
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

Real Time with Bill Maher

black-ish

Brothers and Sisters

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Today

Palmerstown, U.S.A.

Gimme a Break!

Fallen Angels

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

The Royal Tenenbaums

2012

Sorry to Bother You

The Rainmaker

Witness

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Alex Haley's Queen

The Dead Don't Die

American Dreamer

The Prince of Egypt

Lonesome Dove

Rage

Space Warriors

Monster Trucks

Touch

Places in the Heart

Dreamgirls

Be Kind Rewind

Come Sunday

The Christmas Train

Shooter

Blindness

The Memory Police

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy

Saw

The Shaggy Dog

Switchback

Extraction

Lethal Weapon 2

Legend of Earthsea

Lethal Weapon 3

Lethal Weapon

93 Days

Lethal Weapon 4

Flight of the Intruder

Operation Dumbo Drop

The Color Purple

Predator 2

Angels in the Outfield

Day of the Mummy

America's Dream
Production Credits
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