Danny Glover
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.
Born: 22 July 1946
Played In
Newbies
The Naughty Nine
Santa Claus
Double Soul
Michael Tedeschi
American Dreamer
Jerry
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
Self
Press Play
Cooper
A Night at the Academy Museum
Self
When I See Them, I See Us
The Drummer
Mark Walker
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Narrator (voice)
After Fact
Self
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
Narrator (voice)
Jumanji: The Next Level
Milo
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
Narrator (voice)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Grandpa Allen
Strive
The Dead Don't Die
Hank Thompson
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
Narrator
Always in Season
Narrator (voice)
The Robeson Effect
Self
Christmas Break-In
Ray
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
Self
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
Baltimore Bob
The Old Man & the Gun
Teddy
Sorry to Bother You
Langston
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
Mr. Ocean
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
Narrator (voice)
Howard
Self (archive footage)
Survivor's Guide to Prison
Self
Come Sunday
Gilbert Pearson
Proud Mary
Benny
The Christmas Train
Max Powers
The Curse of Buckout Road
Dr. Powell
Vagabonds
Uncle Issa
The Good Catholic
Victor
Tour de Pharmacy
Slim Robinson Present Day
Agents of Change
Self - Narrator (voice)
Cold Case Files
Self - Narrator (voice)
Birth of a Movement
Narrator (voice)
Extortion
Detective Constable Haagen
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
Self
Monster Trucks
Mr. Weathers
Almost Christmas
Walter
Pushing Dead
Bob
Complete Unknown
Roger
Mr. Pig
Ambrose
Gridlocked
Sully
Back in the Day
Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
Narrator (voice)
93 Days
Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
Darkweb
The Boss
Dirty Grandpa
Stinky
Diablo
Benjamin Carver
Andron
Chancellor Gordon
Waffle Street
Edward Collins
Checkmate
Elohim
Consumed
Hal Westbrook
About Scout
Red
Bad Asses on the Bayou
Bernie Pope
Mississippi Inferno
Narrator (voice)
Caffeinated
Coffee Lover
Toxin
Dr. Locke
Beyond the Lights
Captain Nicol
Day of the Mummy
Carl
Yellowbird
Darius (voice)
black-ish
Uncle Norman
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Self
2047: Sights of Death
Sponge
Supremacy
Mr. Walker
We Are Many
Self
Rage
Detective St. John
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
Bernie Pope
The Ninja Immovable Heart
Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
Mozart in the Jungle
Mayor
Chasing Shakespeare
William Ward
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Justice Thurgood Marshall
Ironside
Frank Ironside
Extraction
Harding
Tula: The Revolt
Shinishi
Highland Park
Ed
Shuffleton's Barbershop
Charlie Shuffleton
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Self
Space Warriors
Commander Phillips
The Shift
Floyd
The Bouquet
Reverend John
LUV
Arthur
Casting By
Self
The Children's Republic
Dubem
The Lighthouse
Duncan
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'
Self
Shadows of Liberty
Self
Hannah's Law
Isom Dart
Sins
Father Leonard
Touch
Professor Arthur Teller
Mysteria
Investigator
Rise Like Lions
Self (Occupy Oakland)
Donovan's Echo
Donovan Matheson
Age of the Dragons
Ahab
Son of Morning
Gabriel Peters
Mooz-lum
Dean Francis
I Want to Be a Soldier
School Director
Down for Life
Mr. Shannon
I'm Still Here
Danny Glover
Legendary
Harry 'Red' Newman
Dear Alice
Franzis
Alpha and Omega
Winston (voice)
Death at a Funeral
Uncle Russell
Five Minarets in New York
Marcus
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
Self
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
Self
Human Target
Client
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
Narrator (voice)
The People Speak
Self
2012
President Thomas Wilson
Nite Tales: The Series
Jeremiah
PoliWood
Self
The Harimaya Bridge
Joseph Holder
Night Train
Miles
Leverage
Charlie Lawson
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
Walter Tortoise (voice)
Fats Waller Was Born Here
"Fats" Waller's Father/Mr. Fletcher
Blindness
Man with Black Eye Patch
Be Kind Rewind
Mr. Fletcher
Gospel Hill
John Malcolm
Agent Crush
Major Rusty Gubbins
Honeydripper
Tyrone Purvis
Battle for Terra
President Chen (voice)
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
Self
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
Father Elias
Shooter
Colonel Isaac Johnson
Bamako
Cow-boy
Poor Boy's Game
George
Dreamgirls
Marty Madison
Read You Like a Book
Brothers and Sisters
Isaac Marshall
Barnyard
Miles (voice)
Psych
Mel Hornsby
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
Brer Turtle (voice)
The Shaggy Dog
Ken Hollister
The Exonerated
David Keaton
The Reichen Show
Self
Full Disclosure Report
David Tapp
Criminal Minds
Hank Morgan
The Peace!
