Danny Glover
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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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Tony Awards
American Dad!
My Name Is Earl
Psych
ER
Hill Street Blues
Mozart in the Jungle
Hollywood Squares
Ironside
Leverage
black-ish
Real Time with Bill Maher
Brothers and Sisters
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Today
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
Gimme a Break!
Fallen Angels
Touch
Maverick
Escape from Alcatraz
Saw V
The American West
Tall Tales & Legends
Tour de Pharmacy
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Jumanji: The Next Level
Dirty Grandpa
Death at a Funeral
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Rainmaker
2012
Sorry to Bother You
Witness
The Dead Don't Die
Alex Haley's Queen
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Prince of Egypt
Lonesome Dove
American Dreamer
Rage
Space Warriors
Monster Trucks
Dreamgirls
Places in the Heart
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
Blindness
The Memory Police
Come Sunday
Shooter
The Christmas Train
Saw
The Shaggy Dog
Be Kind Rewind
93 Days
Lethal Weapon 4
Lethal Weapon
Legend of Earthsea
Switchback
Lethal Weapon 2
Extraction
Lethal Weapon 3
Predator 2
Flight of the Intruder
Day of the Mummy
America's Dream
The Color Purple
Operation Dumbo Drop
Angels in the Outfield
Production Credits
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