Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 22, 1946
Place of Birth:
San Francisco, California, USA
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Danny Glover
Biography
Danny Lebern Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. He is best known for his co-starring lead role as Sergeant Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film series.
Glover has had a variety of film, stage, and television roles. He starred as the husband to Whoopi Goldberg's character, Celie in the celebrated literary adaptation of The Color Purple, and as Lieutenant James McFee in the film Witness. He had leading roles in other films including To Sleep with Anger, Predator 2, Angels in the Outfield, and Operation Dumbo Drop. He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for his starring role in Charles Burnett's To Sleep with Anger.
Also, he has had prominent supporting roles in Silverado, Witness, A Rage in Harlem, Dreamgirls, Shooter, Death at a Funeral, Beyond the Lights, Sorry to Bother You, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, The Dead Don't Die, Lonesome Dove and Jumanji: The Next Level. Glover earned top billing for the first time in Predator 2, the sequel to the science fiction action film Predator. During his career, he has also made several cameos, appearing, for example, in the Michael Jackson video "Liberian Girl" of 1987.
In 1994, he made his directorial debut with the Showtime channel short film Override. Also in 1994, Glover and actor Ben Guillory founded the Robey Theatre Company in Los Angeles, focusing on theatre by and about black people.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Newbies | |
| 2023 | Double Soul | Michael Tedeschi |
| 2023 | The Naughty Nine | Santa Claus |
| 2022 | American Dreamer | Jerry |
| 2022 | De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem? | Ele mesmo |
| 2022 | Press Play | Cooper |
| 2021 | A Night at the Academy Museum | Self |
| 2020 | The Drummer | Mark Walker |
| 2020 | After Fact | Self |
| 2020 | Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War | Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man | Narrator (voice) |
| 2019 | The Robeson Effect | Self |
| 2019 | Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story | Narrator |
| 2019 | The Last Black Man in San Francisco | Grandpa Allen |
| 2019 | Always in Season | Narrator (voice) |
| 2019 | Jumanji: The Next Level | Milo |
| 2019 | The Dead Don't Die | Hank Thompson |
| 2019 | The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs | Narrator (voice) |
| 2019 | Strive | |
| 2018 | Howard | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Death Race: Beyond Anarchy | Baltimore Bob |
| 2018 | Come Sunday | Gilbert Pearson |
| 2018 | The Old Man & the Gun | Teddy |
| 2018 | Proud Mary | Benny |
| 2018 | Sorry to Bother You | Langston |
| 2018 | Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey | Mr. Ocean |
| 2018 | Survivor's Guide to Prison | Self |
| 2018 | Christmas Break-In | Ray |
| 2018 | Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones | Self |
| 2018 | The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution | Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | Vagabonds | Uncle Issa |
| 2017 | Extortion | Constable Haagen |
| 2017 | Birth of a Movement | Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | The Good Catholic | Victor |
| 2017 | Tour de Pharmacy | Slim Robinson Present Day |
| 2017 | Agents of Change | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | The Curse of Buckout Road | Dr. Powell |
| 2017 | The Christmas Train | Max Powers |
| 2017 | Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories | Self |
| 2016 | Monster Trucks | Mr. Weathers |
| 2016 | Back in the Day | Eddie 'Rocks' Travor |
| 2016 | Complete Unknown | Roger |
| 2016 | Diablo | Benjamin Carver |
