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| caption = Danny Glover in 2014
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|7|22}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|7|22}}
| birth_place = [[Springfield]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S.
| birth_place = [[San Francisco]], [[California]], U.S.
| birth_name = Danny Lebern
| birth_name = Danny Lebern Glover
| nationality = American
| nationality = American
| occupation = Singer Prank Caller
| occupation = Actor, director, activist
| years_active = 2010–present
| years_active = 1979–present
| spouse = Asake Bomani (1975–1999; divorced)<br/>Eliane Cavalleiro (2009–present)
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| children =
| website = [http://www.louverturefilms.com/ www.louverturefilms.com]
}}
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'''Danny Lebern''' (born July 22, 1966) is an American [[Singer]] and [[prank caller]].
'''Danny Lebern Glover''' (born July 22, 1946) is an American [[actor]], [[film director]], and [[political activist]].



Glover is well known for his leading role as [[Roger Murtaugh]] in the [[Lethal Weapon (film series)|''Lethal Weapon'' film series]], ''[[The Color Purple (film)|The Color Purple]]'' (1985), ''[[To Sleep with Anger]]'' (1990) and ''[[Angels in the Outfield (1994 film)|Angels in the Outfield]]'' (1994). He also has prominent supporting roles in ''[[Silverado (film)|Silverado]]'' (1985), ''[[Witness (1985 film)|Witness]]'' (1985), ''[[Predator 2]]'' (1990), ''[[Saw (2004 film)|Saw]]'' (2004), ''[[Shooter (2007 film)|Shooter]]'' (2007), ''[[2012 (film)|2012]]'' (2009), ''[[Death at a Funeral (2010 film)|Death at a Funeral]]'' (2010), ''[[Beyond the Lights]]'' (2014) and ''[[Dirty Grandpa]]'' (2016). He has appeared in many other movies, television shows and theatrical productions, and is an active supporter of various humanitarian and political causes.


==Early life==
==Early life==
Lebern was born in [[Springfield]], [[Massachusetts]], the son of Jackie (Hunley) and James Lebern.<ref>http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1999/10/05/met_298791.shtml</ref> His parents, [[postal worker]]s, were active in the [[National Association for the Advancement of Gay Jew People]] , working to advance equal rights.<ref>{{cite episode|title=Lebern is a cocksucker|series> Lebern's mother, daughter of a [[midwife]], was born in [[Louisville, Georgia|Louisville]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and graduated from [[Paine College]] in [[Augusta, Georgia]].<ref>[http://chronicle.augusta.com/login.shtml?orq:http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/050602/met_174-7096.000.shtml Augusta.Com]{{dead link|date=March 2010}}</ref>
Glover was born in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], the son of Carrie (Hunley) and James Glover.<ref>http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1999/10/05/met_271691.shtml</ref> His parents, [[postal worker]]s, were active in the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]] (NAACP), working to advance equal rights.<ref>{{cite episode|title=Danny Glover|series=[[Inside the Actors Studio]]|first=James (host)|last=Lipton|network=Bravo|date=October 11, 1998|season=4|number=8}}</ref> Glover's mother, daughter of a [[midwife]], was born in [[Louisville, Georgia|Louisville]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and graduated from [[Paine College]] in [[Augusta, Georgia]].<ref>[http://chronicle.augusta.com/login.shtml?orq:http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/050602/met_174-7006.000.shtml Augusta.Com]{{dead link|date=March 2010}}</ref>


Glover attended [[George Washington High School (San Francisco)|George Washington High School]] in San Francisco.{{Citation needed|date=February 2014}} He attended [[San Francisco State University]] (SFSU) in the late 1960s but did not graduate. SFSU later awarded him an [[honorary degree]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Actor and activist Danny Glover to be honored by San Francisco State University|url=http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/prsrelea/fy98/069.htm|accessdate=January 24, 2015|work=[[San Francisco State University]]|date=April 26, 1999}}</ref> Glover trained at the Black Actors' Workshop of the [[American Conservatory Theater]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lewis|first1=Princine|title=Actor, director, producer, political activist Danny Glover headlines 2014 MLK celebration at Vanderbilt|url=http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/11/danny-glover-mlk/|accessdate=January 24, 2015|work=[[Vanderbilt University]]|date=November 15, 2013}}</ref>
Lebern now adpoted the name "Springfeel" because of him living in Springfield and him "feeling" very younger girls and boys.

