Danny Lebern Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, producer and political activist. Over his career 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 (1979). He is widely known for his lead role as 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), Predator 2 (1990), To Sleep with Anger (1990), Grand Canyon (1991), Bopha! (1993), Angels in the Outfield (1994), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Dreamgirls (2006), Shooter (2007), 2012 (2009), Death at a Funeral (2010), Beyond the Lights (2014), Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018), Sorry to Bother You (2018) and The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019).
He is known for his work on television receiving for Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles as Nelson Mandela in the HBO television film Mandela (1987), Joshua Deets in the CBS western miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989), Philip Marlowe in the Showtime neo-noir series Fallen Angels (1995), and Will Walker in TNT biographical film Freedom Song (2000). He had recurring roles in Hill Street Blues, ER, and Brothers & Sisters.
Glover is also an active supporter of various political causes. He is a member the TransAfrica Forum, and the Center for Economic and Policy Research. For his political work he was awarded the Cuban National Medal of Friendship by the Cuban Council of State.
Early life and education[]
Danny Lebern Glover was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Carrie (Hunley) and James Glover.[2] Both of his parents were postal workers,[3] and were active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), working to advance equal rights.[4] Glover's mother, daughter of a midwife, was born in Louisville, Georgia, and graduated from Paine College in Augusta, Georgia.[5] His father was a World War II veteran. He graduated from George Washington High School in San Francisco.[6]
As an adolescent and a young adult, Glover had epilepsy, but has not had a seizure since age 35.[7] He attended San Francisco State University (SFSU) in the late 1960s but did not graduate. SFSU later awarded him the Presidential Medal of San Francisco State University for his service to education.[8] Glover trained at the Black Actors' Workshop of the American Conservatory Theater.[9]
Career[]
1979–1984: Early roles[]
Glover originally worked in city administration working on community development before transitioning to theater. He has said:
- "I didn't think it was a difficult transition. Acting is a platform that can become a conveyer for ideas. Art is a way of understanding, of confronting issues and confronting your own feelings — all within that realm of the capacity it represents. It may have been a leap of faith for me, given not only my learning disability (dyslexia) but also the fact that I felt awkward. I felt all the things that someone that's 6'3" or 6'4" feels and with my own diminished expectations of who I could be [and] would feel. Whether it's art, acting or theater that I've devoted myself to I put more passion and more energy into it."
- ―Danny Glover[10]
His first theater involvement was with the American Conservatory Theater, a regional training program in San Francisco.[11] Glover also trained with Jean Shelton at the Shelton Actors Lab in San Francisco. In an interview on Inside the Actors Studio, Glover credited Jean Shelton for much of his development as an actor. Deciding that he wanted to be an actor, Glover resigned from his city administration job and soon began his career as a stage actor. Glover then moved to Los Angeles for more opportunities in acting. Glover made his film acting debut in Escape from Alcatraz (1979). He would later go on to co-found the Robey Theatre Company with actor Ben Guillory in honor of the actor and concert singer Paul Robeson in Los Angeles in 1994.
Glover has had a variety of film, stage and television roles, and is best known for playing Los Angeles police Sergeant Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon series of action films, starring alongside Mel Gibson and Joe Pesci. Later he once again starred with Gary Busey in the blockbuster Predator 2.
1985–2000: Breakthrough and acclaim[]
He gained acclaim starring as the husband to Whoopi Goldberg's character Celie in the celebrated literary adaptation The Color Purple. The same year. he played Lieutenant James McFee in the film Witness. 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. During his career, he has made several cameos, appearing, for example, in the Michael Jackson video "Liberian Girl" of 1987. Glover earned top billing for the first time in Predator 2, the sequel to the science fiction action film Predator. That same year he starred in Charles Burnett's To Sleep with Anger, for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.
In common with Humphrey Bogart, Elliott Gould and Robert Mitchum, who have played Raymond Chandler's private eye detective Philip Marlowe, Glover played the role in the episode "Red Wind" of the Showtime network's 1995 series Fallen Angels. In 1997, under his former production company banner Carrie Films, Glover executive produced numerous films of first time directors including Pamm Malveaux's neo-noir short film Final Act starring Joe Morton, which aired on the Independent Film Channel. In addition, Glover has been a voice actor in many children's movies.
