New Details on Sylar’s Dad from TV Guide
The new issue of TV Guide arrived in my mailbox today and inside I found a sneak peek at John Glover as Sylar’s dad. Not only do we get a first look at Sylar and Samson together, we also find out from the article that the elder Gray will be dying of lung cancer and on a portable oxygen tank – but he’ll still be chain smoking. Glover describes his role as a “juicy part” and Tim Kring is quoted as saying that watching the two of them together was like “watching two great boxers.”
Here’s a scan of the piece:
The March 9-15 issue of TV Guide magazine is available starting tomorrow. It features David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel of Bones on the cover.





March 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 am
[...] will finally meet his bio dad next week, as played by John Glover. As I reported yesterday, Samson Gray has a major health problem (lung cancer) that will affect the relationship between he [...]
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:48 am
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll be watching for that to come in the mail.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:28 pm
My main question is this, how the hell did Luke know where Samson went? And since Dan Byrd is not in any of the coming episodes I guess it’s up to Samson to tell us.