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Danny Glover
Born · July 22, 1946 (78 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Bio
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.
Double Soul
Michael Tedeschi
5.6
2023
American Dreamer
Jerry
5.7
2022
A Night at the Academy Museum
Self
7.0
2021
The Drummer
Mark Walker
7.0
2020
Vagabonds
Uncle Issa
0.0
2017
Casting By
Self
7.1
2012
Mooz-lum
Dean Francis
5.1
2011
I Want to Be a Soldier
School Director
5.7
2010
Down for Life
Mr. Shannon
4.3
2010
Alpha and Omega
Winston (voice)
5.9
2010
Legendary
Harry 'Red' Newman
6.7
2010
Death at a Funeral
Uncle Russell
5.8
2010
Five Minarets in New York
Marcus
5.6
2010
2012
President Thomas Wilson
5.8
2009
The Harimaya Bridge
Joseph Holder
5.4
2009
Night Train
Miles
5.5
2009
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
Walter Tortoise (voice)
5.7
2008
Blindness
Man with Black Eye Patch
6.5
2008
Gospel Hill
John Malcolm
4.7
2008
Be Kind Rewind
Mr. Fletcher
6.3
2008
Honeydripper
Tyrone Purvis
6.2
2007
Battle for Terra
President Chen (voice)
6.1
2007
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
Father Elias
5.9
2007
Shooter
Colonel Isaac Johnson
7.1
2007
Poor Boy's Game
George
5.7
2007
Dreamgirls
Marty Madison
6.7
2006
Barnyard
Miles the Mule (voice)
5.9
2006
The Shaggy Dog
Ken Hollister
4.9
2006
Manderlay
Wilhelm
6.9
2005
Missing in America
Jake Neely
6.0
2005
Saw
David Tapp
7.4
2004
Good Fences
Tom Spader
6.0
2003
The Royal Tenenbaums
Henry Sherman
7.5
2001
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
Host
6.8
1999
The Prince of Egypt
Jethro (voice)
7.3
1998
Beloved
Paul D
5.7
1998
Antz
Barbatus (voice)
6.2
1998
Lethal Weapon 4
Roger Murtaugh
6.6
1998
The Rainmaker
Richter Tyrone Kipler
7.0
1997
Switchback
Bob Goodall
6.0
1997
Gone Fishin'
Gus Green
4.8
1997
Operation Dumbo Drop
Capt. Sam Cahill
5.2
1995
Angels in the Outfield
George Knox
5.9
1994
Maverick
Bank Robber (uncredited)
6.9
1994
Lethal Weapon 3
Roger Murtaugh
6.7
1992
Grand Canyon
Simon
6.5
1991
Pure Luck
Raymond Campanella
5.5
1991
A Rage in Harlem
Easy Money
5.5
1991
Flight of the Intruder
Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
5.6
1991
Predator 2
Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
6.3
1990
Lethal Weapon 2
Roger Murtaugh
7.0
1989
Bat★21
Capt. Bartholomew Clark
6.3
1988
Lethal Weapon
Roger Murtaugh
7.3
1987
The Color Purple
Albert
7.8
1985
Silverado
Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
7.0
1985
Witness
McFee
7.1
1985
Places in the Heart
Moze
7.2
1984
Iceman
Loomis
6.1
1984
Lethal Weapon 5
Roger Murtaugh
0.0
The Naughty Nine
Santa Claus
6.2
2023
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
Ele mesmo
0.0
2022
Jumanji: The Next Level
Milo
6.9
2019
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
Narrator (voice)
10.0
2019
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Grandpa Allen
7.0
2019
The Dead Don't Die
Hank Thompson
5.4
2019
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
Narrator
0.0
2019
Always in Season
Narrator (voice)
6.8
2019
Christmas Break-In
Ray
5.8
2018
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
Baltimore Bob
6.2
2018
The Old Man & the Gun
Teddy
6.4
2018
Sorry to Bother You
Langston
6.8
2018
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
Mr. Ocean
5.1
2018
Survivor's Guide to Prison
Self
6.4
2018
Come Sunday
Gilbert Pearson
5.7
2018
Proud Mary
Benny
5.5
2018
The Christmas Train
Max Powers
6.5
2017
The Curse of Buckout Road
Dr. Powell
6.6
2017
The Good Catholic
Victor
5.5
2017
Tour de Pharmacy
Slim Robinson Present Day
6.8
2017
Agents of Change
Self - Narrator (voice)
0.0
2017
Birth of a Movement
Narrator (voice)
6.4
2017
Extortion
Constable Haagen
6.2
2017
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
Self
0.0
2017
Almost Christmas
Walter
5.9
2016
Pushing Dead
Bob
6.2
2016
Complete Unknown
Roger
5.1
2016
Mr. Pig
Ambrose
6.1
2016
Gridlocked
Sully
5.9
2016
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2016
93 Days
Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
5.8
2016
Darkweb
The Boss
2.9
2016
Dirty Grandpa
Stinky
5.9
2016
Diablo
Benjamin Carver
4.9
2016
