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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · The Naughty Nine as Santa Claus
- 2023 · Double Soul as Michael Tedeschi
- 2022 · American Dreamer as Jerry
- 2022 · De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem? as Ele mesmo
- 2022 · Press Play as Cooper
- 2021 · A Night at the Academy Museum as Self
- 2020 · The Bee as Roger Murtaugh (archive footage)
- 2020 · Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones as Self
- 2018 · Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey as Mr. Ocean
- 2018 · Survivor's Guide to Prison as Self
- 2017 · The Curse of Buckout Road as Dr. Powell
- 2017 · The Good Catholic as Victor
- 2017 · Birth of a Movement as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · Pushing Dead as Bob
- 2016 · Darkweb as The Boss
- 2015 · Waffle Street as Edward Collins
- 2015 · About Scout as Red
- 2015 · Toxin as Dr. Locke
- 2014 · Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee as Self
- 2014 · Supremacy as Mr. Walker
- 2014 · We Are Many as Self
- 2014 · We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama as
- 2014 · Chasing Shakespeare as William Ward
- 2013 · Tula: The Revolt as Shinishi
- 2013 · Highland Park as Ed
- 2013 · The Shift as Floyd
- 2013 · LUV as Arthur
- 2012 · Casting By as Self
- 2012 · Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon' as Self
- 2012 · Shadows of Liberty as Self
- 2012 · Hannah's Law as Isom Dart
- 2011 · Mysteria as Investigator
- 2011 · Donovan's Echo as Donovan Matheson
- 2011 · Son of Morning as Gabriel Peters
- 2010 · I Want to Be a Soldier as School Director
- 2010 · The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective as Self
- 2009 · The People Speak as Self
- 2009 · PoliWood as Self
- 2008 · Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare as Walter Tortoise (voice)
- 2007 · Honeydripper as Tyrone Purvis
- 2007 · Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation as Father Elias
- 2007 · Poor Boy's Game as George
- 2006 · Read You Like a Book as
- 2006 · The Adventures of Brer Rabbit as Brer Turtle (voice)
- 2006 · The Exonerated as David Keaton
- 2005 · Full Disclosure Report as David Tapp
- 2005 · The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2' as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 · Missing in America as Jake Neely
- 2003 · The John Garfield Story as Self
- 2003 · Good Fences as Tom Spader
- 2001 · 3 A.M. as Hershey
- 1999 · The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen as Self (archive footage)
- 1999 · Our Friend, Martin as Train Conductor (voice)
- 1998 · Beloved as Paul D
- 1997 · Buffalo Soldiers as Sgt. Washington Wyatt
- 1995 · Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain as Isaac Jefferson (voice)
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · The Saint of Fort Washington as Jerry
- 1990 · To Sleep with Anger as Harry
- Future · Lethal Weapon 5 as Roger Murtaugh
- 2020 · The Drummer as Mark Walker
- 2020 · Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · After Fact as Self
- 2019 · Jumanji: The Next Level as Milo
- 2019 · The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · The Last Black Man in San Francisco as Grandpa Allen
- 2019 · Strive as
- 2019 · The Dead Don't Die as Hank Thompson
- 2019 · Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story as Narrator
- 2019 · Always in Season as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · The Robeson Effect as Self
- 2018 · Christmas Break-In as Ray
- 2018 · Death Race: Beyond Anarchy as Baltimore Bob
- 2018 · The Old Man & the Gun as Teddy
- 2018 · Sorry to Bother You as Langston
- 2018 · The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Howard as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Come Sunday as Gilbert Pearson
- 2018 · Proud Mary as Benny
- 2017 · The Christmas Train as Max Powers
- 2017 · Vagabonds as Uncle Issa
- 2017 · Tour de Pharmacy as Slim Robinson Present Day
- 2017 · Agents of Change as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · Cold Case Files as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · Extortion as Constable Haagen
- 2017 · Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories as Self
- 2016 · Monster Trucks as Mr. Weathers
- 2016 · Almost Christmas as Walter
- 2016 · Complete Unknown as Roger
- 2016 · Mr. Pig as Ambrose
- 2016 · Gridlocked as Sully
- 2016 · Back in the Day as Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
- 2016 · Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · 93 Days as
- 2016 · Dirty Grandpa as Stinky
- 2016 · Diablo as Benjamin Carver
- 2015 · Andron as Chancellor Gordon
- 2015 · Checkmate as Elohim
- 2015 · Consumed as Hal Westbrook
- 2015 · Bad Asses on the Bayou as Bernie Pope
- 2015 · Mississippi Inferno as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · Caffeinated as Coffee Lover
- 2014 · Beyond the Lights as Captain Nicol
- 2014 · Day of the Mummy as Carl
- 2014 · Yellowbird as Darius (voice)
- 2014 · black-ish as Uncle Norman
- 2014 · 2047: Sights of Death as Sponge
- 2014 · Rage as Detective St. John
- 2014 · Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses as Bernie Pope
- 2014 · The Ninja Immovable Heart as Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
- 2014 · Mozart in the Jungle as Mayor
- 2013 · Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight as Justice Thurgood Marshall
- 2013 · Ironside as Frank Ironside
- 2013 · Extraction as Harding
- 2013 · Shuffleton's Barbershop as Charlie Shuffleton
- 2013 · Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth as Self
