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BIO

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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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


Movies

Shamus
[ 1973 ] Johnnie
Annie Hall
[ 1977 ] Actor Boy Friend
Julia
[ 1977 ] Sammy
Somebody Killed Her Husband
[ 1978 ] Herbert Little
Last Embrace
[ 1979 ] Richard Peabody
Melvin and Howard
[ 1980 ] 2nd Attorney Freese
The American Success Company
[ 1980 ] Ernst
The Mountain Men
[ 1980 ] Nathan Wyeth
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
[ 1981 ] Tom Keller
A Little Sex
[ 1982 ] Walter
The Evil That Men Do
[ 1984 ] Briggs
A Flash of Green
[ 1984 ] Ross Halley
A Killing Affair
[ 1985 ] Sheb Sheppard
White Nights
[ 1985 ] Wynn Scott
52 Pick-Up
[ 1986 ] Alan Raimy
Willy/Milly
[ 1986 ] Fred Niceman
Scrooged
[ 1988 ] Brice Cummings
The Chocolate War
[ 1988 ] Brother Leon
Rocket Gibraltar
[ 1988 ] Rolo Rockwell
Masquerade
[ 1988 ] Tony Gateworth
Meet the Hollowheads
[ 1989 ] Henry Hollowhead
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
[ 1990 ] Daniel Clamp
RoboCop 2
[ 1990 ] Magnavolt Salesman
Ed and His Dead Mother
[ 1993 ] A.J. Pattle
In the Mouth of Madness
[ 1994 ] Saperstein
Night of the Running Man
[ 1995 ] Derek Mills
Automatic
[ 1995 ] Goddard Marx
The Broken Giant
[ 1997 ] Bennett Hale
Batman & Robin
[ 1997 ] Doctor Jon Woodrue
Love! Valour! Compassion!
[ 1997 ] John & James Jeckyll
Dead Broke
[ 1998 ] Sam
Payback
[ 1999 ] Phil
Macbeth in Manhattan
[ 1999 ] Richard, Director
The Body
[ 2001 ] Jesus Christ Street Actor
On Edge
[ 2001 ] Yuri Moskivin
Mid-Century
[ 2002 ] Bill Gates
Tricks
[ 2004 ] Ralph
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright
[ 2005 ] Ogden
Sweet Talk
[ 2013 ] Professor, Count
Reality
[ 2014 ] Zog
You Bury Your Own
[ 2015 ] Detective Gillespie
We Go On
[ 2016 ] Dr. Ellison
Shazam!
[ 2019 ] Mr. Sivana
Fatal Influence: Like. Follow. Survive.
[ 2022 ] The Grand Zel

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

Awards and Nominations

Helen Hayes Awards - 2011 - The Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play

John GloverThe Lisbon Traviata

Tony Awards - 2009 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

John Glover, Waiting for Godot

The Lortels - 2006 - Outstanding Lead Actor

John Glover, The Paris Letter


winner
Tony Awards - 1995 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

John Glover , Love! Valour! Compassion!


winner
Drama Desk Awards - 1973 - Outstanding Performance

John Glover, The Great God Brown

Videos

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many Broadway shows has John Glover been in?

John Glover has appeared on Broadway in 18 shows.

How many West End shows has John Glover been in?

John Glover has not appeared in the West End.

What awards has John Glover been nominated for?

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.

What awards has John Glover won?

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.

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