Danny Glover
Acting
Born 1946-07-22
San Francisco, California, USA
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
57 credits
Criminal Minds
American Dad!
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Saturday Night Live
Real Time with Bill Maher
Psych
The View
ER
Hollywood Squares
black-ish
Tony Awards
American Playhouse
My Name Is Earl
Leverage
Brothers and Sisters
Jumanji: The Next Level
Fallen Angels
Lethal Weapon 2
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Predator 2
2012
Saw
Shooter
The Reichen Show
Lethal Weapon
Mozart in the Jungle
The Prince of Egypt
Touch
Human Target
Today
Lethal Weapon 4
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Lethal Weapon 3
Antz
Barnyard
Dirty Grandpa
Lonesome Dove
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Rainmaker
Escape from Alcatraz
The Color Purple
Witness
Monster Trucks
Dreamgirls
Extortion
Silverado
Maverick
The Dead Don't Die
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
Tall Tales & Legends
Sorry to Bother You
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Cold Case Files
Ironside
Death at a Funeral
Almost Christmas
Blindness
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