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 289
Movies 250
self 57
TV Shows 39
Producer 31
Narrator 12
Voice 11
Director 4
The Naughty Nine (2023)
The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane (2023)
Double Soul (2023)
President (2023)
Press Play (2022)
Crane Lantern (2022)
Memoria (2021)
Prayers for the Stolen (2021)
In Between Dying (2021)
The War on Cuba (2020)
The Drummer (2020)
The Bee (2020)
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man (2020)
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)
Always in Season (2019)
Easter Snap (2019)
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018)
Capernaum (2018)
Angels Are Made of Light (2018)
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey (2018)
Howard (2018)
Come Sunday (2018)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
The Christmas Train (2017)
The Curse of Buckout Road (2017)
Vagabonds (2017)
Zama (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)
Monster Trucks (2016)
Shadow World (2016)
White Sun (2016)
Mr. Pig (2016)
Back in the Day (2016)
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights (2016)
Darkweb (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)
Yellowbird (2014)
black-ish (2014)
Supremacy (2014)
Rage (2014)
The Ninja Immovable Heart (2014)
Chasing Shakespeare (2014)
Concerning Violence (2014)
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
Ironside (2013)
Extraction (2013)
Tula: The Revolt (2013)
Shuffleton's Barbershop (2013)
Space Warriors (2013)
The Bouquet (2013)
LUV (2013)
Shenandoah (2012)
The House I Live In (2012)
Highway (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)
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)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Death at a Funeral (2010)
2012 (2009)
The Time That Remains (2009)
The Harimaya Bridge (2009)
Leverage (2008)
Saw V (2008)
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare (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)
Honeydripper (2007)
Battle for Terra (2007)
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007)
Shooter (2007)
Dreamgirls (2006)
Brothers and Sisters (2006)
Barnyard (2006)
Psych (2006)
Bamako (2006)
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (2006)
The Shaggy Dog (2006)
The Exonerated (2006)
Full Disclosure Report (2005)
Criminal Minds (2005)
Manderlay (2005)
American Dad! (2005)
P.N.O.K. (2005)
Missing in America (2005)
Saw (2004)
The Cookout (2004)
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)
Freedom Song (2000)
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen (1999)
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong (1999)
Our Friend, Martin (1999)
Beloved (1998)
Antz (1998)
Hollywood Squares (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)
Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain (1995)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995)
Override (1994)
ER (1994)
Angels in the Outfield (1994)
Maverick (1994)
Bopha! (1993)
Civil War Journal (1993)
Fallen Angels (1993)
The Talking Eggs (1993)
Alex Haley's Queen (1993)
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
Pure Luck (1991)
A Rage in Harlem (1991)
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Predator 2 (1990)
Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990)
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Dead Man Out (1989)
Lonesome Dove (1989)
A Raisin in the Sun (1989)
The Arsenio Hall Show (1989)
Bat★21 (1988)
A Place at the Table (1988)
Mandela (1987)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
John Henry (1986)
Tall Tales & Legends (1985)
The Stand-In (1985)
Iceman (1984)
Memorial Day (1983)
Keeping On (1983)
Out (1982)
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer (1981)
Great Railway Journeys (1980)
Paris (1979)
Tony Awards (1956)
Today (1952)
Our Friend, Martin
Lethal Weapon 5
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1946-07-22 (78 years old)
Birth NameDanny Lebern Glover
Birth PlaceSan Francisco, United States
FatherJames Glover
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsTheatre World Award, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, NAACP Image Award – Chairman's Award, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Marian Anderson Award, Academy Honorary Award, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, honorary degree from Spelman College, Eugene V. Debs Award
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