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.
Movies
Newbies
The Naughty Nine
Santa Claus
Double Soul
Michael Tedeschi
American Dreamer
Jerry
Press Play
Cooper
The Drummer
Mark Walker
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Narrator (voice)
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
Narrator (voice)
Jumanji: The Next Level
Milo
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
Narrator (voice)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Grandpa Allen
Strive
The Dead Don't Die
Hank Thompson
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
Narrator
Always in Season
Narrator (voice)
Christmas Break-In
Ray
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
Baltimore Bob
The Old Man & the Gun
Teddy
Sorry to Bother You
Langston
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
Mr. Ocean
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
Narrator (voice)
Come Sunday
Gilbert Pearson
Proud Mary
Benny
The Christmas Train
Max Powers
The Curse of Buckout Road
Dr. Powell
Vagabonds
Uncle Issa
The Good Catholic
Victor
Tour de Pharmacy
Slim Robinson Present Day
Birth of a Movement
Narrator (voice)
Extortion
Constable Haagen
Monster Trucks
Mr. Weathers
Almost Christmas
Walter
Pushing Dead
Bob
Complete Unknown
Roger
Mr. Pig
Ambrose
Gridlocked
Sully
Back in the Day
Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
Narrator (voice)
93 Days
Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
Darkweb
The Boss
Dirty Grandpa
Stinky
Diablo
Benjamin Carver
Andron
Chancellor Gordon
Waffle Street
Edward Collins
Checkmate
Elohim
Consumed
Hal Westbrook
About Scout
Red
Bad Asses on the Bayou
Bernie Pope
Mississippi Inferno
Narrator (voice)
Caffeinated
Coffee Lover
Toxin
Dr. Locke
Beyond the Lights
Captain Nicol
Day of the Mummy
Carl
Yellowbird
Darius (voice)
2047: Sights of Death
Sponge
Supremacy
Mr. Walker
Rage
Detective St. John
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
Bernie Pope
The Ninja Immovable Heart
Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
Chasing Shakespeare
William Ward
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Justice Thurgood Marshall
Extraction
Harding
Tula: The Revolt
Shinishi
Highland Park
Ed
Shuffleton's Barbershop
Charlie Shuffleton
Space Warriors
Commander Phillips
The Shift
Floyd
The Bouquet
Reverend John
LUV
Arthur
The Children's Republic
Dubem
The Lighthouse
Duncan
Hannah's Law
Isom Dart
Sins
Father Leonard
Mysteria
Investigator
Donovan's Echo
Donovan Matheson
Age of the Dragons
Ahab
Son of Morning
Gabriel Peters
Mooz-lum
Dean Francis
I Want to Be a Soldier
School Director
Down for Life
Mr. Shannon
I'm Still Here
Danny Glover
Legendary
Harry 'Red' Newman
Dear Alice
Franzis
Alpha and Omega
Winston (voice)
Death at a Funeral
Uncle Russell
Five Minarets in New York
Marcus
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
Narrator (voice)
2012
President Thomas Wilson
The Harimaya Bridge
Joseph Holder
Night Train
Miles
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
Walter Tortoise (voice)
Blindness
Man with Black Eye Patch
Gospel Hill
John Malcolm
Be Kind Rewind
Mr. Fletcher
Honeydripper
Tyrone Purvis
Battle for Terra
President Chen (voice)
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
Father Elias
Shooter
Colonel Isaac Johnson
Poor Boy's Game
George
Dreamgirls
Marty Madison
Read You Like a Book
Barnyard
Miles (voice)
Bamako
Cow-boy
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
Brer Turtle (voice)
The Shaggy Dog
Ken Hollister
The Exonerated
David Keaton
Full Disclosure Report
David Tapp
Manderlay
Wilhelm
Missing in America
Jake Neely
P.N.O.K.
Col. Weldon
Saw
David Tapp
The Cookout
Judge Crowley
Good Fences
Tom Spader
The Real Eve
Narrator (voice)
The Royal Tenenbaums
Henry Sherman
3 A.M.
Hershey
Boesman and Lena
Boesman
Bàttu
Freedom Song
Will Walker
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
Narrator (voice)
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
Host
Our Friend, Martin
Train Conductor (voice)
The Prince of Egypt
Jethro (voice)
Beloved
Paul D
Antz
Barbatus (voice)
Lethal Weapon 4
Roger Murtaugh
Buffalo Soldiers
Sgt. Washington Wyatt
The Rainmaker
Richter Tyrone Kipler
Switchback
Bob Goodall
Wild America
Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
Gone Fishin'
Gus Green
America's Dream
Silas (segment "Long Black Song")
Red Wind
Philip Marlowe
Operation Dumbo Drop
Capt. Sam Cahill
Angels in the Outfield
George Knox
Maverick
Bank Robber (uncredited)
The Saint of Fort Washington
Jerry
Bopha!
Micah Mangena
The Talking Eggs
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion
Narrator (voice)
Lethal Weapon 3
Roger Murtaugh
Grand Canyon
Simon
Pure Luck
Raymond Campanella
A Rage in Harlem
Easy Money
Flight of the Intruder
Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
Predator 2
Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
To Sleep with Anger
Harry
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
Narrator (voice)
Lethal Weapon 2
Roger Murtaugh
Dead Man Out
Dr. Alex Marsh
A Raisin in the Sun
Walter Lee Younger
Bat★21
Capt. Bartholomew Clark
A Place at the Table
Mr. Scott
Mandela
Nelson Mandela
Lethal Weapon
Roger Murtaugh
John Henry
John Henry
The Color Purple
Albert
Silverado
Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
The Stand-In
Apples Finnerty
Witness
McFee
And the Children Shall Lead
William
Places in the Heart
Moze
Iceman
Loomis
Memorial Day
Willie Monroe
The Face of Rage
Gary
Keeping On
Lester Traylor
Out
Jojo / Roland
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
Morgan
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
Oscar Micheaux
Escape from Alcatraz
Inmate
Lethal Weapon 5
Roger Murtaugh
Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
Narrator (voice)
TV Series
black-ish
Uncle Norman
1 Episode
Mozart in the Jungle
Mayor
1 Episode
Ironside
Frank Ironside
1 Episode
Touch
Professor Arthur Teller
5 Episodes
Human Target
Client
1 Episode
Nite Tales: The Series
Jeremiah
1 Episode
Leverage
Charlie Lawson
1 Episode
Brothers and Sisters
Isaac Marshall
6 Episodes
Psych
Mel Hornsby
1 Episode
Criminal Minds
Hank Morgan
1 Episode
My Name Is Earl
Thomas
1 Episode
American Dad!
Minstrel Krampus (voice)
1 Episode
Legend of Earthsea
Ogion
2 Episodes
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
Isaac Jefferson (voice)
2 Episodes
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The King (voice)
1 Episode
ER
Charlie Pratt Sr.
4 Episodes
Civil War Journal
Host
54 Episodes
Fallen Angels
Marlowe
1 Episode
Alex Haley's Queen
Alec Haley
3 Episodes
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Dr. Apollo (voice)
1 Episode
Lonesome Dove
Joshua Deets
4 Episodes
Tall Tales & Legends
John Henry
1 Episode
Chiefs
Marshall Peters
3 Episodes
Gimme a Break!
1 Episode
Hill Street Blues
4 Episodes
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1 Episode