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.
213 movies · 38 shows
Grizzly Peak
2025·0.0
Newbies
2025·0.0
The Naughty Nine
2023·6.2
Double Soul
2023·5.3
American Dreamer
2022·6.0
De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
2022·0.0
Press Play
2022·6.5
A Night at the Academy Museum
2021·7.0
When I See Them, I See Us
2021·0.0
The Drummer
2020·5.5
Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
2020·8.0
After Fact
2020·0.0
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
2020·0.0
Jumanji: The Next Level
2019·6.9
The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
2019·10.0
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
2019·7.0
Strive
2019·1.0
The Dead Don't Die
2019·5.4
Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
2019·0.0
Always in Season
2019·6.8
The Robeson Effect
2019·5.0
Christmas Break-In
2018·5.7
Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
2018·7.0
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
2018·6.2
The Old Man & the Gun
2018·6.4
Sorry to Bother You
2018·6.8
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018·4.9
The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018·0.0
Howard
2018·6.8
Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018·6.4
Come Sunday
2018·5.8
Proud Mary
2018·5.5
The Christmas Train
2017·6.4
The Curse of Buckout Road
2017·6.5
Vagabonds
2017·1.0
The Good Catholic
2017·5.5
Tour de Pharmacy
2017·6.7
Agents of Change
2017·0.0
Birth of a Movement
2017·6.4
Extortion
2017·6.2
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
2017·0.0
Monster Trucks
2016·6.1
Almost Christmas
2016·6.0
Pushing Dead
2016·6.0
Complete Unknown
2016·5.1
Mr. Pig
2016·6.0
Gridlocked
2016·6.0
Dirt & Deeds in Mississippi
2016·0.0
Back in the Day
2016·3.0
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
2016·0.0
93 Days
2016·5.7
Darkweb
2016·2.9
Dirty Grandpa
2016·5.9
Diablo
2016·4.9
Andron
2015·3.6
Waffle Street
2015·6.1
Checkmate
2015·3.9
Consumed
2015·5.5
About Scout
2015·5.9
Bad Asses on the Bayou
2015·6.0
Mississippi Inferno
2015·0.0
Caffeinated
2015·6.0
Toxin
2015·3.1
Beyond the Lights
2014·6.8
Day of the Mummy
2014·5.2
Yellowbird
2014·5.0
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014·1.5
2047: Sights of Death
2014·2.9
Supremacy
2014·5.7
We Are Many
2014·6.7
Rage
2014·5.3
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
2014·6.1
The Ninja Immovable Heart
2014·4.7
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014·0.0
Chasing Shakespeare
2014·3.1
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013·6.4
Extraction
2013·4.8
Tula: The Revolt
2013·4.5
Highland Park
2013·5.6
Shuffleton's Barbershop
2013·5.2
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
2013·3.5
Space Warriors
2013·5.2
The Shift
2013·5.0
The Bouquet
2013·5.0
LUV
2013·5.8
Casting By
2012·6.9
The Children's Republic
2012·5.8
The Lighthouse
2012·0.0
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'
2012·6.7
Shadows of Liberty
2012·6.6
Hannah's Law
2012·4.9
Sins
2012·2.3
Mysteria
2011·3.8
Rise Like Lions
2011·0.0
Donovan's Echo
2011·6.0
Age of the Dragons
2011·4.0
Son of Morning
2011·3.0
Mooz-lum
2011·4.6
I Want to Be a Soldier
2010·5.7
Down for Life
2010·3.5
I'm Still Here
2010·6.0
Legendary
2010·6.5
Dear Alice
2010·5.6
Alpha and Omega
2010·5.9
Death at a Funeral
2010·5.9
Five Minarets in New York
2010·5.5
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010·7.0
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010·7.8
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
2010·0.0
The People Speak
2009·7.2
2012
2009·5.9
PoliWood
2009·6.5
The Harimaya Bridge
2009·4.9
Night Train
2009·5.6
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
2008·5.8
Fats Waller Was Born Here
2008·0.0
Blindness
2008·6.5
Be Kind Rewind
2008·6.3
Gospel Hill
2008·4.7
Agent Crush
2008·4.8
Honeydripper
2007·5.9
Battle for Terra
2007·6.1
Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker'
2007·0.0
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007·6.0
Shooter
2007·7.1
Bamako
2007·7.0
Poor Boy's Game
2007·5.5
Dreamgirls
2006·6.7
Read You Like a Book
2006·3.6
Barnyard
2006·6.0
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
2006·6.4
The Shaggy Dog
2006·4.9
The Exonerated
2006·7.3
Full Disclosure Report
2005·4.0
The Peace!
2005·5.0
Manderlay
2005·6.9
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
2005·6.7
Missing in America
2005·5.7
P.N.O.K.
2005·0.0
Saw
2004·7.4
The Cookout
2004·4.7
Earthed
2004·0.0
The John Garfield Story
2003·8.4
Good Fences
2003·5.9
The Real Eve
2002·9.0
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001·7.5
3 A.M.
2001·5.8
Boesman and Lena
2000·6.0
Bàttu
2000·4.5
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
2000·7.0
Freedom Song
2000·5.7
The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999·6.6
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999·0.0
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
1999·6.8
Our Friend, Martin
1999·7.1
The Prince of Egypt
1998·7.3
Beloved
1998·5.8
Antz
1998·6.2
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
1998·8.8
Lethal Weapon 4
1998·6.6
Soldier Child
1998·10.0
Buffalo Soldiers
1997·5.5
The Rainmaker
1997·7.0
Switchback
1997·6.0
Wild America
1997·6.1
Gone Fishin'
1997·4.9
America's Dream
1996·6.7
Red Wind
1995·0.0
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
1995·10.0
Operation Dumbo Drop
1995·5.2
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995·8.0
Angels in the Outfield
1994·6.0
Maverick
1994·6.9
The Saint of Fort Washington
1993·6.6
Bopha!
1993·5.4
The Talking Eggs
1993·8.0
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion
1992·0.0
Lethal Weapon 3
1992·6.7
Grand Canyon
1991·6.4
Pure Luck
1991·5.6
A Rage in Harlem
1991·5.4
Flight of the Intruder
1991·5.8
Predator 2
1990·6.3
To Sleep with Anger
1990·6.8
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt
1990·0.0
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby
1990·0.0
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
1989·0.0
Lethal Weapon 2
1989·7.0
Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary
1989·10.0
Dead Man Out
1989·6.6
A Raisin in the Sun
1989·7.0
Hollywood on Horses
1989·4.7
Bat★21
1988·6.3
A Place at the Table
1988·3.7
Mandela
1987·4.8
Lethal Weapon
1987·7.3
The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson
1987·8.0
John Henry
1986·10.0
The Color Purple
1985·7.7
Silverado
1985·6.9
The Stand-In
1985·0.0
Witness
1985·7.1
And the Children Shall Lead
1985·9.0
Places in the Heart
1984·7.2
Iceman
1984·6.2
Memorial Day
1983·6.0
The Face of Rage
1983·5.0
Keeping On
1983·7.0
Out
1982·4.8
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1981·5.2
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
1981·7.0
Escape from Alcatraz
1979·7.5
San Francisco State: On Strike
1969·10.0