2001–present: Established actor[]
Glover was featured in Wes Anderson directed 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums, also starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.
In 2004, he appeared in the low-budget horror film Saw as Detective David Tapp. In 2005, Glover and Joslyn Barnes announced plans to make No FEAR, a film about Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo's experience. Coleman-Adebayo won a 2000 jury trial against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The jury found the EPA guilty of violating the civil rights of Coleman-Adebayo on the basis of race, sex, color and a hostile work environment, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Coleman-Adebayo was terminated shortly after she revealed the environmental and human disaster taking place in the Brits, South Africa vanadium mines. Her experience inspired the passage of the Notification and Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No-FEAR Act). As of 2013, the No Fear title has not appeared but The Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Story was announced as the next major project of No Fear Media Productions.[12]
Glover portrayed David Keaton in the film The Exonerated — a real-life story of Keaton's experience of being arrested, jailed, and then freed from death row. In 2009, Glover performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.[13]
Glover played President Wilson, the President of the United States in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released in theaters November 13, 2009. In 2010, Glover participated in a Spanish film called I Want to Be a Soldier. In 2012, he starred in the film Donovan's Echo.
Glover co-starred in the science fiction comedy film Sorry to Bother You,[14] which was released in theaters on July 6, 2018.[15]
Unrealized projects[]
Glover sought to make a film biography of Toussaint Louverture for his directorial debut. In May 2006, the film had included cast members Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Roger Guenveur Smith, Mos Def, Isaach de Bankolé and Richard Bohringer. Production, estimated to cost $30 million, was planned to begin in Poland, filming from late 2006 into early 2007.[16] In May 2007, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez contributed $18 million to fund the production of Toussaint for Glover, who was a prominent U.S. supporter of Chávez. The contribution annoyed some Venezuelan filmmakers, who said the money could have funded other homegrown films and that Glover's film was not even about Venezuela.[17][18]
In April 2008, the Venezuelan National Assembly authorized an additional $9,840,505 for Glover's film, which is still in planning.[19] In 2015, Glover gave an update on the Toussaint project, stating, "The film that we always missed is a movie on the Haitian revolution and Toussaint Louverture. The company is fortuitously named after him and that was the movie that I wanted to do. We've developed a script. We thought we were going to get it done four years ago. We thought we were going to be making it right now. But also there are other kinds of things that intrigue me."[20]
Public appearances[]
Glover appeared at London Film and Comic Con 2013 at Earls Court 2 over 2.5 days during Friday 5th to Sunday, July 7. He participated in a panel discussion in McComb, Mississippi on July 16, 2015.[21] The event, co-sponsored by The Gloster Project and Jubilee Performing Arts Center, included noted authors Terry McMillan and Quincy Troupe.
On January 30, 2015, Glover was the Keynote Speaker and 2015 Honoree for the MLK Celebration Series at the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI). Glover used his career and personal story to speak on the topic "Creativity and Democracy: Social Change through the Arts". At the University of the Virgin Islands, Glover gave a speech that encouraged the graduates in their upcoming journey.[22]
It was announced in July 2018 that Glover was the featured guest at the Port Townsend Film Festival in Washington State.
Personal life[]
Glover married Asake Bomani in 1975 and they have a daughter, Mandisa, born in 1976. Glover and Bomani divorced in 2000. Glover married Eliane Cavalleiro in 2009.[23] They divorced in 2022.[24]
Glover purchased a 6,000-square-foot (560 m²) house in Dunthorpe, Oregon, in 1999.[25] As of 2011, he no longer lives in Oregon.[26]
Activism[]
Civil rights activism[]
While attending San Francisco State University (SFSU), Glover was a member of the Black Students' Union,[27] which, along with the Third World Liberation Front and the American Federation of Teachers, collaborated in a five-month student-led strike to establish a Department of Black Studies. The strike was the longest student walkout in U.S. history.[28] It helped create not only the first Department of Black Studies but also the first School of Ethnic Studies in the United States.
