Danny Glover
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.
Fotos
Películas (255)
Our Land
2026 · Executive Producer
Grizzly Peak
2025 · Will
Harvest
2025 · Thanks
Newbies
2025
The Naughty Nine
2023 · Santa Claus
The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane
2023 · Executive Producer
Double Soul
2023 · Michael Tedeschi
President
2023 · Executive Producer
American Dreamer
2022 · Jerry
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
2022 · Self
Press Play
2022 · Cooper
African Redemption: The Life and Legacy of Marcus Garvey
2022 · Self
Crane Lantern
2022 · Executive Producer
A Night at the Academy Museum
2021 · Self
Memoria
2021 · Co-Producer
Prayers for the Stolen
2021 · Co-Producer
In Between Dying
2021 · Executive Producer
When I See Them, I See Us
2021
The Drummer
2020 · Mark Walker
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
2020 · Narrator (voice)
After Fact
2020 · Self
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
2020 · Narrator (voice)
Jumanji: The Next Level
2019 · Milo
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
2019 · Narrator (voice)
Lynch: A History
2019 · Executive Producer
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
2019 · Grandpa Allen
Strive
2019
The Dead Don't Die
2019 · Hank Thompson
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
2019 · Narrator
Always in Season
2019 · Narrator (voice)
Easter Snap
2019 · Executive Producer
The Robeson Effect
2019 · Self
Christmas Break-In
2018 · Ray
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
2018 · Self
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
2018 · Baltimore Bob
The Old Man & the Gun
2018 · Teddy
Capernaum
2018 · Executive Producer
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
2018 · Executive Producer
Angels Are Made of Light
2018 · Executive Producer
Sorry to Bother You
2018 · Langston
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018 · Mr. Ocean
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018 · Narrator (voice)
Howard
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018 · Self
Come Sunday
2018 · Gilbert Pearson
Proud Mary
2018 · Benny
The Christmas Train
2017 · Max Powers
The Curse of Buckout Road
2017 · Dr. Powell
Vagabonds
2017 · Uncle Issa
Zama
2017 · Co-Producer
The Good Catholic
2017 · Victor
That Summer
2017 · Executive Producer
Tour de Pharmacy
2017 · Slim Robinson Present Day
Agents of Change
2017 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Birth of a Movement
2017 · Narrator (voice)
Strong Island
2017 · Executive Producer
Extortion
2017 · Detective Constable Haagen
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
2017 · Self
Monster Trucks
2016 · Mr. Weathers
White Sun
2016 · Executive Producer
Almost Christmas
2016 · Walter
Shadow World
2016 · Executive Producer
Pushing Dead
2016 · Bob
Complete Unknown
2016 · Roger
Mr. Pig
2016 · Ambrose
Gridlocked
2016 · Sully
Dirt & Deeds in Mississippi
2016 · Narrator (voice)
The House on Coco Road
2016 · Producer
Back in the Day
2016 · Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
2016 · Narrator (voice)
93 Days
2016 · Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
Darkweb
2016 · The Boss
Dirty Grandpa
2016 · Stinky
Diablo
2016 · Benjamin Carver
Andron
2015 · Chancellor Gordon
Waffle Street
2015 · Edward Collins
This Changes Everything
2015 · Executive Producer
Cemetery of Splendor
2015 · Co-Producer
Checkmate
2015 · Elohim
Consumed
2015 · Hal Westbrook
About Scout
2015 · Red
Bad Asses on the Bayou
2015 · Bernie Pope
Mississippi Inferno
2015 · Narrator (voice)
Caffeinated
2015 · Coffee Lover
Toxin
2015 · Dr. Locke
Beyond the Lights
2014 · Captain Nicol
Life Is Sacred
2014 · Executive Producer
Day of the Mummy
2014 · Carl
