Danny Glover

American actor (born 1946)

Born

22 July 1946, San Francisco

Citizenship

United States

Occupation

actor, film producer, voice actor, character actor, television actor

Films here

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Daniel Leburn Glover ( GLUV-ər; born July 22, 1946) is an American actor and producer. He has received numerous accolades including the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the NAACP's President's Award, as well as nominations for five Emmy Awards and four Grammy Awards.

Glover made his film acting debut in Escape from Alcatraz in 1979. He rose to fame in the late 1980s for playing Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film series. Glover's other notable films include Places in the Heart (1984), The Color Purple (1985), Witness (1985) Silverado (1985), To Sleep with Anger (1990), Predator 2 (1990), Grand Canyon (1991), Bopha! (1993), Angels in the Outfield (1994), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Saw (2004), Dreamgirls (2006), Shooter (2007), Be Kind Rewind (2008), 2012 (2009), Death at a Funeral (2010), Beyond the Lights (2014), Sorry to Bother You (2018), and The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019).

Filmography (martial arts films)

Frequent collaborators

• Joe Pesci
• Jet Li
• Simon Rhee
• Frank McRae
• George Cheung
• Eddy Ko
• Michael Chow
• François Chau

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q192165 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.