
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

Tour de Pharmacy

Tall Tales & Legends

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Jumanji: The Next Level

Dirty Grandpa

Death at a Funeral

Sorry to Bother You

2012

The Royal Tenenbaums

The Rainmaker

The Dead Don't Die

Alex Haley's Queen

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Witness

Lonesome Dove

American Dreamer

The Prince of Egypt

Space Warriors

Monster Trucks

Rage

Dreamgirls

Places in the Heart

Saw

Blindness

The Memory Police

The Shaggy Dog

Come Sunday

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy

The Christmas Train

Shooter

Be Kind Rewind

Lethal Weapon 2

93 Days

Switchback

Legend of Earthsea

Lethal Weapon 3

Extraction

Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon 4

Day of the Mummy

The Color Purple

Operation Dumbo Drop

Flight of the Intruder

America's Dream

Predator 2

Angels in the Outfield
Production Credits
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