Danny Glover
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.
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.
Known for
The Naughty Nine
The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane
Double Soul
President
American Dreamer
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
Press Play
Crane Lantern
A Night at the Academy Museum
Memoria
Prayers for the Stolen
In Between Dying
The War on Cuba
The Drummer
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
After Fact
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
Jumanji: The Next Level
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
Lynch: A History
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Strive
The Dead Don't Die
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
Always in Season
Easter Snap
The Robeson Effect
Christmas Break-In
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
The Old Man & the Gun
Capernaum
Angels Are Made of Light
Sorry to Bother You
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
Howard
Survivor's Guide to Prison
Come Sunday
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Proud Mary
The Christmas Train
The Curse of Buckout Road
Vagabonds
Zama
The Good Catholic
That Summer
Tour de Pharmacy
Agents of Change
Cold Case Files
Birth of a Movement
Strong Island
Extortion
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
Monster Trucks
Almost Christmas
Shadow World
Pushing Dead
White Sun
Complete Unknown
Mr. Pig
Gridlocked
The House on Coco Road
Back in the Day
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
93 Days
Darkweb
Dirty Grandpa
Diablo
Andron
Waffle Street
This Changes Everything
Cemetery of Splendor
Checkmate
Consumed
About Scout
Bad Asses on the Bayou
Mississippi Inferno
Caffeinated
Toxin
Beyond the Lights
Life Is Sacred
Day of the Mummy
Yellowbird
black-ish
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2047: Sights of Death
Supremacy
We Are Many
Rage
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
The Ninja Immovable Heart
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
Mozart in the Jungle
Chasing Shakespeare
Concerning Violence
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Ironside
Extraction
Tula: The Revolt
Highland Park
Shuffleton's Barbershop
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Space Warriors
The Shift
The Bouquet
LUV
Casting By
Shenandoah
The House I Live In
The Children's Republic
Highway
Shadows of Liberty
Hannah's Law
Sins
Touch
Mysteria
Donovan's Echo
Dum Maaro Dum
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Age of the Dragons
Son of Morning
Mooz-lum
I Want to Be a Soldier
Down for Life
Alpha and Omega
I'm Still Here
Legendary
Dear Alice
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Death at a Funeral
Five Minarets in New York
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
The People Speak
2012
The Time That Remains
PoliWood
The Harimaya Bridge
Night Train
Leverage
Saw V
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
The Garden
Blindness
Gospel Hill
Trouble the Water
Honeydripper
Battle for Terra
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
Shooter
Poor Boy's Game
Dreamgirls
Read You Like a Book
Brothers and Sisters
Barnyard
Psych
Bamako
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
The Shaggy Dog
The Exonerated
The Reichen Show
Full Disclosure Report
Criminal Minds
My Name Is Earl
Manderlay
American Dad!
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
Legend of Earthsea
Saw
The Cookout
Real Time with Bill Maher
The John Garfield Story
Good Fences
The Real Eve
Just a Dream
The Royal Tenenbaums
3 A.M.
Boesman and Lena
Bàttu
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
Freedom Song
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
Our Friend, Martin
The Prince of Egypt
Beloved
Antz
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
Hollywood Squares
Lethal Weapon 4
Buffalo Soldiers
The Rainmaker
Switchback
The View
Wild America
Gone Fishin'
America's Dream
Operation Dumbo Drop
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Override
ER
Inside the Actors Studio
Angels in the Outfield
Maverick
The Saint of Fort Washington
Bopha!
Fallen Angels
The Talking Eggs
Alex Haley's Queen
Lethal Weapon 3
Grand Canyon
Pure Luck
A Rage in Harlem
Flight of the Intruder
Predator 2
To Sleep with Anger
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Lethal Weapon 2
Dead Man Out
Lonesome Dove
A Raisin in the Sun
Bat★21
Mandela
Lethal Weapon
John Henry
The Color Purple
Tall Tales & Legends
Silverado
Witness
And the Children Shall Lead
Places in the Heart
Iceman
Keeping On
Out
Gimme a Break!
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
Hill Street Blues
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
Great Railway Journeys
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
Escape from Alcatraz
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
San Francisco State: On Strike
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Tony Awards
Today