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.

Known For

Criminal Minds

American Dad!

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Real Time with Bill Maher

Saturday Night Live

ER

Psych

The View

All Movies (215)

• Newbies2025
• The Naughty Nine2023 · as Santa Claus
• Double Soul2023 · as Michael Tedeschi
• American Dreamer2022 · as Jerry
• De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?2022 · as Self
• Press Play2022 · as Cooper
• A Night at the Academy Museum2021 · as Self
• When I See Them, I See Us2021
• The Drummer2020 · as Mark Walker
• Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man2020 · as Narrator (voice)
• After Fact2020 · as Self
• Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War2020 · as Narrator (voice)
• Jumanji: The Next Level2019 · as Milo
• The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs2019 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco2019 · as Grandpa Allen
• Strive2019
• The Dead Don't Die2019 · as Hank Thompson
• Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story2019 · as Narrator
• Always in Season2019 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Robeson Effect2019 · as Self
• Christmas Break-In2018 · as Ray
• Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones2018 · as Self
• Death Race: Beyond Anarchy2018 · as Baltimore Bob
• The Old Man & the Gun2018 · as Teddy
• Sorry to Bother You2018 · as Langston
• Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey2018 · as Mr. Ocean
• The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution2018 · as Narrator (voice)
• Howard2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Survivor's Guide to Prison2018 · as Self
• Come Sunday2018 · as Gilbert Pearson
• Proud Mary2018 · as Benny
• The Christmas Train2017 · as Max Powers
• The Curse of Buckout Road2017 · as Dr. Powell
• Vagabonds2017 · as Uncle Issa
• The Good Catholic2017 · as Victor
• Tour de Pharmacy2017 · as Slim Robinson Present Day
• Agents of Change2017 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Birth of a Movement2017 · as Narrator (voice)
• Extortion2017 · as Detective Constable Haagen
• Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories2017 · as Self
• Monster Trucks2016 · as Mr. Weathers
• Almost Christmas2016 · as Walter
• Pushing Dead2016 · as Bob
• Complete Unknown2016 · as Roger
• Mr. Pig2016 · as Ambrose
• Gridlocked2016 · as Sully
• Back in the Day2016 · as Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
• Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights2016 · as Narrator (voice)
• 93 Days2016 · as Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
• Darkweb2016 · as The Boss
• Dirty Grandpa2016 · as Stinky
• Diablo2016 · as Benjamin Carver
• Andron2015 · as Chancellor Gordon
• Waffle Street2015 · as Edward Collins
• Checkmate2015 · as Elohim
• Consumed2015 · as Hal Westbrook
• About Scout2015 · as Red
• Bad Asses on the Bayou2015 · as Bernie Pope
• Mississippi Inferno2015 · as Narrator (voice)
• Caffeinated2015 · as Coffee Lover
• Toxin2015 · as Dr. Locke
• Beyond the Lights2014 · as Captain Nicol
• Day of the Mummy2014 · as Carl
• Yellowbird2014 · as Darius (voice)
• Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee2014 · as Self
• 2047: Sights of Death2014 · as Sponge
• Supremacy2014 · as Mr. Walker
• We Are Many2014 · as Self
• Rage2014 · as Detective St. John
• Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses2014 · as Bernie Pope
• The Ninja Immovable Heart2014 · as Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
• We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama2014
• Chasing Shakespeare2014 · as William Ward
• Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight2013 · as Justice Thurgood Marshall
• Extraction2013 · as Harding
• Tula: The Revolt2013 · as Shinishi
• Highland Park2013 · as Ed
• Shuffleton's Barbershop2013 · as Charlie Shuffleton
• Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth2013 · as Self
• Space Warriors2013 · as Commander Phillips
• The Shift2013 · as Floyd
• The Bouquet2013 · as Reverend John
• LUV2013 · as Arthur
• Casting By2012 · as Self
• The Children's Republic2012 · as Dubem
• The Lighthouse2012 · as Duncan
• Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'2012 · as Self
• Shadows of Liberty2012 · as Self
• Hannah's Law2012 · as Isom Dart
• Sins2012 · as Father Leonard
• Mysteria2011 · as Investigator
• Rise Like Lions2011 · as Self (Occupy Oakland)
• Donovan's Echo2011 · as Donovan Matheson
• Age of the Dragons2011 · as Ahab
• Son of Morning2011 · as Gabriel Peters
• Mooz-lum2011 · as Dean Francis
• I Want to Be a Soldier2010 · as School Director
• Down for Life2010 · as Mr. Shannon
• I'm Still Here2010 · as Danny Glover
• Legendary2010 · as Harry 'Red' Newman
• Dear Alice2010 · as Franzis
• Alpha and Omega2010 · as Winston (voice)
• Death at a Funeral2010 · as Uncle Russell
• Five Minarets in New York2010 · as Marcus
• 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic2010 · as Self
• The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective2010 · as Self
