Danny Glover

Born: 1946-07-22 in San Francisco, California, USA

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2026

Our Land ... (Executive Producer)

2025

Newbies

2023

The Naughty Nine as Santa Claus
President ... (Executive Producer)
Double Soul as Michael Tedeschi
The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane ... (Executive Producer)

2017

Cold Case Files as Self - Narrator (voice)
Extortion as Detective Constable Haagen
Tour de Pharmacy as Slim Robinson Present Day
Zama ... (Co-Producer)
The Christmas Train as Max Powers
Strong Island ... (Executive Producer)
That Summer ... (Executive Producer)
The Curse of Buckout Road as Dr. Powell
Vagabonds as Uncle Issa
The Good Catholic as Victor
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories as Self
Birth of a Movement as Narrator (voice)
Agents of Change as Self - Narrator (voice)

2016

Dirty Grandpa as Stinky
Monster Trucks as Mr. Weathers
Mr. Pig as Ambrose
Almost Christmas as Walter
Gridlocked as Sully
Complete Unknown as Roger
Shadow World ... (Executive Producer)
Diablo as Benjamin Carver
93 Days as Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
Pushing Dead as Bob
Back in the Day as Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
Darkweb as The Boss
White Sun ... (Executive Producer)
The House on Coco Road ... (Producer)
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights as Narrator (voice)

2015

Andron as Chancellor Gordon
Bad Asses on the Bayou as Bernie Pope
Consumed as Hal Westbrook
About Scout as Red
Toxin as Dr. Locke
Checkmate as Elohim
Waffle Street as Edward Collins
Cemetery of Splendor ... (Co-Producer)
Caffeinated as Coffee Lover
This Changes Everything ... (Executive Producer)
Mississippi Inferno as Narrator (voice)

2014

Mozart in the Jungle as Mayor
black-ish as Uncle Norman
Rage as Detective St. John
Yellowbird as Darius (voice)
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses as Bernie Pope
Beyond the Lights as Captain Nicol
Supremacy as Mr. Walker
We Are Many as Self
Concerning Violence ... (Co-Producer)
2047: Sights of Death as Sponge
Day of the Mummy as Carl
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee as Self
Life Is Sacred ... (Executive Producer)
The Ninja Immovable Heart as Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
Chasing Shakespeare as William Ward
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama

2013

Ironside as Frank Ironside
Extraction as Harding
LUV as Arthur
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight as Justice Thurgood Marshall
Tula: The Revolt as Shinishi
Highland Park as Ed
The Bouquet as Reverend John
Space Warriors as Commander Phillips
Shuffleton's Barbershop as Charlie Shuffleton
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth as Self
The Shift as Floyd

2012

Touch as Professor Arthur Teller
Casting By as Self
Hannah's Law as Isom Dart
The House I Live In ... (Executive Producer)
Highway ... (Producer)
Shenandoah ... (Executive Producer)
The Children's Republic as Dubem
Sins as Father Leonard
Shadows of Liberty as Self
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon' as Self
The Lighthouse as Duncan

2011

Son of Morning as Gabriel Peters
Age of the Dragons as Ahab
Donovan's Echo as Donovan Matheson
Dum Maaro Dum ... (Executive Producer)
Mooz-lum as Dean Francis
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 ... (Producer)
Mysteria as Investigator
Rise Like Lions as Self (Occupy Oakland)

2010

Human Target as Client
Legendary as Harry 'Red' Newman
Alpha and Omega as Winston (voice)
Death at a Funeral as Uncle Russell
I'm Still Here as Danny Glover
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives ... (Associate Producer)
Down for Life as Mr. Shannon
Five Minarets in New York as Marcus
Dear Alice as Franzis
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic as Self
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective as Self
I Want to Be a Soldier as School Director
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over as Narrator (voice)

2009

2012 as President Thomas Wilson
Night Train as Miles
The People Speak as Self
Nite Tales: The Series as Jeremiah
The Time That Remains ... (Associate Producer)
PoliWood as Self
The Harimaya Bridge as Joseph Holder

2008

Leverage as Charlie Lawson
Blindness as Man with Black Eye Patch
Be Kind Rewind as Mr. Fletcher
Gospel Hill as John Malcolm
Agent Crush as Major Rusty Gubbins
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare as Walter Tortoise (voice)
Salt of This Sea ... (Co-Producer)
Trouble the Water ... (Executive Producer)
Fats Waller Was Born Here as "Fats" Waller's Father/Mr. Fletcher

