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Danny Glover

Daniel Lebern Glover is an American actor, film director, and political activist. He is known for his lead role as Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film series.

Aliases
  • Daniel Lebern Glover
English
Filmography

Saw

2004
as Detective David Tapp

2012

2009
as President Thomas Wilson

The Prince of Egypt

1998
as Jethro

Jumanji: The Next Level

2019
as Milo

The Dead Don't Die

2019
as Hank Thompson

Dirty Grandpa

2016
as Stinky

Shooter

2007
as Colonel Isaac Johnson

Lethal Weapon

1987
as Sergeant Roger Murtaugh

Lethal Weapon 2

1989
as Sergeant Roger Murtaugh

Predator 2

1990
as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan

Barnyard

2006
as Miles the Mule (voice)

The Color Purple

1985
as Albert

Lethal Weapon 3

1992
as Roger Murtaugh

Lethal Weapon 4

1998
as Roger Murtaugh

Death at a Funeral

2010
as Uncle Russell

Antz

1998
as Barbatus (voice)

Alpha and Omega

2010
as Winston (voice)

Dreamgirls

2006
as Marty Madison

Sorry to Bother You

2018
as Langston

Monster Trucks

2016
as Mr. Weathers

The Royal Tenenbaums

2001
as Henry Sherman

Escape from Alcatraz

1979
as Inmate

Honeydripper

2007
as Tyrone Purvis

Rage

2014
as Detective St. John

Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson

1997
as Self - Narrator

Deadly Drifter

1982
as Jojo / Roland

Mr. Pig

2016
as Ambrose

From Above

2014
as William Ward

Lonesome Dove

1989
as Joshua Deets

Tula: the Revolt

2013
as Shinishi

Witness

1985
as McFee

The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America

2012
as Count Basie

LUV

2013
as Arthur

Lethal Weapon 5

as Roger Murtaugh

Legendary

2010
as Harry 'Red' Newman

I'm Still Here

2010
as Himself

The Naughty Nine

2023

Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation

2007
as Priest - friend of Sam Nujoma

The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'

2005
as Danny Glover

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995

Silverado

1985
as Malachi 'Mal' Johnson

Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action

2008
as Danny Glover

3 A.M.

2001
as Hershey

The Cookout

2004
as Judge Crowley

Space Warriors

2013
as Commander Phillips

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

2013
as Justice Thurgood Marshall

Down for Life

2010

Mysteria

2011
as Investigator

Mooz-lum

2011
as Dean Francis

Be Kind Rewind

2008
as Mr. Fletcher

Canceled Lives: Letters from the inside

as Danny Glover

Press Play

2022
as Cooper

To Sleep with Anger

1990
as Harry

The Ninja Immovable Heart

2014
as Ex Director Matthew Reynolds

A Rage in Harlem

1991
as Easy Money

Arista 25th Anniversary - 25 Years Of #1 Hits

2000

Always in Season

2019
as Narrator (voice)

Bàttu

2000

Time to Pay

2012
as Father Leonard

Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory

1998
as Danny Glover

Dead Man Out

1989
as Dr. Alex Marsh

Checkmate

2015
as Elohim

About Scout

2015
as Red

Bat*21

1988
as Capt. Bartholomew Clark

The Exonerated

2006
as David

Bopha!

1993
as Micah Mangena

Places in the Heart

1984
as Moze

Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer

1981
as Oscar Micheaux

Poor Boy's Game

2007
as George

Africa Unite: A Celebration of Bob Marley's 60th Birthday

2008
as Self - UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

Shuffleton's Barbershop

2013
as Charlie Shuffleton

Hannah's Law

2012
as Isom Dart

Bamako

2006
as Cow-boy

I Want to Be a Soldier

2010
as School Director

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

2019
as Grandpa Allen

Highland Park

2013
as Ed

Come Sunday

2018
as Gilbert Pearson

Supremacy

2014
as Mr. Walker

Pushing Dead

2017
as Bob

Good Fences

2003
as Tom Spader

För kärleken

2010
as Franzis Namazi

Wild America

1997
as Bigfoot the Mountain Man

Diablo

2016
as Benjamin Carver

We Are Many

2014
as Himself

Our Friend, Martin

1999
as Train Conductor (voice)

The Peace!

2005
as Danny Glover

The Christmas Train

2017
as Max Powers

Five Minarets in New York

2010
as Marcus

Battle for Terra

2007
as President Chen (voice)

The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

2006

Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities

1995
as Himself

Bad Asses on the Bayou

2015
as Bernie Pope

Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution

2018
as Narrator

The Henry Lee Project

Angels in the Outfield

1994
as George Knox

Pandemic: Facing AIDS

2003
as Narrator

Caffeinated

2015
as Coffee Lover

Consumed

2015
as Hal Westbrook

Waffle Street

2015
as Edward Collins

Christmas Break-In

2018
as Ray

Missing in America

2005
as Jake Neely

Manderlay

2005
as Wilhelm

The Rainmaker

1997
as Richter Tyrone Kipler

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy

2018
as Baltimore Bob

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later

1999
as host

Toxin

2015
as Dr. Locke

Rise Like Lions

2011
as Self (Occupy Oakland)

