FrameThrower · Actors · John Glover
John Glover
4 films · 430 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1988–1997
Born 7 August 1944 · Salisbury, Maryland, USA
John Soursby Glover Jr. is an American actor, perhaps best known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, including Lionel Luthor on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 430 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1988–1997
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play1996
- Ovation Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 430 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work John takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 82% of their frames are night, 73% low key — the look of the work John takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 430 frames from John Glover's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.