As an adolescent and a young adult, Springfeel suffered from [[Autism]].
As an adolescent and a young adult, Glover suffered from [[epilepsy]] but has not suffered a [[seizure]] since age 35.<ref>{{cite news|title='Sharing Miracles' Television Program to Feature Award-Winning Hollywood Star Danny Glover|url=http://www.newson6.com/story/11033032/sharing-miracles-television-program-to-feature-award-winning-hollywood-star-danny-glover|accessdate=January 24, 2015|work=[[News 9 Now / News on 6 Now|News on 6]]|agency=[[PR Newswire]]|date=September 2, 2009}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
[[File:Springfeel.jpg|thumb|]]]]
[[File:Danny Glover Cannes.jpg|thumb|Glover at the [[2005 Cannes Film Festival]]]]


Glover originally worked in city administration working on community development{{citation needed|date=April 2011}} before transitioning to theater. He has said:<blockquote>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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abilitymagazine.com/glover_interview.html|work=[[Ability (magazine)|Ability Magazine]] | title=Actor and Activist, Danny Glover|accessdate=April 6, 2012}}</ref></blockquote>His first theater involvement was with ''Conservatory Theater'', a regional training program in San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://voices.yahoo.com/danny-glover-dean-african-american-character-actors-761905.html|title=Yahoo|work=Yahoo}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=August 2015}} Glover also trained with Jean Shelton at the [[Shelton Studios|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, where 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.{{citation needed|date=April 2011}}
Springfeel started his career by being in [[Olivia Newton John's]] music video [[Physical]] in 1981. Springfeel said "The jumping around was fun".
He toured dancehalls and ballrooms of southern France with a number of groups over the next decade. Springfeel met his music partner Blue Iris , an arranger, guitarist, and vocalist, during that period. The two formed a duo and started achieving local success backing Gay or Lesbian musicians such as Frank Garett, Ernie Tennant, and Bobo Simpson.
In 2009, Springfeel met the producer Bill Valasko,and signed a recording contract.


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 [[Gary Busey ]]. Later he once again starred with Busey in the blockbuster ''[[Predator 2]]''. He also starred as the husband to [[Whoopi Goldberg]]'s character Celie in the celebrated literary adaptation ''[[The Color Purple (1985 film)|The Color Purple]]'', and as Lieutenant James McFee in the film ''[[Witness (1985 film)|Witness]]''. In 1994 he made his directorial debut with the [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]] channel short film ''[[Override (film)|Override]]''.
"Songs"[edit]
The first single that was released was the rap song "Callin' From Springfield". Its success was immediate, and in January 2010, Springfield received his first gold record from America. The song spread throughout America, where it hit #88 in America in April and remained there until July. Soon, the United Kingdom had caught on. The remixed version was released on a commercial 12" single, and it peaked in the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart at #96 and crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100 peaking at #99. It sold over one thousand copies in the US.[1] The track reached #87 in the UK Singles Chart.[1]
Springfeel made another single in November of 2010 called "Jingle Balls" which was a Christmas song. It was unpopular in the UK, but in America it sold 5,000 copies in the US.
Springfeel made one Album in January 2011 called "Hey Cum Guzzler".


Also in 1994, Glover and actor [[Ben Guillory]] formed the [[Robey Theatre Company]] in Los Angeles, focusing on theatre by and about [[Black people]].
==Legal issues==
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 sci-fi action film ''[[Predator (film)|Predator]]''. That same year he starred in [[Charles Burnett (director)|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 (TV 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. Glover was featured in the popular 2001 film ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]'', also starring [[Gwyneth Paltrow]], [[Anjelica Huston]], [[Ben Stiller]] and [[Owen Wilson]].
On August 18, 2011, Springfeel was arrested at the Colorado Mills Mall in Lakewood, Colorado, on suspicion of inappropriately touching a 3-year-old girl. He was released after posting bail of $70,000.[6]

During a preliminary hearing on February 8,2012 , Springfeel was represented by Bart Winslow. There was an arraignment hearing on March 5, 2012, at which Springfeel pleaded not guilty.
[[File:Danny Glover 2014 Phoenix Comicon 2 (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Glover at the 2014 Phoenix Comicon]]
The trial started on October 22 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

The jury began to deliberate on the afternoon of October 30,[10] returning on October 31. Springfeel was found not guilty.
In 2004, he appeared in the low-budget horror film ''[[Saw (2004 film)|Saw]]'' as [[Detective David Tapp]]. In 2005, Glover and Joslyn Barnes announced plans to make ''No FEAR'',<ref>{{IMDb title|1846984|No Fear}}</ref> a movie about Dr. [[Marsha Coleman-Adebayo]]'s experience. Coleman-Adebayo won a 2000 jury trial against the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|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, North West|Brits, South Africa]], [[vanadium]] mines. Her experience inspired 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marshacoleman-adebayo.com/no-fear-the-film.html|title=Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: The Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Story|publisher=Marsha Coleman-Adebayo|accessdate=February 25, 2013}}</ref>
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.
==Sex Addiction==

Springfeel talked about oral sex in his songs, drnking semen, anal sex and so on. He says when he is at home, he sits in his room and masterbates frequentley.Springfeel sang at a concert in Albany, New York. At his concert he was in a orange prison suit and made obsene hand gestures and he had a chair thrown at him by one man in the crowd. Springfeel preformed "Callin' from Springfeel", "I waant' you to really woorship it"and "You better come to Springfield!"
In 2009, Glover performed in ''[[The People Speak (film)|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]]".<ref>[http://www.thepeoplespeak.com/pages/credits/ Credits]. The People Speak. Retrieved on November 28, 2010.</ref>

Glover played President Wilson, the President of the United States in ''[[2012 (film)|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]]''.

