Biography
Danny Lebern Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. He is best known for his co-starring lead role as Sergeant Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film series. Glover has had a variety of film, stage, and television roles. He starred as the husband to Whoopi Goldberg's character, Celie in the celebrated literary adaptation of The Color Purple, and as Lieutenant James McFee in the film Witness. He had leading roles in other films including To Sle...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Newbies
2025
Two broken strangers wrestling with their queer identities meet on the subway just after midnight. A poignant, poetic journey through the past few hou...

The Naughty Nine
2023
as Santa Claus
Fifth-grader Andy finds himself without a present from Santa on Christmas morning. Realizing he must have landed on the “naughty list” and feeling unf...

The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane
2023
Executive Producer
For decades, Barbara Dane lent her stellar singing voice to social-justice movements in the Bay Area and beyond, garnering an impressive FBI file alon...

Double Soul
2023
as Michael Tedeschi
Twins, identical in appearance but different in soul. A double female point of view, narrated between Italy and the Middle East, between the affirmati...

President
2023
Executive Producer
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, known...

American Dreamer
2022
as Jerry
In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that hi...

De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
2022
as Ele mesmo

Press Play
2022
as Cooper
Laura and Harrison have the picture-perfect romance built on the foundation of a shared love of music. After a deadly accident, Laura gets the chance ...

Crane Lantern
2022
Executive Producer
Musa, a law student seeks out Davud, a man imprisoned for kidnapping four women. He soon discovers that all of his victims have no wish to press charg...

A Night at the Academy Museum
2021
as Self
Exclusive look at the movies' 120-year history as well as an insight into the largest institution in the U.S. dedicated to the arts, sciences and arti...

Memoria
2021
Co-Producer
One morning, Jessica Holland, a Scottish orchid farmer visiting her sister in Bogotá, is woken by a loud ‘bang’. This haunting sound dispels her sleep...

Prayers for the Stolen
2021
Co-Producer
Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fiel...

In Between Dying
2021
Executive Producer
The love story of Davud, a young man in search of his ‘true’ family, who completes his life cycle in a single day. When he does find Love, it's in the...

The Drummer
2020
as Mark Walker
Three interwoven stories reveal the traumatic effects of war on the psyches of veterans from different generations.

Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
2020
as Narrator (voice)
"Chuck Berry-Brown Eyed Handsome Man" is a collection of performances by the greatest rock icons in history performing their favorite songs by their s...

After Fact
2020
as Self
A cinema verite documentary about the lives of four journalists in the midst of an industry-wide crisis.

Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
2020
as Narrator (voice)
Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War is a documentary short reviewing the role of then-Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) in leading the Un...

Jumanji: The Next Level
2019
as Milo
As the gang return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown a...

The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs
2019
as Narrator (voice)
A documentary about American socialist politicization and labor leader Eugene V. Debs made by Indianapolis public TV station WFYI and narrated by Dann...

Lynch: A History
2019
Executive Producer
LYNCH: A HISTORY deploys a trove of media footage to explore the legacy of nonconformist NFL star and Oakland Raiders running-back Marshawn Lynch. Cul...

The Last Black Man in San Francisco
2019
as Grandpa Allen
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont,...

Strive
2019
Kalani (Joi Campbell), is a teenager living in Harlem with her older brother Jacob, and her younger sister, Bebe, while her mother struggles to make e...

The Dead Don't Die
2019
as Hank Thompson
In a small peaceful town, zombies suddenly rise to terrorize the town. Now three bespectacled police officers and a strange Scottish morgue expert mus...

Redeeming Uncle Tom: The Josiah Henson Story
2019
as Narrator
A documentary about the little-known Josiah Henson, the escaped slave who inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

Always in Season
2019
as Narrator (voice)
When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation beg...

Easter Snap
2019
Executive Producer
With a baited handling of American symbolism, filmmaker RaMell Ross joins five men in the deep South, Alabama, who resurrect the homestead ritual of h...

The Robeson Effect
2019
as Self
The extraordinary story of Danny Glover and his lifetime friendship with fellow actor Ben Guillory.

Christmas Break-In
2018
as Ray
Izzy is an energetic 9-year-old. Overscheduled and running late, Izzy's parents can't pick her up on-time the last day of school before Christmas brea...

Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones
2018
as Self
“Q85: A Musical Celebration for Quincy Jones,” is a star-studded evening that celebrates the life and legacy of the icon. In celebration of such a le...

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
2018
as Baltimore Bob
Black Ops specialist Connor Gibson infiltrates a maximum security prison to take down legendary driver Frankenstein in a violent and brutal car race.

The Old Man & the Gun
2018
as Teddy
The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded aut...

Capernaum
2018
Executive Producer
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-ol...

Hale County This Morning, This Evening
2018
Executive Producer
Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impressio...

Angels Are Made of Light
2018
Executive Producer
American documentarian James Longley delivers a sweeping, profoundly compassionate group portrait of Afghan students and teachers still weathering nat...

Sorry to Bother You
2018
as Langston
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him i...

Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey
2018
as Mr. Ocean
Taurus City, The United States of Europe, 2023. Uly, a disillusioned soldier riddled with amnesia, returns home from a war in the Middle East, knowing...

The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018
as Narrator (voice)
Tells the poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the t...

Howard
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely ...

Survivor's Guide to Prison
2018
as Self
Today, you're more likely to go to prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. So in the unfortunate case it should happen to you - t...

Come Sunday
2018
as Gilbert Pearson
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

Proud Mary
2018
as Benny
Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she ...

The Christmas Train
2017
as Max Powers
Forced to take the intercontinental trip to Los Angeles by train, and determined to chronicle his adventure, disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon find...

The Curse of Buckout Road
2017
as Dr. Powell
A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends sur...

Vagabonds
2017
as Uncle Issa
The story of Rachel, a young woman in her early 20s who lives with her Nigerian uncle (Danny Glover) and his American wife (Edythe Davis). When her au...

Zama
2017
Co-Producer
In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious locat...

The Good Catholic
2017
as Victor
An idealistic young priest is dedicated to his calling until he meets a woman at confession. After the meeting, he seeks guidance from his fellow prie...

That Summer
2017
Executive Producer
Albert and David Maysles' classic GREY GARDENS immortalized the estate of Edith and Little Edie Beale, relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, who li...

Tour de Pharmacy
2017
as Slim Robinson Present Day
A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling.

Agents of Change
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)
From the well-publicized events at San Francisco State in 1968 to the image of black students with guns emerging from the takeover of the student unio...

Birth of a Movement
2017
as Narrator (voice)
In 1915, Boston-based African American newspaper editor and activist William M. Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith’s technically groundbreak...

Strong Island
2017
Executive Producer
Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary interrogates murde...

Extortion
2017
as Constable Haagen
A doctor desperately tries to save his wife and their 5 year old son after their vacation in the Bahamas takes an unexpected turn.

Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
2017
as Self
To be somewhere precise yet stand nowhere at all, to embody one’s convictions, yet never miss the essential, to rise up and be present at the critical...

Monster Trucks
2016
as Mr. Weathers
Tripp is a high school senior with a knack for building trucks who makes an incredible discovery - a gas-guzzling creature named Creech. To protect hi...

Almost Christmas
2016
as Walter
A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since the death of their matriarch.

Shadow World
2016
Executive Producer
A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms ...

Pushing Dead
2016
as Bob
When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too ...

White Sun
2016
Executive Producer
Young Pooja lives with her mother in a village in Nepal. Though saddened by the death of her grandfather, she is secretly thrilled at the prospect of ...

Complete Unknown
2016
as Roger
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a tra...

Mr. Pig
2016
as Ambrose
On a mission to sell his last remaining prize hog and reunite with old friends, an aging farmer abandons his foreclosed farm and journeys to Mexico. A...

Gridlocked
2016
as Sully
Former SWAT leader David Hendrix and hard-partying movie star Brody Walker must cut their ride-along short when a police training facility is attacked...

The House on Coco Road
2016
Producer
An intimate documentary exploration of heritage and history against the backdrop of a brewing Afro-centric revolution as the U.S. government prepares ...

Back in the Day
2016
as Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
A young boxer is taken under the wing of a mob boss after his mother dies and his father is run out of town for being an abusive alcoholic.

Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights
2016
as Narrator (voice)
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights follows the story of workers at the Smithfield Pork Processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, who fought ...

93 Days
2016
as Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
Bimbo Akintola, Danny Glover and TIFF Rising Star Somkele Iyamah-Idhalama star in director Steve Gukas’ riveting real-life thriller about courageous h...

Darkweb
2016
as The Boss
A mysterious group has created a sadistic venture. Kidnapping young women, they auction the rights to hunt them to millionaires with a thirst for bloo...

Dirty Grandpa
2016
as Stinky
Jason Kelly is one week away from marrying his boss's uber-controlling daughter, putting him on the fast track for a partnership at the law firm. Howe...

Diablo
2016
as Benjamin Carver
A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.

Andron
2015
as Chancellor Gordon
A group of people are plunged into a dark, claustrophobic maze, where they must fight to survive, as the outside world watches.

Waffle Street
2015
as Edward Collins
The true story of Jimmy Adams, a V.P. of a $30 billion hedge fund, who loses his job and winds up working as a waiter at a waffle shop. Amidst the gre...

This Changes Everything
2015
Executive Producer
Based on Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, a look at how people in various communities around the world play a r...

Cemetery of Splendor
2015
Co-Producer
In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in which dreams can be experienced by others, and in whic...

Checkmate
2015
as Elohim
Six people are thrown together during an elaborate bank heist where any move can alter the outcome. Is it coincidence, or are they merely pawns in a m...

Consumed
2015
as Hal Westbrook
When Sophie's son, Garrett, develops a mysterious illness, she embarks on a search for answers. This leads her into the controversial world of Genetic...

About Scout
2015
as Red
A rebellious Goth girl embarks on a road trip across Texas with a suicidal young man in an effort to find her little sister.

Bad Asses on the Bayou
2015
as Bernie Pope
The third installment in the successful Bad Ass action-comedy franchise. Bad Asses on the Bayou reunites the dynamic duo, Frank Vega (Danny Trejo) and...

Mississippi Inferno
2015
as Narrator (voice)
They risked their land and their lives by joining the battle against white supremacy and sheltering those who lead the charge. This is the untold stor...

Caffeinated
2015
as Coffee Lover
This documentary explores a vivid and unmatched perspective to the existence of coffee in our daily lives. Expanding production to United States, Ital...

Toxin
2015
as Dr. Locke
A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.

Beyond the Lights
2014
as Captain Nicol
Noni Jean is a hot new rising star. But not all is what it seems, and the pressure causes Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a pro...

Life Is Sacred
2014
Executive Producer
The fearless Colombian philosopher-politician-teacher Antanas Mockus and his followers struggle for peace in a country with the longest running intern...

Day of the Mummy
2014
as Carl
Welcome to Egypt, land of the Pharaohs. A place steeped in history and legend; Gods and spiritual guides; untold wealth – and the bone-cracking, blood...

Yellowbird
2014
as Darius (voice)
Yellowbird lives in the ruins of an old house. He lacks the confidence to leave his home, no matter how much Bug, his labybird friend, tries to convin...

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
as Self
In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love, conscious...

2047: Sights of Death
2014
as Sponge
The year is 2047. Our planet is ruled by the repressive Confederate Central Government (CCG). Ryan is a Green War rebel agent sent on a mission by S...

Supremacy
2014
as Mr. Walker
The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 yea...

We Are Many
2014
as Self
The story of the biggest demonstration in human history, which took place on 15th February 2003, against the impending war on Iraq.

Rage
2014
as Detective St. John
When the Russian mob kidnaps the daughter of a reformed criminal, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.

Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
2014
as Bernie Pope
Vietnam vet Frank Vega now runs an East L.A. community center where he trains young boxers to survive in and out of the ring. But when his prize stude...

The Ninja Immovable Heart
2014
as Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
Reese, an elite member of a covert unit of Ninja Warriors, is captured. Being tortured for information, Reese recalls the lessons learned from his tra...

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
The Election of President Barack Obama began on March 5, 1770 at the Boston Massacre with the death of Crispus Attucks.

Chasing Shakespeare
2014
as William Ward
Two souls are so deeply in love with one another that they are entangled beyond life itself.

Concerning Violence
2014
Co-Producer
Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the...

