Danny Glover
Acting
1946-07-22 · San Francisco, California, USA
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
Our Land
2026 · Movie
Grizzly Peak
2025 · Movie
Newbies
2025 · Movie
The Naughty Nine
2023 · Movie
The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane
2023 · Movie
Double Soul
2023 · Movie
President
2023 · Movie
American Dreamer
2022 · Movie
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
2022 · Movie
Press Play
2022 · Movie
Crane Lantern
2022 · Movie
A Night at the Academy Museum
2021 · Movie
Memoria
2021 · Movie
Prayers for the Stolen
2021 · Movie
In Between Dying
2021 · Movie
When I See Them, I See Us
2021 · Movie
The War on Cuba
2020 · Series
The Drummer
2020 · Movie
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
2020 · Movie
After Fact
2020 · Movie
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
2020 · Movie
Jumanji: The Next Level
2019 · Movie
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
2019 · Movie
Lynch: A History
2019 · Movie
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
2019 · Movie
Strive
2019 · Movie
The Dead Don't Die
2019 · Movie
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
2019 · Movie
Always in Season
2019 · Movie
Easter Snap
2019 · Movie
The Robeson Effect
2019 · Movie
Christmas Break-In
2018 · Movie
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
2018 · Movie
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
2018 · Movie
The Old Man & the Gun
2018 · Movie
Capernaum
2018 · Movie
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
2018 · Movie
Angels Are Made of Light
2018 · Movie
Sorry to Bother You
2018 · Movie
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018 · Movie
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018 · Movie
Howard
2018 · Movie
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018 · Movie
Come Sunday
2018 · Movie
Proud Mary
2018 · Movie
The Christmas Train
2017 · Movie
The Curse of Buckout Road
2017 · Movie
Vagabonds
2017 · Movie
Zama
2017 · Movie
The Good Catholic
2017 · Movie
That Summer
2017 · Movie
Tour de Pharmacy
2017 · Movie
Agents of Change
2017 · Movie
Cold Case Files
2017 · Series
Birth of a Movement
2017 · Movie
Strong Island
2017 · Movie
Extortion
2017 · Movie
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
2017 · Movie
Monster Trucks
2016 · Movie
White Sun
2016 · Movie
Almost Christmas
2016 · Movie
Shadow World
2016 · Movie
Pushing Dead
2016 · Movie
Complete Unknown
2016 · Movie
Mr. Pig
2016 · Movie
Gridlocked
2016 · Movie
Dirt & Deeds in Mississippi
2016 · Movie
The House on Coco Road
2016 · Movie
Back in the Day
2016 · Movie
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
2016 · Movie
93 Days
2016 · Movie
Darkweb
2016 · Movie
Dirty Grandpa
2016 · Movie
Diablo
2016 · Movie
Andron
2015 · Movie
Waffle Street
2015 · Movie
This Changes Everything
2015 · Movie
Cemetery of Splendor
2015 · Movie
Checkmate
2015 · Movie
Consumed
2015 · Movie
About Scout
2015 · Movie
Bad Asses on the Bayou
2015 · Movie
Mississippi Inferno
2015 · Movie
Caffeinated
2015 · Movie
Toxin
2015 · Movie
Beyond the Lights
2014 · Movie
Life Is Sacred
2014 · Movie
Day of the Mummy
2014 · Movie
Yellowbird
2014 · Movie
black-ish
2014 · Series
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014 · Movie
2047: Sights of Death
2014 · Movie
Supremacy
2014 · Movie
We Are Many
2014 · Movie
Rage
2014 · Movie
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
2014 · Movie
The Ninja Immovable Heart
2014 · Movie
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014 · Movie
Mozart in the Jungle
2014 · Series
Chasing Shakespeare
2014 · Movie
Concerning Violence
2014 · Movie
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013 · Movie
Ironside
2013 · Series
Extraction
2013 · Movie
Tula: The Revolt
2013 · Movie
Highland Park
2013 · Movie
Shuffleton's Barbershop
2013 · Movie
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
2013 · Movie
Space Warriors
2013 · Movie
The Shift
2013 · Movie
The Bouquet
2013 · Movie
LUV
2013 · Movie
Casting By
2012 · Movie
Shenandoah
2012 · Movie
The House I Live In
2012 · Movie
The Children's Republic
2012 · Movie
The Lighthouse
2012 · Movie
Highway
2012 · Movie
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'
2012 · Movie
Shadows of Liberty
2012 · Movie
Hannah's Law
2012 · Movie
Sins
2012 · Movie
Touch
2012 · Series
Mysteria
2011 · Movie
Rise Like Lions
2011 · Movie
Donovan's Echo
2011 · Movie
Dum Maaro Dum
2011 · Movie
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
2011 · Movie
Age of the Dragons
2011 · Movie
Son of Morning
2011 · Movie
Mooz-lum
2011 · Movie
I Want to Be a Soldier
2010 · Movie
Down for Life
2010 · Movie
I'm Still Here
2010 · Movie
Legendary
2010 · Movie
Dear Alice
2010 · Movie
Alpha and Omega
2010 · Movie
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010 · Movie
Death at a Funeral
2010 · Movie
Five Minarets in New York
2010 · Movie
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010 · Movie
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010 · Movie
Human Target
2010 · Series
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
2010 · Movie
The People Speak
2009 · Movie
2012
2009 · Movie
Nite Tales: The Series
2009 · Series
The Time That Remains
2009 · Movie
PoliWood
2009 · Movie
The Harimaya Bridge
2009 · Movie
Night Train
2009 · Movie
Leverage
2008 · Series
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
2008 · Movie
Salt of This Sea
2008 · Movie
Fats Waller Was Born Here
2008 · Movie
Blindness
2008 · Movie
Be Kind Rewind
2008 · Movie
Gospel Hill
2008 · Movie
Trouble the Water
2008 · Movie
Agent Crush
2008 · Movie
Honeydripper
2007 · Movie
Battle for Terra
2007 · Movie
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
2007 · Movie
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007 · Movie
Shooter
2007 · Movie
Bamako
2007 · Movie
Poor Boy's Game
2007 · Movie
Dreamgirls
2006 · Movie
Read You Like a Book
2006 · Movie
Brothers and Sisters
2006 · Series
Barnyard
2006 · Movie
Psych
2006 · Series
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
2006 · Movie
The Shaggy Dog
2006 · Movie
The Exonerated
2006 · Movie
The Reichen Show
2005 · Series
Full Disclosure Report
2005 · Movie
Criminal Minds
2005 · Series
My Name Is Earl
2005 · Series
The Peace!
