Danny Glover
Acting • Born 1946-07-22
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.
Filmography
248 credits
Predator 2
Movie • 1990
Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
Saw
Movie • 2004
David Tapp
The Color Purple
Movie • 1985
Albert
Lethal Weapon
Movie • 1987
Roger Murtaugh
Lethal Weapon 2
Movie • 1989
Roger Murtaugh
Lethal Weapon 3
Movie • 1992
Roger Murtaugh
Lethal Weapon 4
Movie • 1998
Roger Murtaugh
Dreamgirls
Movie • 2006
Marty Madison
The Shaggy Dog
Movie • 2006
Ken Hollister
Manderlay
Movie • 2005
Wilhelm
Vagabonds
Movie • 2017
Uncle Issa
Switchback
Movie • 1997
Bob Goodall
Gospel Hill
Movie • 2008
John Malcolm
Be Kind Rewind
Movie • 2008
Mr. Fletcher
A Night at the Academy Museum
Movie • 2021
Self
Shooter
Movie • 2007
Colonel Isaac Johnson
Blindness
Movie • 2008
Man with Black Eye Patch
Silverado
Movie • 1985
Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
Iceman
Movie • 1984
Loomis
Angels in the Outfield
Movie • 1994
George Knox
The Rainmaker
Movie • 1997
Richter Tyrone Kipler
Antz
Movie • 1998
Barbatus (voice)
The Royal Tenenbaums
Movie • 2001
Henry Sherman
Gone Fishin'
Movie • 1997
Gus Green
Witness
Movie • 1985
McFee
Alpha and Omega
Movie • 2010
Winston (voice)
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
Movie • 2008
Walter Tortoise (voice)
The Drummer
Movie • 2020
Mark Walker
Maverick
Movie • 1994
Bank Robber (uncredited)
The Prince of Egypt
Movie • 1998
Jethro (voice)
Operation Dumbo Drop
Movie • 1995
Capt. Sam Cahill
Barnyard
Movie • 2006
Miles (voice)
Death at a Funeral
Movie • 2010
Uncle Russell
Double Soul
Movie • 2023
Michael Tedeschi
Places in the Heart
Movie • 1984
Moze
Grand Canyon
Movie • 1991
Simon
Missing in America
Movie • 2005
Jake Neely
2012
Movie • 2009
President Thomas Wilson
Honeydripper
Movie • 2007
Tyrone Purvis
A Rage in Harlem
Movie • 1991
Easy Money
Night Train
Movie • 2009
Miles
Keeping On
Movie • 1983
Lester Traylor
Bat★21
Movie • 1988
Capt. Bartholomew Clark
Poor Boy's Game
Movie • 2007
George
Good Fences
Movie • 2003
Tom Spader
The Face of Rage
Movie • 1983
Gary
Legendary
Movie • 2010
Harry 'Red' Newman
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
Movie • 1999
Host
Down for Life
Movie • 2010
Mr. Shannon
Battle for Terra
Movie • 2007
President Chen (voice)
Mooz-lum
Movie • 2011
Dean Francis
Beloved
Movie • 1998
Paul D
Flight of the Intruder
Movie • 1991
Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
Casting By
Movie • 2012
Self
The Harimaya Bridge
Movie • 2009
Joseph Holder
Pure Luck
Movie • 1991
Raymond Campanella
Five Minarets in New York
Movie • 2010
Marcus
American Dreamer
Movie • 2022
Jerry
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
Movie • 2007
Father Elias
I Want to Be a Soldier
Movie • 2010
School Director
The Real Eve
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
Son of Morning
Movie • 2011
Gabriel Peters
LUV
Movie • 2013
Arthur
John Henry
Movie • 1986
John Henry
The Saint of Fort Washington
Movie • 1993
Jerry
Out
Movie • 1982
Jojo / Roland
Dear Alice
Movie • 2010
Franzis
Bopha!
Movie • 1993
Micah Mangena
3 A.M.
Movie • 2001
Hershey
To Sleep with Anger
Movie • 1990
Harry
The Children's Republic
Movie • 2012
Dubem
Mysteria
Movie • 2011
Investigator
Age of the Dragons
Movie • 2011
Ahab
Rise Like Lions
Movie • 2011
Self (Occupy Oakland)
Chasing Shakespeare
Movie • 2014
William Ward
Boesman and Lena
Movie • 2000
Boesman
The Peace!
