Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
July 22, 1946 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also Known As
Danny Lebern Glover
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
Danny Glover has 248 acting credits
2020
2019
Jumanji: The Next Level
2019
as Milo
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
2019
as Narrator (voice)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
2019
as Grandpa Allen
Strive
2019
as Unknown Role
The Dead Don't Die
2019
as Hank Thompson
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
2019
as Narrator
Always in Season
2019
as Narrator (voice)
The Robeson Effect
2019
as Self
2018
Christmas Break-In
2018
as Ray
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
2018
as Self
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
2018
as Baltimore Bob
The Old Man & the Gun
2018
as Teddy
Sorry to Bother You
2018
as Langston
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
as Mr. Ocean
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018
as Narrator (voice)
Howard
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018
as Self
Come Sunday
2018
as Gilbert Pearson
Proud Mary
2018
as Benny
2017
The Christmas Train
2017
as Max Powers
The Curse of Buckout Road
2017
as Dr. Powell
Vagabonds
2017
as Uncle Issa
The Good Catholic
2017
as Victor
Tour de Pharmacy
2017
as Slim Robinson Present Day
Agents of Change
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Cold Case Files (TV)
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Birth of a Movement
2017
as Narrator (voice)
Extortion
2017
as Detective Constable Haagen
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
2017
as Self
2016
Monster Trucks
2016
as Mr. Weathers
Almost Christmas
2016
as Walter
Pushing Dead
2016
as Bob
Complete Unknown
2016
as Roger
Mr. Pig
2016
as Ambrose
Gridlocked
2016
as Sully
Back in the Day
2016
as Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
2016
as Narrator (voice)
93 Days
2016
as Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
Darkweb
2016
as The Boss
Dirty Grandpa
2016
as Stinky
Diablo
2016
as Benjamin Carver
2015
2014
Beyond the Lights
2014
as Captain Nicol
Day of the Mummy
2014
as Carl
Yellowbird
2014
as Darius (voice)
black-ish (TV)
2014
as Uncle Norman
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
as Self
2047: Sights of Death
2014
as Sponge
Supremacy
2014
as Mr. Walker
We Are Many
2014
as Self
Rage
2014
as Detective St. John
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
2014
as Bernie Pope
The Ninja Immovable Heart
2014
as Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
as Unknown Role
Mozart in the Jungle (TV)
2014
as Mayor
Chasing Shakespeare
2014
as William Ward
2013
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
as Justice Thurgood Marshall
Ironside (TV)
2013
as Frank Ironside
Extraction
2013
as Harding
Tula: The Revolt
2013
as Shinishi
Highland Park
2013
as Ed
Shuffleton's Barbershop
2013
as Charlie Shuffleton
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
2013
as Self
Space Warriors
2013
as Commander Phillips
The Shift
2013
as Floyd
The Bouquet
2013
as Reverend John
LUV
2013
as Arthur
2012
2011
2010
I Want to Be a Soldier
2010
as School Director
Down for Life
2010
as Mr. Shannon
I'm Still Here
2010
as Danny Glover
Legendary
2010
as Harry 'Red' Newman
Dear Alice
2010
as Franzis
Alpha and Omega
2010
as Winston (voice)
Death at a Funeral
2010
as Uncle Russell
Five Minarets in New York
2010
as Marcus
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010
as Self
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010
as Self
Human Target (TV)
2010
as Client
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
2010
as Narrator (voice)
2009
2008
Leverage (TV)
2008
as Charlie Lawson
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
2008
as Walter Tortoise (voice)
Fats Waller Was Born Here
2008
as "Fats" Waller's Father/Mr. Fletcher
Blindness
2008
as Man with Black Eye Patch
Be Kind Rewind
2008
as Mr. Fletcher
Gospel Hill
2008
as John Malcolm
Agent Crush
2008
as Major Rusty Gubbins
2007
2006
2005
The Reichen Show (TV)
2005
as Self
Full Disclosure Report
2005
as David Tapp
Criminal Minds (TV)
2005
as Hank Morgan
The Peace!
2005
as Self
My Name Is Earl (TV)
2005
as Thomas
Manderlay
2005
as Wilhelm
American Dad! (TV)
2005
as Minstrel Krampus (voice)
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
2005
as Self (archive footage)
Missing in America
2005
as Jake Neely
P.N.O.K.
2005
as Col. Weldon
2004
2003
2000
1999
1998
1997
1995
Red Wind
1995
as Philip Marlowe
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
1995
as Self
Operation Dumbo Drop
1995
as Capt. Sam Cahill
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain (TV)
1995
as Isaac Jefferson (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (TV)
1995
as The King (voice)
