Danny Glover

Known for ActingBorn 1946-07-22 (age 79)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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs

Angels Are Made of Light

Soldier Child

Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities

Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary

John Henry

San Francisco State: On Strike

The Real Eve

And the Children Shall Lead

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

The John Garfield Story

Criminal Minds

Capernaum

Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Cold Case Files

Psych

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Override

The Talking Eggs

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

Lonesome Dove

Prayers for the Stolen

My Name Is Earl

ER

President

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Leverage

The Exonerated

Mozart in the Jungle

Our Land

The House I Live In

Shadow World

The Color Purple

Inside the Actors Studio

Hollywood Squares

The Royal Tenenbaums

Saw

Hill Street Blues

Human Target

Escape from Alcatraz

The People Speak

The Prince of Egypt

The Time That Remains

black-ish

White Sun

A Night at the Academy Museum

Shooter

The Last Black Man in San Francisco