Movie • 2005
Self
Hannah's Law
Movie • 2012
Isom Dart
Donovan's Echo
Movie • 2011
Donovan Matheson
Full Disclosure Report
Movie • 2005
David Tapp
Highland Park
Movie • 2013
Ed
Tula: The Revolt
Movie • 2013
Shinishi
Sins
Movie • 2012
Father Leonard
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Movie • 2013
Justice Thurgood Marshall
Space Warriors
Movie • 2013
Commander Phillips
The Bouquet
Movie • 2013
Reverend John
Buffalo Soldiers
Movie • 1997
Sgt. Washington Wyatt
After Fact
Movie • 2020
Self
The Robeson Effect
Movie • 2019
Self
Extraction
Movie • 2013
Harding
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
Movie • 1998
Self - Narrator (voice)
Beyond the Lights
Movie • 2014
Captain Nicol
The Exonerated
Movie • 2006
David Keaton
The Naughty Nine
Movie • 2023
Santa Claus
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
Movie • 2014
Bernie Pope
Howard
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Monster Trucks
Movie • 2016
Mr. Weathers
Mandela
Movie • 1987
Nelson Mandela
The Talking Eggs
Movie • 1993
Narrator (voice)
Rage
Movie • 2014
Detective St. John
2047: Sights of Death
Movie • 2014
Sponge
Supremacy
Movie • 2014
Mr. Walker
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
Movie • 2022
Self
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
Movie • 1995
Self
Yellowbird
Movie • 2014
Darius (voice)
Day of the Mummy
Movie • 2014
Carl
Shuffleton's Barbershop
Movie • 2013
Charlie Shuffleton
Our Friend, Martin
Movie • 1999
Train Conductor (voice)
Bad Asses on the Bayou
Movie • 2015
Bernie Pope
Toxin
Movie • 2015
Dr. Locke
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Movie • 2013
Self
The Lighthouse
Movie • 2012
Duncan
The Shift
Movie • 2013
Floyd
We Are Many
Movie • 2014
Self
Consumed
Movie • 2015
Hal Westbrook
About Scout
Movie • 2015
Red
Freedom Song
Movie • 2000
Will Walker
San Francisco State: On Strike
Movie • 1969
self
Checkmate
Movie • 2015
Elohim
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie • 1995
Self
Back in the Day
Movie • 2016
Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
The Ninja Immovable Heart
Movie • 2014
Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
Complete Unknown
Movie • 2016
Roger
Diablo
Movie • 2016
Benjamin Carver
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
Movie • 1981
Morgan
The Court
Movie • 2006
Cow-boy
Dirty Grandpa
Movie • 2016
Stinky
Darkweb
Movie • 2016
The Boss
Waffle Street
Movie • 2015
Edward Collins
Wild America
Movie • 1997
Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
Andron
Movie • 2015
Chancellor Gordon
Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
Movie
Narrator (voice)
Mr. Pig
Movie • 2016
Ambrose
Gridlocked
Movie • 2016
Sully
Pushing Dead
Movie • 2016
Bob
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
Movie • 2000
Self
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
Movie • 2018
Baltimore Bob
A Place at the Table
Movie • 1988
Mr. Scott
P.N.O.K.
