Danny Glover
Known for Acting · 253 credits
- Born
- 1946-07-22 (age 79)
- Place of birth
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Also known as
- Danny Lebern 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.
Known For
TV Shows (38)
Criminal Minds
2005
as Hank Morgan
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
American Dad!
2005
as Minstrel Krampus (voice)
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Roger Murtaugh (uncredited)
Psych
2006
as Mel Hornsby
ER
1994
as Charlie Pratt Sr.
The View
1997
as Self
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter
Hill Street Blues
1981
Hollywood Squares
1998
as Self - Panelist
My Name Is Earl
2005
as Thomas
The Reichen Show
2005
as Self
Brothers and Sisters
2006
as Isaac Marshall
black-ish
2014
as Uncle Norman
American Playhouse
1982
as Lester Traylor / Walter Lee Younger
Today
1952
as Self
Leverage
2008
as Charlie Lawson
Fallen Angels
1993
as Marlowe
Human Target
2010
as Client
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
as Dr. Apollo (voice)
Gimme a Break!
1981
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as The King (voice)
Mozart in the Jungle
2014
as Mayor
Touch
2012
as Professor Arthur Teller
Tall Tales & Legends
1985
as John Henry
Ironside
2013
as Frank Ironside
Cold Case Files
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
Lonesome Dove
1989
as Joshua Deets
Alex Haley's Queen
1993
as Alec Haley
Legend of Earthsea
2004
as Ogion
Great Railway Journeys
1980
as Self - Presenter
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1980
Civil War Journal
1993
as Self - Host
Nite Tales: The Series
2009
as Jeremiah
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
1995
as Isaac Jefferson (voice)
Movies (215)
Jumanji: The Next Level
2019
as Milo
2012
2009
as President Thomas Wilson
Shooter
2007
as Colonel Isaac Johnson
Saw
2004
as David Tapp
The Prince of Egypt
1998
as Jethro (voice)
Lethal Weapon
1987
as Roger Murtaugh
Predator 2
1990
as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
Antz
1998
as Barbatus (voice)
Lethal Weapon 3
1992
as Roger Murtaugh
Dirty Grandpa
2016
as Stinky
Lethal Weapon 2
1989
as Roger Murtaugh
Sorry to Bother You
2018
as Langston
Barnyard
2006
as Miles (voice)
Escape from Alcatraz
1979
as Inmate
Mr. Pig
2016
as Ambrose
Lethal Weapon 4
1998
as Roger Murtaugh
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
2018
as Baltimore Bob
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
as Henry Sherman
Places in the Heart
1984
as Moze
Monster Trucks
2016
as Mr. Weathers
Sins
2012
as Father Leonard
Death at a Funeral
2010
as Uncle Russell
The Color Purple
1985
as Albert
The Rainmaker
1997
as Richter Tyrone Kipler
Witness
1985
as McFee
Dreamgirls
2006
as Marty Madison
The Dead Don't Die
2019
as Hank Thompson
Maverick
1994
as Bank Robber (uncredited)
Silverado
1985
as Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
Angels in the Outfield
1994
as George Knox
Alpha and Omega
2010
as Winston (voice)
Blindness
2008
as Man with Black Eye Patch
The Old Man & the Gun
2018
as Teddy
Extraction
2013
as Harding
Extortion
2017
as Detective Constable Haagen
Rage
2014
as Detective St. John
Complete Unknown
2016
as Roger
Tour de Pharmacy
2017
as Slim Robinson Present Day
Pure Luck
1991
as Raymond Campanella
The Shaggy Dog
2006
as Ken Hollister
Andron
2015
as Chancellor Gordon
Be Kind Rewind
2008
as Mr. Fletcher
Manderlay
2005
as Wilhelm
Bamako
2007
as Cow-boy
I'm Still Here
2010
as Danny Glover
Almost Christmas
2016
as Walter
Proud Mary
2018
as Benny
LUV
2013
as Arthur
Switchback
1997
as Bob Goodall
Press Play
2022
as Cooper
Iceman
1984
as Loomis
Come Sunday
2018
as Gilbert Pearson
The Christmas Train
2017
as Max Powers
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
2014
as Bernie Pope
The Peace!
2005
as Self
Battle for Terra
2007
as President Chen (voice)
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
as Mr. Ocean
Beyond the Lights
2014
as Captain Nicol
Our Friend, Martin
1999
as Train Conductor (voice)
Five Minarets in New York
2010
as Marcus
The Naughty Nine
2023
as Santa Claus
The People Speak
2009
as Self
Operation Dumbo Drop
1995
as Capt. Sam Cahill
The Children's Republic
2012
as Dubem
Flight of the Intruder
1991
as Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
Dear Alice
2010
as Franzis
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
2007
as Self
Bad Asses on the Bayou
2015
as Bernie Pope
Supremacy
2014
as Mr. Walker
Wild America
1997
as Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
Consumed
2015
as Hal Westbrook
Beloved
1998
as Paul D
Night Train
2009
as Miles
Gridlocked
2016
as Sully
A Place at the Table
1988
as Mr. Scott
Darkweb
2016
as The Boss
Gone Fishin'
1997
as Gus Green
The Cookout
2004
as Judge Crowley
Killing Winston Jones
as Washington Carver
Tula: The Revolt
2013
as Shinishi
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
2019
as Grandpa Allen
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
2010
as Narrator (voice)
The Curse of Buckout Road
2017
as Dr. Powell
Mandela
1987
as Nelson Mandela
Casting By
2012
as Self
Yellowbird
2014
as Darius (voice)
The Saint of Fort Washington
1993
as Jerry
Toxin
2015
as Dr. Locke
We Are Many
2014
as Self
Age of the Dragons
2011
as Ahab
American Dreamer
2022
as Jerry
Space Warriors
2013
as Commander Phillips
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018
as Self
Earthed
2004
Bat★21
1988
as Capt. Bartholomew Clark
Honeydripper
2007
as Tyrone Purvis
Donovan's Echo
2011
as Donovan Matheson
Hannah's Law
2012
as Isom Dart
Son of Morning
2011
as Gabriel Peters
The Exonerated
2006
as David Keaton
Soldier Child
1998
as Self - Narrator
When I See Them, I See Us
2021
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
2008
as Walter Tortoise (voice)
Waffle Street
2015
as Edward Collins
Memorial Day
1983
as Willie Monroe
Day of the Mummy
2014
as Carl
Howard
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
as Justice Thurgood Marshall
Grand Canyon
1991
as Simon
Missing in America
2005
as Jake Neely
Legendary
2010
as Harry 'Red' Newman
San Francisco State: On Strike
1969
as self
P.N.O.K.
2005
as Col. Weldon
After Fact
2020
as Self
2047: Sights of Death
2014
as Sponge
Boesman and Lena
2000
as Boesman
Dead Man Out
1989
as Dr. Alex Marsh
Buffalo Soldiers
1997
as Sgt. Washington Wyatt
Down for Life
2010
as Mr. Shannon
The John Garfield Story
2003
as Self
About 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,… With 253 credits spanning from 1952 to 2025, Danny Glover has appeared in 215 films and 38 TV shows.
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- Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) — as Milo
- 2012 (2009) — as President Thomas Wilson
- Shooter (2007) — as Colonel Isaac Johnson
- Saw (2004) — as David Tapp
- The Prince of Egypt (1998) — as Jethro (voice)
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