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.
Filmography
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Grizzly Peak
Newbies
Double Soul
The Naughty Nine
Press Play
African Redemption: The Life and Legacy of Marcus Garvey
American Dreamer
A Night at the Academy Museum
When I See Them, I See Us
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
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Strive
The Dead Don't Die
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
The Robeson Effect
Always in Season
Christmas Break-In
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
The Old Man & the Gun
Sorry to Bother You
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
Howard
Proud Mary
Survivors Guide To Prison
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
Come Sunday
The Christmas Train
Vagabonds
Tour de Pharmacy
Agents of Change
Birth of a Movement
Extortion
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
The Curse of Buckout Road
The Good Catholic
Monster Trucks
Almost Christmas
Complete Unknown
Mr. Pig- DIDirt & Deeds in Mississippi
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
Dirty Grandpa
Back in the Day
Dark Web
93 Days
Pushing Dead
Bad Asses on the Bayou
Mississippi Inferno
Gridlocked
Caffeinated
Toxin
Consumed
Diablo
About Scout
Checkmate
Waffle Street
Andron
Beyond the Lights
Yellowbird
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Rage
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
Chasing Shakespeare
We Are Many
Ninja Immovable Heart
2047: Sights of Death
Supremacy
Day of the Mummy
Extraction
Shuffleton's Barbershop
Highland Park
The Shift
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Tula: The Revolt
Space Warriors
The Bouquet
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Casting By
The Children's Republic- THThe Lighthouse
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'
Hannah's Law
Sins
Shadows of Liberty
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America
Luv
Rise Like Lions
Donovan's Echo
Mysteria
Age of the Dragons
Son of Morning
I'm Still Here
Legendary
Alpha and Omega
Death at a Funeral
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
Act of Vengeance
Mooz-Lum
I Want to Be a Soldier
Dear Alice
2012
PoliWood
Night Train
The Harimaya Bridge
Down for Life
The People Speak
Saw V
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
Fats Waller Was Born Here
Blindness
Be Kind Rewind
Gospel Hill
Agent Crush
Battle for Terra
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
Shooter
Poor Boy's Game
Honeydripper
Dreamgirls
Read You Like a Book
Barnyard
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
The Shaggy Dog
The Exonerated
Bamako
Full Disclosure Report- THThe Peace!
Manderlay
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'- P.P.N.O.K.
Missing in America
Saw
Earthed
The Cookout
The John Garfield Story
Good Fences
The Real Eve
The Royal Tenenbaums
3 A.M.
Boesman and Lena
Bàttu
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
Freedom Song
Ennis' Gift
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
Lethal Weapon 4
Soldier Child
Buffalo Soldiers
The Rainmaker
Switchback
Wild America
Gone Fishin'
America's Dream
Red Wind- ENEncyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
Operation Dumbo Drop
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Angels in the Outfield
Maverick
The Saint of Fort Washington
The Talking Eggs
Bopha!- RARabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion
Lethal Weapon 3
Grand Canyon- A A Party For Richard Pryor
Pure Luck
A Rage in Harlem
Flight of the Intruder
Predator 2
To Sleep with Anger- RARabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt
- RARabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
Lethal Weapon 2
Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary
Dead Man Out
A Raisin in the Sun- HOHollywood on Horses
Bat★21- A A Place at the Table
Mandela
Lethal Weapon- THThe Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson
John Henry
The Color Purple
Silverado
The Stand-In
Witness
And the Children Shall Lead
Places in the Heart
Iceman- MEMemorial Day
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Keeping On
Out
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
Escape from Alcatraz
San Francisco State: On Strike- LELethal Weapon 5
Killing Winston Jones
Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
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Our Land
Harvest
The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane
Memoria
Prayers for the Stolen
In Between Dying
President
Crane Lantern
Lynch: A History
Capernaum
Angels Are Made Of Light
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Zama
That Summer
Strong Island
The House on Coco Road
White Sun
Shadow World
Cemetery of Splendor
This Changes Everything
Concerning Violence
The House I Live In
Highway
Shenandoah
Dum Maaro Dum
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
The Time That Remains
Trouble the Water
Salt of This Sea