Danny Glover
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-07-22 (78 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)
(2025)
(2023)
The Naughty Nine
as Santa Claus
(2023)
Double Soul
as Michael Tedeschi
(2022)
American Dreamer
as Jerry
(2022)
Press Play
as Cooper
(2022)
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
as Ele mesmo
(2021)
(2020)
The Drummer
as Mark Walker
(2020)
After Fact
as Self
(2020)
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
as Narrator (voice)
(2020)
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
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)
The Robeson Effect
as Self
(2019)
Always in Season
as Narrator (voice)
(2019)
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
as Narrator (voice)
(2019)
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
as Narrator
(2018)
Sorry to Bother You
as Langston
(2018)
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
as Baltimore Bob
(2018)
Proud Mary
as Benny
(2018)
The Old Man & the Gun
as Teddy
(2018)
Howard
as Self (archive footage)
(2018)
Survivor's Guide to Prison
as Self
(2018)
Come Sunday
as Gilbert Pearson
(2018)
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
as Mr. Ocean
(2018)
Christmas Break-In
as Ray
(2018)
(2018)
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
as Narrator (voice)
(2017)
Extortion
as Constable Haagen
(2017)
Tour de Pharmacy
as Slim Robinson Present Day
(2017)
The Christmas Train
as Max Powers
(2017)
The Curse of Buckout Road
as Dr. Powell
(2017)
Birth of a Movement
as Narrator (voice)
(2017)
Agents of Change
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2017)
The Good Catholic
as Victor
(2017)
Vagabonds
as Uncle Issa
(2017)
(2016)
Dirty Grandpa
as Stinky
(2016)
Monster Trucks
as Mr. Weathers
(2016)
Diablo
as Benjamin Carver
(2016)
Almost Christmas
as Walter
(2016)
Complete Unknown
as Roger
(2016)
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
as Narrator (voice)
(2016)
Gridlocked
as Sully
(2016)
93 Days
as Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
(2016)
Mr. Pig
as Ambrose
(2016)
Back in the Day
as Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
(2016)
Pushing Dead
as Bob
(2016)
Darkweb
as The Boss
(2015)
Bad Asses on the Bayou
as Bernie Pope
(2015)
Andron
as Chancellor Gordon
(2015)
Consumed
as Hal Westbrook
(2015)
Toxin
as Dr. Locke
(2015)
About Scout
as Red
(2015)
Checkmate
as Elohim
(2015)
Caffeinated
as Coffee Lover
(2015)
Waffle Street
as Edward Collins
(2015)
Mississippi Inferno
as Narrator (voice)
(2014)
Rage
as Detective St. John
(2014)
Beyond the Lights
as Captain Nicol
(2014)
Yellowbird
as Darius (voice)
(2014)
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
as Bernie Pope
(2014)
Day of the Mummy
as Carl
(2014)
Supremacy
as Mr. Walker
(2014)
2047: Sights of Death
as Sponge
(2014)
We Are Many
as Self
(2014)
The Ninja Immovable Heart
as Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
(2014)
(2014)
Chasing Shakespeare
as William Ward
(2014)
(2013)
Extraction
as Harding
(2013)
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
as Justice Thurgood Marshall
(2013)
Space Warriors
as Commander Phillips
(2013)
LUV
as Arthur
(2013)
(2013)
The Shift
as Floyd
(2013)
Tula: The Revolt
as Shinishi
(2013)
The Bouquet
as Reverend John
(2013)
Shuffleton's Barbershop
as Charlie Shuffleton
(2013)
Highland Park
as Ed
(2012)
Shadows of Liberty
as Self
(2012)
Casting By
as Self
(2012)
Hannah's Law
as Isom Dart
(2012)
Sins
as Father Leonard
(2012)
(2012)
The Children's Republic
as Dubem
(2012)
The Lighthouse
as Duncan
(2011)
Age of the Dragons
as Ahab
(2011)
Mysteria
as Investigator
(2011)
Son of Morning