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2013
as Justice Thurgood Marshall
Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, h...

Extraction
2013
as Harding
A major feature exclusively for digital, EXTRACTION follows a U.S. Black Ops team member who finds himself the only survivor of a botched prisoner ext...

Tula: The Revolt
2013
as Shinishi
Tula, a slave on the island of Curacao, is becoming more and more aware of the injustice existing between his people and the white oppressors. His pea...

Highland Park
2013
as Ed
A high school faculty lotto pool places its fate in the lucky numbers they've played for ten years after hearing budget cuts have eliminated all their...

Shuffleton's Barbershop
2013
as Charlie Shuffleton
Famous country singer Trey Cole is finally returning home after cruelly abandoning the town many years ago and never looking back, even when his broth...

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
2013
as Self
The compelling story of an extraordinary woman's journey from her birth in a paper thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as a ...

Space Warriors
2013
as Commander Phillips
The son of a retired astronaut competes to win a seat on the next space shuttle.

The Shift
2013
as Floyd
The Shift is the story of one 12 hour night shift in the ER and the life and death decisions that have to be made. With the issue of euthanasia in the...

The Bouquet
2013
as Reverend John
Two estranged sisters torn apart by their differences suddenly find themselves working together towards a common goal in this heartwarming drama...For...

LUV
2013
as Arthur
Over the course of one day, a shy 13-year-old forms a bond with his troubled uncle.

Casting By
2012
as Self
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the mo...

Shenandoah
2012
Executive Producer
An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a fiery immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution and toda...

The House I Live In
2012
Executive Producer
In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished commu...

The Children's Republic
2012
as Dubem
In a war-torn African country, a small group of young people, led by Mão-de-Ferro, a traumatized and violent war child, arrive in a mysterious city wh...
The Lighthouse
2012
as Duncan
In 1972 two men and two women fell to the bottom of the old lighthouse. Carrie, Trip, Nick, Kevin, Samantha,Derek, and Jessica have decided to go on a...

Highway
2012
Producer
Five different relationship stories become connected during an ill-fated bus journey from eastern Nepal to the capital, Kathmandu.
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'
2012
as Self
This documentary showcases producer Joel Silver, Donner, Gibson, Glover, Rene Russo and other members of all four films' production teams as they exam...

Shadows of Liberty
2012
as Self
Shadows of Liberty presents the phenomenal true story of today's disintegrating freedoms within the U.S. media, and government, that they don't want y...

Hannah's Law
2012
as Isom Dart
Hannah keeps the law in "the wickedest city on earth:" Dodge City, Kansas. with the help of young Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Stagecoach Mary.

Sins
2012
as Father Leonard
David begins experiencing cloudy memories of a long-lost life amidst the violent Cortello family in Sicily ââ'¬Â¦ a family he ultimately betrayed. An...

Mysteria
2011
as Investigator
A once famous and now a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter fighting to finish his latest script with an unrealistic deadline. He finds himself in the ce...
Rise Like Lions
2011
as Self (Occupy Oakland)
Scott Noble's film Rise Like Lions takes the people, actions, and words from the camps and streets of Occupy Wall Street and provides a radical, compe...

Donovan's Echo
2011
as Donovan Matheson
A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.

Dum Maaro Dum
2011
Executive Producer
ACP Vishnu is sent on a mission to investigate and clean the underbelly of Goa. During his investigation, he uncovers a huge racket and discovers the ...

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
2011
Producer
Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in...

Age of the Dragons
2011
as Ahab
Age of the Dragons is an adaptation of Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick. Set in a medieval realm where Captain Ahab and crew hunt dragons for...

Son of Morning
2011
as Gabriel Peters
As a solar catastrophe threatens the world, Phillip Katz (Joseph Cross), a stressed-out copywriter, is mistaken for the next messiah by an ambitious r...

Mooz-lum
2011
as Dean Francis
Thanks to a strict Muslim upbringing that largely shielded him from the outside world, Tariq's first year of college proves transformative. That is, u...

I Want to Be a Soldier
2010
as School Director
“I Want To Be A Soldier” is the story of Alex, an average 8 year old child who develops a morbid fascination for images portraying violence. He starts...