2007

Shooter as Colonel Isaac Johnson
Battle for Terra as President Chen (voice)
Honeydripper as Tyrone Purvis
Bamako as Cow-boy
Poor Boy's Game as George
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' as Self
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation as Father Elias

2006

Psych as Mel Hornsby
Brothers and Sisters as Isaac Marshall
Barnyard as Miles (voice)
Dreamgirls as Marty Madison
The Shaggy Dog as Ken Hollister
The Exonerated as David Keaton
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit as Brer Turtle (voice)
Read You Like a Book

2005

Criminal Minds as Hank Morgan
American Dad! as Minstrel Krampus (voice)
My Name Is Earl as Thomas
The Reichen Show as Self
Manderlay as Wilhelm
The Peace! as Self
Missing in America as Jake Neely
P.N.O.K. as Col. Weldon
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2' as Self (archive footage)
Full Disclosure Report as David Tapp

2004

Saw as David Tapp
Legend of Earthsea as Ogion
The Cookout as Judge Crowley
Earthed

2003

Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
Good Fences as Tom Spader
The John Garfield Story as Self

2002

Just a Dream ... (Director)
The Real Eve as Narrator (voice)

2001

The Royal Tenenbaums as Henry Sherman
3 A.M. as Hershey

2000

Freedom Song as Will Walker
Boesman and Lena as Boesman
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration as Self
Bàttu

1999

Our Friend, Martin as Train Conductor (voice)
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen as Self (archive footage)
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later as Host
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong as Narrator (voice)

1998

Hollywood Squares as Self - Panelist
The Prince of Egypt as Jethro (voice)
Lethal Weapon 4 as Roger Murtaugh
Antz as Barbatus (voice)
Beloved as Paul D
Soldier Child as Self - Narrator
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson as Self - Narrator (voice)

1997

The View as Self
The Rainmaker as Richter Tyrone Kipler
Wild America as Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
Switchback as Bob Goodall
Gone Fishin' as Gus Green
Buffalo Soldiers as Sgt. Washington Wyatt

1996

America's Dream as Silas (segment "Long Black Song")

1995

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as The King (voice)
Operation Dumbo Drop as Capt. Sam Cahill
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self
Red Wind as Philip Marlowe
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain as Isaac Jefferson (voice)
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities as Self

1994

ER as Charlie Pratt Sr.
Maverick as Bank Robber (uncredited)
Angels in the Outfield as George Knox
Inside the Actors Studio as Self
Override ... (Director)

1993

Fallen Angels as Marlowe
Alex Haley's Queen as Alec Haley
Civil War Journal as Self - Host
Bopha! as Micah Mangena
The Saint of Fort Washington as Jerry
The Talking Eggs as Narrator (voice)

1992

Lethal Weapon 3 as Roger Murtaugh
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion as Narrator (voice)

1991

Pure Luck as Raymond Campanella
Grand Canyon as Simon
Flight of the Intruder as Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
A Rage in Harlem as Easy Money

1990

Captain Planet and the Planeteers as Dr. Apollo (voice)
Predator 2 as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
To Sleep with Anger as Harry
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt as Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby as Narrator (voice)

1989

Lonesome Dove as Joshua Deets
Lethal Weapon 2 as Roger Murtaugh
Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary as Self
Dead Man Out as Dr. Alex Marsh
Hollywood on Horses as Self
A Raisin in the Sun as Walter Lee Younger
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots as Narrator (voice)

1988

Bat★21 as Capt. Bartholomew Clark
A Place at the Table as Mr. Scott

1987

Lethal Weapon as Roger Murtaugh
Mandela as Nelson Mandela

1986

John Henry as John Henry

1985

Tall Tales & Legends as John Henry
The Color Purple as Albert
Silverado as Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
Witness as McFee
The Stand-In as Apples Finnerty
And the Children Shall Lead as William

1984

Places in the Heart as Moze
Iceman as Loomis

1983

Memorial Day as Willie Monroe
Keeping On as Lester Traylor
The Face of Rage as Gary

1982

Out as Jojo / Roland

1981

Hill Street Blues
Gimme a Break!
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash as Morgan
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer as Oscar Micheaux

1980

Palmerstown, U.S.A.
Great Railway Journeys as Self - Presenter

1979

Escape from Alcatraz as Inmate

1975

Saturday Night Live as Roger Murtaugh (uncredited)

1973

The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self

1969

San Francisco State: On Strike as self

1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Presenter

1952

Today as Self