Andron
Chancellor Gordon
3.8
2015
Waffle Street
Edward Collins
6.2
2015
Mississippi Inferno
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2015
Caffeinated
Coffee Lover
6.0
2015
The Ninja Immovable Heart
Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
3.5
2014
Shadows of Liberty
Self
6.3
2012
I'm Still Here
Danny Glover
6.0
2010
The People Speak
Self
6.9
2009
Saw V
David Tapp (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.2
2008
Read You Like a Book
3.9
2006
Bamako
Cow-boy
6.9
2006
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
Brer Turtle (voice)
5.8
2006
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
Self (archive footage)
6.0
2005
P.N.O.K.
Col. Weldon
0.0
2005
The Cookout
Judge Crowley
4.6
2004
Bàttu
0.0
2000
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
Self
6.3
2000
Wild America
Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
6.1
1997
America's Dream
Silas (segment "Long Black Song")
7.0
1996
Red Wind
Philip Marlowe
0.0
1995
Dead Man Out
Dr. Alex Marsh
7.2
1989
A Raisin in the Sun
Walter Lee Younger
8.0
1989
A Place at the Table
Mr. Scott
0.0
1988
Memorial Day
Willie Monroe
6.2
1983
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
Morgan
5.5
1981
Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
Narrator (voice)
0.0
Press Play
Cooper
6.6
2022
The Bee
Roger Murtaugh (archive footage) · (1 episode)
10.0
2020
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Narrator (voice)
8.0
2020
After Fact
Self
0.0
2020
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2020
Strive
0.0
2019
The Robeson Effect
Self
0.0
2019
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
Self
6.5
2018
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2018
Howard
Self (archive footage)
6.9
2018
Cold Case Files
Narrator (voice) · (10 episodes)
7.9
2017
Monster Trucks
Mr. Weathers
6.1
2016
Back in the Day
Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
3.0
2016
Checkmate
Elohim
4.0
2015
Consumed
Hal Westbrook
5.5
2015
About Scout
Red
5.9
2015
Bad Asses on the Bayou
Bernie Pope
6.1
2015
Toxin
Dr. Locke
3.2
2015
Beyond the Lights
Captain Nicol
6.8
2014
Day of the Mummy
Carl
4.9
2014
Yellowbird
Darius (voice)
5.1
2014
black-ish
Uncle Norman · (1 episode)
7.2
2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Self
1.5
2014
2047: Sights of Death
Sponge
2.9
2014
Supremacy
Mr. Walker
5.7
2014
We Are Many
Self
6.7
2014
Rage
Detective St. John
5.3
2014
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
Bernie Pope
6.2
2014
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
0.0
2014
Mozart in the Jungle
Mayor · (1 episode)
7.5
2014
Chasing Shakespeare
William Ward
3.8
2014
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Justice Thurgood Marshall
6.4
2013
Ironside
Frank Ironside · (1 episode)
5.2
2013
Extraction
Harding
5.1
2013
Tula: The Revolt
Shinishi
4.4
2013
Highland Park
Ed
5.3
2013
Shuffleton's Barbershop
Charlie Shuffleton
4.9
2013
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Self
6.0
2013
Space Warriors
Commander Phillips
5.3
2013
The Shift
Floyd
5.0
2013
The Bouquet
Reverend John
5.7
2013
LUV
Arthur
5.8
2013
The Children's Republic
Dubem
8.2
2012
The Lighthouse
Duncan
0.0
2012
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'
Self
6.5
2012
Hannah's Law
Isom Dart
5.1
2012
Sins
Father Leonard
2.5
2012
Touch
Professor Arthur Teller · (5 episodes)
6.6
2012
Mysteria
Investigator
4.5
2011
Rise Like Lions
Self (Occupy Oakland)
0.0
2011
Donovan's Echo
Donovan Matheson
6.1
2011
Age of the Dragons
Ahab
4.0
2011
Son of Morning
Gabriel Peters
3.1
2011
Dear Alice
Franzis
5.8
2010
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
Self
7.0
2010
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
Self
7.8
2010
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2010
PoliWood
Self
6.5
2009
Leverage
Charlie Lawson · (1 episode)
7.6
2008
Brothers and Sisters
Isaac Marshall · (6 episodes)
7.1
2006
Psych
Mel Hornsby · (1 episode)
7.9
2006
The Exonerated
David Keaton
8.0
2006
The Reichen Show
Self · (1 episode)
4.8
2005
Full Disclosure Report
David Tapp
0.0
2005
Criminal Minds
Hank Morgan · (1 episode)
8.3
2005
The Peace!
