Actor
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Danny Glover
Born 1946-07-22
📍 San Francisco, California, USA
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 237
Newbies
2025
The Naughty Nine
as Santa Claus
2023
Double Soul
as Michael Tedeschi
2023
American Dreamer
as Jerry
2022
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
as Self
2022
Press Play
as Cooper
2022
A Night at the Academy Museum
as Self
2021
The Drummer
as Mark Walker
2020
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
as Narrator (voice)
2020
After Fact
as Self
2020
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
as Narrator (voice)
2020
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
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
2019
Christmas Break-In
as Ray
2018
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
as Self
2018
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
as Baltimore Bob
2018
The Old Man & the Gun
as Teddy
2018
Sorry to Bother You
as Langston
2018
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
as Mr. Ocean
2018
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
as Narrator (voice)
2018
Howard
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Survivor's Guide to Prison
as Self
2018
Come Sunday
as Gilbert Pearson
2018
Proud Mary
as Benny
2018
The Christmas Train
as Max Powers
2017
The Curse of Buckout Road
as Dr. Powell
2017
Vagabonds
as Uncle Issa
2017
The Good Catholic
as Victor
2017
Tour de Pharmacy
as Slim Robinson Present Day
2017
Agents of Change
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
Cold Case Files
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
Birth of a Movement
as Narrator (voice)
2017
Extortion
as Detective Constable Haagen
2017
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
as Self
2017
Monster Trucks
as Mr. Weathers
2016
Almost Christmas
as Walter
2016
Pushing Dead
as Bob
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 Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
2016
Darkweb
as The Boss
2016
Dirty Grandpa
as Stinky
2016
Diablo
as Benjamin Carver
2016
Andron
as Chancellor Gordon
2015
Waffle Street
as Edward Collins
2015
Checkmate
as Elohim
2015
Consumed
as Hal Westbrook
2015
About Scout
as Red
2015
Bad Asses on the Bayou
as Bernie Pope
2015
Mississippi Inferno
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Caffeinated
as Coffee Lover
2015
Toxin
as Dr. Locke
2015
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
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
as Self
2014
2047: Sights of Death
as Sponge
2014
Supremacy
as Mr. Walker
2014
We Are Many
as Self
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
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
Mozart in the Jungle
as Mayor
2014
Chasing Shakespeare
as William Ward
2014
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
as Justice Thurgood Marshall
2013
Ironside
as Frank Ironside
2013
Extraction
as Harding
2013
Tula: The Revolt
as Shinishi
2013
Highland Park
as Ed
2013
Shuffleton's Barbershop
as Charlie Shuffleton
2013
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
as Self
2013
Space Warriors
as Commander Phillips
2013
The Shift
as Floyd
2013
The Bouquet
as Reverend John
2013
LUV
as Arthur
2013
Casting By
as Self
2012
The Children's Republic
as Dubem
2012
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'
as Self
2012
Shadows of Liberty
as Self
2012
Hannah's Law
as Isom Dart
2012
Sins
as Father Leonard
2012
Touch
as Professor Arthur Teller
2012
Mysteria
as Investigator
2011
Donovan's Echo
as Donovan Matheson
2011
Age of the Dragons
as Ahab
2011
Son of Morning
as Gabriel Peters
2011
Mooz-lum
as Dean Francis
2011
I Want to Be a Soldier
as School Director
2010
Down for Life
as Mr. Shannon
2010
I'm Still Here
as Danny Glover
2010
Legendary
as Harry 'Red' Newman
2010
Dear Alice
as Franzis
2010
Alpha and Omega
as Winston (voice)
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
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
as Self
2010
Human Target
as Client
2010
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
as Narrator (voice)
2010
The People Speak
as Self
2009
2012
as President Thomas Wilson
2009
Nite Tales: The Series
as Jeremiah
2009
PoliWood
as Self
2009
The Harimaya Bridge
as Joseph Holder
2009
Night Train
as Miles
2009
Leverage
as Charlie Lawson
2008
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
