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
2023
- The Naughty Nine as Santa Claus
- President ... (Executive Producer)
- Double Soul as Michael Tedeschi
- The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane ... (Executive Producer)
2022
- American Dreamer as Jerry
- Press Play as Cooper
- De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem? as Self
- Crane Lantern ... (Executive Producer)
2021
- Memoria ... (Co-Producer)
- A Night at the Academy Museum as Self
- Prayers for the Stolen ... (Co-Producer)
- In Between Dying ... (Executive Producer)
2020
- The War on Cuba ... (Executive Producer)
- The Drummer as Mark Walker
- After Fact as Self
- Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man as Narrator (voice)
- Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War as Narrator (voice)
2019
- Jumanji: The Next Level as Milo
- The Dead Don't Die as Hank Thompson
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco as Grandpa Allen
- Strive
- Always in Season as Narrator (voice)
- The Robeson Effect as Self
- Lynch: A History ... (Executive Producer)
- Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story as Narrator
- The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs as Narrator (voice)
- Easter Snap ... (Executive Producer)
2018
- Capernaum ... (Executive Producer)
- Death Race: Beyond Anarchy as Baltimore Bob
- Sorry to Bother You as Langston
- The Old Man & the Gun as Teddy
- Proud Mary as Benny
- Come Sunday as Gilbert Pearson
- Howard as Self (archive footage)
- Christmas Break-In as Ray
- Survivor's Guide to Prison as Self
- Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey as Mr. Ocean
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening ... (Executive Producer)
- Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones as Self
- Angels Are Made of Light ... (Executive Producer)
- The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution as Narrator (voice)
2017
- Tour de Pharmacy as Slim Robinson Present Day
- Cold Case Files as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Extortion as Detective Constable Haagen
- The Christmas Train as Max Powers
- Zama ... (Co-Producer)
- The Curse of Buckout Road as Dr. Powell
- The Good Catholic as Victor
- Strong Island ... (Executive Producer)
- That Summer ... (Executive Producer)
- Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories as Self
- Vagabonds as Uncle Issa
- Agents of Change as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Birth of a Movement as Narrator (voice)
2016
- Dirty Grandpa as Stinky
- Monster Trucks as Mr. Weathers
- Almost Christmas as Walter
- 93 Days as Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
- Complete Unknown as Roger
- Gridlocked as Sully
- Diablo as Benjamin Carver
- Mr. Pig as Ambrose
- Shadow World ... (Executive Producer)
- Back in the Day as Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
- White Sun ... (Executive Producer)
- Pushing Dead as Bob
- Darkweb as The Boss
- The House on Coco Road ... (Producer)
- Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights as Narrator (voice)
2015
- Bad Asses on the Bayou as Bernie Pope
- Andron as Chancellor Gordon
- Cemetery of Splendor ... (Co-Producer)
- Checkmate as Elohim
- Consumed as Hal Westbrook
- Waffle Street as Edward Collins
- Caffeinated as Coffee Lover
- Toxin as Dr. Locke
- About Scout as Red
- This Changes Everything ... (Executive Producer)
- Mississippi Inferno as Narrator (voice)
2014
- black-ish as Uncle Norman
- Mozart in the Jungle as Mayor
- Rage as Detective St. John
- Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses as Bernie Pope
- Beyond the Lights as Captain Nicol
- Yellowbird as Darius (voice)
- Supremacy as Mr. Walker
- The Ninja Immovable Heart as Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
- Concerning Violence ... (Co-Producer)
- Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee as Self
- 2047: Sights of Death as Sponge
- Day of the Mummy as Carl
- We Are Many as Self
- We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
- Chasing Shakespeare as William Ward
- Life Is Sacred ... (Executive Producer)
2013
- Ironside as Frank Ironside
- Extraction as Harding
- Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight as Justice Thurgood Marshall
- Space Warriors as Commander Phillips
- Highland Park as Ed
- LUV as Arthur
- Shuffleton's Barbershop as Charlie Shuffleton
- The Bouquet as Reverend John
