Danny Glover
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-07-22 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
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
Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
as Narrator (voice)
Lethal Weapon 5
as Roger Murtaugh
(2025)
(2023)
Double Soul
as Michael Tedeschi
(2023)
The Naughty Nine
as Santa Claus
(2022)
American Dreamer
as Jerry
(2022)
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
as Ele mesmo
(2022)
Press Play
as Cooper
(2021)
(2020)
The Drummer
as Mark Walker
(2020)
After Fact
as Self
(2020)
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
as Narrator (voice)
(2020)
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
as Narrator (voice)
(2019)
Jumanji: The Next Level
as Milo
(2019)
The Dead Don't Die
as Hank Thompson
(2019)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
as Grandpa Allen
(2019)
(2019)
Always in Season
as Narrator (voice)
(2019)
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
as Narrator (voice)
(2019)
The Robeson Effect
as Self
(2019)
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
as Narrator
(2018)
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
as Baltimore Bob
(2018)
Sorry to Bother You
as Langston
(2018)
The Old Man & the Gun
as Teddy
(2018)
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
as Mr. Ocean
(2018)
Christmas Break-In
as Ray
(2018)
Come Sunday
as Gilbert Pearson
(2018)
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
as Narrator (voice)
(2018)
Proud Mary
as Benny
(2018)
Survivor's Guide to Prison
as Self
(2018)
(2018)
Howard
as Self (archive footage)
(2017)
Agents of Change
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2017)
The Christmas Train
as Max Powers
(2017)
Extortion
as Constable Haagen
(2017)
Tour de Pharmacy
as Slim Robinson Present Day
(2017)
(2017)
Vagabonds
as Uncle Issa
(2017)
The Curse of Buckout Road
as Dr. Powell
(2017)
Birth of a Movement
as Narrator (voice)
(2017)
The Good Catholic
as Victor
(2016)
Monster Trucks
as Mr. Weathers
(2016)
Dirty Grandpa
as Stinky
(2016)
Mr. Pig
as Ambrose
(2016)
Pushing Dead
as Bob
(2016)
Diablo
as Benjamin Carver
(2016)
Almost Christmas
as Walter
(2016)
93 Days
as Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
(2016)
Complete Unknown
as Roger
(2016)
Back in the Day
as Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
(2016)
Darkweb
as The Boss
(2016)
Gridlocked
as Sully
(2016)
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
as Narrator (voice)
(2015)
Waffle Street
as Edward Collins
(2015)
About Scout
as Red
(2015)
Checkmate
as Elohim
(2015)
Consumed
as Hal Westbrook
(2015)
Bad Asses on the Bayou
as Bernie Pope
(2015)
Andron
as Chancellor Gordon
(2015)
Toxin
as Dr. Locke
(2015)
Caffeinated
as Coffee Lover
(2015)
Mississippi Inferno
as Narrator (voice)
(2014)
Chasing Shakespeare
as William Ward
(2014)
Beyond the Lights
as Captain Nicol
(2014)
Rage
as Detective St. John
(2014)
Yellowbird
as Darius (voice)
(2014)
The Ninja Immovable Heart
as Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
(2014)
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
as Bernie Pope
(2014)
Supremacy
as Mr. Walker
(2014)
2047: Sights of Death
as Sponge
(2014)
(2014)
(2014)
Day of the Mummy
as Carl
(2014)
We Are Many
as Self
(2013)
Tula: The Revolt
as Shinishi
(2013)
Extraction
as Harding
(2013)
(2013)
Highland Park
as Ed
(2013)
The Bouquet
as Reverend John
(2013)
Shuffleton's Barbershop
as Charlie Shuffleton
(2013)
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
as Justice Thurgood Marshall
(2013)
The Shift
as Floyd
(2013)
Space Warriors
as Commander Phillips
(2013)
LUV
as Arthur
(2012)
Hannah's Law
as Isom Dart
(2012)
Sins
as Father Leonard
(2012)
Shadows of Liberty
as Self
(2012)
Casting By
as Self
(2012)
(2012)
The Children's Republic
as Dubem
(2012)
The Lighthouse
as Duncan
(2011)
Donovan's Echo
as Donovan Matheson
(2011)
Rise Like Lions
as Self (Occupy Oakland)
(2011)
Son of Morning
as Gabriel Peters
(2011)
Mooz-lum
as Dean Francis
(2011)
Mysteria
as Investigator
(2011)
Age of the Dragons
as Ahab
(2010)
I Want to Be a Soldier
as School Director
(2010)
Death at a Funeral
as Uncle Russell
(2010)
Legendary
as Harry 'Red' Newman
(2010)
Alpha and Omega
as Winston (voice)
(2010)
I'm Still Here
as Danny Glover
(2010)
(2010)
Five Minarets in New York
as Marcus
(2010)
Dear Alice
as Franzis
(2010)
(2010)
Down for Life
as Mr. Shannon
(2010)
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
as Narrator (voice)
(2009)
2012
as President Thomas Wilson
(2009)
PoliWood
as Self
(2009)
Night Train
as Miles
(2009)
The People Speak
as Self
(2009)
The Harimaya Bridge
as Joseph Holder
(2008)
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
as Walter Tortoise (voice)
(2008)
Blindness
as Man with Black Eye Patch
(2008)
Be Kind Rewind
as Mr. Fletcher
(2008)
Gospel Hill
as John Malcolm
(2007)
Shooter
as Colonel Isaac Johnson
(2007)
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
as Father Elias
(2007)
Battle for Terra
as President Chen (voice)
(2007)
Honeydripper
as Tyrone Purvis
(2007)
Poor Boy's Game
as George
(2006)
Barnyard
as Miles the Mule (voice)
(2006)
Dreamgirls
as Marty Madison
(2006)
The Exonerated
as David Keaton
(2006)
The Shaggy Dog
as Ken Hollister
(2006)
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
as Brer Turtle (voice)
(2006)
Bamako
as Cow-boy
(2006)
(2005)
Manderlay
as Wilhelm
(2005)
Missing in America
as Jake Neely
(2005)
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
as Self (archive footage)
(2005)
Full Disclosure Report
as David Tapp
(2005)
P.N.O.K.
