Danny Glover
Actor

Danny Glover

15 Movies
15 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 15
Birthday July 22, 1946 (79 years old)
Place of Birth San Francisco, California, USA
Also Known As Danny Lebern Glover
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Biography

Danny Lebern GloverΒ (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. He is best known for his co-starring lead role asΒ Sergeant Roger MurtaughΒ in theΒ Lethal WeaponΒ film series.

Glover has had a variety of film, stage, and television roles. He starred as the husband toΒ Whoopi Goldberg's character, Celie in the celebrated literary adaptation of The Color Purple, and as Lieutenant James McFee in the filmΒ Witness. He had leading roles in other films includingΒ To Sleep with Anger,Β Predator 2,Β Angels in the Outfield, andΒ Operation Dumbo Drop. He won theΒ Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for his starring role inΒ Charles Burnett'sΒ To Sleep with Anger.

Also, he has had prominent supporting roles inΒ Silverado,Β Witness,Β A Rage in Harlem,Β Dreamgirls,Β Shooter,Β Death at a Funeral, Beyond the Lights,Β Sorry to Bother You,Β The Last Black Man in San Francisco,Β The Dead Don't Die,Β Lonesome Dove and Jumanji: The Next Level. Glover earned top billing for the first time inΒ Predator 2, the sequel to theΒ science fictionΒ action filmΒ Predator. During his career, he has also made several cameos, appearing, for example, in theΒ Michael JacksonΒ video "Liberian Girl" of 1987.

In 1994, he made his directorial debut with theΒ ShowtimeΒ channel short film Override. Also in 1994, Glover and actorΒ Ben GuilloryΒ founded theΒ Robey Theatre CompanyΒ in Los Angeles, focusing on theatre by and about black people.

Filmography (252)