Hari Dillon, current president of the Vanguard Public Foundation, was a fellow striker at SFSU. Glover later co-chaired Vanguard's board. He is also a board member of the Algebra Project, the Black AIDS Institute, Walden House and Cheryl Byron's Something Positive Dance Group. He was charged with disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly after being arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington during a protest over Sudan's humanitarian crisis in Darfur.[29]
In 1999, he used his leverage as a former San Francisco cab driver to raise awareness about African Americans being passed over for white passengers. In response, Rudolph Giuliani launched Operation Refusal, which suspended the licenses of cab drivers who favored white passengers over black ones.
Glover's long history of union activism includes support for the United Farm Workers, UNITE HERE, and numerous service unions.[30] In March 2010, Glover supported 375 union workers in Ohio by calling upon all actors at the 2010 Academy Awards to boycott Hugo Boss suits following announcement of Hugo Boss's decision to close a manufacturing plant in Ohio after a proposed pay decrease from $13 to $8.30 an hour was rejected by the Workers United Union.
On November 1, 2011, Glover spoke to the crowd at Occupy Oakland on the day before the Oakland General Strike where thousands of protestors shut down the Port of Oakland.[31]
Political activism[]
Glover was an early supporter of former North Carolina Senator John Edwards in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries until Edwards's withdrawal,[32] although some news reports indicated that he had endorsed Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich,[33] whom he had endorsed in 2004.[34] After Edwards dropped out, Glover then endorsed Barack Obama.[35] In February 2016, Glover endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.[36] In February 2019, Glover again endorsed Sanders for U.S. president in 2020.[37]
In 2017, he co-authored a petition along with Noam Chomsky, Mark Ruffalo, Nancy Fraser, Oliver Stone and Eve Ensler, urging French citizens to vote for candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2017 presidential election.[38]
Glover was an outspoken critic of George W. Bush, calling him a known racist. "Yes, he's racist. We all knew that. As Texas's governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together. And most of the people who died were Afro-Americans or Hispanics."[39]
Glover's support of California Proposition 7 (2008) led him to use his voice in an automated phone call to generate support for the measure before the election.[40]
On April 16, 2010, Glover was arrested in Maryland during a protest by SEIU workers for Sodexo's alleged unfair and illegal treatment of workers.[41] He was given a citation and later released. The Associated Press reports "Glover and others stepped past yellow police tape and were asked to step back three times at Sodexo headquarters. When they refused, officers arrested them."[42]
On the foreign policy of the Obama administration, Glover said: "I think the Obama administration has followed the same playbook, to a large extent, almost verbatim, as the Bush administration. I don't see anything different... On the domestic side, look here: What's so clear is that this country from the outset is protecting the interests of wealth and property. Look at the bailout of Wall Street. Why not the bailout of Main Street? He may be just a different face, and that face may happen to be black, and if it were Hillary Clinton, it would happen to be a woman.... But what choices do they have within the structure?"[43]
Glover wrote the foreword to Phyllis Bennis's book, Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power.[44] Glover is also a member of the board of directors of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a think tank led by economist Dean Baker.
International[]
Africa[]
Glover is an active board member of the TransAfrica Forum.[45] On April 6, 2009, Glover was given a chieftaincy title in Imo State, Nigeria.[46] His title, "Enyioma of Nkwerre", means A Good Friend in the language of the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria.
Brazil[]
In 2018, Glover, as the UN Goodwill Ambassador, met with Lula to express solidarity and support for his presidential candidacy. During a trip to Brazil, he also met with the family of Marielle Franco, the City Council member and LGBT activist murdered in Rio de Janeiro.[47]
Caribbean and Haiti[]
On January 13, 2010, Glover compared the scale and devastation of the 2010 Haiti earthquake to the predicament other island nations may face as a result of the failed Copenhagen summit the previous year. Glover said: "the threat of what happens to Haiti is a threat that can happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations... they're all in peril because of global warming... because of climate change... when we did what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens".[48] In the same statement, he called for a new form of international partnership with Haiti and other Caribbean nations and praised Venezuela, Brazil and Cuba, for already accepting this partnership.
