
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

Touch

Maverick

Escape from Alcatraz

The American West

Saw V

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

2012

The Rainmaker

The Royal Tenenbaums

Sorry to Bother You

The Dead Don't Die

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Witness

Alex Haley's Queen

The Prince of Egypt

Lonesome Dove

American Dreamer

Monster Trucks

Space Warriors

Rage

Dreamgirls

Places in the Heart

The Christmas Train

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy

The Shaggy Dog

Be Kind Rewind

Blindness

Saw

Come Sunday

Shooter

The Memory Police

Lethal Weapon 3

Lethal Weapon

Switchback

Lethal Weapon 4

Legend of Earthsea

Extraction

93 Days

Lethal Weapon 2

The Color Purple

Day of the Mummy

America's Dream

Predator 2

Operation Dumbo Drop

Flight of the Intruder

Angels in the Outfield
Production Credits
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