- The Shift as Floyd
- Tula: The Revolt as Shinishi
- Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth as Self
2012
- Touch as Professor Arthur Teller
- The House I Live In ... (Executive Producer)
- Casting By as Self
- Hannah's Law as Isom Dart
- Sins as Father Leonard
- Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon' as Self
- Shadows of Liberty as Self
- Highway ... (Producer)
- The Children's Republic as Dubem
- Shenandoah ... (Executive Producer)
- The Lighthouse as Duncan
2011
- Son of Morning as Gabriel Peters
- Age of the Dragons as Ahab
- Dum Maaro Dum ... (Executive Producer)
- The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 ... (Producer)
- Donovan's Echo as Donovan Matheson
- Mysteria as Investigator
- Mooz-lum as Dean Francis
- Rise Like Lions as Self (Occupy Oakland)
2010
- Human Target as Client
- Death at a Funeral as Uncle Russell
- Alpha and Omega as Winston (voice)
- I'm Still Here as Danny Glover
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives ... (Associate Producer)
- Five Minarets in New York as Marcus
- Legendary as Harry 'Red' Newman
- 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic as Self
- The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective as Self
- Down for Life as Mr. Shannon
- Dear Alice as Franzis
- I Want to Be a Soldier as School Director
- Sam Cooke: Crossing Over as Narrator (voice)
2009
- 2012 as President Thomas Wilson
- PoliWood as Self
- Night Train as Miles
- The People Speak as Self
- The Time That Remains ... (Associate Producer)
- Nite Tales: The Series as Jeremiah
- 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
- Salt of This Sea ... (Co-Producer)
- Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare as Walter Tortoise (voice)
- Agent Crush as Major Rusty Gubbins
- 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
- Poor Boy's Game as George
- Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation as Father Elias
- Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' as Self
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 Adventures of Brer Rabbit as Brer Turtle (voice)
- Bamako as Cow-boy
- The Exonerated as David Keaton
- 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
- Missing in America as Jake Neely
- P.N.O.K. as Col. Weldon
- Full Disclosure Report as David Tapp
- The Peace! as Self
- The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2' as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Saw as David Tapp
- Legend of Earthsea as Ogion
- The Cookout as Judge Crowley
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)
- Antz as Barbatus (voice)
- Lethal Weapon 4 as Roger Murtaugh
- Beloved as Paul D
- Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Soldier Child as Self - Narrator
1997
- The View as Self
- The Rainmaker as Richter Tyrone Kipler
- Switchback as Bob Goodall
- Gone Fishin' as Gus Green
- Wild America as Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
- 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
- Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain as Isaac Jefferson (voice)
- Red Wind as Philip Marlowe
- 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
- Civil War Journal as Self - Host
- Alex Haley's Queen as Alec Haley
- The Saint of Fort Washington as Jerry
- Bopha! as Micah Mangena
- The Talking Eggs as Narrator (voice)
1992
- Lethal Weapon 3 as Roger Murtaugh
- Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion as Narrator (voice)
1991
- Flight of the Intruder as Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
- Pure Luck as Raymond Campanella
- Grand Canyon as Simon
- 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
- Lethal Weapon 2 as Roger Murtaugh
- Lonesome Dove as Joshua Deets
- A Raisin in the Sun as Walter Lee Younger
- Hollywood on Horses as Self
- Dead Man Out as Dr. Alex Marsh
- Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary as Self
- 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
- Witness as McFee
- Silverado as Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
- And the Children Shall Lead as William
- The Stand-In as Apples Finnerty
1984
- Places in the Heart as Moze
- Iceman as Loomis
1983
- The Face of Rage as Gary
- Memorial Day as Willie Monroe
- Keeping On as Lester Traylor
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
1969
- San Francisco State: On Strike as self
1962
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1952
- Today as Self