Iraq War[]
Danny Glover had been an outspoken critic of the Iraq War before it began in March 2003. In February 2003, he was one of the featured speakers at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco where other notable speakers included names such as author Alice Walker, singer Joan Baez, United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland. Glover was a signatory to the April 2003 anti-war letter "To the Conscience of the World" that criticized the unilateral American invasion of Iraq that led to "massive loss of civilian life" and "devastation of one of the cultural patrimonies of humanity".[49] During an anti-war demonstration in Downtown Oakland in March 2003, Glover praised the community leaders for their anti-war efforts saying that "They're on the front lines because they are trying to make a better America.... The world has come together and said "No" to this war — and we must stand with them."
Venezuela[]
In January 2006, Harry Belafonte led a delegation of activists, including Glover, activist/professor Cornel West, and activist/Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos Founder and Executive Director Daniel NANE Alejandrez in a meeting with President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez. In 2006, Glover had begun working on a film about Toussaint Louverture, who led the 18th century revolt in Haiti and, it was reported, that Chavez supported the film, "hoping the historical epic will sprinkle Hollywood stardust on his effort to mobilise world public opinion against imperialism and western oppression."[50][51] In 2007, Glover agreed with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez that the Touissant Louverture film would be financed by Venezuela. On May 19, 2007, the National Assembly of Venezuela approved giving Glover $18 million for the film.[52] The following year, on April 9, 2008, the National Assembly of Venezuela, at the request of the Chávez, approved another $9 million to be handed to Glover in order to "continue" the filming of the film about Touissant. Surprisingly, in an interview dated January 5, 2015, published in Filmmaker magazine, Glover says, "The film that we always missed is a movie on the Haitian revolution and Toussaint Louverture. The company is fortuitously named after him and that was the movie that I wanted to do. We've developed a script. We thought we were going to get it done four years ago. We thought we were going to be making it right now. But also there are other kinds of things that intrigue me". As of 2015, the film had not been made.[53]
Glover was also a board member of TeleSUR, a media network primarily funded by the Venezuelan government.[50] During the beginning of the 2014 Venezuelan protests, Glover extended his support to Chávez's successor, President Nicolás Maduro, calling members of his government "the stewards" of Venezuela's democracy. Glover also told Venezuelan government supporters to go fight for the sovereignty of Maduro's government.[54] Through the crisis in Bolivarian Venezuela, Glover continued to show his support for the Bolivarian government and President Maduro's administration.[55]
Israel[]
On September 2, 2009, Glover signed an open letter of objection to the inclusion of a series of films intended to showcase Tel Aviv—without the participation of Palestinian filmmakers, at the Toronto International Film Festival.[56]
Music[]
Glover has become an active member of board of directors of The Jazz Foundation of America.[57] He became involved with The Jazz Foundation in 2005, and has been a featured host for their annual benefit A Great Night in Harlem for several years, as well appearing as a celebrity MC at other events for the foundation. In 2006, Britain's leading African theatre company Tiata Fahodzi appointed Glover as one of its three Patrons, joining Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jocelyn Jee Esien opening the organization's tenth-anniversary celebrations (February 2, 2008) at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, London.
