Danny Glover Biography

Birthday: 1946-07-22
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California USA
Height: 6' 3½" (1.92 m)
Wiki Biography: Actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover has been a commanding presence on screen, stage and television for more than 25 years. As an actor, his film credits range from the blockbuster Lethal Weapon franchise to smaller independent features, some of which Glover also produced. Most recently, he co-starred in the critically acclaimed feature Dreamgirls directed by Bill Condon and in Po' Boy's Game for director Clement Virgo. He appeared in the hit feature Shooter for director Antoine Fuqua and can currently be seen in Honeydripper for director John Sayles and Be Kind, Rewind for director Michel Gondry.
Glover has also gained respect for his wide-reaching community activism and philanthropic efforts, with a particular emphasis on advocacy for economic justice, and access to health care and education programs in the United States and Africa. For these efforts, Glover received a 2006 DGA Honor. Internationally, Glover has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program from 1998-2004, focusing on issues of poverty, disease, and economic development in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and currently serves as UNICEF Ambassador.
In 2005, Glover co-founded Louverture Films dedicated to the development and production of films of historical relevance, social purpose, commercial value and artistic integrity. The New York based company has a slate of progressive features and documentaries including Trouble the Water, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Africa Unite, award winning feature Bamako, and most recent projects Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, and The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan.
A native of San Francisco Glover trained at the Black Actors' Workshop of the American Conservatory Theater. It was his Broadway debut in Fugard's Master Harold...and the Boys, which brought him to national recognition and led director Robert Benton to cast Glover in his first leading role in 1984's Oscar®-nominated Best Picture Places in the Heart. The following year, Glover starred in two more Best Picture nominees: Peter Weir's Witness and Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple. In 1987, Glover partnered with Mel Gibson in the first Lethal Weapon film and went on to star in three hugely successful Lethal Weapon sequels. Glover has also invested his talents in more personal projects, including the award-winning To Sleep With Anger, which he executive produced and for which he won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor; Bopha!; Manderlay; Missing in America; and the film version of Athol Fugard's play Boesman and Lena. On the small screen, Glover won an Image Award and a Cable ACE Award and earned an Emmy nomination for his performance in the title role of the HBO movie Mandela. He has also received Emmy nominations for his work in the acclaimed miniseries Lonesome Dove and the telefilm Freedom Song. As a director, he earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for Showtime's Just a Dream.
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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Witness | McFee | Drama | |
Nattskiftet | Hershey | 2012 | Comedy |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Angels in the Outfield | George Knox | 1951 | 0, 0 |
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash | 1981 | Comedy | |
Memorial Day | 1983 | Romance | |
Places in the Heart | Moze | 1984 | |
The Stand-In | Apples finnerty | 1985 | Comedy |
Witness | McFee | 1985 | Comedy, 0, Biography |
Silverado | 1985 | 0, Fantasy, 0 | |
The Color Purple | Albert | 1985 | Drama |
Lethal Weapon | Roger Murtaugh | 1987 | Action, Crime, Thriller |
Bat*21 | 1988 | Drama | |
Lethal Weapon 2 | Roger Murtaugh | 1989 | 0, 0, Comedy |
To Sleep with Anger | 1990 | ||
Predator 2 | Lieutenant Mike Harrigan | 1990 | Action, Sci Fi, Thriller |
A Rage in Harlem | 1991 | Comedy | |