Down for Life
2010
as Mr. Shannon
Based on a New York Times article depicting a single dramatic day in the life of a Latina gang leader in South Central L.A.

Alpha and Omega
2010
as Winston (voice)
Two young wolves at opposite ends of their pack's social order are thrown together into a foreign land and need each other to return home, but love co...

I'm Still Here
2010
as Danny Glover
I'm Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee as...

Legendary
2010
as Harry 'Red' Newman
A book-smart teenager joins his school's wrestling team as a way to reunite his surviving family members, who split apart after the death of his fathe...

Dear Alice
2010
as Franzis
Very different lives, becomes interweaved during what seems like an ordinary day. Franzis Namazi is a newly arrived immigrant from Gambia to Sweden. H...

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010
Associate Producer
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the gho...

Death at a Funeral
2010
as Uncle Russell
Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally dru...

Five Minarets in New York
2010
as Marcus
Two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to find and bring back the dangerous Islamic leader codenamed "Dajjal", belie...

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010
as Self
This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the famed Disaster movie director (i.e. Roland Emmeric...

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010
as Self
A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project.

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010
Presenter
This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the famed Disaster movie director (i.e. Roland Emmeric...

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010
Presenter
A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project.

Sam Cooke: Crossing Over
2010
as Narrator (voice)
In 1958, when Sam Cooke crossed over from gospel to popular music, he ran the risk of alienating his gospel fans by embracing "the devil's music." Ins...

The People Speak
2009
as Self
A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."

2012
2009
as President Thomas Wilson
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns t...

The Time That Remains
2009
Associate Producer
An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spa...

PoliWood
2009
as Self
An in-depth look at the Democratic and Republican national conventions held during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election year.

The Harimaya Bridge
2009
as Joseph Holder
The Harimaya Bridge is a drama about an American man who must travel to rural Japan to claim some important items belonging to his late son, from whom...

Night Train
2009
as Miles
Two Passengers and the conductor discover that a person has passed away on their Night Train cabin. They come across valuable diamonds on his person, ...

Saw V
2008
as David Tapp (archive footage) (uncredited)
Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Detective Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's past. Meanw...

Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare
2008
as Walter Tortoise (voice)
This story picks up a generation after the famous race between the Hare and the Tortoise. This time it's their kids' turn to compete, and they're abou...

Salt of This Sea
2008
Co-Producer
Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's sa...

Blindness
2008
as Man with Black Eye Patch
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of ...

Gospel Hill
2008
as John Malcolm
Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain...

Be Kind Rewind
2008
as Mr. Fletcher
A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal rente...

Trouble the Water
2008
Executive Producer
"Trouble the Water" takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall--j...

Honeydripper
2007
as Tyrone Purvis
In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric gui...

Battle for Terra
2007
as President Chen (voice)
A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, w...

Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007
as Father Elias
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the li...

Shooter
2007
as Colonel Isaac Johnson
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back in...

Poor Boy's Game
2007
as George
Donnie Rose went to prison for beating a young man so brutally it left him handicapped for life. Nine years later, Donnie is out. He's a different man...

Dreamgirls
2006
as Marty Madison
A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.

Read You Like a Book
2006
A magical book transforms all who come into contact with it. Meet Dante, a bookstore manager with a crippling secret; Gina, a customer, who knows ever...

Barnyard
2006
as Miles the Mule (voice)
When the farmer's away, all the animals play, and sing, and dance. Eventually, though, someone has to step in and run things, a responsibility that en...

Bamako
2006
as Cow-boy
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African...

Bamako
2006
Executive Producer
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African...

The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
2006
as Brer Turtle (voice)
Get ready for all of the laughs, adventure and hip-hopping good times in this all-new imaginative and modern retelling of Uncle Remus' best-loved tale...

The Shaggy Dog
2006
as Ken Hollister
The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.

The Exonerated
2006
as David Keaton
Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.

Full Disclosure Report
2005
as David Tapp
A faux documentary set in the world of 'Saw' that sees reporters investigate the mysterious case around Jigsaw. Universe expanding video and extra-fea...
The Peace!
2005
as Self
Amid an escalating war in Iraq, rising terror levels and the threat of nuclear attack, a growing body of intellectuals, religious leaders and communit...