2005 · Movie
Manderlay
2005 · Movie
American Dad!
2005 · Series
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
2005 · Movie
Missing in America
2005 · Movie
P.N.O.K.
2005 · Movie
Legend of Earthsea
2004 · Series
Saw
2004 · Movie
The Cookout
2004 · Movie
Earthed
2004 · Movie
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Series
The John Garfield Story
2003 · Movie
Good Fences
2003 · Movie
The Real Eve
2002 · Movie
Just a Dream
2002 · Movie
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · Movie
3 A.M.
2001 · Movie
Boesman and Lena
2000 · Movie
Bàttu
2000 · Movie
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
2000 · Movie
Freedom Song
2000 · Movie
Ennis' Gift
2000 · Movie
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999 · Movie
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999 · Movie
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
1999 · Movie
Our Friend, Martin
1999 · Movie
The Prince of Egypt
1998 · Movie
Beloved
1998 · Movie
Antz
1998 · Movie
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
1998 · Movie
Hollywood Squares
1998 · Series
Lethal Weapon 4
1998 · Movie
Soldier Child
1998 · Movie
Buffalo Soldiers
1997 · Movie
The Rainmaker
1997 · Movie
Switchback
1997 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
Wild America
1997 · Movie
Gone Fishin'
1997 · Movie
America's Dream
1996 · Movie
Red Wind
1995 · Movie
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
1995 · Movie
Operation Dumbo Drop
1995 · Movie
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Movie
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
1995 · Series
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · Series
Override
1994 · Movie
ER
1994 · Series
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Series
Angels in the Outfield
1994 · Movie
Maverick
1994 · Movie
The Saint of Fort Washington
1993 · Movie
Bopha!
1993 · Movie
Civil War Journal
1993 · Series
Fallen Angels
1993 · Series
The Talking Eggs
1993 · Movie
Alex Haley's Queen
1993 · Series
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion
1992 · Movie
Lethal Weapon 3
1992 · Movie
Grand Canyon
1991 · Movie
Pure Luck
1991 · Movie
A Rage in Harlem
1991 · Movie
Flight of the Intruder
1991 · Movie
Predator 2
1990 · Movie
To Sleep with Anger
1990 · Movie
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990 · Series
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt
1990 · Movie
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby
1990 · Movie
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
1989 · Movie
Lethal Weapon 2
1989 · Movie
Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary
1989 · Movie
Dead Man Out
1989 · Movie
Lonesome Dove
1989 · Series
A Raisin in the Sun
1989 · Movie
Hollywood on Horses
1989 · Movie
Bat★21
1988 · Movie
A Place at the Table
1988 · Movie
Mandela
1987 · Movie
Lethal Weapon
1987 · Movie
The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson
1987 · Movie
John Henry
1986 · Movie
The Color Purple
1985 · Movie
Tall Tales & Legends
1985 · Series
Silverado
1985 · Movie
The Stand-In
1985 · Movie
Witness
1985 · Movie
And the Children Shall Lead
1985 · Movie
Places in the Heart
1984 · Movie
Iceman
1984 · Movie
Memorial Day
1983 · Movie
The Face of Rage
1983 · Movie
Keeping On
1983 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
Out
1982 · Movie
Gimme a Break!
1981 · Series
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1981 · Movie
Hill Street Blues
1981 · Series
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
1981 · Movie
Great Railway Journeys
1980 · Series
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1980 · Series
Escape from Alcatraz
1979 · Movie
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Series
San Francisco State: On Strike
1969 · Movie
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
Today
1952 · Series
Lethal Weapon 5
Movie
Killing Winston Jones
Movie
Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
Movie
Untitled Dinah Washington Biopic
Movie