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.

Filmography

• 2026Our Land — Executive Producer
• 2025Grizzly Peak — Will
• 2025Harvest — Thanks
• 2025Newbies
• 2023Double Soul — Michael Tedeschi
• 2023President — Executive Producer
• 2023The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane — Executive Producer
• 2023The Naughty Nine — Santa Claus
• 2022American Dreamer — Jerry
• 2022Crane Lantern — Executive Producer
• 2022Press Play — Cooper
• 2021In Between Dying — Executive Producer
• 2021Memoria — Co-Producer
• 2021Prayers for the Stolen — Co-Producer
• 2021When I See Them, I See Us
• 2020Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man — Narrator (voice)
• 2020The Drummer — Mark Walker
• The War on Cuba — Executive Producer
• 2020Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War — Narrator (voice)
• 2019Always in Season — Narrator (voice)
• 2019Easter Snap — Executive Producer
• 2019Jumanji: The Next Level — Milo
• 2019Lynch: A History — Executive Producer
• 2019Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story — Narrator
• 2019Strive
• 2019The Dead Don't Die — Hank Thompson
• 2019The Last Black Man in San Francisco — Grandpa Allen
• 2019The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs — Narrator (voice)
• 2018Angels Are Made of Light — Executive Producer
• 2018Capernaum — Executive Producer
• 2018Christmas Break-In — Ray
• 2018Come Sunday — Gilbert Pearson
• 2018Death Race: Beyond Anarchy — Baltimore Bob
• 2018Hale County This Morning, This Evening — Executive Producer
• 2018Proud Mary — Benny
• 2018Sorry to Bother You — Langston
• 2018The Old Man & the Gun — Teddy
• 2018The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution — Narrator (voice)
• 2018Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey — Mr. Ocean
• 2017Birth of a Movement — Narrator (voice)
• 2017Extortion — Detective Constable Haagen
• 2017Strong Island — Executive Producer
• 2017That Summer — Executive Producer
• 2017The Christmas Train — Max Powers
• 2017The Curse of Buckout Road — Dr. Powell
• 2017The Good Catholic — Victor
• 2017Tour de Pharmacy — Slim Robinson Present Day
• 2017Vagabonds — Uncle Issa
• 2017Zama — Co-Producer
• 201693 Days — Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
• 2016Almost Christmas — Walter
• 2016Back in the Day — Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
• 2016Complete Unknown — Roger
• 2016Darkweb — The Boss
• 2016Diablo — Benjamin Carver
• 2016Dirt & Deeds in Mississippi — Narrator (voice)
• 2016Dirty Grandpa — Stinky
• 2016Gridlocked — Sully
• 2016Monster Trucks — Mr. Weathers
• 2016Mr. Pig — Ambrose
• 2016Pushing Dead — Bob
• 2016Shadow World — Executive Producer
• 2016The House on Coco Road — Producer
• 2016Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights — Narrator (voice)
• 2016White Sun — Executive Producer
• 2015About Scout — Red
• 2015Andron — Chancellor Gordon
• 2015Bad Asses on the Bayou — Bernie Pope
• 2015Caffeinated — Coffee Lover
• 2015Cemetery of Splendor — Co-Producer
• 2015Checkmate — Elohim
• 2015Consumed — Hal Westbrook
• 2015Mississippi Inferno — Narrator (voice)
• 2015This Changes Everything — Executive Producer
• 2015Toxin — Dr. Locke
• 2015Waffle Street — Edward Collins
• 20142047: Sights of Death — Sponge
• 2014Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses — Bernie Pope
• 2014Beyond the Lights — Captain Nicol
• 2014Chasing Shakespeare — William Ward
• 2014Concerning Violence — Co-Producer
• 2014Day of the Mummy — Carl
• 2014Life Is Sacred — Executive Producer
• Mozart in the Jungle — Mayor
• 2014Rage — Detective St. John
• 2014Supremacy — Mr. Walker
• 2014The Ninja Immovable Heart — Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
• 2014Yellowbird — Darius (voice)
• black-ish — Uncle Norman
• 2013Extraction — Harding
• 2013Highland Park — Ed
• Ironside — Frank Ironside
• 2013LUV — Arthur
• 2013Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight — Justice Thurgood Marshall
• 2013Shuffleton's Barbershop — Charlie Shuffleton
• 2013Space Warriors — Commander Phillips
• 2013The Bouquet — Reverend John