| 2016 | Dirty Grandpa | Stinky |
| 2016 | Darkweb | The Boss |
| 2016 | Mr. Pig | Ambrose |
| 2016 | Gridlocked | Sully |
| 2016 | Pushing Dead | Bob |
| 2016 | Almost Christmas | Walter |
| 2016 | 93 Days | Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri |
| 2016 | Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights | Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Bad Asses on the Bayou | Bernie Pope |
| 2015 | Toxin | Dr. Locke |
| 2015 | Consumed | Hal Westbrook |
| 2015 | About Scout | Red |
| 2015 | Checkmate | Elohim |
| 2015 | Waffle Street | Edward Collins |
| 2015 | Andron | Chancellor Gordon |
| 2015 | Caffeinated | Coffee Lover |
| 2015 | Mississippi Inferno | Narrator (voice) |
| 2014 | Chasing Shakespeare | William Ward |
| 2014 | Beyond the Lights | Captain Nicol |
| 2014 | Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses | Bernie Pope |
| 2014 | Rage | Detective St. John |
| 2014 | 2047: Sights of Death | Sponge |
| 2014 | Supremacy | Mr. Walker |
| 2014 | Yellowbird | Darius (voice) |
| 2014 | Day of the Mummy | Carl |
| 2014 | We Are Many | Self |
| 2014 | The Ninja Immovable Heart | Ex Director Matthew Reynolds |
| 2014 | We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama | |
| 2014 | Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee | Self |
| 2013 | LUV | Arthur |
| 2013 | Highland Park | Ed |
| 2013 | Tula: The Revolt | Shinishi |
| 2013 | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | Justice Thurgood Marshall |
| 2013 | Space Warriors | Commander Phillips |
| 2013 | The Bouquet | Reverend John |
| 2013 | Extraction | Harding |
| 2013 | Shuffleton's Barbershop | Charlie Shuffleton |
| 2013 | Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth | Self |
| 2013 | The Shift | Floyd |
| 2012 | Casting By | Self |
| 2012 | The Children's Republic | Dubem |
| 2012 | Hannah's Law | Isom Dart |
| 2012 | Sins | Father Leonard |
| 2012 | The Lighthouse | Duncan |
| 2012 | Shadows of Liberty | Self |
| 2012 | Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon' | Self |
| 2011 | Mooz-lum | Dean Francis |
| 2011 | Son of Morning | Gabriel Peters |
| 2011 | Mysteria | Investigator |
| 2011 | Age of the Dragons | Ahab |
| 2011 | Rise Like Lions | Self (Occupy Oakland) |
| 2011 | Donovan's Echo | Donovan Matheson |
| 2010 | Alpha and Omega | Winston (voice) |
| 2010 | Death at a Funeral | Uncle Russell |
| 2010 | Legendary | Harry 'Red' Newman |
| 2010 | Down for Life | Mr. Shannon |
| 2010 | Five Minarets in New York | Marcus |
| 2010 | I Want to Be a Soldier | School Director |
| 2010 | Dear Alice | Franzis |
| 2010 | I'm Still Here | Danny Glover |
| 2010 | 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic | Self |
| 2010 | The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective | Self |
| 2010 | Sam Cooke: Crossing Over | Narrator (voice) |
| 2009 | 2012 | President Thomas Wilson |
| 2009 | Night Train | Miles |
| 2009 | The Harimaya Bridge | Joseph Holder |
| 2009 | The People Speak | Self |
| 2009 | PoliWood | Self |
| 2008 | Gospel Hill | John Malcolm |
| 2008 | Be Kind Rewind | Mr. Fletcher |
| 2008 | Blindness | Man with Black Eye Patch |
| 2008 | Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare | Walter Tortoise (voice) |
| 2008 | Saw V | David Tapp (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2007 | Shooter | Colonel Isaac Johnson |
| 2007 | Honeydripper | Tyrone Purvis |
| 2007 | Poor Boy's Game | George |
| 2007 | Battle for Terra | President Chen (voice) |
| 2007 | Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation | Father Elias |
| 2006 | Dreamgirls | Marty Madison |
| 2006 | The Shaggy Dog | Ken Hollister |
| 2006 | Barnyard | Miles the Mule (voice) |
| 2006 | The Exonerated | David Keaton |
| 2006 | Bamako | Cow-boy |
| 2006 | The Adventures of Brer Rabbit | Brer Turtle (voice) |