Flight of the Intruder | 1991 | 0, Game Show, 0, Biography | |
Pure Luck | Raymond Campanella | 1991 | Comedy, Crime, Mystery |
Lethal Weapon 3 | Roger Murtaugh | 1992 | Game Show, Comedy, 0 |
The Saint of Fort Washington | Jerry / Narrator | 1993 | |
Bopha! | Micah Mangena | 1993 | Drama |
Operation Dumbo Drop | 1995 | Action, Adventure, Comedy | |
Gone Fishin' | Gus Green | 1997 | 0, 0 |
Switchback | 1997 | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | |
Antz | Barbatus | 1998 | 0, 0, Drama |
Lethal Weapon 4 | Roger Murtaugh | 1998 | Action, Crime, Thriller |
Beloved | Paul D Garner | 1998 | Drama, Horror, Mystery |
The Prince of Egypt | Jethro | 1998 | Animation, Adventure, Drama |
Our Friend, Martin | 1999 | ||
The Royal Tenenbaums | Henry Sherman | 2001 | 0 |
Boesman and Lena | Boesman | 2001 | Drama |
3 A.M. | Hershey | 2001 | Crime, Mystery, Romance |
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election | 2002 | Documentary | |
Good Fences | 2003 | Comedy, Drama | |
Saw | Detective David Tapp | 2004 | Comedy, Reality Tv |
Missing in America | 2005 | ||
The Exonerated | 2005 | Drama | |
Manderlay | Wilhelm | 2005 | Drama |
Barnyard | Miles the Mule | 2006 | Drama, 0 |
The Shaggy Dog | Ken Hollister | 2006 | Comedy, Family, Fantasy |
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit | 2006 | Animation, Family, Fantasy | |
Bamako | 2006 | Drama | |
Dreamgirls | Marty Madison | 2006 | Drama, Music, Musical |
Poor Boy's Game | George Carvery | 2007 | |
Shooter | Colonel Isaac Johnson | 2007 | Comedy, 0, 0 |
Blindness | Man with Black Eye Patch | 2008 | 0, Game Show, Sport |
Gospel Hill | John Malcolm | 2008 | 0 |
Be Kind Rewind | 2008 | Comedy, Drama | |
Unstable Fables: Tortoise Vs. Hare | 2008 | Animation, Family | |
2012 | President Thomas Wilson | 2009 | 0 |
Night Train | 2009 | Action, Crime, Mystery | |
Battle for Terra | President Chen | 2009 | Animation, Action, Adventure |
The Harimaya Bridge | Joseph Holder | 2009 | Drama |
Alpha and Omega | Winston | 2010 | 0, 0, 0, Biography |
Legendary | Harry 'Red' Newman | 2010 | |
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation | Priest - friend of Sam Nujoma | 2010 | Drama |
Death at a Funeral | Uncle Russell | 2010 | Comedy |
För kärleken | Franzis Namazi | 2010 | Drama |
I'm Still Here | Himself | 2010 | Comedy, Drama, Music |
Five Minarets in New York | Marcus | 2010 | Drama |
Donovan's Echo | Donovan Matheson | 2011 | |
Down for Life | Mr. Shannon | 2011 | Drama |
Mooz-Lum | Dean Francis | 2011 | Drama, Family |
Son of Morning | Gabriel Peters | 2011 | Comedy, Drama |
Age of the Dragons | Ahab | 2011 | Action, Fantasy, Thriller |
Mysteria | Investigator | 2011 | Mystery |
Touch | 2012 | Drama | |
Mentryville | Dr. Locke | 2013 | Drama, Horror |
The Shift | Floyd | 2013 | |
The Bouquet | Reverend John | 2013 | 0 |
Alpha and Omega 2: A Howl-iday Adventure | Winston | 2013 | Drama, 0, 0 |
LUV | Arthur | 2013 | Crime, Drama |
Sins Expiation | Father Leonard | 2013 | Thriller |
Highland Park | Ed | 2013 | Comedy, Drama |
Chasing Shakespeare | William Ward | 2013 | Drama, Romance |
Space Warriors | Commander Phillips | 2013 | Family |
The Children's Republic | Dubem | 2013 | |
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | Justice Thurgood Marshall | 2013 | Drama |
Tula: The Revolt | Shinishi | 2013 | Drama, History |
Bad Asses | Bernie Pope | 2014 | Action |
Tokarev | Detective St. John | 2014 | Action, Crime, Thriller |
Killing Winston Jones | Washington Carver | 2014 | Comedy |
Supremacy | Mr. Walker | 2014 | Drama |
Beyond the Lights | Captain David Nicol | 2014 | 0, Biography |
Day of the Mummy | Carl | 2014 | Reality Tv |
2047 - Sights of Death | Sponge | 2014 | Action, Thriller |
Checkmate | Debonair Man | 2015 | Action, Thriller |
Grand Canyon | Simon | 2015 | |
Extraction | Harding | 2015 | 0 |
Bad Asses on the Bayou | Bernie Pope | 2015 | 0, 0 |
Scout | Red | 2015 | Drama, Family |
Consumed | Hal | 2015 | Drama, Thriller |
Gridlocked | Sully | 2015 | Action |
Back in the Day | Eddie 'Rocks' Travor | 2016 | Drama |
The Lighthouse | Duncan | 2016 | Game Show |