Filmography[]
Film[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1979 | Escape from Alcatraz | Inmate | Acting debut |
1981 | Chu Chu and the Philly Flash | Morgan | |
Keeping On | Lester | Television film | |
1982 | Deadly Drifter | Jojo / Roland | Alternative title: Out |
1983 | The Face of Rage | Gary | Television film |
Memorial Day | Willie Monroe | ||
Chiefs | Marshall Peters | Television miniseries | |
1984 | Iceman | Loomis | |
Places in the Heart | Moses "Moze" Hadner | ||
1985 | Witness | Lieutenant James McFee | |
Silverado | Malachi "Mal" Johnson | ||
The Color Purple | Albert Mister Johnson | ||
And the Children Shall Lead | William | Television film | |
1987 | Lethal Weapon | Sergeant Roger Murtaugh | |
Place at the Table | Television film | ||
Mandela | Nelson Mandela | Television film; nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie | |
1988 | Bat*21 | Captain Bartholomew Clark | |
1989 | Lethal Weapon 2 | Sergeant Roger Murtaugh | |
A Raisin in the Sun | Walter Lee Younger | Television film | |
Lonesome Dove | Joshua Deets | Television miniseries; nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie (see also Bose Ikard) | |
Dead Man Out | Dr. Alex Marsh | Television film; alternative title: Dead Man Walking | |
1990 | To Sleep with Anger | Harry | Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead |
Predator 2 | Lieutenant Mike Harrigan | ||
1991 | Flight of the Intruder | Commander Frank "Dooke" Camparelli | |
A Rage in Harlem | "Easy Money" | ||
Grand Canyon | Simon | ||
Pure Luck | Raymond Campanella | ||
1992 | Lethal Weapon 3 | Sergeant Roger Murtaugh | |
The Talking Eggs | The Narrator | Television film | |
1993 | The Saint of Fort Washington | Jerry / The Narrator | |
Bopha! | Micah Mangena | ||
Alex Haley's Queen | Alec Haley | Television miniseries; NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special | |
1994 | Maverick | Bank Robber | Uncredited cameo |
Angels in the Outfield | Angels Manager George Knox | ||
Override | Director; TV short | ||
1995 | Operation Dumbo Drop | Captain Sam Cahill | |
1996 | America's Dream | Silas | Television film (Segment: "Long Black Song") |
1997 | Wild America | Bigfoot | Uncredited cameo |
The Rainmaker | Judge Tyrone Kipler | Uncredited prominent role | |
Gone Fishing | Gus Green | ||
Switchback | Bob Goodall | ||
Buffalo Soldiers | Sergeant Washington Wyatt | Television film | |
1998 | Lethal Weapon 4 | Captain Roger Murtaugh | |
Antz | Barbatus | Voice | |
Beloved | Paul D. Garner | ||
The Prince of Egypt | Jethro | Voice | |
1999 | Our Friend, Martin | Train Conductor | |
2000 | Boesman and Lena | Boesman | |
Freedom Song | Will Walker | Television film; nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie; nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie | |
2001 | 3 A.M. | Charles "Hershey" Riley | |
The Royal Tenenbaums | Henry Sherman | ||
2002 | Just a Dream | Director; Nominated — Daytime Emmy Award[58] for Outstanding Directing for a Children / Youth / Family Special | |
The Real Eve | The Narrator | Documentary | |
2003 | Good Fences | Tom Spader | |
The Law and Mr. Lee | Henry Lee | Television film | |
2004 | The Cookout | Judge Crowley | |
Saw | Detective David Tapp | ||
Legend of Earthsea | Ogion | Television miniseries | |
2005 | Manderlay | Wilhelm | |
Missing in America | Jake Neeley | ||
The Exonerated | David | Television film | |
2006 | Bamako | Cow-Boy | |
Barnyard | Miles | Voice | |
The Shaggy Dog | Ken Hollister | ||
Saw III | Detective David Tapp | Uncredited; archive footage | |
Dreamgirls | Marty Madison | ||
Take 3 | Colonel Weldon | Television film | |
2007 | Shooter | Colonel Isaac Johnson | |
Poor Boy's Game | George Carvery | Nominated — Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | |
Battle for Terra | President Chen | Voice | |
Honeydripper | Tyrone Purvis | ||
Miranda Regresa | John Doe | ||
2008 | Be Kind Rewind | Horace Fletcher | |
Gospel Hill | John Malcolm | ||
Tiny Tears | Himself | ||
Blindness | Old Man With The Black Eye Patch / The Narrator | ||
The Garden | Himself | ||
Saw V | Detective David Tapp | Uncredited; archive footage; photographs | |
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare | Walter Tortoise | Voice | |
2009 | Night Train | Miles | |
Down for Life | Mr. Shannon | ||
The People Speak | Himself | Documentary | |