Newbies 2025
Double Soul 2023
The Naughty Nine 2023
American Dreamer 2022
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem? 2022
Press Play 2022
A Night at the Academy Museum 2021
When I See Them, I See Us 2021
The Drummer 2020
After Fact 2020
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War 2020
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man 2020
The Robeson Effect 2019
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story 2019
The Last Black Man in San Francisco 2019
Always in Season 2019
Jumanji: The Next Level 2019
The Dead Don't Die 2019
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs 2019
Strive 2019
Howard 2018
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy 2018
Come Sunday 2018
The Old Man & the Gun 2018
Proud Mary 2018
Sorry to Bother You 2018
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey 2018
Survivor's Guide to Prison 2018
Christmas Break-In 2018
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones 2018
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution 2018
Vagabonds 2017
Extortion 2017
Birth of a Movement 2017
The Good Catholic 2017
Tour de Pharmacy 2017
Agents of Change 2017
The Curse of Buckout Road 2017
The Christmas Train 2017
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories 2017
Cold Case Files 2017
Monster Trucks 2016
Back in the Day 2016
Complete Unknown 2016
Diablo 2016
Dirty Grandpa 2016
Darkweb 2016
Mr. Pig 2016
Gridlocked 2016
Pushing Dead 2016
Almost Christmas 2016
93 Days 2016
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights 2016
Bad Asses on the Bayou 2015
Toxin 2015
Consumed 2015
About Scout 2015
Checkmate 2015
Waffle Street 2015
Andron 2015
Caffeinated 2015
Mississippi Inferno 2015
Chasing Shakespeare 2014
Beyond the Lights 2014
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses 2014
Rage 2014
2047: Sights of Death 2014
Supremacy 2014
Yellowbird 2014
Day of the Mummy 2014
We Are Many 2014
The Ninja Immovable Heart 2014
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama 2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee 2014
Mozart in the Jungle 2014
black-ish 2014
LUV 2013
Highland Park 2013
Tula: The Revolt 2013
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight 2013
Space Warriors 2013
The Bouquet 2013
Extraction 2013
Shuffleton's Barbershop 2013
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth 2013
The Shift 2013
Ironside 2013
Casting By 2012
The Children's Republic 2012
Hannah's Law 2012
Sins 2012
The Lighthouse 2012
Shadows of Liberty 2012
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon' 2012
Touch 2012
Mooz-lum 2011
Son of Morning 2011
Mysteria 2011
Age of the Dragons 2011
Rise Like Lions 2011
Donovan's Echo 2011
Alpha and Omega 2010
Death at a Funeral 2010
Legendary 2010
Down for Life 2010
Five Minarets in New York 2010
I Want to Be a Soldier 2010
Dear Alice 2010
I'm Still Here 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
Human Target 2010
2012 2009
Night Train 2009
The Harimaya Bridge 2009
The People Speak 2009
PoliWood 2009
Nite Tales: The Series 2009
Gospel Hill 2008
Be Kind Rewind 2008
Blindness 2008
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare 2008
Agent Crush 2008
Fats Waller Was Born Here 2008
Leverage 2008
Shooter 2007
Honeydripper 2007
Poor Boy's Game 2007
Battle for Terra 2007
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation 2007
Bamako 2007
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' 2007
Dreamgirls 2006 The Shaggy Dog 2006 Barnyard 2006
The Exonerated 2006
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit 2006
Read You Like a Book 2006
Brothers and Sisters 2006
Psych 2006
Manderlay 2005
Missing in America 2005
The Peace! 2005
Full Disclosure Report 2005
P.N.O.K. 2005
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2' 2005
The Reichen Show 2005
My Name Is Earl 2005
American Dad! 2005
Criminal Minds 2005
Saw 2004
The Cookout 2004
Earthed 2004
Legend of Earthsea 2004
Good Fences 2003
The John Garfield Story 2003
Real Time with Bill Maher 2003
The Real Eve 2002
The Royal Tenenbaums 2001
3 A.M. 2001
Boesman and Lena 2000
Freedom Song 2000
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration 2000
BΓ ttu 2000
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later 1999
Our Friend, Martin 1999
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong 1999
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen 1999
Lethal Weapon 4 1998 Antz 1998 The Prince of Egypt 1998
Beloved 1998
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson 1998
Soldier Child 1998
Hollywood Squares 1998
Switchback 1997
The Rainmaker 1997
Gone Fishin' 1997
Buffalo Soldiers 1997
Wild America 1997
The View 1997
America's Dream 1996
Operation Dumbo Drop 1995
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities 1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies 1995
Red Wind 1995
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain 1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child 1995
Angels in the Outfield 1994 Maverick 1994
Inside the Actors Studio 1994
ER 1994
The Saint of Fort Washington 1993
Bopha! 1993
The Talking Eggs 1993
Fallen Angels 1993
Alex Haley's Queen 1993
Civil War Journal 1993
Lethal Weapon 3 1992
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion 1992
Grand Canyon 1991
A Rage in Harlem 1991
Flight of the Intruder 1991
Pure Luck 1991
Predator 2 1990
To Sleep with Anger 1990
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby 1990
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt 1990
Captain Planet and the Planeteers 1990
Lethal Weapon 2 1989
Dead Man Out 1989
A Raisin in the Sun 1989
Hollywood on Horses 1989
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots 1989
Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary 1989
Lonesome Dove 1989
Batβ˜…21 1988
A Place at the Table 1988
Lethal Weapon 1987
Mandela 1987
John Henry 1986
The Color Purple 1985
Silverado 1985
Witness 1985
And the Children Shall Lead 1985
The Stand-In 1985
Tall Tales & Legends 1985
Iceman 1984
Places in the Heart 1984
Keeping On 1983
The Face of Rage 1983
Memorial Day 1983
Out 1982
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash 1981
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer 1981
Hill Street Blues 1981
Gimme a Break! 1981
Palmerstown, U.S.A. 1980
Great Railway Journeys 1980
Escape from Alcatraz 1979
Saturday Night Live 1975
The American Film Institute Salute to ... 1973
San Francisco State: On Strike 1969
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1962
Tony Awards 1956
Today 1952
Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
Lethal Weapon 5
Grizzly Peak
Killing Winston Jones
Dirt & Deeds in Mississippi