Manderlay
2005
as Wilhelm
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal...

The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of 'Predator 2'
2005
as Self (archive footage)
The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of Predator 2 is a 2005 documentary that details the production of the 1990 film Predator 2. Created for the Pr...

Missing in America
2005
as Jake Neely
A haunted Vietnam veteran, living in exile in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, is faced with a life-changing decision after he is visited by a fo...
P.N.O.K.
2005
as Col. Weldon
Chronicles a day in the life of 2 soldiers on Casualty Notification Duty as they bear the grim news of 3 soldiers killed in Iraq to 3 families back ho...

Saw
2004
as David Tapp
Two men wake up to find themselves shackled in a grimy, abandoned bathroom. As they struggle to comprehend their predicament, they discover a disturbi...

The Cookout
2004
as Judge Crowley
When Todd Anderson signs a $30 million deal with his hometown team, the New Jersey Nets, he knows that his life is set for a big change. To keep thing...

The John Garfield Story
2003
as Self
This documentary looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he died at age 39. His difficult childhood in the roug...

Good Fences
2003
as Tom Spader
Set in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-...

Good Fences
2003
Producer
Set in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-...

The Real Eve
2002
as Narrator (voice)
The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can be traced to a common ancestor. The mitochondrial...

Just a Dream
2002
Director
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.

The Royal Tenenbaums
2001
as Henry Sherman
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all...

3 A.M.
2001
as Hershey
The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of taxi drivers. Developed in the Sundance Laboratory,...

3 A.M.
2001
Executive Producer
The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of taxi drivers. Developed in the Sundance Laboratory,...

Boesman and Lena
2000
as Boesman
Intense love and hate bring a man and woman through personal tragedy.

Bàttu
2000
The star-stubbed cast includes Issac de Bankolè as Saar, a blind beggar, and Danny Glover as a corrupt president. In this often hilarious mix of polit...

Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
2000
as Self
Arista's greatest recording artists of the last 25 years gather for this May 15th concert in honor of the record label's 25th anniversary. The highly ...

Freedom Song
2000
as Will Walker
Freedom Song is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle ...

Freedom Song
2000
Executive Producer
Freedom Song is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle ...

The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen
1999
as Self (archive footage)
The making of The Prince of Egypt (1998).

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999
as Narrator (voice)
Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile. This video profiles Armstron...

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later
1999
as Host
Adults meet up with the people who changed their lives twenty years ago by confronting them about their lifestyles as teenagers.

Our Friend, Martin
1999
as Train Conductor (voice)
Two teens are sent back in time to meet Martin Luther King Jr. at several points during his life.

The Prince of Egypt
1998
as Jethro (voice)
The strong bond between two brothers is challenged when their chosen responsibilities set them at odds, with extraordinary consequences.

Beloved
1998
as Paul D
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Belov...

Antz
1998
as Barbatus (voice)
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a pa...

Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson
1998
as Self - Narrator (voice)
An in-depth, award-winning documentary on the life and music of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. Mixing rare photographs, exclusive interviews, and ...

Lethal Weapon 4
1998
as Roger Murtaugh
With personal crises and age weighing in on them, Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads trying to free their former leaders from ...

Buffalo Soldiers
1997
as Sgt. Washington Wyatt
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, the...

Buffalo Soldiers
1997
Executive Producer
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, the...

The Rainmaker
1997
as Richter Tyrone Kipler
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in...

Switchback
1997
as Bob Goodall
After FBI agent Frank Lacrosse believes his son was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer, he travels to Amarillo, Texas, where he believes the murde...

Wild America
1997
as Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
Three brothers - Marshall, Marty and Mark dream of becoming naturalists and portraying animal life of America. One summer their dream comes true, they...

Gone Fishin'
1997
as Gus Green
Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.

America's Dream
1996
as Silas (segment "Long Black Song")
Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each o...

America's Dream
1996
Executive Producer
Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each o...

Red Wind
1995
as Philip Marlowe
In 1940s, sympathetic African American L.A. shamus Philip Marlowe helps a dame in trouble whose lovers are offing each other over a possibly fake pear...
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
1995
as Self
The first video to combine international martial arts together with interviews and demonstrations by celebrities of Hollywood.