as Gabriel Peters
(2011)
Donovan's Echo
as Donovan Matheson
(2011)
Mooz-lum
as Dean Francis
(2011)
Rise Like Lions
as Self (Occupy Oakland)
(2010)
Death at a Funeral
as Uncle Russell
(2010)
I'm Still Here
as Danny Glover
(2010)
Alpha and Omega
as Winston (voice)
(2010)
Legendary
as Harry 'Red' Newman
(2010)
Five Minarets in New York
as Marcus
(2010)
(2010)
Down for Life
as Mr. Shannon
(2010)
I Want to Be a Soldier
as School Director
(2010)
(2010)
Dear Alice
as Franzis
(2010)
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
as Narrator (voice)
(2009)
2012
as President Thomas Wilson
(2009)
Night Train
as Miles
(2009)
PoliWood
as Self
(2009)
The People Speak
as Self
(2009)
The Harimaya Bridge
as Joseph Holder
(2008)
Saw V
as David Tapp (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2008)
Blindness
as Man with Black Eye Patch
(2008)
Be Kind Rewind
as Mr. Fletcher
(2008)
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
as Walter Tortoise (voice)
(2008)
Gospel Hill
as John Malcolm
(2007)
Shooter
as Colonel Isaac Johnson
(2007)
Battle for Terra
as President Chen (voice)
(2007)
Honeydripper
as Tyrone Purvis
(2007)
Poor Boy's Game
as George
(2007)
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
as Father Elias
(2006)
Barnyard
as Miles the Mule (voice)
(2006)
Dreamgirls
as Marty Madison
(2006)
The Shaggy Dog
as Ken Hollister
(2006)
Bamako
as Cow-boy
(2006)
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
as Brer Turtle (voice)
(2006)
The Exonerated
as David Keaton
(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)
The Peace!
as Self
(2005)
Full Disclosure Report
as David Tapp
(2005)
P.N.O.K.
as Col. Weldon
(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)
Freedom Song
as Will Walker
(2000)
(2000)
(2000)
Boesman and Lena
as Boesman
(1999)
Our Friend, Martin
as Train Conductor (voice)
(1999)
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
as Self (archive footage)
(1999)
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
as Narrator (voice)
(1999)
(1998)
The Prince of Egypt
as Jethro (voice)
(1998)
Antz
as Barbatus (voice)
(1998)
Lethal Weapon 4
as Roger Murtaugh
(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)
Switchback
as Bob Goodall
(1997)
Gone Fishin'
as Gus Green
(1997)
Wild America
as Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
(1997)
Buffalo Soldiers
as Sgt. Washington Wyatt
(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)
Bopha!
as Micah Mangena
(1993)
The Saint of Fort Washington
as Jerry
(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)
Pure Luck
as Raymond Campanella
(1991)
Grand Canyon
as Simon
(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 - Moses in Egypt
as Narrator (voice)
(1990)
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby
as Narrator (voice)
(1989)
Lethal Weapon 2
as Roger Murtaugh
(1989)
Hollywood on Horses
as Self
(1989)
Dead Man Out
as Dr. Alex Marsh
(1989)
A Raisin in the Sun
as Walter Lee Younger
(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)
The Color Purple
as Albert
(1985)
Silverado
as Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
(1985)
Witness
as McFee
(1985)
And the Children Shall Lead
as William
(1985)
The Stand-In
as Apples Finnerty
(1984)
Iceman
as Loomis
(1984)
Places in the Heart
as Moze
(1983)
Memorial Day
as Willie Monroe
(1983)
Keeping On
as Lester Traylor
(1983)
The Face of Rage
as Gary
(1982)
Out
as Jojo / Roland
(1981)
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
as Morgan
(1981)
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
as Oscar Micheaux
(1979)
Escape from Alcatraz
as Inmate
(1969)
Crew
(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