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014 · Self
2047: Sights of Death
2014 · Sponge
Supremacy
2014 · Mr. Walker
We Are Many
2014 · Self
Rage
2014 · Detective St. John
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
2014 · Bernie Pope
The Ninja Immovable Heart
2014 · Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014 · Self
Chasing Shakespeare
2014 · William Ward
Concerning Violence
2014 · Co-Producer
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013 · Justice Thurgood Marshall
Extraction
2013 · Harding
Tula: The Revolt
2013 · Shinishi
Highland Park
2013 · Ed
Shuffleton's Barbershop
2013 · Charlie Shuffleton
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
2013 · Self
Space Warriors
2013 · Commander Phillips
The Shift
2013 · Floyd
The Bouquet
2013 · Reverend John
LUV
2013 · Arthur
Casting By
2012 · Self
Shenandoah
2012 · Executive Producer
The House I Live In
2012 · Executive Producer
The Children's Republic
2012 · Dubem
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America
2012 · Count Basie (voice)
The Lighthouse
2012 · Duncan
Highway
2012 · Producer
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'
2012 · Self
Shadows of Liberty
2012 · Self
Hannah's Law
2012 · Isom Dart
Sins
2012 · Father Leonard
Mysteria
2011 · Investigator
Rise Like Lions
2011 · Self (Occupy Oakland)
Donovan's Echo
2011 · Donovan Matheson
Dum Maaro Dum
2011 · Executive Producer
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
2011 · Producer
Age of the Dragons
2011 · Ahab
Son of Morning
2011 · Gabriel Peters
Mooz-lum
2011 · Dean Francis
I Want to Be a Soldier
2010 · School Director
Down for Life
2010 · Mr. Shannon
I'm Still Here
2010 · Danny Glover
Legendary
2010 · Harry 'Red' Newman
Dear Alice
2010 · Franzis
Alpha and Omega
2010 · Winston (voice)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010 · Associate Producer
Death at a Funeral
2010 · Uncle Russell
Five Minarets in New York
2010 · Marcus
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010 · Self, Presenter
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010 · Self, Presenter
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
2010 · Narrator (voice)
The People Speak
2009 · Self
2012
2009 · President Thomas Wilson
The Time That Remains
2009 · Associate Producer
PoliWood
2009 · Self
The Harimaya Bridge
2009 · Joseph Holder
Night Train
2009 · Miles
Saw V
2008 · David Trapp (archive footage)
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
2008 · Walter Tortoise (voice)
Salt of This Sea
2008 · Co-Producer
Fats Waller Was Born Here
2008 · "Fats" Waller's Father/Mr. Fletcher
Blindness
2008 · Man with Black Eye Patch
Be Kind Rewind
2008 · Mr. Fletcher
Gospel Hill
2008 · John Malcolm
Trouble the Water
2008 · Executive Producer
Agent Crush
2008 · Major Rusty Gubbins
Honeydripper
2007 · Tyrone Purvis
Battle for Terra
2007 · President Chen (voice)
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
2007 · Self
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007 · Father Elias
Shooter
2007 · Colonel Isaac Johnson
Bamako
2007 · Cow-boy, Executive Producer
Poor Boy's Game
2007 · George
Dreamgirls
2006 · Marty Madison
Read You Like a Book
2006
Barnyard
2006 · Miles (voice)
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
2006 · Brer Turtle (voice)
The Shaggy Dog
2006 · Ken Hollister
The Exonerated
2006 · David Keaton
Full Disclosure Report
2005 · David Tapp
The Peace!
2005 · Self
Manderlay
2005 · Wilhelm
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
2005 · Self (archive footage)
Missing in America
2005 · Jake Neely
P.N.O.K.
2005 · Col. Weldon
Saw
2004 · David Tapp
The Cookout
2004 · Judge Crowley
Earthed
2004
The John Garfield Story
2003 · Self
Good Fences
2003 · Tom Spader, Producer
The Real Eve
2002 · Narrator (voice)
