John Glover — Actor (26)
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Medusa's Child (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Medusa's Child
director: Larry Shaw actor: Vincent Spano / Lori Loughlin …
other title: Medusa's Child - Atombombe an Bord der 737 / Piège en plein ciel …
Fuming over the departure of his wife Vivian and the cutting of his research funding, crazy nuclear scientist Rogers Henry constructs Medusa, a thermonuclear bomb capable of generating a continent-sized electro-magnetic pulse; such EMP could effectively destroy a computer-based society. He dupes Vivian into bringing it to the Pentagon to exact his final revenge on the government, rigging it so it will explode before its count-down if Vivian's pacemaker isn't within fifteen feet of it. Medusa arms itself in the air aboard Scott Nash's 737 cargo plane, and with Hurricane Sigrid about to hit the coast, nobody wants to let them land. Based on the novel by John J. Nance.
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Apology (1986) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Apology
director: Robert Bierman actor: Lesley Ann Warren / Peter Weller …
other title: Apology - Tödliches Geständnis
For her upcoming exhibition, "Apology," Lily, a New York conceptual artist, is designing a sound and sculpture installation inspired by the testimony of anonymous phone callers who, after responding to a public advert inviting them to spill their guts, leave messages on her answering machine. When one caller confesses to a murder, Lily begins to suspect that the mystery man may be intending a little "performance" of his own: her death.
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El Diablo (1990) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
El Diablo
director: Peter Markle actor: Anthony Edwards / Louis Gossett Jr. …
other title: El Diablo - Der mit dem Teufel tanzt / El Diablo – Der mit dem Teufel tanzt
When mild-mannered teacher Billy Ray Smith vows to bring a student's kidnapper to justice, he needs a bit of help. Lacking any cowboy skills of his own, he signs on a speedy gunslinger and a no-nonsense cowboy to help. Now, Smith may just have a chance at capturing his man: the merciless bandit El Diablo.
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Masquerade (1988) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Masquerade
director: Bob Swaim actor: Rob Lowe / Meg Tilly …
other title: A farsa / Masquerade - Ein tödliches Spiel …
A recently orphaned heiress meets a young racing yacht captain on Long Island. He shows interest in her and, being heiress to $200,000,000, love may not be the reason.
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The Chocolate War (1988) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Chocolate War
director: Keith Gordon actor: John Glover / Ilan Mitchell-Smith …
other title: La guerra de los bombones
Jerry, a new student at an elite Catholic prep school, must face the hazing practices handed down by the Vigils, a group of powerful students. When teacher Brother Leon pushes the students to sell chocolates for a fundraiser, the head of the Vigils, Archie, gets Jerry to reject selling for 10 days. However, Jerry decides to keep up the refusal past the original time frame, which pits him against the Vigils and the school staff.
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Meet the Hollowheads (1989) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Meet the Hollowheads
director: Thomas R. Burman actor: John Glover / Nancy Mette …
other title: Al limite dell'umano / Rohr frei für Familie Hollowhead - Life on the Edge …
The Hollowheads are a strange, futuristic family that live in a Jetsons type world complete with many cool gadgets. Henry is hoping for a promotion at the slime factory in which he works and decides to bring his boss home for dinner and to meet the family. Henry's perverted boss doesn't know what he's up against when he tries to make advances with Mrs. Hollowhead
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Last Embrace (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Last Embrace
director: Jonathan Demme actor: Roy Scheider / Janet Margolin …
other title: Il segno degli Hannan / Det sjette offer …
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.
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Automatic (1995) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Automatic
director: John Murlowski actor: Olivier Gruner / Daphne Ashbrook …
Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks. But one night, an Automatic named J269 discovers a Robgen executive trying to rape a female employee named Nora Rochester. While trying to stop the crime, he inadvertently kills the executive. At this point, J269 then calls Goddard Marx (his creator and a Robgen chairman) to inform him of the incident. Marx tells the android to stay there with Rochester until help arrives, but Marx is intent on sweeping the fiasco under the rug by sending mercenaries to eliminate both J269 and Rochester. Now the two are fugitives on the run from a para-military hit squad.
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White Nights (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge
White Nights
director: Taylor Hackford actor: Mikhail Baryshnikov / Gregory Hines …
other title: Il sole a mezzanotte / O Sol da Meia-Noite …
After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.
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52 Pick-Up (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
52 Pick-Up
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Roy Scheider / Ann-Margret …
other title: 52 gioca o muori / Afpresning …
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
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The Evil That Men Do (1984) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Evil That Men Do
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Charles Bronson / José Ferrer …
other title: Professione giustiziere / Voldens Helvede …
A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Maher) employed by an oppressive foreign dictatorship.
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Shamus (1973) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Shamus
director: Buzz Kulik actor: Burt Reynolds / Dyan Cannon …
other title: La violenza è il mio forte / Der Spürhund …
Millions in diamonds are stolen from a New York City safe, and later the burglar is killed. Shamus is paid $10,000 by the owner to find the diamonds or the killer.
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
director: Joel Schumacher actor: Lily Tomlin / Charles Grodin …
other title: A incrível mulher que encolheu / Die unglaubliche Geschichte der Mrs. K. …
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.
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The Home (2025) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData
The Home
director: James DeMonaco actor: Pete Davidson / John Glover …
other title: The Home - Il segreto del quarto piano / Forbidden Floor - The Home
A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and upbringing as a foster child.
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Payback (1999) [Movie] KevGa-NeoDB TMDB IMDb
Payback
director: Brian Helgeland actor: Mel Gibson / Gregg Henry …
other title: Payback - Zahltag / Payback - La rivincita di Porter …
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
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Scrooged (1988) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb Skybridge
Scrooged
director: Richard Donner actor: William James Murray / Karen Allen …
other title: S.O.S. Fantasmi / SOS Fantasmas …
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.