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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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