Tom Welling (Clark Kent) Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang) Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor) Jensen Ackles (Jason Teague) Allison Mack (Chloe Sullivan) John Glover (Lionel Luthor) Annette O'Toole (Martha Kent) John Schneider (Jonathan Kent) Erica Durance (Lois Lane) Samuel Jones (Pete Ross) Eric Johnson (Whitney Fordman)

John Schneider is a multi-talented performer with credits spanning television, film, music and the stage. Best known for his role as Bo Duke on the popular television series The Dukes of Hazzard, Schneider stars in Smallville as Jonathan Kent, father to a teenage Clark Kent.

Schneider starred for six seasons as one of the fast-driving, fun-loving cousins of the Duke clan on the hugely popular '80s comedy-adventure series The Dukes of Hazzard. He reprised his beloved role in the television movie The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood. Schneider was also a series regular on the family drama Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and the syndicated drama Heaven Help Us.

Recently, Schneider directed and starred in the original television movie Mary Christmas, with Cynthia Gibb. He also has appeared in numerous other original television movies, including Michael Landon, the Father I Knew, True Women, Night of the Twisters, The Legend of Ruby Silver, Texas and Desperate Journey. He can also be heard as the voice of the lead character in Kids' WB!'s animated series The Mummy.

On the big screen, he stars in the upcoming Lightning: Storm of Destruction and also appeared in Snow Day, with Chevy Chase, and Garry Marshall's Exit to Eden.

A respected singer and songwriter as well, Schneider did 487 performances of the Tony Award-winning musical Grand Hotel and has released 11 solo albums, including a No. 1 album and four No. 1 singles.

Recognizing a need for better health care for children, Schneider co-founded the Children's Miracle Network, the only annual fundraising event of its kind in the world. All monies raised are given directly to children's hospitals located throughout North America. Since its inception in 1982, the telethon has made over $1 billion for hospitals in the United States and Canada.

A native of Mount Kisco, New York, Schneider currently lives just outside of Los Angeles with his wife Elly and their three children.

Weigh to Go: "As a youngster, I was very overweight. I loved to eat more than anybody I knew. Instead of eating one or two cookies, I would gobble up a whole box. Still, I grew up with a good amount of self-confidence. Older folks used to tell me, 'If anyone can do what he wants with his life, it's you.' "

Southern Comfort: "Though I was born in Westchester County, New York, I walked into the casting session of my first TV series, the Dukes of Hazzard, as though I'd just fallen off a turnip truck: unwashed, unshaven, and talking very loudly in a thick Southern drawl. It worked!"

Cabin Fever: "If I retire - though I don't know when that would ever be the case - I'll probably retreat to a cabin in the mountains somewhere and just relax."

Car Culture: "One of my dreams was to open my own automobile repair shop. I have one now in Burbank, near the studio. I don't go and work on the cars myself; I wouldn't know how. All I do know about cars is how to drive them, keep them filled with gas, change a tire, and clean them."