
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

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

The Rainmaker

The Royal Tenenbaums

2012

The Dead Don't Die

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Alex Haley's Queen

Witness

American Dreamer

The Prince of Egypt

Lonesome Dove

Monster Trucks

Rage

Space Warriors

Dreamgirls

Places in the Heart

The Memory Police

The Shaggy Dog

Shooter

Blindness

Come Sunday

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy

Saw

The Christmas Train

Be Kind Rewind

Extraction

Switchback

Lethal Weapon 2

Legend of Earthsea

Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon 3

Lethal Weapon 4

93 Days

Angels in the Outfield

America's Dream

Flight of the Intruder

Day of the Mummy

Operation Dumbo Drop

The Color Purple

Predator 2
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