Danny Glover
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.
Acting (191 movies)
Predator 2
1990
Saw
2004
The Color Purple
1985
Lethal Weapon 2
1989
Lethal Weapon 3
1992
Lethal Weapon 4
1998
Lethal Weapon
1987
Dreamgirls
2006
The Shaggy Dog
2006
Manderlay
2005
Vagabonds
2017
Switchback
1997
Gospel Hill
2008
Be Kind Rewind
2008
A Night at the Academy Museum
2021
Shooter
2007
Blindness
2008
Silverado
1985
Iceman
1984
Angels in the Outfield
1994
The Rainmaker
1997
Antz
1998
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
Gone Fishin'
1997
Witness
1985
Alpha and Omega
2010
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
2008
The Drummer
2020
Maverick
1994
The Prince of Egypt
1998
Operation Dumbo Drop
1995
Barnyard
2006
Death at a Funeral
2010
Places in the Heart
1984
Double Soul
2023
Grand Canyon
1991
Missing in America
2005
2012
2009
Honeydripper
2007
A Rage in Harlem
1991
Night Train
2009
Keeping On
1983
Bat★21
1988
Poor Boy's Game
2007
Good Fences
2003
Legendary
2010
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
1999
Down for Life
2010
Battle for Terra
2007
Mooz-lum
2011
Beloved
1998
Flight of the Intruder
1991
Casting By
2012
The Harimaya Bridge
2009
Pure Luck
1991
Five Minarets in New York
2010
American Dreamer
2022
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007
I Want to Be a Soldier
2010
The Real Eve
2002
Son of Morning
2011
LUV
2013
John Henry
1986
The Saint of Fort Washington
1993
Out
1982
Dear Alice
2010
Bopha!
1993
3 A.M.
2001
To Sleep with Anger
1990
The Children's Republic
2012
Mysteria
2011
Age of the Dragons
2011
Chasing Shakespeare
2014
Boesman and Lena
2000
Hannah's Law
2012
Donovan's Echo
2011
Full Disclosure Report
2005
Highland Park
2013
Tula: The Revolt
2013
Sins
2012
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
Space Warriors
2013
The Bouquet
2013
Buffalo Soldiers
1997
After Fact
2020
The Robeson Effect
2019
Extraction
2013
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
1998
Beyond the Lights
2014
The Exonerated
2006
The Naughty Nine
2023
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
2014
Howard
2018
Monster Trucks
2016
Mandela
1987
The Talking Eggs
1993
Rage
2014
2047: Sights of Death
2014
Supremacy
2014
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
2022
Directing (2 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| To Sleep with Anger | 1990 | Executive Producer |
| America's Dream | 1996 | Executive Producer |
| Buffalo Soldiers | 1997 | Executive Producer |
| Freedom Song | 2000 | Executive Producer |
| 3 A.M. | 2001 | Executive Producer |
| Good Fences | 2003 | Producer |
| Bamako | 2006 | Executive Producer |
| Trouble the Water | 2008 | Executive Producer |
| The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | 2011 | Producer |
| Dum Maaro Dum | 2011 | Executive Producer |
| Highway | 2012 | Producer |
| The House I Live In | 2012 | Executive Producer |
| Shenandoah | 2012 | Executive Producer |
| Life Is Sacred | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| This Changes Everything | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| The House on Coco Road | 2016 | Producer |
| White Sun | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Shadow World | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Strong Island | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| That Summer | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| Angels Are Made of Light | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Hale County This Morning, This Evening | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Capernaum | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Easter Snap | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Lynch: A History | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| In Between Dying | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Crane Lantern | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| President | 2023 | Executive Producer |
| The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane | 2023 | Executive Producer |
| Landmarks | 2026 | Executive Producer |