• Sam Cooke: Crossing Over2010 · as Narrator (voice)
• The People Speak2009 · as Self
• 20122009 · as President Thomas Wilson
• PoliWood2009 · as Self
• The Harimaya Bridge2009 · as Joseph Holder
• Night Train2009 · as Miles
• Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare2008 · as Walter Tortoise (voice)
• Fats Waller Was Born Here2008 · as "Fats" Waller's Father/Mr. Fletcher
• Blindness2008 · as Man with Black Eye Patch
• Be Kind Rewind2008 · as Mr. Fletcher
• Gospel Hill2008 · as John Malcolm
• Agent Crush2008 · as Major Rusty Gubbins
• Honeydripper2007 · as Tyrone Purvis
• Battle for Terra2007 · as President Chen (voice)
• Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'2007 · as Self
• Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation2007 · as Father Elias
• Shooter2007 · as Colonel Isaac Johnson
• Bamako2007 · as Cow-boy
• Poor Boy's Game2007 · as George
• Dreamgirls2006 · as Marty Madison
• Read You Like a Book2006
• Barnyard2006 · as Miles (voice)
• The Adventures of Brer Rabbit2006 · as Brer Turtle (voice)
• The Shaggy Dog2006 · as Ken Hollister
• The Exonerated2006 · as David Keaton
• Full Disclosure Report2005 · as David Tapp
• The Peace!2005 · as Self
• Manderlay2005 · as Wilhelm
• The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'2005 · as Self (archive footage)
• Missing in America2005 · as Jake Neely
• P.N.O.K.2005 · as Col. Weldon
• Saw2004 · as David Tapp
• The Cookout2004 · as Judge Crowley
• Earthed2004
• The John Garfield Story2003 · as Self
• Good Fences2003 · as Tom Spader
• The Real Eve2002 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Royal Tenenbaums2001 · as Henry Sherman
• 3 A.M.2001 · as Hershey
• Boesman and Lena2000 · as Boesman
• Bàttu2000
• Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration2000 · as Self
• Freedom Song2000 · as Will Walker
• The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen1999 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong1999 · as Narrator (voice)
• Scared Straight! 20 Years Later1999 · as Host
• Our Friend, Martin1999 · as Train Conductor (voice)
• The Prince of Egypt1998 · as Jethro (voice)
• Beloved1998 · as Paul D
• Antz1998 · as Barbatus (voice)
• Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson1998 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Lethal Weapon 41998 · as Roger Murtaugh
• Soldier Child1998 · as Self - Narrator
• Buffalo Soldiers1997 · as Sgt. Washington Wyatt
• The Rainmaker1997 · as Richter Tyrone Kipler
• Switchback1997 · as Bob Goodall
• Wild America1997 · as Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
• Gone Fishin'1997 · as Gus Green
• America's Dream1996 · as Silas (segment "Long Black Song")
• Red Wind1995 · as Philip Marlowe
• Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities1995 · as Self
• Operation Dumbo Drop1995 · as Capt. Sam Cahill
• The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies1995 · as Self
• Angels in the Outfield1994 · as George Knox
• Maverick1994 · as Bank Robber (uncredited)
• The Saint of Fort Washington1993 · as Jerry
• Bopha!1993 · as Micah Mangena
• The Talking Eggs1993 · as Narrator (voice)
• Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion1992 · as Narrator (voice)
• Lethal Weapon 31992 · as Roger Murtaugh
• Grand Canyon1991 · as Simon
• Pure Luck1991 · as Raymond Campanella
• A Rage in Harlem1991 · as Easy Money
• Flight of the Intruder1991 · as Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
• Predator 21990 · as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
• To Sleep with Anger1990 · as Harry
• Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt1990 · as Narrator (voice)
• Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby1990 · as Narrator (voice)
• Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots1989 · as Narrator (voice)
• Lethal Weapon 21989 · as Roger Murtaugh
• Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary1989 · as Self
• Dead Man Out1989 · as Dr. Alex Marsh
• A Raisin in the Sun1989 · as Walter Lee Younger
• Hollywood on Horses1989 · as Self
• Bat★211988 · as Capt. Bartholomew Clark
• A Place at the Table1988 · as Mr. Scott
• Mandela1987 · as Nelson Mandela
• Lethal Weapon1987 · as Roger Murtaugh
• John Henry1986 · as John Henry
• The Color Purple1985 · as Albert
• Silverado1985 · as Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
• The Stand-In1985 · as Apples Finnerty
• Witness1985 · as McFee
• And the Children Shall Lead1985 · as William
• Places in the Heart1984 · as Moze
• Iceman1984 · as Loomis
• Memorial Day1983 · as Willie Monroe
• The Face of Rage1983 · as Gary
• Keeping On1983 · as Lester Traylor
• Out1982 · as Jojo / Roland
• Chu Chu and the Philly Flash1981 · as Morgan
• Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer1981 · as Oscar Micheaux
• Escape from Alcatraz1979 · as Inmate
• San Francisco State: On Strike1969 · as self
• Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story— · as Narrator (voice)
• Lethal Weapon 5— · as Roger Murtaugh
• Grizzly Peak— · as Will
• Killing Winston Jones— · as Washington Carver
• Dirt & Deeds in Mississippi—