Self
5.0
2005
My Name Is Earl
Thomas · (1 episode)
7.7
2005
American Dad!
Minstrel Krampus (voice) · (1 episode)
7.0
2005
Legend of Earthsea
Ogion · (2 episodes)
5.8
2004
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
2003
The John Garfield Story
Self
8.0
2003
The Real Eve
Narrator (voice)
10.0
2002
3 A.M.
Hershey
5.5
2001
Boesman and Lena
Boesman
6.5
2000
Freedom Song
Will Walker
5.8
2000
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
Self (archive footage)
6.4
1999
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1999
Our Friend, Martin
Train Conductor (voice)
7.4
1999
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
Self - Narrator (voice)
8.8
1998
Hollywood Squares
Self - Panelist · (5 episodes)
6.5
1998
Hollywood Squares
(5 episodes)
6.5
1998
Buffalo Soldiers
Sgt. Washington Wyatt
5.1
1997
The View
Self · (3 episodes)
4.4
1997
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
Self
10.0
1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
8.6
1995
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
Isaac Jefferson (voice) · (2 episodes)
0.0
1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The King (voice) · (1 episode)
6.0
1995
ER
Charlie Pratt Sr. · (4 episodes)
7.8
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · (1 episode)
7.4
1994
The Saint of Fort Washington
Jerry
6.5
1993
Bopha!
Micah Mangena
5.1
1993
Civil War Journal
Self - Host · (4 episodes)
6.3
1993
Civil War Journal
Host · (54 episodes)
6.3
1993
Fallen Angels
Marlowe · (1 episode)
5.5
1993
The Talking Eggs
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1993
Alex Haley's Queen
Alec Haley · (3 episodes)
7.1
1993
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1992
To Sleep with Anger
Harry
6.6
1990
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Dr. Apollo (voice) · (1 episode)
6.8
1990
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1990
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1990
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
Narrator (voice)
0.0
1989
Lonesome Dove
Joshua Deets · (4 episodes)
7.8
1989
Hollywood on Horses
Self
3.0
1989
Mandela
Nelson Mandela
4.3
1987
John Henry
John Henry
0.0
1986
Tall Tales & Legends
John Henry · (1 episode)
5.4
1985
The Stand-In
Apples Finnerty
0.0
1985
And the Children Shall Lead
William
10.0
1985
The Face of Rage
Gary
0.0
1983
Keeping On
Lester Traylor
0.0
1983
Out
Jojo / Roland
5.0
1982
Gimme a Break!
(1 episode)
6.6
1981
Hill Street Blues
(4 episodes)
7.6
1981
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
Oscar Micheaux
0.0
1981
Great Railway Journeys
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
7.0
1980
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
(1 episode)
5.5
1980
Escape from Alcatraz
Inmate
7.5
1979
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self · (1 episode)
6.3
1973
San Francisco State: On Strike
self
0.0
1969
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · (1 episode)
7.4
1962
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
5.0
1956
Today
Self · (2 episodes)
5.5
1952