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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-07-22
Place of birth
San Francisco, California, USA
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Cast
Predator 2
1990
6.30
Saw
2004
7.42
The Color Purple
1985
7.80
Lethal Weapon 2
1989
7.02
Lethal Weapon 3
1992
6.70
Lethal Weapon 4
1998
6.60
Lethal Weapon
1987
7.29
Dreamgirls
2006
6.72
The Shaggy Dog
2006
4.90
Manderlay
2005
6.88
Vagabonds
2017
1.00
Switchback
1997
6.01
Gospel Hill
2008
4.88
Be Kind Rewind
2008
6.31
A Night at the Academy Museum
2021
7.00
Shooter
2007
7.10
Blindness
2008
6.52
Silverado
1985
7.00
Iceman
1984
6.11
Angels in the Outfield
1994
5.95
The Rainmaker
1997
7.03
Antz
1998
6.20
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
7.50
Gone Fishin'
1997
4.81
Witness
1985
7.10
Alpha and Omega
2010
5.90
The Drummer
2020
5.80
Maverick
1994
6.89
The Prince of Egypt
1998
7.29
Operation Dumbo Drop
1995
5.20
Barnyard
2006
5.90
Death at a Funeral
2010
5.88
Places in the Heart
1984
7.22
Double Soul
2023
5.32
Grand Canyon
1991
6.50
Missing in America
2005
5.76
2012
2009
5.90
Honeydripper
2007
5.88
A Rage in Harlem
1991
5.50
Night Train
2009
5.50
Keeping On
1983
0.00
Bat★21
1988
6.33
Poor Boy's Game
2007
5.66
Good Fences
2003
5.89
The Face of Rage
1983
1.00
Legendary
2010
6.60
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
1999
6.80
Down for Life
2010
3.50
Battle for Terra
2007
6.15
Mooz-lum
2011
4.61
Beloved
1998
5.79
Flight of the Intruder
1991
5.70
Casting By
2012
7.10
The Harimaya Bridge
2009
5.36
Pure Luck
1991
5.60
Five Minarets in New York
2010
5.55
American Dreamer
2022
5.59
I Want to Be a Soldier
2010
5.53
The Real Eve
2002
10.00
Son of Morning
2011
3.00
LUV
2013
5.80
John Henry
1986
0.00
The Saint of Fort Washington
1993
6.60
Out
1982
4.56
Dear Alice
2010
5.60
Bopha!
1993
5.20
3 A.M.
2001
5.60
To Sleep with Anger
1990
6.72
The Children's Republic
2012
5.83
Mysteria
2011
4.18
Age of the Dragons
2011
4.00
Rise Like Lions
2011
0.00
Chasing Shakespeare
2014
3.13
Boesman and Lena
2000
5.00
The Peace!
2005
5.00
Hannah's Law
2012
4.94
Donovan's Echo
2011
6.00
Full Disclosure Report
2005
0.00
Highland Park
2013
5.27
Tula: The Revolt
2013
4.50
Sins
2012
2.38
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
6.30
Space Warriors
2013
5.20
The Bouquet
2013
5.00
Buffalo Soldiers
1997
5.20
After Fact
2020
0.00
The Robeson Effect
2019
5.00
Extraction
2013
4.90
Beyond the Lights
2014
6.80
The Exonerated
2006
7.25
The Naughty Nine
2023
6.18
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
2014
6.12
Howard
2018
6.88
Monster Trucks
2016
6.10
Mandela
1987
4.42
The Talking Eggs
1993
0.00
Rage
2014
5.29
2047: Sights of Death
2014
2.90
Supremacy
2014
5.70
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
2022
0.00
Yellowbird
2014
5.09
Day of the Mummy
2014
5.20
Shuffleton's Barbershop
2013
5.15
Our Friend, Martin
1999
6.88
Bad Asses on the Bayou
2015
6.00
Toxin
2015
3.10
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
2013
6.00
The Lighthouse
2012
0.00
The Shift
2013
5.00
We Are Many
2014
6.70
Consumed
2015
5.44
About Scout
2015
5.80
Freedom Song
2000
5.50
San Francisco State: On Strike
1969
0.00
Checkmate
2015
3.80
Back in the Day
2016
2.97
The Ninja Immovable Heart
2014
3.20
Complete Unknown
2016
5.10
Diablo
2016
4.90
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1981
4.60
Bamako
2006
6.94
Dirty Grandpa
2016
5.93
Saw V
2008
6.17
Darkweb
2016
2.83
Waffle Street
2015
6.12
Wild America
1997
6.08
Andron
2015
3.76
Mr. Pig
2016
6.00
Gridlocked
2016
5.94
Pushing Dead
2016
6.13
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
2018
6.25
A Place at the Table
1988
1.00
P.N.O.K.
2005
0.00
Extortion
2017
6.20
Almost Christmas
2016
5.97
Escape from Alcatraz
1979
7.51
Caffeinated
2015
6.00
America's Dream
1996
6.50
93 Days
2016
5.70
Red Wind
1995
0.00
Memorial Day
1983
5.33
Come Sunday
2018
5.80
Birth of a Movement
2017
6.40
The People Speak
2009
7.20
The Old Man & the Gun
2018
6.44
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
2006
6.10
Proud Mary
2018
5.51
The Good Catholic
2017
5.41
Dead Man Out
1989
6.33
Tour de Pharmacy
2017
6.75
Agents of Change
2017
0.00
The Curse of Buckout Road
2017
6.42
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
1981
0.00
The Christmas Train
2017
6.41
Bàttu
2000
1.00
I'm Still Here
2010
5.98
Sorry to Bother You
2018
6.80
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
4.90
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018
6.29
The Cookout
2004
4.58
Shadows of Liberty
2012
6.59
Always in Season
2019
6.80
A Raisin in the Sun
1989
7.50
Christmas Break-In
2018
5.73
Jumanji: The Next Level
2019
6.89
Mississippi Inferno
2015
0.00
The Dead Don't Die
2019
5.40
And the Children Shall Lead
1985
10.00
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
2019
10.00
Read You Like a Book
2006
3.90
Press Play
2022
6.60
Strive
2019
1.00
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
1.50
The John Garfield Story
2003
8.00
The Stand-In
1985
0.00
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
2010
0.00
Hollywood on Horses
1989
3.00
PoliWood
2009
6.50
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt
1990
0.00
Newbies
2025
0.00