Movie • 2005
Col. Weldon
Extortion
Movie • 2017
Detective Constable Haagen
Almost Christmas
Movie • 2016
Walter
Escape from Alcatraz
Movie • 1979
Inmate
Caffeinated
Movie • 2015
Coffee Lover
America's Dream
Movie • 1996
Silas (segment "Long Black Song")
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
Movie • 2019
Narrator
93 Days
Movie • 2016
Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
Red Wind
Movie • 1995
Philip Marlowe
Memorial Day
Movie • 1983
Willie Monroe
Come Sunday
Movie • 2018
Gilbert Pearson
Birth of a Movement
Movie • 2017
Narrator (voice)
The People Speak
Movie • 2009
Self
The Old Man & the Gun
Movie • 2018
Teddy
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
Movie • 2006
Brer Turtle (voice)
Proud Mary
Movie • 2018
Benny
The Good Catholic
Movie • 2017
Victor
Dead Man Out
Movie • 1989
Dr. Alex Marsh
Tour de Pharmacy
Movie • 2017
Slim Robinson Present Day
Agents of Change
Movie • 2017
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Curse of Buckout Road
Movie • 2017
Dr. Powell
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
Movie • 1981
Oscar Micheaux
The Christmas Train
Movie • 2017
Max Powers
Bàttu
Movie • 2000
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
Movie • 2016
Narrator (voice)
I'm Still Here
Movie • 2010
Danny Glover
Sorry to Bother You
Movie • 2018
Langston
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Movie • 2019
Grandpa Allen
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
Movie • 2018
Mr. Ocean
Survivor's Guide to Prison
Movie • 2018
Self
The Cookout
Movie • 2004
Judge Crowley
Shadows of Liberty
Movie • 2012
Self
Always in Season
Movie • 2019
Narrator (voice)
A Raisin in the Sun
Movie • 1989
Walter Lee Younger
Christmas Break-In
Movie • 2018
Ray
Jumanji: The Next Level
Movie • 2019
Milo
Mississippi Inferno
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
The Dead Don't Die
Movie • 2019
Hank Thompson
And the Children Shall Lead
Movie • 1985
William
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
Movie • 2017
Self
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
Movie • 2019
Narrator (voice)
Read You Like a Book
Movie • 2006
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Press Play
Movie • 2022
Cooper
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
Movie • 2010
Self
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
Movie • 2018
Self
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
Movie • 2020
Narrator (voice)
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
Movie • 2010
Self
Strive
Movie • 2019
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
Movie • 2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Movie • 2014
Self
The John Garfield Story
Movie • 2003
Self
The Stand-In
Movie • 1985
Apples Finnerty
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Movie • 2020
Narrator (voice)
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
Movie • 2010
Narrator (voice)
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'
Movie • 2012
Self
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood on Horses
Movie • 1989
Self
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
Movie • 2018
Narrator (voice)
PoliWood
Movie • 2009
Self
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
Movie • 1989
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby
Movie • 1990
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt
Movie • 1990
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion
Movie • 1992
Narrator (voice)
Newbies
Movie • 2025
Lethal Weapon 5
Movie
Roger Murtaugh
Soldier Child
Movie • 1998
Self - Narrator
Grizzly Peak
Movie
Will
Agent Crush
Movie • 2008
Major Rusty Gubbins
Killing Winston Jones
Movie
Washington Carver
Fats Waller Was Born Here
Movie • 2008
"Fats" Waller's Father/Mr. Fletcher
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
TV • 1990
Dr. Apollo (voice)
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
Brothers and Sisters
TV • 2006
Isaac Marshall
Today
TV • 1952
Self
The View
TV • 1997
Self
Hill Street Blues
TV • 1981
Gimme a Break!
TV • 1981
Fallen Angels
TV • 1993
Marlowe
ER
TV • 1994
Charlie Pratt Sr.
Legend of Earthsea
TV • 2004
Ogion
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
TV • 1980
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
Alex Haley's Queen
TV • 1993
Alec Haley
Touch
TV • 2012
Professor Arthur Teller
Lonesome Dove
TV • 1989
Joshua Deets
Psych
TV • 2006
Mel Hornsby
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
TV • 1995
Isaac Jefferson (voice)
Hollywood Squares
TV • 1998
Self - Panelist
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Civil War Journal
TV • 1993
Self - Host
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV • 1995
The King (voice)
The Reichen Show
TV • 2005
Self
Great Railway Journeys
TV • 1980
Self - Presenter
Tall Tales & Legends
TV • 1985
John Henry
Cold Case Files
TV • 2017
Self - Narrator (voice)
Civil War Journal
TV • 1993
Host
My Name Is Earl
TV • 2005
Thomas
Ironside
TV • 2013
Frank Ironside
Leverage
TV • 2008
Charlie Lawson
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Minstrel Krampus (voice)
Real Time with Bill Maher
TV • 2003
Self
Mozart in the Jungle
TV • 2014
Mayor
Criminal Minds
TV • 2005
Hank Morgan
black-ish
TV • 2014
Uncle Norman
Nite Tales: The Series
TV • 2009
Jeremiah
Chiefs
TV • 1983
Marshall Peters
Human Target
TV • 2010
Client
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Roger Murtaugh (uncredited)