Self
My Name Is Earl
Thomas
Manderlay
Wilhelm
American Dad!
Minstrel Krampus (voice)
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
Self (archive footage)
Missing in America
Jake Neely
P.N.O.K.
Col. Weldon
Legend of Earthsea
Ogion
Saw
David Tapp
The Cookout
Judge Crowley
Earthed
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
The John Garfield Story
Self
Good Fences
Tom Spader
The Real Eve
Narrator (voice)
The Royal Tenenbaums
Henry Sherman
3 A.M.
Hershey
Boesman and Lena
Boesman
Bàttu
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
Self
Freedom Song
Will Walker
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
Self (archive footage)
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
Narrator (voice)
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
Host
Our Friend, Martin
Train Conductor (voice)
The Prince of Egypt
Jethro (voice)
Beloved
Paul D
Antz
Barbatus (voice)
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
Self - Narrator (voice)
Hollywood Squares
Self - Panelist
Lethal Weapon 4
Roger Murtaugh
Soldier Child
Self - Narrator
Buffalo Soldiers
Sgt. Washington Wyatt
The Rainmaker
Richter Tyrone Kipler
Switchback
Bob Goodall
The View
Self
Wild America
Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
Gone Fishin'
Gus Green
America's Dream
Silas (segment "Long Black Song")
Red Wind
Philip Marlowe
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
Self
Operation Dumbo Drop
Capt. Sam Cahill
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
Isaac Jefferson (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The King (voice)
ER
Charlie Pratt Sr.
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
Angels in the Outfield
George Knox
Maverick
Bank Robber (uncredited)
The Saint of Fort Washington
Jerry
Bopha!
Micah Mangena
Civil War Journal
Self - Host
Civil War Journal
Host
Fallen Angels
Marlowe
The Talking Eggs
Narrator (voice)
Alex Haley's Queen
Alec Haley
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion
Narrator (voice)
Lethal Weapon 3
Roger Murtaugh
Grand Canyon
Simon
Pure Luck
Raymond Campanella
A Rage in Harlem
Easy Money
Flight of the Intruder
Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
Predator 2
Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
To Sleep with Anger
Harry
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Dr. Apollo (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
Narrator (voice)
Lethal Weapon 2
Roger Murtaugh
Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary
Self
Dead Man Out
Dr. Alex Marsh
Lonesome Dove
Joshua Deets
A Raisin in the Sun
Walter Lee Younger
Hollywood on Horses
Self
Bat★21
Capt. Bartholomew Clark
A Place at the Table
Mr. Scott
Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Lethal Weapon
Roger Murtaugh
John Henry
John Henry
The Color Purple
Albert
Tall Tales & Legends
John Henry
Silverado
Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
The Stand-In
Apples Finnerty
Witness
McFee
And the Children Shall Lead
William
Places in the Heart
Moze
Iceman
Loomis
Memorial Day
Willie Monroe
The Face of Rage
Gary
Keeping On
Lester Traylor
Out
Jojo / Roland
Gimme a Break!
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
Morgan
Hill Street Blues
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
Oscar Micheaux
Great Railway Journeys
Self - Presenter
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
Escape from Alcatraz
Inmate
Saturday Night Live
Roger Murtaugh (uncredited)
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
San Francisco State: On Strike
self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
Today
Self
Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
Narrator (voice)
Lethal Weapon 5
Roger Murtaugh
Grizzly Peak
Will
Killing Winston Jones
Washington Carver
Dirt & Deeds in Mississippi