A distinguished actor of the stage and screen, Danny Glover is known for his work in both Hollywood blockbusters and serious dramatic films. Towering and quietly forceful, Glover lends gravity and complexity to the diverse characters he has portrayed throughout his lengthy career.
A native of San Francisco, where he was born July 22, 1947, Glover attended San Francisco State and received his dramatic training at the American Conservatory Theatre's Black Actors' Workshop. He made his film debut in Escape from Alcatraz (1979). In the early '80s, Glover made his name portraying characters ranging from the sympathetic in Places in the Heart (1984) to the menacing in Witness (1985) and The Color Purple (1984). He reached box-office-gold status with the three Lethal Weapon flicks produced between 1987 and 1992, playing the conservative, family-man partner of "loose cannon" L.A. cop Mel Gibson. Glover carried over his fiddle-and-bow relationship with Gibson into his off-screen life, and also contributed an amusing cameo (complete with his Lethal Weapon catch-phrase "I'm gettin' too old for this!") in Maverick (1994). In 1998, Glover again reprised his role for the blockbuster-proportioned Lethal Weapon 4, and that same year gave a stirring performance in the little-seen Beloved.
In the following years Glover would walk the line between Hollywood heavyweight and serious-minded independent actor with a skill most actors could only dream of, with an affectinate role in Wes Anderson's 2001 comedy drama The Royal Tenenbaums and a surprising turn toward horror in Saw servnig well to balance out lesser-seen but equally powerful turns in Boseman and Lena, 3 A.M., and Lars von Trier's Manderlay. The same year that Glover retreated into the woods as a haunted Vietnam veteran in the low-key drama Missing in America, he would turn in a series of guest appearances on the long-running television medical drama E.R. Despite a filmography that seemed populated with an abundance of decidedly serious dramas in the years following the millennial turnover, Glover did cut loose in 2006 when he took a role as Tim Allen's boss in The Shaggy Dog and stepped into the studio to offer vocal performances in the animated kid flicks The Adventures of Brer Rabbit and Barnyard.
On television, Glover played the title role in Mandela (1987), cowpoke Joshua Deets in the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove, legendary railroad man John Henry in a 1988 installment of Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales, and the mercurial leading character in the 1989 "American Playhouse" revival of A Raisin in the Sun. For his role in Freedom Song as a caring father struggling to raise his young son in 1960s-era Mississippi, Glover was nominated for an Emmy award and took home an Image award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series, or Dramatic Special.
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Age of the Dragons
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2011 | |||
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Donovan's Echo
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2011 | |||
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LUV
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2011 | |||
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Mysteria
Actor |
2011 | |||
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The House I Live In
Executive Producer |
2011 | |||
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Alpha and Omega
Voice |
2010 | |||
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Death at a Funeral
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2010 | |||
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Legendary
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2010 | |||
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Mooz-lum
Actor |
2010 | |||
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Son of Morning
Actor |
2010 | |||
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Co-producer |
2010 | |||
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Associate Producer |
2010 | |||
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2012
Actor |
2009 | |||
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Down for Life
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2009 | |||
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Poliwood
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2009 | |||
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Soundtrack for a Revolution
Executive Producer |
2009 | |||
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The Harimaya Bridge
Actor, Executive Producer |
2009 | |||
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The Time That Remains
Associate Producer |
2009 | |||
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Be Kind Rewind
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2008 | |||
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Blindness
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2008 | |||
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Gospel Hill
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2008 | |||
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Night Train
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2008 | |||
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Read You Like a Book
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2008 | |||
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Salt of This Sea
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2008 | |||
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The Garden
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2008 | |||
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Trouble the Water
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2008 | |||
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Africa Unite
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2007 | |||
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Battle for Terra
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2007 | |||
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Honeydripper
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2007 | |||
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Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
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2007 | |||
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Poor Boy's Game
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2007 | |||
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Shooter
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2007 | |||
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Bamako
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2006 | |||
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Barnyard
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2006 | |||
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Dreamgirls
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2006 | |||
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The Shaggy Dog
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2006 | |||
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Aristide and the Endless Revolution
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2005 | |||
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Manderlay
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2005 | |||
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Missing in America
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2005 | |||
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The Exonerated
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2005 | |||
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Earthsea
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2004 | |||
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Saw
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2004 | |||
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The Cookout
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2004 | |||
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The Peace! DVD
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2004 | |||
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Good Fences
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The John Garfield Story
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2003 | |||
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The Real Eve
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2002 | |||
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3 A.M.
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Ennis' Gift
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2001 | |||
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Just a Dream
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2001 | |||
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The Royal Tenenbaums
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2001 | |||
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Boesman & Lena
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2000 | |||
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Freedom Song
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2000 | |||
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Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
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1999 | |||
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Antz
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1998 | |||
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Beloved
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1998 | |||
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Lethal Weapon 4
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1998 | |||
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The Prince of Egypt
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1998 | |||
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Buffalo Soldiers
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1997 | |||
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Gone Fishin'
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1997 | |||
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Street Soldiers
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1997 | |||
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Switchback
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1997 | |||
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The Rainmaker
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1997 | |||
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Wild America
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1997 | |||
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America's Dream
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1996 | |||
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Deadly Voyage
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1996 | |||
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Operation Dumbo Drop
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1995 | |||
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Angels in the Outfield
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1994 | |||
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Maverick
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1994 | |||
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Bopha!
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1993 | |||
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Lethal Weapon 3
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1992 | |||
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Queen
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1992 | |||
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A Rage in Harlem
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1991 | |||
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Grand Canyon
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1991 | |||
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Pure Luck
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1991 | |||
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Flight of the Intruder
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1990 | |||
| 1990 | ||||
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Predator 2
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1990 | |||
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To Sleep with Anger
Actor, Producer |
1990 | |||
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A Raisin in the Sun
Actor |
1989 | |||
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Dead Man Out
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1989 | |||
| 1989 | ||||
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Lethal Weapon 2
Actor |
1989 | |||
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Lonesome Dove
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1989 | |||
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Bat 21
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1988 | |||
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Lethal Weapon
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1987 | |||
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Mandela
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1987 | |||
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Silverado
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1985 | |||
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The Color Purple
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1985 | |||
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The Stand-In
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1985 | |||
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Witness
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1985 | |||
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Iceman
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1984 | |||
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Places in the Heart
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1984 | |||
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Chiefs
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1983 | |||
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Memorial Day
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1983 | |||
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The Face of Rage
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1983 | |||
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Deadly Drifter
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1982 | |||
| 1981 | ||||
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Keeping on
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1981 | |||
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Escape from Alcatraz
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1979 | |||
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Pumpkin Circle
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