as Col. Weldon
(2005)
The Peace!
as Self
(2004)
Saw
as David Tapp
(2004)
The Cookout
as Judge Crowley
(2003)
Good Fences
as Tom Spader
(2003)
The John Garfield Story
as Self
(2002)
The Real Eve
as Narrator (voice)
(2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums
as Henry Sherman
(2001)
3 A.M.
as Hershey
(2000)
(2000)
Freedom Song
as Will Walker
(2000)
(2000)
Boesman and Lena
as Boesman
(1999)
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
as Self (archive footage)
(1999)
Our Friend, Martin
as Train Conductor (voice)
(1999)
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
as Narrator (voice)
(1999)
(1998)
Lethal Weapon 4
as Roger Murtaugh
(1998)
The Prince of Egypt
as Jethro (voice)
(1998)
Antz
as Barbatus (voice)
(1998)
Beloved
as Paul D
(1998)
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1997)
The Rainmaker
as Richter Tyrone Kipler
(1997)
Gone Fishin'
as Gus Green
(1997)
Buffalo Soldiers
as Sgt. Washington Wyatt
(1997)
Wild America
as Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
(1997)
Switchback
as Bob Goodall
(1996)
America's Dream
as Silas (segment "Long Black Song")
(1995)
Operation Dumbo Drop
as Capt. Sam Cahill
(1995)
(1995)
Red Wind
as Philip Marlowe
(1995)
(1994)
Maverick
as Bank Robber (uncredited)
(1994)
Angels in the Outfield
as George Knox
(1993)
The Saint of Fort Washington
as Jerry
(1993)
Bopha!
as Micah Mangena
(1993)
The Talking Eggs
as Narrator (voice)
(1992)
Lethal Weapon 3
as Roger Murtaugh
(1992)
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion
as Narrator (voice)
(1991)
Flight of the Intruder
as Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
(1991)
Grand Canyon
as Simon
(1991)
Pure Luck
as Raymond Campanella
(1991)
A Rage in Harlem
as Easy Money
(1990)
Predator 2
as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
(1990)
To Sleep with Anger
as Harry
(1990)
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby
as Narrator (voice)
(1990)
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt
as Narrator (voice)
(1989)
Lethal Weapon 2
as Roger Murtaugh
(1989)
A Raisin in the Sun
as Walter Lee Younger
(1989)
Dead Man Out
as Dr. Alex Marsh
(1989)
Hollywood on Horses
as Self
(1989)
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
as Narrator (voice)
(1988)
Bat★21
as Capt. Bartholomew Clark
(1988)
A Place at the Table
as Mr. Scott
(1987)
Lethal Weapon
as Roger Murtaugh
(1987)
Mandela
as Nelson Mandela
(1986)
John Henry
as John Henry
(1985)
Witness
as McFee
(1985)
Silverado
as Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
(1985)
The Color Purple
as Albert
(1985)
And the Children Shall Lead
as William
(1985)
The Stand-In
as Apples Finnerty
(1984)
Places in the Heart
as Moze
(1984)
Iceman
as Loomis
(1983)
Keeping On
as Lester Traylor
(1983)
The Face of Rage
as Gary
(1983)
Memorial Day
as Willie Monroe
(1982)
Out
as Jojo / Roland
(1981)
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
as Oscar Micheaux
(1981)
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
as Morgan
(1979)
Escape from Alcatraz
as Inmate
(1969)
Crew
(2025)
Landmarks
Executive Producer
(2023)
President
Executive Producer
(2023)
The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane
Executive Producer
(2022)
Crane Lantern
Executive Producer
(2021)
Memoria
Co-Producer
(2021)
Prayers for the Stolen
Co-Producer
(2021)
In Between Dying
Executive Producer
(2019)
Easter Snap
Executive Producer
(2019)
Lynch: A History
Executive Producer
(2018)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Executive Producer
(2018)
Angels Are Made of Light
Executive Producer
(2018)
Capernaum
Executive Producer
(2017)
That Summer
Executive Producer
(2017)
Strong Island
Executive Producer
(2017)
Zama
Co-Producer
(2016)
White Sun
Executive Producer
(2016)
Shadow World
Executive Producer
(2016)
The House on Coco Road
Producer
(2015)
Cemetery of Splendor
Co-Producer
(2015)
This Changes Everything
Executive Producer
(2014)
Concerning Violence
Co-Producer
(2014)
Life Is Sacred
Executive Producer
(2012)
Shenandoah
Executive Producer
(2012)
The House I Live In
Executive Producer
(2012)
Highway
Producer
(2011)
Dum Maaro Dum
Executive Producer
(2011)
(2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Associate Producer
(2010)
(2010)
(2009)
The Time That Remains
Associate Producer
(2008)
Trouble the Water
Executive Producer
(2008)
Salt of This Sea
Co-Producer
(2006)
Bamako
Executive Producer
(2003)
Good Fences
Producer
(2002)
Just a Dream
Director
(2001)
3 A.M.
Executive Producer
(2000)
Freedom Song
Executive Producer
(1997)
Buffalo Soldiers
Executive Producer
(1996)
America's Dream
Executive Producer
(1994)
Override
Director
(1990)
To Sleep with Anger
Executive Producer