• 2013The Shift — Floyd
• 2013Tula: The Revolt — Shinishi
• 2012Hannah's Law — Isom Dart
• 2012Highway — Producer
• 2012Shenandoah — Executive Producer
• 2012Sins — Father Leonard
• 2012The Children's Republic — Dubem
• 2012The House I Live In — Executive Producer
• 2012The Lighthouse — Duncan
• 2012The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America — Count Basie (voice)
• Touch — Professor Arthur Teller
• 2011Age of the Dragons — Ahab
• 2011Donovan's Echo — Donovan Matheson
• 2011Dum Maaro Dum — Executive Producer
• 2011Mooz-lum — Dean Francis
• 2011Mysteria — Investigator
• 2011Son of Morning — Gabriel Peters
• 2011The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 — Producer
• 20102012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic — Self, Presenter
• 2010Alpha and Omega — Winston (voice)
• 2010Dear Alice — Franzis
• 2010Death at a Funeral — Uncle Russell
• 2010Down for Life — Mr. Shannon
• 2010Five Minarets in New York — Marcus
• Human Target — Client
• 2010I Want to Be a Soldier — School Director
• 2010I'm Still Here — Danny Glover
• 2010Legendary — Harry 'Red' Newman
• 2010Sam Cooke: Crossing Over — Narrator (voice)
• 2010The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective — Self, Presenter
• 2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Associate Producer
• 20092012 — President Thomas Wilson
• 2009Night Train — Miles
• Nite Tales: The Series — Jeremiah
• 2009The Harimaya Bridge — Joseph Holder
• 2009The Time That Remains — Associate Producer
• 2008Agent Crush — Major Rusty Gubbins
• 2008Be Kind Rewind — Mr. Fletcher
• 2008Blindness — Man with Black Eye Patch
• 2008Fats Waller Was Born Here — "Fats" Waller's Father/Mr. Fletcher
• 2008Gospel Hill — John Malcolm
• Leverage — Charlie Lawson
• 2008Salt of This Sea — Co-Producer
• 2008Saw V — David Trapp (archive footage)
• 2008Trouble the Water — Executive Producer
• 2008Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare — Walter Tortoise (voice)
• 2007Bamako — Cow-boy, Executive Producer
• 2007Battle for Terra — President Chen (voice)
• 2007Honeydripper — Tyrone Purvis
• 2007Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation — Father Elias
• 2007Poor Boy's Game — George
• 2007Shooter — Colonel Isaac Johnson
• 2006Barnyard — Miles (voice)
• Brothers and Sisters — Isaac Marshall
• 2006Dreamgirls — Marty Madison
• Psych — Mel Hornsby
• 2006Read You Like a Book
• 2006The Adventures of Brer Rabbit — Brer Turtle (voice)
• 2006The Exonerated — David Keaton
• 2006The Shaggy Dog — Ken Hollister
• American Dad! — Minstrel Krampus (voice)
• Criminal Minds — Hank Morgan
• 2005Full Disclosure Report — David Tapp
• 2005Manderlay — Wilhelm
• 2005Missing in America — Jake Neely
• My Name Is Earl — Thomas
• 2005P.N.O.K. — Col. Weldon
• 2004Earthed
• Legend of Earthsea — Ogion
• 2004Saw — David Tapp
• 2004The Cookout — Judge Crowley
• 2003Good Fences — Tom Spader, Producer
• 2002Just a Dream — Director
• 2002The Real Eve — Narrator (voice)
• 20013 A.M. — Hershey, Executive Producer
• 2001The Royal Tenenbaums — Henry Sherman
• 2000Boesman and Lena — Boesman
• 2000Bàttu
• 2000Freedom Song — Will Walker, Executive Producer
• 1999Our Friend, Martin — Train Conductor (voice)
• 1999Scared Straight! 20 Years Later — Host
• 1999The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong — Narrator (voice)
• 1998Antz — Barbatus (voice)
• 1998Beloved — Paul D
• 1998Lethal Weapon 4 — Roger Murtaugh
• 1998The Prince of Egypt — Jethro (voice)
• 1997Buffalo Soldiers — Sgt. Washington Wyatt, Executive Producer
• 1997Gone Fishin' — Gus Green
• 1997Switchback — Bob Goodall
• 1997The Rainmaker — Richter Tyrone Kipler
• 1997Wild America — Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
• 1996America's Dream — Silas (segment "Long Black Song"), Executive Producer
• Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child — The King (voice)
• 1995Operation Dumbo Drop — Capt. Sam Cahill
• 1995Red Wind — Philip Marlowe
• Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain — Isaac Jefferson (voice)
• 1994Angels in the Outfield — George Knox
• ER — Charlie Pratt Sr.
