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