as Walter Tortoise (voice)
2008
Fats Waller Was Born Here
as "Fats" Waller's Father/Mr. Fletcher
2008
Blindness
as Man with Black Eye Patch
2008
Be Kind Rewind
as Mr. Fletcher
2008
Gospel Hill
as John Malcolm
2008
Agent Crush
as Major Rusty Gubbins
2008
Honeydripper
as Tyrone Purvis
2007
Battle for Terra
as President Chen (voice)
2007
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
as Self
2007
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
as Father Elias
2007
Shooter
as Colonel Isaac Johnson
2007
Poor Boy's Game
as George
2007
Dreamgirls
as Marty Madison
2006
Read You Like a Book
2006
Brothers and Sisters
as Isaac Marshall
2006
Barnyard
as Miles (voice)
2006
Psych
as Mel Hornsby
2006
Bamako
as Cow-boy
2006
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
as Brer Turtle (voice)
2006
The Shaggy Dog
as Ken Hollister
2006
The Exonerated
as David Keaton
2006
The Reichen Show
as Self
2005
Full Disclosure Report
as David Tapp
2005
Criminal Minds
as Hank Morgan
2005
My Name Is Earl
as Thomas
2005
Manderlay
as Wilhelm
2005
American Dad!
as Minstrel Krampus (voice)
2005
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
as Self (archive footage)
2005
Missing in America
as Jake Neely
2005
Legend of Earthsea
as Ogion
2004
Saw
as David Tapp
2004
The Cookout
as Judge Crowley
2004
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
The John Garfield Story
as Self
2003
Good Fences
as Tom Spader
2003
The Real Eve
as Narrator (voice)
2002
The Royal Tenenbaums
as Henry Sherman
2001
3 A.M.
as Hershey
2001
Boesman and Lena
as Boesman
2000
Bàttu
2000
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
2000
Freedom Song
as Will Walker
2000
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
as Self (archive footage)
1999
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
as Narrator (voice)
1999
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
as Host
1999
Our Friend, Martin
as Train Conductor (voice)
1999
The Prince of Egypt
as Jethro (voice)
1998
Beloved
as Paul D
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
Lethal Weapon 4
as Roger Murtaugh
1998
Soldier Child
as Self - Narrator
1998
Buffalo Soldiers
as Sgt. Washington Wyatt
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
1997
America's Dream
as Silas (segment "Long Black Song")
1996
Red Wind
as Philip Marlowe
1995
Operation Dumbo Drop
as Capt. Sam Cahill
1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self
1995
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
as Isaac Jefferson (voice)
1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as The King (voice)
1995
ER
as Charlie Pratt Sr.
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
Angels in the Outfield
as George Knox
1994
Maverick
as Bank Robber (uncredited)
1994
The Saint of Fort Washington
as Jerry
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
1993
Lethal Weapon 3
as Roger Murtaugh
1992
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
1991
Predator 2
as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
1990
To Sleep with Anger
as Harry
1990
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
as Dr. Apollo (voice)
1990
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
as Narrator (voice)
1989
Lethal Weapon 2
as Roger Murtaugh
1989
Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary
as Self
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
Bat*21
as Capt. Bartholomew Clark
1988
Mandela
as Nelson Mandela
1987
Lethal Weapon
as Roger Murtaugh
1987
John Henry
as John Henry
1986
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
1985
Places in the Heart
as Moze
1984
Iceman
as Loomis
1984
Keeping On
as Lester Traylor
1983
Out
as Jojo / Roland
1982
Gimme a Break!
1981
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
as Morgan
1981
Hill Street Blues
1981
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
as Oscar Micheaux
1981
Great Railway Journeys
as Self - Presenter
1980
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1980
Escape from Alcatraz
as Inmate
1979
Saturday Night Live
as Roger Murtaugh (uncredited)
1975
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
San Francisco State: On Strike
as self
1969
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
Today
as Self
1952
Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
as Narrator (voice)
Grizzly Peak
as Will
Killing Winston Jones
as Washington Carver