
Danny Glover
Acting
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Acting Credits
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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 Sle...
Known For
Filmography

Newbies
2025

Double Soul
2023
as Michael Tedeschi

The Naughty Nine
2023
as Santa Claus

American Dreamer
2022
as Jerry

De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
2022
as Self

Press Play
2022
as Cooper

A Night at the Academy Museum
2021
as Self

The Drummer
2020
as Mark Walker

After Fact
2020
as Self

Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
2020
as Narrator (voice)

Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
2020
as Narrator (voice)

The Robeson Effect
2019
as Self

Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
2019
as Narrator

The Last Black Man in San Francisco
2019
as Grandpa Allen

Always in Season
2019
as Narrator (voice)

Jumanji: The Next Level
2019
as Milo

The Dead Don't Die
2019
as Hank Thompson

The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
2019
as Narrator (voice)

Strive
2019

Howard
2018
as Self (archive footage)

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
2018
as Baltimore Bob

Come Sunday
2018
as Gilbert Pearson

The Old Man & the Gun
2018
as Teddy

Proud Mary
2018
as Benny

Sorry to Bother You
2018
as Langston

Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
as Mr. Ocean

Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018
as Self

Christmas Break-In
2018
as Ray

Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
2018
as Self

The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018
as Narrator (voice)

Vagabonds
2017
as Uncle Issa

Extortion
2017
as Detective Constable Haagen

Birth of a Movement
2017
as Narrator (voice)

The Good Catholic
2017
as Victor

Tour de Pharmacy
2017
as Slim Robinson Present Day

Agents of Change
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Curse of Buckout Road
2017
as Dr. Powell

The Christmas Train
2017
as Max Powers

Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
2017
as Self

Cold Case Files
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Monster Trucks
2016
as Mr. Weathers

Back in the Day
2016
as Eddie 'Rocks' Travor

Complete Unknown
2016
as Roger

Diablo
2016
as Benjamin Carver

Dirty Grandpa
2016
as Stinky

Darkweb
2016
as The Boss

Mr. Pig
2016
as Ambrose

Gridlocked
2016
as Sully

Pushing Dead
2016
as Bob

Almost Christmas
2016
as Walter

93 Days
2016
as Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri

Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
2016
as Narrator (voice)

Bad Asses on the Bayou
2015
as Bernie Pope

Toxin
2015
as Dr. Locke

Consumed
2015
as Hal Westbrook

About Scout
2015
as Red

Checkmate
2015
as Elohim

Waffle Street
2015
as Edward Collins

Andron
2015
as Chancellor Gordon

Caffeinated
2015
as Coffee Lover

Mississippi Inferno
2015
as Narrator (voice)

Chasing Shakespeare
2014
as William Ward

Beyond the Lights
2014
as Captain Nicol

Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
2014
as Bernie Pope

Rage
2014
as Detective St. John

2047: Sights of Death
2014
as Sponge

Supremacy
2014
as Mr. Walker

Yellowbird
2014
as Darius (voice)

Day of the Mummy
2014
as Carl

We Are Many
2014
as Self

The Ninja Immovable Heart
2014
as Ex Director Matthew Reynolds

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
as Self

Mozart in the Jungle
2014
as Mayor

black-ish
2014
as Uncle Norman

LUV
2013
as Arthur

Highland Park
2013
as Ed

Tula: The Revolt
2013
as Shinishi

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
as Justice Thurgood Marshall

Space Warriors
2013
as Commander Phillips

The Bouquet
2013
as Reverend John

Extraction
2013
as Harding

Shuffleton's Barbershop
2013
as Charlie Shuffleton

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
2013
as Self

The Shift
2013
as Floyd

Ironside
2013
as Frank Ironside

Casting By
2012
as Self

The Children's Republic
2012
as Dubem

Hannah's Law
2012
as Isom Dart

Sins
2012
as Father Leonard
The Lighthouse
2012
as Duncan

Shadows of Liberty
2012
as Self

Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'
2012
as Self

Touch
2012
as Professor Arthur Teller

Mooz-lum
2011
as Dean Francis

Son of Morning
2011
as Gabriel Peters

Mysteria
2011
as Investigator

Age of the Dragons
2011
as Ahab
Rise Like Lions
2011
as Self (Occupy Oakland)

Donovan's Echo
2011
as Donovan Matheson

Alpha and Omega
2010
as Winston (voice)

Death at a Funeral
2010
as Uncle Russell

Legendary
2010
as Harry 'Red' Newman

Down for Life
2010
as Mr. Shannon

Five Minarets in New York
2010
as Marcus

I Want to Be a Soldier
2010
as School Director

Dear Alice
2010
as Franzis

I'm Still Here
2010
as Danny Glover

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010
as Self

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010
as Self

Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
2010
as Narrator (voice)

Human Target
2010
as Client

2012
2009
as President Thomas Wilson

Night Train
2009
as Miles

The Harimaya Bridge
2009
as Joseph Holder

The People Speak
2009
as Self

PoliWood
2009
as Self

Nite Tales: The Series
2009
as Jeremiah

Gospel Hill
2008
as John Malcolm

Be Kind Rewind
2008
as Mr. Fletcher

Blindness
2008
as Man with Black Eye Patch

Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
2008
as Walter Tortoise (voice)

