Scott James Wells is an American actor, primarily noted for playing the villain Lex Luthor

Lex Luthor

Lex Luthor is a fictional character, a supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics, and the archenemy of Superman, although given his high status as a supervillain, he has also come into conflict with Batman and other superheroes in the DC Universe. Created by Jerry Siegel and...

 during the first season of the television series Superboy

Superboy (TV series)

Superboy is a half-hour live-action television series based on the fictional DC Comics comic book character Kal-El's early years as Superboy. The show ran from 1988–1992 in syndication...

. Not much can be found on the actor, who seems to have disappeared into obscurity after being replaced by Sherman Howard

Sherman Howard

Howard Lee Sherman is an American actor.-Theatre:In 1989 he appeared at the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. He played the title role in Hamlet and Malvolio in Twelfth Night...

 for the remainder of the series, beginning with season two. According to an interview with Ilya Salkind

Ilya Salkind

Ilya Juan Salkind Dominguez , usually known as Ilya Salkind, is a film and television producer, well known for his contributions to the live-action Superman films of the 1970s and '80s alongside his father, Alexander Salkind....

 on the Superman Homepage, Wells was unavailable for the Superboy: Season One DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 extras, because he was "in rehab."[1]

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