Extraction

2013
as Harding

Soldier Child

1998
as Narrator

Alex Haley's Queen

1993
as Alec Haley

Aristide and the Endless Revolution

2005
as Danny Glover

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama

2014

Boesman and Lena

2000
as Boesman

Keeping On

1983
as Lester

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash

1981
as Morgan

Age of the Dragons

2011
as Ahab

Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones

2018
as Danny Glover

The Lighthouse

2012
as Duncan

Buckout Road

2017
as Dr. Powell

American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

2013
as Danny Glover

The Real Eve

2002
as Narrator

Operation Dumbo Drop

1995
as Capt. Sam Cahill

Beyond the Lights

2014
as Captain Nicol

Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey

2018
as Mr. Ocean

Gone Fishin'

1997
as Gus Green

Magic Johnson: Always Showtime

1993
as Narrator

The John Garfield Story

2003
as Danny Glover

Tour de Pharmacy

2017
as Slim Robinson Present Day

The Shaggy Dog

2006
as Ken Hollister

A Century of Black Cinema

2003
as Danny Glover

Beloved

1998
as Paul D Garner

Gospel Hill

2008
as John Malcolm

2047: Sights of Death

2014
as Sponge

The Harimaya Bridge

2009
as Joseph Holder

Blindness

2008
as Man with black eye patch

Almost Christmas

2016
as Walter

Yellowbird

2014
as Darius

Day of the Mummy

2014
as Carl

Dreadtown

as Narrator

Killing Winston Jones

as Washington Carver

The Children's Republic

2012
as Dubem

The Old Man & the Gun

2018
as Teddy

Legend of Earthsea

2004
as Ogion

Proud Mary

2018
as Benny

The People Speak

2009
as Himself

The Shift

2015
as Floyd

America's Dream

1996
as Silas (segment "Long Black Song")

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

2014
as Danny Glover

Buffalo Soldiers

1997
as Sgt. Washington Wyatt

Andron

2015
as Chancellor Gordon

Survivor's Guide to Prison

2018
as Himself

Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl

2017
as Danny Glover

The Bouquet

2013
as Reverend John

The Saint of Fort Washington

1993
as Jerry

Cold Case Files (1999)

1999
as Narrator

The Good Catholic

2017
as Victor

Darkweb

2016
as The Boss

Best of ITV Wrestling

2005
as Danny Glover

Flight of the Intruder

1991
as Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli

Freedom Song

2000
as Will Walker

Iceman

1984
as Loomis

Son of Morning

2011
as Gabriel Peters

Switchback

1997
as Bob Goodall

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

2013
as Danny Glover

Gridlocked

2016
as Sully

And the Children Shall Lead

1985
as William

Donovan's Echo

2011
as Donovan Matheson

Night Train

2009
as Miles

P.N.O.K.

2005
as Col. Weldon

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

1998
as (scenes deleted)

Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare

2008
as Walter Tortoise (voice)

Complete Unknown

2016
as Roger

Grand Canyon

1991
as Simon

Extortion

2017
as Constable Haagen

Back in the Day

2016
as Eddie 'Rocks' Travor

Mandela

1987
as Nelson Mandela

Pure Luck

1991
as Raymond Campanella

Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses

2014
as Bernie Pope

Director

Movie Just a dream 2002
Movie Override 1994

Producer

Movie Dum Maaro Dum 2011
Movie Cemetery of Splendour 2015
Movie Zama 2017
Movie White Sun 2016
Movie The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 2011
Movie 3 A.M. 2001
Movie The House I Live In 2012
Movie Bamako 2006
Movie Africa Unite: A Celebration of Bob Marley's 60th Birthday 2008
Movie Hale County This Morning, This Evening 2018
Movie The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan 2010
Movie Easter Snap 2019
Movie Angels Are Made of Light 2018
Movie Strong Island 2017
Movie Lynch: A History 2019
Movie Buffalo Soldiers 1997
Movie America's Dream 1996
Movie Sepelenmis Ölümler Arasinda 2020

Guest Star

Episode B.J. and the Bear
A Coffin with a View 		1979
Episode Lou Grant
Slammer 		1979
Episode Real Time with Bill Maher
February 24, 2006 		2006
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
In Los Angeles: Cast of Lethal Weapon 4 		1998
Episode Robin Williams: Comic Genius
1st Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor: Honoring Richard Pryor 		1999
Episode Hallmark Summer Nights
A Way Back Home 		2013
Episode Touch (2012)
Tales of the Red Thread 		2012
Episode Touch (2012)
Safety in Numbers 		2012
Episode Paris
Dear John 		1979
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jay Leno (guest host), Tyne Daly, Danny Glover, Thom Sharp 		1989
Episode American Dad!
Minstrel Krampus 		2013
Episode My Name Is Earl
My Name is Alias 		2009
Episode Brothers & Sisters
Compromises 		2008
Episode Gimme a Break!
A Man in Nell's Room 		1981
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Danny Glover, Mandy Moore, Jane Krakowski, Ann Dewhurse 		2000
Episode American Playhouse
A Raisin in the Sun 		1989
Episode Fallen Angels
Red Wind 		1995
Episode Great Railway Journeys
St Louis to Dogon Country 		1999
Episode black-ish
Our Wedding Dre 		2020
Episode Tall Tales and Legends
John Henry 		1986
Episode Psych
Dead Man's Curveball 		2011
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jay Leno (guest host), Danny Glover, Dinah Manoff, Eddie Money 		1992
Episode Human Target (2010)
Pilot 		2010
Episode Programa do Jô
Bebel Gilberto; Danny Glover 		2013