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.
251 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 251
Criminal Minds
2005
American Dad!
2005
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Psych
2006
ER
1994
Saturday Night Live
1975
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Hill Street Blues
1981
The View
1997
My Name Is Earl
2005
black-ish
2014
Brothers and Sisters
2006
Tony Awards
1956
Hollywood Squares
1998
Leverage
2008
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
2012
2009
Mozart in the Jungle
2014
The Reichen Show
2005
Touch
2012
Human Target
2010
The Prince of Egypt
1998
Fallen Angels
1993
Saw
2004
Shooter
2007
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Jumanji: The Next Level
2019
Tall Tales & Legends
1985
Gimme a Break!
1981
Lethal Weapon
1987
Predator 2
1990
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Antz
1998
Ironside
2013
Today
1952
Escape from Alcatraz
1979
Lethal Weapon 4
1998
Lonesome Dove
1989
Lethal Weapon 3
1992
The Color Purple
1985
Lethal Weapon 2
1989
Civil War Journal
1993
Cold Case Files
2017
Dirty Grandpa
2016
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
Barnyard
2006
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
2018
Monster Trucks
2016
Maverick
1994
The Rainmaker
1997
Sorry to Bother You
2018
The Dead Don't Die
2019
Witness
1985
Legend of Earthsea
2004
Alex Haley's Queen
1993
Dreamgirls
2006
Silverado
1985
Alpha and Omega
2010
Blindness
2008
Rage
2014
The Shaggy Dog
2006
Places in the Heart
1984
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1980
Beloved
1998
Death at a Funeral
2010
Extraction
2013
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
2014
Great Railway Journeys
1980
Angels in the Outfield
1994
Be Kind Rewind
2008
Bat★21
1988
Proud Mary
2018
Extortion
2017
Switchback
1997
Andron
2015
Battle for Terra
2007
I'm Still Here
2010
Flight of the Intruder
1991
Tour de Pharmacy
2017
Gone Fishin'
1997
Beyond the Lights
2014
Iceman
1984
The Old Man & the Gun
2018
Almost Christmas
2016
Press Play
2022
The Naughty Nine
2023
Manderlay
2005
Bad Asses on the Bayou
2015
American Dreamer
2022
Pure Luck
1991
Howard
2018
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Our Friend, Martin
1999
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
2019
Operation Dumbo Drop
1995
Grand Canyon
1991
Legendary
2010
Yellowbird
2014
Supremacy
2014
The Cookout
2004
Night Train
2009
Wild America
1997
Nite Tales: The Series
2009
Gridlocked
2016
Honeydripper
2007
Complete Unknown
2016
3 A.M.
2001
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018
Checkmate
2015
93 Days
2016
A Rage in Harlem
1991
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
1995
Casting By
2012
Age of the Dragons
2011
PoliWood
2009
Mr. Pig
2016
The Saint of Fort Washington
1993
The Christmas Train
2017
Gospel Hill
2008
Bopha!
1993
Come Sunday
2018
Consumed
2015
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
2006
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
Toxin
2015
Missing in America
2005
Space Warriors
2013
The People Speak
2009
Bamako
2007
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
LUV
2013
Diablo
2016
Poor Boy's Game
2007
Buffalo Soldiers
1997
Hannah's Law
2012
Mysteria
2011
Son of Morning
2011
The Bouquet
2013
Sins
2012
Five Minarets in New York
2010
Christmas Break-In
2018
To Sleep with Anger
1990
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
Waffle Street
2015
Tula: The Revolt
2013
2047: Sights of Death
2014
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010
Strive
2019
Full Disclosure Report
2005
The Curse of Buckout Road
2017
Good Fences
2003
Down for Life
2010
Donovan's Echo
2011
Mandela
1987
We Are Many
2014
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
2008
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
Freedom Song
2000
I Want to Be a Soldier
2010
The Harimaya Bridge
2009
And the Children Shall Lead
1985
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
Day of the Mummy
2014
Mooz-lum
2011
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1981
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010
The Face of Rage
1983
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
2005
America's Dream
1996
The John Garfield Story
2003
Red Wind
1995
The Peace!
2005
Shadows of Liberty
2012
Out
1982
Dead Man Out
1989
About Scout
2015
Highland Park
2013
Memorial Day
1983
Hollywood on Horses
1989
A Night at the Academy Museum
2021
The Exonerated
2006
Back in the Day
2016
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
2000
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
2007
Shuffleton's Barbershop
2013
Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
—
Pushing Dead
2016
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'
2012
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
2018
Caffeinated
2015
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999
Darkweb
2016
Keeping On
1983
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
2022
Read You Like a Book
2006
The Drummer
2020
The Good Catholic
2017
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
1995
A Place at the Table
1988
Agent Crush
2008
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
1998
The Ninja Immovable Heart
2014
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
2017
Double Soul
2023
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
2010
Killing Winston Jones
—
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
1981
P.N.O.K.
2005
After Fact
2020
Boesman and Lena
2000
John Henry
1986
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
2013
Lethal Weapon 5
—
The Shift
2013
Bàttu
2000
The Children's Republic
2012
A Raisin in the Sun
1989
Chasing Shakespeare
2014
Dirt & Deeds in Mississippi
—
The Real Eve
2002
Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary
1989
Dear Alice
2010
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018
The Lighthouse
2012
The Stand-In
1985
Vagabonds
2017
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
2020
San Francisco State: On Strike
1969
Newbies
2025
Birth of a Movement
2017
Grizzly Peak
—
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
1999
Rise Like Lions
2011
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
2020
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
2016
Always in Season
2019
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt
1990
The Robeson Effect
2019
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
2019
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
1989
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby
1990
Fats Waller Was Born Here
2008
The Talking Eggs
1993
Agents of Change
2017
When I See Them, I See Us
2021
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion
1992
Mississippi Inferno
2015
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
2019
Soldier Child
1998
