Danny Glover
Acting
Born July 22, 1946 · San Francisco, California, USA
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.
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Acting (207)
Newbies
2025
The Naughty Nine
2023
Double Soul
2023
American Dreamer
2022
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
2022
Press Play
2022
A Night at the Academy Museum
2021
The Drummer
2020
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
2020
After Fact
2020
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
2020
Jumanji: The Next Level
2019
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
2019
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
2019
Strive
2019
The Dead Don't Die
2019
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
2019
Always in Season
2019
The Robeson Effect
2019
Christmas Break-In
2018
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
2018
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
2018
The Old Man & the Gun
2018
Sorry to Bother You
2018
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018
Howard
2018
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018
Come Sunday
2018
Proud Mary
2018
The Christmas Train
2017
The Curse of Buckout Road
2017
Vagabonds
2017
The Good Catholic
2017
Tour de Pharmacy
2017
Agents of Change
2017
Birth of a Movement
2017
Extortion
2017
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
2017
Monster Trucks
2016
Almost Christmas
2016
Pushing Dead
2016
Complete Unknown
2016
Mr. Pig
2016
Gridlocked
2016
Back in the Day
2016
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
2016
93 Days
2016
Darkweb
2016
Dirty Grandpa
2016
Diablo
2016
Andron
2015
Waffle Street
2015
Checkmate
2015
Consumed
2015
About Scout
2015
Bad Asses on the Bayou
2015
Mississippi Inferno
2015
Caffeinated
2015
Toxin
2015
Beyond the Lights
2014
Day of the Mummy
2014
Yellowbird
2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
2047: Sights of Death
2014
Supremacy
2014
We Are Many
2014
Rage
2014
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
2014
The Ninja Immovable Heart
2014
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
Chasing Shakespeare
2014
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
Extraction
2013
Tula: The Revolt
2013
Highland Park
2013
Shuffleton's Barbershop
2013
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
2013
Space Warriors
2013
The Shift
2013
The Bouquet
2013
LUV
2013
Casting By
2012
The Children's Republic
2012
The Lighthouse
2012
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'
2012
Shadows of Liberty
2012
Hannah's Law
2012
Sins
2012
Mysteria
2011
Rise Like Lions
2011
Donovan's Echo
2011
Age of the Dragons
2011
Son of Morning
2011
Mooz-lum
2011
I Want to Be a Soldier
2010
Down for Life
2010
I'm Still Here
2010
Legendary
2010
Dear Alice
2010
Alpha and Omega
2010
Death at a Funeral
2010
Five Minarets in New York
2010
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
2010
The People Speak
2009
2012
2009
PoliWood
2009
The Harimaya Bridge
2009
Night Train
2009
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
2008
Fats Waller Was Born Here
2008
Blindness
2008
Be Kind Rewind
2008
Gospel Hill
2008
Agent Crush
2008
Honeydripper
2007
Battle for Terra
2007
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
2007
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007
Shooter
2007
Poor Boy's Game
2007
Dreamgirls
2006
Read You Like a Book
2006
Barnyard
2006
The Court
2006
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
2006
The Shaggy Dog
2006
The Exonerated
2006
Full Disclosure Report
2005
The Peace!
2005
Manderlay
2005
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
2005
Missing in America
2005
P.N.O.K.
2005
Saw
2004
The Cookout
2004
The John Garfield Story
2003
Good Fences
2003
The Real Eve
2002
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
3 A.M.
2001
Boesman and Lena
2000
Bàttu
2000
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
2000
Freedom Song
2000
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
1999
Our Friend, Martin
1999
The Prince of Egypt
1998
Beloved
1998
Antz
1998
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
1998
Lethal Weapon 4
1998
Soldier Child
1998
Buffalo Soldiers
1997
The Rainmaker
1997
Switchback
1997
Wild America
1997
Gone Fishin'
1997
America's Dream
1996
Red Wind
1995
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
1995
Operation Dumbo Drop
1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
Angels in the Outfield
1994
Maverick
1994
The Saint of Fort Washington
1993
Bopha!
1993
The Talking Eggs
1993
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion
1992
Lethal Weapon 3
1992
Grand Canyon
1991
Pure Luck
1991
A Rage in Harlem
1991
Flight of the Intruder
1991
Predator 2
1990
To Sleep with Anger
1990
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt
1990
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby
1990
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
1989
Lethal Weapon 2
1989
Dead Man Out
1989
A Raisin in the Sun
1989
Hollywood on Horses
1989
Bat★21
1988
A Place at the Table
1988
Mandela
1987
Lethal Weapon
1987
John Henry
1986
The Color Purple
1985
Silverado
1985
The Stand-In
1985
Witness
1985
And the Children Shall Lead
1985
Places in the Heart
1984
Iceman
1984
Memorial Day
1983
The Face of Rage
1983
Keeping On
1983
Out
1982
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1981
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
1981
Escape from Alcatraz
1979
San Francisco State: On Strike
1969