Just a Dream
2002 · Director
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 · Henry Sherman
3 A.M.
2001 · Hershey, Executive Producer
Boesman and Lena
2000 · Boesman
Bàttu
2000
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
2000 · Self
Freedom Song
2000 · Will Walker, Executive Producer
Ennis' Gift
2000 · Self
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999 · Self (archive footage)
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999 · Narrator (voice)
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
1999 · Host
Our Friend, Martin
1999 · Train Conductor (voice)
The Prince of Egypt
1998 · Jethro (voice)
Beloved
1998 · Paul D
Antz
1998 · Barbatus (voice)
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
1998 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Lethal Weapon 4
1998 · Roger Murtaugh
Soldier Child
1998 · Self - Narrator
Buffalo Soldiers
1997 · Sgt. Washington Wyatt, Executive Producer
The Rainmaker
1997 · Richter Tyrone Kipler
Switchback
1997 · Bob Goodall
Wild America
1997 · Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
Gone Fishin'
1997 · Gus Green
America's Dream
1996 · Silas (segment "Long Black Song"), Executive Producer
Red Wind
1995 · Philip Marlowe
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
1995 · Self
Operation Dumbo Drop
1995 · Capt. Sam Cahill
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Self
Override
1994 · Director
Angels in the Outfield
1994 · George Knox
Maverick
1994 · Bank Robber (uncredited)
The Saint of Fort Washington
1993 · Jerry
Bopha!
1993 · Micah Mangena
The Talking Eggs
1993 · Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion
1992 · Narrator (voice)
Lethal Weapon 3
1992 · Roger Murtaugh
Grand Canyon
1991 · Simon
A Party For Richard Pryor
1991 · Self
Pure Luck
1991 · Raymond Campanella
A Rage in Harlem
1991 · Easy Money
Flight of the Intruder
1991 · Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
Predator 2
1990 · Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
To Sleep with Anger
1990 · Harry, Executive Producer
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt
1990 · Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby
1990 · Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
1989 · Narrator (voice)
Lethal Weapon 2
1989 · Roger Murtaugh
Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary
1989 · Self
Dead Man Out
1989 · Dr. Alex Marsh
A Raisin in the Sun
1989 · Walter Lee Younger
Hollywood on Horses
1989 · Self
Bat★21
1988 · Capt. Bartholomew Clark
A Place at the Table
1988 · Mr. Scott
Mandela
1987 · Nelson Mandela
Lethal Weapon
1987 · Roger Murtaugh
The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson
1987 · Self
John Henry
1986 · John Henry
The Color Purple
1985 · Albert
Silverado
1985 · Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
The Stand-In
1985 · Apples Finnerty
Witness
1985 · McFee
And the Children Shall Lead
1985 · William
Places in the Heart
1984 · Moze
Iceman
1984 · Loomis
Memorial Day
1983 · Willie Monroe
The Face of Rage
1983 · Gary
Keeping On
1983 · Lester Traylor
Out
1982 · Jojo / Roland
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1981 · Morgan
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
1981 · Oscar Micheaux
Escape from Alcatraz
1979 · Inmate
San Francisco State: On Strike
1969 · self
Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
· Narrator (voice)
Killing Winston Jones
· Washington Carver
Lethal Weapon 5
· Roger Murtaugh
Untitled Dinah Washington Biopic
· Executive Producer
Series (41)
The War on Cuba
2020 · Executive Producer
Cold Case Files
2017 · Self - Narrator (voice)
black-ish
2014 · Uncle Norman
Mozart in the Jungle
2014 · Mayor
Ironside
2013 · Frank Ironside
Touch
2012 · Professor Arthur Teller
Human Target
2010 · Client
Nite Tales: The Series
2009 · Jeremiah
Leverage
2008 · Charlie Lawson
Brothers and Sisters
2006 · Isaac Marshall
Psych
2006 · Mel Hornsby
The Reichen Show
2005 · Self
Mentes Criminales
2005 · Hank Morgan
My Name Is Earl
2005 · Thomas
American Dad: Un Agente de Familia
2005 · Minstrel Krampus (voice)
Legend of Earthsea
2004 · Ogion
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Self
Democracy Now!
2001 · Self (archive footage), Self
Hollywood Squares
1998 · Self - Panelist
The View
1997 · Self
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
1995 · Isaac Jefferson (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · The King (voice)
ER
1994 · Charlie Pratt Sr.
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
Civil War Journal
1993 · Self - Host, Host
Fallen Angels
1993 · Marlowe
Alex Haley's Queen
1993 · Alec Haley
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990 · Dr. Apollo (voice)
Lonesome Dove
1989 · Joshua Deets
Tall Tales & Legends
1985 · John Henry
American Playhouse
1982 · Lester Traylor, Walter Lee Younger
Gimme a Break!
1981
Hill Street Blues
1981
Great Railway Journeys
1980 · Self - Presenter
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1980
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Roger Murtaugh (uncredited)
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Presenter
Today
1952 · Self