| 2006 | Read You Like a Book | |
| 2005 | Manderlay | Wilhelm |
| 2005 | Missing in America | Jake Neely |
| 2005 | The Peace! | Self |
| 2005 | Full Disclosure Report | David Tapp |
| 2005 | P.N.O.K. | Col. Weldon |
| 2005 | The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2' | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Saw | David Tapp |
| 2004 | The Cookout | Judge Crowley |
| 2003 | Good Fences | Tom Spader |
| 2003 | The John Garfield Story | Self |
| 2002 | The Real Eve | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | The Royal Tenenbaums | Henry Sherman |
| 2001 | 3 A.M. | Hershey |
| 2000 | Boesman and Lena | Boesman |
| 2000 | Freedom Song | Will Walker |
| 2000 | Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration | Self |
| 2000 | Bàttu | |
| 1999 | Scared Straight! 20 Years Later | Host |
| 1999 | Our Friend, Martin | Train Conductor (voice) |
| 1999 | The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong | Narrator (voice) |
| 1999 | The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen | Self (archive footage) |
| 1998 | Lethal Weapon 4 | Roger Murtaugh |
| 1998 | Antz | Barbatus (voice) |
| 1998 | The Prince of Egypt | Jethro (voice) |
| 1998 | Beloved | Paul D |
| 1998 | Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1997 | Switchback | Bob Goodall |
| 1997 | The Rainmaker | Richter Tyrone Kipler |
| 1997 | Gone Fishin' | Gus Green |
| 1997 | Buffalo Soldiers | Sgt. Washington Wyatt |
| 1997 | Wild America | Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited) |
| 1996 | America's Dream | Silas (segment "Long Black Song") |
| 1995 | Operation Dumbo Drop | Capt. Sam Cahill |
| 1995 | Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities | Self |
| 1995 | The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | Self |
| 1995 | Red Wind | Philip Marlowe |
| 1994 | Angels in the Outfield | George Knox |
| 1994 | Maverick | Bank Robber (uncredited) |
| 1993 | The Saint of Fort Washington | Jerry |
| 1993 | Bopha! | Micah Mangena |
| 1993 | The Talking Eggs | Narrator (voice) |
| 1992 | Lethal Weapon 3 | Roger Murtaugh |
| 1992 | Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion | Narrator (voice) |
| 1991 | Grand Canyon | Simon |
| 1991 | A Rage in Harlem | Easy Money |
| 1991 | Flight of the Intruder | Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli |
| 1991 | Pure Luck | Raymond Campanella |
| 1990 | Predator 2 | Lieutenant Mike Harrigan |
| 1990 | To Sleep with Anger | Harry |
| 1990 | Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby | Narrator (voice) |
| 1990 | Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt | Narrator (voice) |
| 1989 | Lethal Weapon 2 | Roger Murtaugh |
| 1989 | Dead Man Out | Dr. Alex Marsh |
| 1989 | A Raisin in the Sun | Walter Lee Younger |
| 1989 | Hollywood on Horses | Self |
| 1989 | Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots | Narrator (voice) |
| 1988 | Bat★21 | Capt. Bartholomew Clark |
| 1988 | A Place at the Table | Mr. Scott |
| 1987 | Lethal Weapon | Roger Murtaugh |
| 1987 | Mandela | Nelson Mandela |
| 1986 | John Henry | John Henry |
| 1985 | The Color Purple | Albert |
| 1985 | Silverado | Malachi 'Mal' Johnson |
| 1985 | Witness | McFee |
| 1985 | And the Children Shall Lead | William |
| 1985 | The Stand-In | Apples Finnerty |
| 1984 | Iceman | Loomis |
| 1984 | Places in the Heart | Moze |
| 1983 | Keeping On | Lester Traylor |
| 1983 | The Face of Rage | Gary |
| 1983 | Memorial Day | Willie Monroe |
| 1982 | Out | Jojo / Roland |
| 1981 | Chu Chu and the Philly Flash | Morgan |
| 1981 | Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer | Oscar Micheaux |
| 1979 | Escape from Alcatraz | Inmate |
| 1969 | San Francisco State: On Strike | self |
| Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story | Narrator (voice) |