincoln Center revival of Macbeth, the Mike Nichols production of Death of a Salesman and the Manhattan Theatre Club revival of The Royal Family. His other notable New York appearances include The Drowsy Chaperone; The Great God Brown for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination, Nikolai and the Others, The Atmosphere of Memory, Tartuffe, The Winter’s Tale, Sorrows and Rejoicings, Oblivion Postponed and the Shakespeare in the Park productions of Much Ado About Nothing and Troilus and Cressida. He recently completed a run in the original musical My Paris at the Goodspeed Opera House and as the President in the Long Wharf Theatre and George Street Playhouse premieres of The Second Mrs. Wilson. His most recent New York stage appearance was in A Foreign Body. He has received five Emmy Award nominations for his work on television and has been seen on film in such notable movies as Love! Valour! Compassion!, Scrooged, Julia and Annie Hall.

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John Glover STAGE CREDITS

[Washington, DC (Regional)]
2021
Narrator

[Off-Broadway]
59 East 59 Off-Broadway Premiere, 2019
Performer

[Off-Broadway]
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Off-Broadway Reading, 2019
Performer

[Off-Broadway]
Sheen Center Production, 2019
Clemens von Galen

[Broadway]
Manhattan Theatre Club Broadway Revival Production, 2018
Performer

[Off-Broadway]
Classic Stage Company World Premiere, 2018
Dima

[Broadway]
Roundabout Theatre Company Broadway Revival, 2016
Gaev

[Off-Broadway]
Shakespeare in the Park Production, 2016
Pandarus

[Off-Broadway]
Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park, 2014
Leonato

[Broadway]
Lincoln Center Production, 2013
Third Murderer

Porter

Witch

[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 2012
Ben

[Off-Broadway]
Primary Stages Production, 2010
Performer

[Broadway]
Manhattan Theatre Club Revival, 2009
Herbert Dean

[Broadway]
Roundabout Revival, 2009
Lucky

[Off-Broadway]
Original Off-Broadway Production, 2008
Karl Hudlocke

[Off-Broadway]
2008
Karl Hudlocke

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 2006
Man in Chair [Replacement]

[Off-Broadway]
2005
Anton Kilgallen

[Off-Broadway]
2002
Performer

[Off-Broadway]
1999
Tom Connolly

[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 1996
Tartuffe

[Off-Broadway]
1995
Jeffrey

[Broadway]
1995
John Jeckyll

James Jeckyll

[Off-Broadway]
1994
John Jeckyll/James Jeckyll

[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 1984
Leo [Replacement]

[Off-Broadway]
1984
Performer

[Broadway]
1982
Roger Dashwell

[Broadway]
1981
Henry Clerval

[Broadway]
1977
Algernon Moncrieff

[Off-Broadway]
1976
Dr. Samuel Sutler

[Broadway]
1973
Johnny Case

[Broadway]
1973
Planteloup

[Broadway]
1973
Professor Muller

[Broadway]
1972
Pierrot

[Broadway]
1972
William A. Brown

[Off-Broadway]
1971
Prince Myshkin [Replacement]

[Off-Broadway]
1971
Ronnie [Replacement]

[Regional (US)]
World Premiere, 1970
Performer

[Off-Broadway]
1969
Godfrey


John Glover Movies

[1973]Shamus Johnnie

[1977]Annie Hall Actor Boy Friend

[1977]Julia Sammy

[1978]Somebody Killed Her Husband Herbert Little

[1979]Last Embrace Richard Peabody

[1980]Melvin and Howard 2nd Attorney Freese

[1980]The Mountain Men Nathan Wyeth

[1980]The American Success Company Ernst

[1981]The Incredible Shrinking Woman Tom Keller

[1982]A Little Sex Walter

[1984]The Evil That Men Do Briggs

[1984]A Flash of Green Ross Halley

[1985]A Killing Affair Sheb Sheppard

[1985]White Nights Wynn Scott

[1986]Willy/Milly Fred Niceman

[1986]52 Pick-Up Alan Raimy

[1988]The Chocolate War Brother Leon

[1988]Masquerade Tony Gateworth

[1988]Scrooged Brice Cummings

[1988]Rocket Gibraltar Rolo Rockwell

[1989]Meet the Hollowheads Henry Hollowhead

[1990]Gremlins 2: The New Batch Daniel Clamp

[1990]RoboCop 2 Magnavolt Salesman

[1993]Ed and His Dead Mother A.J. Pattle

[1994]In the Mouth of Madness Saperstein

[1995]Automatic Goddard Marx

[1995]Night of the Running Man Derek Mills

[1997]Love! Valour! Compassion! John & James Jeckyll

[1997]Batman & Robin Doctor Jon Woodrue

[1997]The Broken Giant Bennett Hale

[1998]Dead Broke Sam

[1999]Payback Phil

[1999]Macbeth in Manhattan Richard, Director

[2001]The Body Jesus Christ Street Actor

[2001]On Edge Yuri Moskivin

[2002]Mid-Century Bill Gates

[2004]Tricks Ralph

[2005]The Civilization of Maxwell Bright Ogden

[2013]Sweet Talk Professor, Count

[2014]Reality Zog

[2015]You Bury Your Own Detective Gillespie

[2016]We Go On Dr. Ellison

[2019]Shazam! Mr. Sivana

[2022]Fatal Influence: Like. Follow. Survive. The Grand Zel


John Glover TV Shows

American Dreamer Bill

Batman: The Animated Series The Riddler, Edward Nygma, Riddler

Brimstone The Devil, Angel

Dinosaurs Babysitter, Prosecutor, Lucius

Law & Order: Criminal Intent Dr. Declan Gage

Murder, She Wrote Andrew Durbin, Franz Mueller

Numb3rs Simon Kraft

Search for Tomorrow Billy Vargas

Smallville Lionel Luthor, Darkseid, Jor-El

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd Mike Sayles

The Good Wife Jared Andrews

TRON: Uprising Dyson

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John Glover FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

John Glover has appeared on Broadway in 18 shows.

John Glover has not appeared in the West End.

John Glover has been nominated for several awards throughout his career, including The Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for "The Lisbon Traviata," Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for "Waiting for Godot," Outstanding Lead Actor (The Lortels) for "The Paris Letter," Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for "Love! Valour! Compassion!," and Outstanding Performance (Drama Desk Awards) for "The Great God Brown."

John Glover has won the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! He also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance for The Great God Brown.

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