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Danny Glover

Danny Glover

AKA: Danny Lebern Glover

Acting

Born: 1946 San Francisco, California, USA 22 Global Credits 🔥 2.6 Popularity
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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.

Known For

Full Credits

Show / Title Year Credit / Role
Cold Case Files 2017 Self - Narrator (voice)
black-ish 2014 Uncle Norman
Mozart in the Jungle 2014 Mayor
Ironside 2013 Frank Ironside
Human Target 2010 Client
Psych 2006 Mel Hornsby
The Reichen Show 2005 Self
American Dad! 2005 Minstrel Krampus (voice)
Legend of Earthsea 2004 Ogion
Real Time with Bill Maher 2003 Self
The View 1997 Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child 1995 The King (voice)
ER 1994 Charlie Pratt Sr.
Fallen Angels 1993 Marlowe
Captain Planet and the Planeteers 1990 Dr. Apollo (voice)
Lonesome Dove 1989 Joshua Deets
American Playhouse 1982 Walter Lee Younger
Hill Street Blues 1981 Contributor
Saturday Night Live 1975 Roger Murtaugh (uncredited)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1962 Self
Tony Awards 1956 Self - Presenter
Today 1952 Self