Danny Glover

Actor

Born July 22, 1946 in 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.

Filmography

Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story

Narrator (voice)

Lethal Weapon 5

Roger Murtaugh

Killing Winston Jones

Washington Carver

Our Land

Grizzly Peak

Will

Newbies

The Naughty Nine

Santa Claus

The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane

Double Soul

Michael Tedeschi

President

American Dreamer

Jerry

De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?

Self

Press Play

Cooper

Crane Lantern

A Night at the Academy Museum

Self

Memoria

Prayers for the Stolen

In Between Dying

When I See Them, I See Us

The War on Cuba

The Drummer

Mark Walker

Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Narrator (voice)

After Fact

Self

Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War

Narrator (voice)

Jumanji: The Next Level

Milo

The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs

Narrator (voice)

Lynch: A History

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Grandpa Allen

Strive

The Dead Don't Die

Hank Thompson

Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story

Narrator

Always in Season

Narrator (voice)

Easter Snap

The Robeson Effect

Self

Christmas Break-In

Ray

Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones

Self

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy

Baltimore Bob

The Old Man & the Gun

Teddy

Capernaum

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Angels Are Made of Light

Sorry to Bother You

Langston

Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey

Mr. Ocean

The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution

Narrator (voice)

Howard

Self (archive footage)

Survivor's Guide to Prison

Self

Come Sunday

Gilbert Pearson

Proud Mary

Benny

The Christmas Train

Max Powers

The Curse of Buckout Road

Dr. Powell

Vagabonds

Uncle Issa

Zama

The Good Catholic

Victor

That Summer

Tour de Pharmacy

Slim Robinson Present Day

Agents of Change

Self - Narrator (voice)

Cold Case Files

Self - Narrator (voice)

Birth of a Movement

Narrator (voice)

Strong Island

Extortion

Detective Constable Haagen

Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories

Self

Monster Trucks

Mr. Weathers

White Sun

Almost Christmas

Walter

Shadow World

Pushing Dead

Bob

Complete Unknown

Roger

Mr. Pig

Ambrose

Gridlocked

Sully

The House on Coco Road

Back in the Day

Eddie 'Rocks' Travor

Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights

Narrator (voice)

93 Days

Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri

Darkweb

The Boss

Dirty Grandpa

Stinky

Diablo

Benjamin Carver

Andron

Chancellor Gordon

Waffle Street

Edward Collins

This Changes Everything

Cemetery of Splendor

Checkmate

Elohim

Consumed

Hal Westbrook

About Scout

Red

Bad Asses on the Bayou

Bernie Pope

Mississippi Inferno

Narrator (voice)

Caffeinated

Coffee Lover

Toxin

Dr. Locke

Beyond the Lights

Captain Nicol

Life Is Sacred

Day of the Mummy

Carl

Yellowbird

Darius (voice)

black-ish

Uncle Norman

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Self

2047: Sights of Death

Sponge

Supremacy

Mr. Walker

We Are Many

Self

Rage

Detective St. John

Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses

Bernie Pope

The Ninja Immovable Heart

Ex Director Matthew Reynolds

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama

Mozart in the Jungle

Mayor

Chasing Shakespeare

William Ward

Concerning Violence

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

Justice Thurgood Marshall

Ironside

Frank Ironside

Extraction

Harding

Tula: The Revolt

Shinishi

Highland Park

Shuffleton's Barbershop

Charlie Shuffleton

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

Self

Space Warriors

Commander Phillips

The Shift

Floyd

The Bouquet

Reverend John

LUV

Arthur

Casting By

Self

Shenandoah

The House I Live In

The Children's Republic

Dubem

Highway

Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'

Self

Shadows of Liberty

Self

Hannah's Law

Isom Dart

Sins

Father Leonard

Touch

Professor Arthur Teller

Mysteria

Investigator

Donovan's Echo

Donovan Matheson

Dum Maaro Dum

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Age of the Dragons

Ahab

Son of Morning

Gabriel Peters

Mooz-lum

Dean Francis

I Want to Be a Soldier

School Director

Down for Life

Mr. Shannon

I'm Still Here

Danny Glover

Legendary

Harry 'Red' Newman

Dear Alice

Franzis

Alpha and Omega

Winston (voice)

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Death at a Funeral

Uncle Russell

Five Minarets in New York

Marcus

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

Self

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

Self

Human Target

Client

Sam Cooke: Crossing Over

Narrator (voice)

