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Danny Glover
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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.
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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.
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Today
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
Gimme a Break!
Fallen Angels
Maverick
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The American West
Saw V
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Tour de Pharmacy
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Jumanji: The Next Level
Dirty Grandpa
Death at a Funeral
The Rainmaker
2012
The Royal Tenenbaums
Sorry to Bother You
The Dead Don't Die
Alex Haley's Queen
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Witness
Lonesome Dove
The Prince of Egypt
American Dreamer
Rage
Space Warriors
Monster Trucks
Places in the Heart
Touch
Dreamgirls
The Shaggy Dog
The Memory Police
Saw
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
Be Kind Rewind
Blindness
Shooter
The Christmas Train
Come Sunday
93 Days
Switchback
Lethal Weapon
Extraction
Legend of Earthsea
Lethal Weapon 2
Lethal Weapon 3
Lethal Weapon 4
Flight of the Intruder
Angels in the Outfield
The Color Purple
Day of the Mummy
America's Dream
Operation Dumbo Drop
Predator 2
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America's Dream
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