The Harimaya Bridge | Joseph Holder | ||
2012 | President Thomas Wilson | Nominated — NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | |
At the End of Slavery | The Narrator | ||
2010 | Stride | James "Honeybear" Powell | |
Death at a Funeral | Uncle Russell | ||
Dear Alice | Franzis Namazi | Original title: För kärleken | |
Legendary | Harry "Red" Newman | ||
Alpha and Omega | Winston | Voice | |
Son of Morning | Gabriel Peters | ||
Age of the Dragons | Ahab | ||
Mooz-lum | Dean Francis | ||
I Want to Be a Soldier | The Principal | ||
Five Minarets in New York | Marcus | Original title: New York'ta Beş Minare | |
2011 | Heart of Blackness | Vaudreuil | |
Donovan's Echo | Donovan Matheson | ||
2012 | Highland Park | Ed | |
LUV | Arthur | ||
Sins Expiation | Father Leonard | ||
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America | Count Basie | Voice | |
Hannah's Law | Ison Dart | Television film | |
2013 | Space Warriors | Commander Philips | |
The Shift | Dr. Floyd | ||
Chasing Shakespeare | William Ward | ||
Tula: The Revolt | Shinishi[59] | ||
Extraction | Colonel | ||
Alpha and Omega 2: A Howl-iday Adventure | Winston[60] | ||
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | Thurgood Marshall | Television film | |
2014 | Bad @!? 2: Bad @!?*% | Bernie Pope | |
Rage | Detective Peter St. John | ||
Beyond the Lights | Captain David Nicol | ||
Supremacy | Sonny Walker | ||
S.O.S - Sights of Death | Sponge | ||
Yellowbird | Darius | Voice; English version | |
Day of the Mummy | Carl | ||
2047: The Final War | Sponge | Italian film also known as 2047: Sights of Death | |
2015 | Bad @!?*% on the Bayou | Bernie Pope | |
Checkmate | Elohim | ||
Consumed | Hal Westbrook | ||
Gridlocked | "Sully" | ||
Waffle Street | Edward Collins | ||
About Scout | "Red" Freston | ||
Diablo | Benjamin Carver | ||
Andron | Chancellor Gordon | ||
2016 | Dirty Grandpa | "Stinky" | |
Complete Unknown | Roger | ||
Back in the Day | Eddie "Rocks" Travor | ||
Mr. Pig | Ambrose | Nominated — Ariel Award for Best Actor | |
93 Days | Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri[61] | ||
Almost Christmas | Walter Meyers | ||
Dark Web | The Boss | ||
Pushing Dead | Bob | ||
Monster Trucks | Mr. Weathers | ||
2017 | Vagabonds | Uncle Issa | Short film |
Extortion | Constable Haagen | ||
The Good Catholic | Father Victor | ||
Donald Trump, The Koch Brothers & Their War on Climate Science[62] | The Narrator | ||
The Curse of Buckout Road | Dr. Lawrence Powell | ||
Tour de Pharmacy | "Slim" Robinson | Television film | |
The Christmas Train | Max Powers | ||
2018 | Proud Mary | Benny Spencer | |
Sorry to Bother You | Langston | ||
Come Sunday | Gilbert Pearson | ||
The Old Man & the Gun | Teddy Green | ||
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy | Baltimore Bob | Direct-to-video | |
Christmas Break-In | Ray | Television film | |
2019 | The Last Black Man in San Francisco | Grandpa Allen | |
The Dead Don't Die | Hank Thompson | ||
Strive | Mr. Rose | ||
Jumanji: The Next Level | Milo Walker | ||
2020 | The Drummer | Mark Walker | |
2022 | Press Play | Cooper | [63] |
American Dreamer | Private investigator | [64] | |
2023 | The Naughty Nine | Santa Claus | Television film[65] |
Television[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1979 | B.J. and the Bear | Matt Thomas, TV Reporter | Uncredited; episode: "A Coffin with a View" |
Lou Grant | Leroy | Episode: "Slammer" | |
Paris | Episode: "Dear John" | ||
1980 | Palmerstown, U.S.A. | Harley | Episode: "The Threat" |
1981 | The Greatest American Hero | Vice Officer | Episode: "Fire Man" |
Hill Street Blues | Jesse John Hudson | 4 episodes | |
Gimme a Break! | Bill | Episode: "A Man in Nell's Room" | |
1986 | Tall Tales & Legends | John Henry | Episode: "John Henry" |
1989 | Saturday Night Live | Sergeant Roger Murtaugh | Episode: "Mel Gibson / Living Colour" |
1991 | Captain Planet and the Planeteers | Professor Apollo | Voice; episode: "Isle of Solar Energy" |
1995 | Fallen Angels | Philip Marlowe | Episode: "Red Wind"; nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Drama Series |
2003 | Biography | The Narrator | Episode: "James Baldwin: Witness" |
2005 | ER | Charlie Pratt Sr. | 4 episodes |
2007–2008 | Brothers & Sisters | Isaac Marshall | 6 episodes |