- 2013 · Space Warriors as Commander Phillips
- 2013 · The Bouquet as Reverend John
- 2012 · The Children's Republic as Dubem
- 2012 · The Lighthouse as Duncan
- 2012 · Sins as Father Leonard
- 2012 · Touch as Professor Arthur Teller
- 2011 · Rise Like Lions as Self (Occupy Oakland)
- 2011 · Age of the Dragons as Ahab
- 2011 · Mooz-lum as Dean Francis
- 2010 · Down for Life as Mr. Shannon
- 2010 · Alpha and Omega as Winston (voice)
- 2010 · I'm Still Here as Danny Glover
- 2010 · Legendary as Harry 'Red' Newman
- 2010 · Dear Alice as Franzis
- 2010 · Death at a Funeral as Uncle Russell
- 2010 · Five Minarets in New York as Marcus
- 2010 · 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic as Self
- 2010 · Sam Cooke: Crossing Over as Narrator (voice)
- 2009 · 2012 as President Thomas Wilson
- 2009 · The Harimaya Bridge as Joseph Holder
- 2009 · Night Train as Miles
- 2008 · Leverage as Charlie Lawson
- 2008 · Saw V as David Tapp (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2008 · Blindness as Man with Black Eye Patch
- 2008 · Gospel Hill as John Malcolm
- 2008 · Be Kind Rewind as Mr. Fletcher
- 2007 · Battle for Terra as President Chen (voice)
- 2007 · Shooter as Colonel Isaac Johnson
- 2006 · Dreamgirls as Marty Madison
- 2006 · Brothers and Sisters as Isaac Marshall
- 2006 · Barnyard as Miles the Mule (voice)
- 2006 · Psych as Mel Hornsby
- 2006 · Bamako as Cow-boy
- 2006 · The Shaggy Dog as Ken Hollister
- 2005 · The Reichen Show as Self
- 2005 · Criminal Minds as Hank Morgan
- 2005 · My Name Is Earl as Thomas
- 2005 · The Peace! as Self
- 2005 · Manderlay as Wilhelm
- 2005 · American Dad! as Minstrel Krampus (voice)
- 2005 · P.N.O.K. as Col. Weldon
- 2004 · Legend of Earthsea as Ogion
- 2004 · Saw as David Tapp
- 2004 · The Cookout as Judge Crowley
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- 2002 · The Real Eve as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · The Royal Tenenbaums as Henry Sherman
- 2000 · Boesman and Lena as Boesman
- 2000 · Bàttu as
- 2000 · Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration as Self
- 2000 · Freedom Song as Will Walker
- 1999 · The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · Scared Straight! 20 Years Later as Host
- 1998 · The Prince of Egypt as Jethro (voice)
- 1998 · Antz as Barbatus (voice)
- 1998 · Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1998 · Hollywood Squares as Self - Panelist
- 1998 · Hollywood Squares as
- 1998 · Lethal Weapon 4 as Roger Murtaugh
- 1997 · The Rainmaker as Richter Tyrone Kipler
- 1997 · Switchback as Bob Goodall
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Wild America as Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
- 1997 · Gone Fishin' as Gus Green
- 1996 · America's Dream as Silas (segment "Long Black Song")
- 1995 · Red Wind as Philip Marlowe
- 1995 · Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities as Self
- 1995 · Operation Dumbo Drop as Capt. Sam Cahill
- 1995 · The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self
- 1995 · Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as The King (voice)
- 1994 · ER as Charlie Pratt Sr.
- 1994 · Angels in the Outfield as George Knox
- 1994 · Maverick as Bank Robber (uncredited)
- 1993 · Bopha! as Micah Mangena
- 1993 · Civil War Journal as Self - Host
- 1993 · Civil War Journal as Host
- 1993 · Fallen Angels as Marlowe
- 1993 · The Talking Eggs as Narrator (voice)
- 1993 · Alex Haley's Queen as Alec Haley
- 1992 · Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion as Narrator (voice)
- 1992 · Lethal Weapon 3 as Roger Murtaugh
- 1991 · Grand Canyon as Simon
- 1991 · Pure Luck as Raymond Campanella
- 1991 · A Rage in Harlem as Easy Money
- 1991 · Flight of the Intruder as Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
- 1990 · Predator 2 as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
- 1990 · Captain Planet and the Planeteers as Dr. Apollo (voice)
- 1990 · Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 · Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby as Narrator (voice)
- 1989 · Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots as Narrator (voice)
- 1989 · Lethal Weapon 2 as Roger Murtaugh
- 1989 · Dead Man Out as Dr. Alex Marsh
- 1989 · Lonesome Dove as Joshua Deets
- 1989 · A Raisin in the Sun as Walter Lee Younger
- 1989 · Hollywood on Horses as Self
- 1988 · Bat★21 as Capt. Bartholomew Clark
- 1988 · A Place at the Table as Mr. Scott
- 1987 · Mandela as Nelson Mandela
- 1987 · Lethal Weapon as Roger Murtaugh
- 1986 · John Henry as John Henry
- 1985 · The Color Purple as Albert
- 1985 · Tall Tales & Legends as John Henry
- 1985 · Silverado as Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
- 1985 · The Stand-In as Apples Finnerty
- 1985 · Witness as McFee
- 1985 · And the Children Shall Lead as William
- 1984 · Places in the Heart as Moze
- 1984 · Iceman as Loomis
- 1983 · Memorial Day as Willie Monroe
- 1983 · The Face of Rage as Gary
- 1983 · Keeping On as Lester Traylor
- 1982 · Out as Jojo / Roland
- 1981 · Gimme a Break! as
- 1981 · Chu Chu and the Philly Flash as Morgan
- 1981 · Hill Street Blues as
- Future · Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story as Narrator (voice)
- 1981 · Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer as Oscar Micheaux
- 1980 · Great Railway Journeys as Self - Presenter
- 1980 · Palmerstown, U.S.A. as
- 1979 · Escape from Alcatraz as Inmate
- 1973 · The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- 1969 · San Francisco State: On Strike as self
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1952 · Today as Self