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.
Filmography
all 278
Movies 241
self 54
TV Shows 37
Producer 31
Voice 19
Narrator 10
Director 4
The Naughty Nine (2023)
The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane (2023)
Double Soul (2023)
President (2023)
American Dreamer (2022)
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem? (2022)
Press Play (2022)
Crane Lantern (2022)
A Night at the Academy Museum (2021)
Memoria (2021)
Prayers for the Stolen (2021)
In Between Dying (2021)
The War on Cuba (2020)
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)
Lynch: A History (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)
Easter Snap (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)
Capernaum (2018)
Angels Are Made of Light (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)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
Proud Mary (2018)
Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl (2017)
The Christmas Train (2017)
The Curse of Buckout Road (2017)
Vagabonds (2017)
Zama (2017)
The Good Catholic (2017)
That Summer (2017)
Tour de Pharmacy (2017)
Agents of Change (2017)
Cold Case Files (2017)
Birth of a Movement (2017)
Strong Island (2017)
Extortion (2017)
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories (2017)
Monster Trucks (2016)
Almost Christmas (2016)
Shadow World (2016)
Pushing Dead (2016)
White Sun (2016)
Complete Unknown (2016)
Mr. Pig (2016)
Gridlocked (2016)
The American West (2016)
The House on Coco Road (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)
This Changes Everything (2015)
Cemetery of Splendor (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)
Life Is Sacred (2014)
Day of the Mummy (2014)
Yellowbird (2014)
black-ish (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)
Mozart in the Jungle (2014)
Chasing Shakespeare (2014)
Concerning Violence (2014)
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
Extraction (2013)
Tula: The Revolt (2013)
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (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)
Shenandoah (2012)
The House I Live In (2012)
The Children's Republic (2012)
The Lighthouse (2012)
Highway (2012)
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon' (2012)
Shadows of Liberty (2012)
Hannah's Law (2012)
Sins (2012)
Touch (2012)
Mysteria (2011)
Rise Like Lions (2011)
Donovan's Echo (2011)
Dum Maaro Dum (2011)
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
Age of the Dragons (2011)
Son of Morning (2011)
Mooz-lum (2011)
Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up (2010)
I Want to Be a Soldier (2010)
Down for Life (2010)
Alpha and Omega (2010)
I'm Still Here (2010)
Legendary (2010)
Dear Alice (2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Death at a Funeral (2010)
Five Minarets in New York (2010)
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective (2010)
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic (2010)
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over (2010)
The People Speak (2009)
2012 (2009)
PoliWood (2009)
The Harimaya Bridge (2009)
Night Train (2009)
Leverage (2008)
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare (2008)
The Garden (2008)
Blindness (2008)
Gospel Hill (2008)
Africa Unite: A Celebration of Bob Marley's 60th Birthday (2008)
Trouble the Water (2008)
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action (2008)
Honeydripper (2007)
Battle for Terra (2007)
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007)
Shooter (2007)
Poor Boy's Game (2007)
Dreamgirls (2006)
Read You Like a Book (2006)
Brothers and Sisters (2006)
Barnyard (2006)
Psych (2006)
Bamako (2006)
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (2006)
The Shaggy Dog (2006)
The Exonerated (2006)
The Reichen Show (2005)
Full Disclosure Report (2005)
Criminal Minds (2005)
The Peace! (2005)
Best of ITV Wrestling (2005)
Manderlay (2005)
American Dad! (2005)
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2' (2005)
P.N.O.K. (2005)
Missing in America (2005)
Legend of Earthsea (2004)
Saw (2004)
The Cookout (2004)
Pandemic: Facing AIDS (2003)
Real Time with Bill Maher (2003)
The John Garfield Story (2003)
Good Fences (2003)
The Real Eve (2002)
Just a Dream (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)
Hollywood Squares (1998)
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
Soldier Child (1998)
Buffalo Soldiers (1997)
The Rainmaker (1997)
Switchback (1997)
The View (1997)
Wild America (1997)
Gone Fishin' (1997)
America's Dream (1996)
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities (1995)
Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain (1995)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995)
Override (1994)
ER (1994)
Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
Angels in the Outfield (1994)
Maverick (1994)
The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
Bopha! (1993)
Civil War Journal (1993)
Fallen Angels (1993)
The Talking Eggs (1993)
Alex Haley's Queen (1993)
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
Grand Canyon (1991)
Pure Luck (1991)
A Rage in Harlem (1991)
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Magic Johnson: Always Showtime (1991)
Predator 2 (1990)
To Sleep with Anger (1990)
Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990)
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Liberian Girl (1989)
Dead Man Out (1989)
Lonesome Dove (1989)
A Raisin in the Sun (1989)
The Arsenio Hall Show (1989)
Hollywood on Horses (1989)
Bat★21 (1988)
Mandela (1987)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
John Henry (1986)
The Color Purple (1985)
Tall Tales & Legends (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)
Gimme a Break! (1981)
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981)
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Hill Street Blues (1981)
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer (1981)
Great Railway Journeys - Confessions of a Train Spotter (1980)
Great Railway Journeys (1980)
Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1980)
Paris (1979)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
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
Celebrating PBS NewsHour
Lethal Weapon 5
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1946-07-22 (77 years old)
Birth NameDanny Lebern Glover
Birth PlaceSan Francisco, United States of America
FatherJames Glover
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Awardshonorary degree from Spelman College, Eugene V. Debs Award, NAACP Image Award – Chairman's Award, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Marian Anderson Award, Academy Honorary Award, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Theatre World Award, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame
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