2009 | My Name Is Earl | Thomas Monroe | Episode: "My Name is Alias" |
2010 | Human Target | Client | Episode: "Pilot" |
2011 | Psych | Mel Hornsby | Episode: "Dead Man's Curveball" |
Leverage | Charlie Lawson | Episode: "The Van Gogh Job" | |
2012 | Touch[66] | Professor Arthur Teller | Co-starring role |
2013 | American Dad! | Krampus | Voice; episode: "Minstrel Krampus" |
2016 | Criminal Minds | Hank Morgan | Episode: "Derek" |
Mozart in the Jungle | The Mayor | Episode: "My Heart Opens to Your Voice" | |
2017 | Cold Case Files | The Narrator | Documentary series |
2020 | Black-ish | Uncle Norman | Episode: "Our Wedding Dre" |
Commercial[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2014 | Skittles (Midas Touch) Advert | Midas Touch | Currently airing |
Video games[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1991 | Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby | The Narrator | Voice; credited as Danny Lebern Glover |
2023 | Crime Boss: Rockay City | Gloves |
Theatre[]
Year | Title | Role | Venue(s) | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1982 | "Master Harold"...and the Boys | Willy | Yale Repertory Theatre / Lyceum Theatre | Broadway debut; Theatre World Award | [67][68] |
1985 | A Lesson from Aloes | Steppenwolf Theatre | [69] | ||
1999 | Yohen | James | East West Players | [70] | |
2003 | "Master Harold"...and the Boys | Sam | Royale Theatre | [71] | |
2017 | Yohen | James | East West Players | [72] |
Awards and honors[]
Academy Awards[]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2021 | Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Himself | Won | [73] |
Emmy Awards[]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
1988 | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie | Mandela | Nominated | [74] |
1989 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie | Lonesome Dove | ||
1996 | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series | Fallen Angels | ||
2000 | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie | Freedom Song | ||
Daytime Emmy Awards | ||||
2003 | Outstanding Directing for a Children's Special | Just a Dream | Nominated |
Grammy Awards[]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1991 | Best Recording for Children | How the Leopard Got it's Spots | Nominated | [75] |
1992 | Brer Rabbit And The Wonderful Tar Baby | |||
1994 | Brer Rabbit And Boss Lion | |||
1996 | Best Spoken Word | Long Walk to Freedom |
Screen Actors Guild Awards[]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Movie | Fallen Angels | Nominated | |
2006 | Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture | Dreamgirls |
Independent Spirit Awards[]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1991 | Best Male Lead | To Sleep with Anger | Won |
In 2010, Glover delivered the Commencement Address and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Utah State University.[76] The same year, Starr King School for the Ministry awarded him a Doctorate of Humane Letters in absentia. He was awarded the doctorate specifically for his long history of activism, including support for the United Farm Workers, UNITE HERE, The Algebra Project, The Black AIDS Institute, as well as his humanitarian efforts on behalf of the Haiti earthquake victims, literacy and civil rights and his fight against unjust labor practices.
He was also the recipient of a tribute paid by the Deauville American Film Festival in France on September 7, 2011.[77]
Glover was awarded the Cuban National Medal of Friendship by the Cuban Council of State on December 29, 2016, in a ceremony in Havana for his solidarity with the Cuban 5 during their time of incarceration in the United States.[78][79][80]
On March 25, 2022, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) presented Glover with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Governors Awards ceremony.[81][82][83] In 2023, he was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia.[84] IndieWire named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.[85]
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External links[]
- Danny Glover at Wikipedia
- Danny Glover at the Internet Movie Database
- Danny Glover at the Internet Broadway Database
- Danny Glover at the TCM Movie Database
- Danny Glover on C-SPAN
- Danny Rose on Charlie Rose
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