All TV Shows (38)

• Cold Case Files2017 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• black-ish2014 · as Uncle Norman
• Mozart in the Jungle2014 · as Mayor
• Ironside2013 · as Frank Ironside
• Touch2012 · as Professor Arthur Teller
• Human Target2010 · as Client
• Nite Tales: The Series2009 · as Jeremiah
• Leverage2008 · as Charlie Lawson
• Brothers and Sisters2006 · as Isaac Marshall
• Psych2006 · as Mel Hornsby
• The Reichen Show2005 · as Self
• Criminal Minds2005 · as Hank Morgan
• My Name Is Earl2005 · as Thomas
• American Dad!2005 · as Minstrel Krampus (voice)
• Legend of Earthsea2004 · as Ogion
• Real Time with Bill Maher2003 · as Self
• Hollywood Squares1998 · as Self - Panelist
• The View1997 · as Self
• Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain1995 · as Isaac Jefferson (voice)
• Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child1995 · as The King (voice)
• ER1994 · as Charlie Pratt Sr.
• Inside the Actors Studio1994 · as Self
• Civil War Journal1993 · as Self - Host
• Civil War Journal1993 · as Host
• Fallen Angels1993 · as Marlowe
• Alex Haley's Queen1993 · as Alec Haley
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers1990 · as Dr. Apollo (voice)
• Lonesome Dove1989 · as Joshua Deets
• Tall Tales & Legends1985 · as John Henry
• Gimme a Break!1981
• Hill Street Blues1981
• Great Railway Journeys1980 · as Self - Presenter
• Palmerstown, U.S.A.1980
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Roger Murtaugh (uncredited)
• The American Film Institute Salute to ...1973 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Presenter
• Today1952 · as Self