Operation Dumbo Drop
1995
as Capt. Sam Cahill
Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through...

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write...

Override
1994
Director
Override is a 1994 American science fiction short film. It was the directorial debut of Danny Glover and starred Lou Diamond Phillips and Emily Lloyd....

Angels in the Outfield
1994
as George Knox
Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins ...

Maverick
1994
as Bank Robber (uncredited)
Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game b...

The Saint of Fort Washington
1993
as Jerry
Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more...

Bopha!
1993
as Micah Mangena
In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while...

The Talking Eggs
1993
as Narrator (voice)
When a young girl named Selina befriends a mystical elderly woman, magical things happen - not the least of which is the surprise of three talking egg...
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion
1992
as Narrator (voice)
Told by Danny Glover

Lethal Weapon 3
1992
as Roger Murtaugh
Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition t...

Grand Canyon
1991
as Simon
Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is t...

Pure Luck
1991
as Raymond Campanella
The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that ...

A Rage in Harlem
1991
as Easy Money
A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavo...

Flight of the Intruder
1991
as Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by t...

Predator 2
1990
as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next ...

To Sleep with Anger
1990
as Harry
An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.

To Sleep with Anger
1990
Executive Producer
An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt
1990
as Narrator (voice)
Read by Danny Glover
Rabbit Ears - Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby
1990
as Narrator (voice)
When Brer Fox gets tired of Brer Rabbit's sassiness, he decides to make a Tar Baby that will trap Brer Rabbit for sure. But Brer Fox soon finds out th...

Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
1989
as Narrator (voice)
When all the animals in the forest has fled to the jungle to avoid being eaten, the Leopard and the Ethiopian both have to change their colors in orde...

Lethal Weapon 2
1989
as Roger Murtaugh
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

Dead Man Out
1989
as Dr. Alex Marsh
A psychiatrist is sent to evaluate if a convicted multiple murderer who's awaiting execution on Death Row for eighth year now and whose behavior durin...

A Raisin in the Sun
1989
as Walter Lee Younger
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Hollywood on Horses
1989
as Self
Hosted by celebrity horse enthusiast, Tab Hunter, visits the stables and homes of the Hollywood movie set, where you'll see first hand how Hollywood's...

Bat★21
1988
as Capt. Bartholomew Clark
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to...
A Place at the Table
1988
as Mr. Scott
A young student is determined to motivate her community after a friend of hers is found to be suffering from hunger.

Mandela
1987
as Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revol...

Lethal Weapon
1987
as Roger Murtaugh
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.

John Henry
1986
as John Henry
The story follow legendary railroad worker John Henry during the late 19th century.

The Color Purple
1985
as Albert
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After...

Silverado
1985
as Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside...

The Stand-In
1985
as Apples Finnerty
"The brilliant Danny Glover stars as Apples Finnerty, a low budget film producer whose life is crumbling. Finnerty can't get work, he's been evicted, ...

Witness
1985
as McFee
While protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their communi...

And the Children Shall Lead
1985
as William
Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease in...

Places in the Heart
1984
as Moze
In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - ...

Iceman
1984
as Loomis
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befrie...
Memorial Day
1983
as Willie Monroe
An attorney finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam.The reunion stirs up painful memories and ...
The Face of Rage
1983
as Gary
Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the made-for-TV The Face of Rage is set in a rehabilitation facility. Here a group of rapists are required to con...

Keeping On
1983
as Lester Traylor
A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked.

Out
1982
as Jojo / Roland
A self-styled "urban guerrilla" in Greenwich Village is sent on various assignments across the country by a mysterious "commander."

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1981
as Morgan
Flash used to be a talented baseball player, but he took to drinking and now he sells stolen watches in the streets. One day he meets Chu Chu, who, be...

Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer
1981
as Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Micheaux, Film Pioneer is one of seven films in the "Were You There" series produced by Carol Lawrence (the others include The Black West, The C...

Escape from Alcatraz
1979
as Inmate
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one...

San Francisco State: On Strike
1969
as self
A need for national ethnic studies in colleges and social justice led to strikes at San Francisco State University.

Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story
N/A
as Narrator (voice)
They have raged on for forty years, cutting a swath across continents and lighting the fuse of revolutionary thought. From the pressure-cooker ghettos...