• 1994Maverick — Bank Robber (uncredited)
• 1994Override — Director
• Alex Haley's Queen — Alec Haley
• 1993Bopha! — Micah Mangena
• Fallen Angels — Marlowe
• 1993The Saint of Fort Washington — Jerry
• 1993The Talking Eggs — Narrator (voice)
• 1992Lethal Weapon 3 — Roger Murtaugh
• 1992Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion — Narrator (voice)
• 1991A Rage in Harlem — Easy Money
• 1991Flight of the Intruder — Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
• 1991Grand Canyon — Simon
• 1991Pure Luck — Raymond Campanella
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers — Dr. Apollo (voice)
• 1990Predator 2 — Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
• 1990Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby — Narrator (voice)
• 1990Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt — Narrator (voice)
• 1990To Sleep with Anger — Harry, Executive Producer
• 1989A Raisin in the Sun — Walter Lee Younger
• 1989Dead Man Out — Dr. Alex Marsh
• 1989Lethal Weapon 2 — Roger Murtaugh
• Lonesome Dove — Joshua Deets
• 1989Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots — Narrator (voice)
• 1988A Place at the Table — Mr. Scott
• 1988Bat★21 — Capt. Bartholomew Clark
• 1987Lethal Weapon — Roger Murtaugh
• 1987Mandela — Nelson Mandela
• 1986John Henry — John Henry
• 1985And the Children Shall Lead — William
• 1985Silverado — Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
• Tall Tales & Legends — John Henry
• 1985The Color Purple — Albert
• 1985The Stand-In — Apples Finnerty
• 1985Witness — McFee
• 1984Iceman — Loomis
• 1984Places in the Heart — Moze
• 1983Keeping On — Lester Traylor
• 1983Memorial Day — Willie Monroe
• 1983The Face of Rage — Gary
• American Playhouse — Lester Traylor, Walter Lee Younger
• 1982Out — Jojo / Roland
• 1981Chu Chu and the Philly Flash — Morgan
• Gimme a Break!
• Hill Street Blues
• 1981Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer — Oscar Micheaux
• Palmerstown, U.S.A.
• 1979Escape from Alcatraz — Inmate
• Saturday Night Live — Roger Murtaugh (uncredited)
• Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story — Narrator (voice)
• Killing Winston Jones — Washington Carver
• Lethal Weapon 5 — Roger Murtaugh
• Untitled Dinah Washington Biopic — Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (50)

• 2022African Redemption: The Life and Legacy of Marcus Garvey — Self
• 2022De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem? — Self
• 2021A Night at the Academy Museum — Self
• 2020After Fact — Self
• 2019The Robeson Effect — Self
• 2018Howard — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones — Self
• 2018Survivor's Guide to Prison — Self
• 2017Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories — Self
• 2017Agents of Change — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Cold Case Files — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2014Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee — Self
• 2014We Are Many — Self
• 2014We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama — Self
• 2013Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth — Self
• 2012Casting By — Self
• 2012Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon' — Self
• 2012Shadows of Liberty — Self
• 2011Rise Like Lions — Self (Occupy Oakland)
• 2009PoliWood — Self
• 2009The People Speak — Self
• 2007Francis Ford Coppola Directs 'John Grisham's the Rainmaker' — Self
• 2005The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2' — Self (archive footage)
• 2005The Peace! — Self
• The Reichen Show — Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• 2003The John Garfield Story — Self
• Democracy Now! — Self (archive footage)
• 2000Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration — Self
• 2000Ennis' Gift — Self
• 1999The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen — Self (archive footage)
• 1998Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Hollywood Squares — Self - Panelist
• 1998Soldier Child — Self - Narrator
• The View — Self
• 1995Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities — Self
• 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• Civil War Journal — Self - Host
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• 1991A Party For Richard Pryor — Self
• 1989Hollywood on Horses — Self
• 1989Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary — Self
• 1987The Ultimate Stuntman: A Tribute to Dar Robinson — Self
• Great Railway Journeys — Self - Presenter
• The American Film Institute Salute to ... — Self
• 1969San Francisco State: On Strike — self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter
• Today — Self