The People Speak

Self

2012

President Thomas Wilson

Nite Tales: The Series

Jeremiah

The Time That Remains

PoliWood

Self

The Harimaya Bridge

Joseph Holder

Night Train

Miles

Leverage

Charlie Lawson

Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare

Walter Tortoise (voice)

Salt of This Sea

Fats Waller Was Born Here

"Fats" Waller's Father/Mr. Fletcher

Blindness

Man with Black Eye Patch

Be Kind Rewind

Mr. Fletcher

Gospel Hill

John Malcolm

Trouble the Water

Agent Crush

Major Rusty Gubbins

Honeydripper

Tyrone Purvis

Battle for Terra

President Chen (voice)

Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'

Self

Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation

Father Elias

Shooter

Colonel Isaac Johnson

Bamako

Cow-boy

Poor Boy's Game

George

Dreamgirls

Marty Madison

Read You Like a Book

Brothers and Sisters

Isaac Marshall

Barnyard

Miles (voice)

Psych

Mel Hornsby

The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

Brer Turtle (voice)

The Shaggy Dog

Ken Hollister

The Exonerated

David Keaton

The Reichen Show

Self

Full Disclosure Report

David Tapp

Criminal Minds

Hank Morgan

My Name Is Earl

Thomas

Manderlay

Wilhelm

American Dad!

Minstrel Krampus (voice)

The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'

Self (archive footage)

Missing in America

Jake Neely

Legend of Earthsea

Ogion

Saw

David Tapp

The Cookout

Judge Crowley

Earthed

Real Time with Bill Maher

Self

The John Garfield Story

Self

Good Fences

Tom Spader

The Real Eve

Narrator (voice)

Just a Dream

The Royal Tenenbaums

Henry Sherman

3 A.M.

Hershey

Boesman and Lena

Boesman

Bàttu

Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration

Self

Freedom Song

Will Walker

The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen

Self (archive footage)

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

Narrator (voice)

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later

Host

Our Friend, Martin

Train Conductor (voice)

The Prince of Egypt

Jethro (voice)

Beloved

Paul D

Antz

Barbatus (voice)

Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson

Self - Narrator (voice)

Hollywood Squares

Self - Panelist

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Old Man in Jamaica (uncredited)

Lethal Weapon 4

Roger Murtaugh

Soldier Child

Self - Narrator

Buffalo Soldiers

Sgt. Washington Wyatt

The Rainmaker

Richter Tyrone Kipler

Switchback

Bob Goodall

The View

Self

Wild America

Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)

Gone Fishin'

Gus Green

America's Dream

Silas (segment "Long Black Song")

Red Wind

Philip Marlowe

Operation Dumbo Drop

Capt. Sam Cahill

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Self

Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain

Isaac Jefferson (voice)

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

The King (voice)

Override

Charlie Pratt Sr.

Inside the Actors Studio

Self

Angels in the Outfield

George Knox

Maverick

Bank Robber (uncredited)

The Saint of Fort Washington

Jerry

Bopha!

Micah Mangena

Civil War Journal

Self - Host

Fallen Angels

Marlowe

The Talking Eggs

Narrator (voice)

Alex Haley's Queen

Alec Haley

Lethal Weapon 3

Roger Murtaugh

Grand Canyon

Simon

Pure Luck

Raymond Campanella

A Rage in Harlem

Easy Money

Flight of the Intruder

Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli

Predator 2

Lieutenant Mike Harrigan

To Sleep with Anger

Harry

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Dr. Apollo (voice)

Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots

Narrator (voice)

Lethal Weapon 2

Roger Murtaugh

Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary

Self

Dead Man Out

Dr. Alex Marsh

Lonesome Dove

Joshua Deets

A Raisin in the Sun

Walter Lee Younger

Bat★21

Capt. Bartholomew Clark

Mandela

Nelson Mandela

Lethal Weapon

Roger Murtaugh

John Henry

The Color Purple

Albert

Tall Tales & Legends

John Henry

Silverado

Malachi 'Mal' Johnson

The Stand-In

Apples Finnerty

Witness

McFee

And the Children Shall Lead

William

Places in the Heart

Moze

Iceman

Loomis

Keeping On

Lester Traylor

American Playhouse

Lester Traylor

Out

Jojo / Roland

Gimme a Break!

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash

Morgan

Hill Street Blues

Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer

Oscar Micheaux

Great Railway Journeys

Self - Presenter

Palmerstown, U.S.A.

Escape from Alcatraz

Inmate

Saturday Night Live

Roger Murtaugh (uncredited)

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Self

San Francisco State: On Strike

self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

Tony Awards

Self - Presenter

Today

Self