Agent Crush
2008
as Major Rusty Gubbins

Fats Waller Was Born Here
2008
as "Fats" Waller's Father/Mr. Fletcher

Leverage
2008
as Charlie Lawson

Shooter
2007
as Colonel Isaac Johnson

Honeydripper
2007
as Tyrone Purvis

Poor Boy's Game
2007
as George

Battle for Terra
2007
as President Chen (voice)

Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007
as Father Elias

Dreamgirls
2006
as Marty Madison

The Shaggy Dog
2006
as Ken Hollister

Barnyard
2006
as Miles (voice)

The Exonerated
2006
as David Keaton

The Court
2006
as Cow-boy

The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
2006
as Brer Turtle (voice)

Read You Like a Book
2006

Brothers and Sisters
2006
as Isaac Marshall

Psych
2006
as Mel Hornsby

Manderlay
2005
as Wilhelm

Missing in America
2005
as Jake Neely
The Peace!
2005
as Self

Full Disclosure Report
2005
as David Tapp
P.N.O.K.
2005
as Col. Weldon

The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
2005
as Self (archive footage)

The Reichen Show
2005
as Self

My Name Is Earl
2005
as Thomas

American Dad!
2005
as Minstrel Krampus (voice)

Criminal Minds
2005
as Hank Morgan

Saw
2004
as David Tapp

The Cookout
2004
as Judge Crowley

Legend of Earthsea
2004
as Ogion

Good Fences
2003
as Tom Spader

The John Garfield Story
2003
as Self

Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self

The Real Eve
2002
as Narrator (voice)

The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
as Henry Sherman

3 A.M.
2001
as Hershey

Boesman and Lena
2000
as Boesman

Freedom Song
2000
as Will Walker

Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
2000
as Self

Bàttu
2000

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
1999
as Host

Our Friend, Martin
1999
as Train Conductor (voice)

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999
as Narrator (voice)

The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
as Self (archive footage)

Lethal Weapon 4
1998
as Roger Murtaugh

Antz
1998
as Barbatus (voice)

The Prince of Egypt
1998
as Jethro (voice)

Beloved
1998
as Paul D

Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
1998
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Soldier Child
1998
as Self - Narrator

Hollywood Squares
1998
as Self - Panelist

Switchback
1997
as Bob Goodall

The Rainmaker
1997
as Richter Tyrone Kipler

Gone Fishin'
1997
as Gus Green

Buffalo Soldiers
1997
as Sgt. Washington Wyatt

Wild America
1997
as Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)

The View
1997
as Self

America's Dream
1996
as Silas (segment "Long Black Song")

Operation Dumbo Drop
1995
as Capt. Sam Cahill
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
1995
as Self

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self

Red Wind
1995
as Philip Marlowe

Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain
1995
as Isaac Jefferson (voice)

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as The King (voice)

Angels in the Outfield
1994
as George Knox

Maverick
1994
as Bank Robber (uncredited)

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

ER
1994
as Charlie Pratt Sr.

The Saint of Fort Washington
1993
as Jerry

Bopha!
1993
as Micah Mangena

The Talking Eggs
1993
as Narrator (voice)

Fallen Angels
1993
as Marlowe

Alex Haley's Queen
1993
as Alec Haley

Civil War Journal
1993
as Self - Host

Civil War Journal
1993
as Host

Lethal Weapon 3
1992
as Roger Murtaugh
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion
1992
as Narrator (voice)

Grand Canyon
1991
as Simon

A Rage in Harlem
1991
as Easy Money

Flight of the Intruder
1991
as Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli

Pure Luck
1991
as Raymond Campanella

Predator 2
1990
as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan

To Sleep with Anger
1990
as Harry
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby
1990
as Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt
1990
as Narrator (voice)

Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1990
as Dr. Apollo (voice)

Lethal Weapon 2
1989
as Roger Murtaugh

Dead Man Out
1989
as Dr. Alex Marsh

A Raisin in the Sun
1989
as Walter Lee Younger
Hollywood on Horses
1989
as Self

Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
1989
as Narrator (voice)

Lonesome Dove
1989
as Joshua Deets

Bat★21
1988
as Capt. Bartholomew Clark
A Place at the Table
1988
as Mr. Scott

Lethal Weapon
1987
as Roger Murtaugh

Mandela
1987
as Nelson Mandela

John Henry
1986
as John Henry

The Color Purple
1985
as Albert

Silverado
1985
as Malachi 'Mal' Johnson

Witness
1985
as McFee

And the Children Shall Lead
1985
as William

The Stand-In
1985
as Apples Finnerty

Tall Tales & Legends
1985
as John Henry

Iceman
1984
as Loomis

Places in the Heart
1984
as Moze

Keeping On
1983
as Lester Traylor
The Face of Rage
1983
as Gary
Memorial Day
1983
as Willie Monroe

Chiefs
1983
as Marshall Peters

Out
1982
as Jojo / Roland

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1981
as Morgan

Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
1981
as Oscar Micheaux

Hill Street Blues
1981

Gimme a Break!
1981

Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1980

Great Railway Journeys
1980
as Self - Presenter

Escape from Alcatraz
1979
as Inmate

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Roger Murtaugh (uncredited)

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self

San Francisco State: On Strike
1969
as self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

Today
1952
as Self