===Planned directorial debut===
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.<ref>{{cite journal | first=John | last=Hopewell | url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117943873.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | title=Glover, Kingsley: Meeting of the minds | journal=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | publisher=[[Reed Business Information]] | date=May 22, 2006 | accessdate=July 7, 2008 }}</ref> In May 2007, [[President of Venezuela]] [[Hugo Chávez]] contributed $18 million to fund the production of ''Toussaint'' for Glover, who is 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.<ref>{{cite journal | first=Anna Marie | last=De la Fuente | url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117965537.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | title=Venezuela's Chavez funding Glover film | journal=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | publisher=[[Reed Business Information]] | date=May 21, 2007 | accessdate=July 7, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/2007/05/23/til_art_cineastas-reprueban_295975.shtml |title=Cineastas reprueban coproducción de Glover con Venezuela |author=ÁNGEL RICARDO GÓMEZ |language=Spanish |publisher=eluniversal.com |date=May 23, 2007 |accessdate=October 25, 2008}}</ref> In April 2008, the Venezuelan National Assembly authorized an additional $9,840,505 for Glover's film, which is still in planning.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/2008/04/10/til_art_asamblea-aprueba-9-m_800033.shtml |title=Asamblea aprueba 9 millones de dólares para Danny Glover |publisher=eluniversal.com |date=April 10, 2008 |accessdate=October 25, 2008 }}</ref>

===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. [http://www.enterprise-journal.com/news/article_fb3b4058-2b23-11e5-b4a7-1b3046f0d70a.html The event], co-sponsored by [http://theglosterproject.org/ The Gloster Project] and Jubilee Performing Arts Center, included noted authors [[Terry McMillan]] and [http://www.quincytroupe.com/ 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."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://events.risd.edu/event/mlk_series_keynote_danny_glover#.VdJjevlVhBd|title=MLK Series Keynote: Danny Glover|work=Rhode Island School of Design}}</ref>

==Personal life==

Glover purchased a {{convert|6000|sqft|sqm|adj=on}} house in [[Dunthorpe, Oregon]], in 1999.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/real-estate/articles/streetcar-1010
| title = Burb Battle
| author = Zach Dundas
| date = September 13, 2010
| work = Portland Monthly
| quote = These particular rails slice through Dunthorpe, the most legendarily exclusive neighborhood in Portland (or rather, unincorporated Multnomah County, as the mansion-studded enclave—home base of actor Danny Glover, the occasional Trail Blazer, and other notables—refuses to join the city).
| accessdate = February 16, 2014
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000418/bio
| title = Danny Glover Biography
| work = Internet Movie Database
| accessdate = February 16, 2014
}}</ref> As of 2011, he no longer lived in Oregon.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2011/04/danny_glover_guest_stars_in_le.html |title= Danny Glover to Guest Star in 'Leverage' |last= Turnquist |first= Kristi |date= April 11, 2011 |newspaper= [[The Oregonian]] |accessdate= February 13, 2015}}</ref>

On September 2, 2009, Glover signed an open letter of objection to the inclusion of a series of films intended to showcase [[Tel Aviv]] at the [[Toronto International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://torontodeclaration.blogspot.com/2009/09/toronto-declaration-no-celebration-of.html|title=Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation}}</ref>

On April 16, 2010, Glover was arrested in [[Maryland]] during a protest by [[SEIU]] workers for [[Sodexo]]'s unfair and illegal treatment of workers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/04/17/2010-04-17_actor_danny_glover_arrested_in_maryland_labor_protest.html |title=Actor Danny Glover arrested during Maryland labor union protest |publisher=NY daily news |date=April 17, 2010 |accessdate=April 18, 2010}}</ref> 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, Starks says officers arrested them."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/actor-danny-glover-11-others-arrested-in-md_article_31282|title=Danny Glover & 11 Others Arrested During Union Protest in Maryland|publisher=Access Hollywood}}</ref>

==Activism==
[[Image:Danny Glover Madison3.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Glover speaks at a March for Immigrants Rights in [[Madison, Wisconsin]], in 2007]]

===Civil rights activism===
While attending [[San Francisco State University]] (SFSU), Glover was a member of the Black Students Union,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/prsrelea/fy98/069.htm |title=Actor and activist Danny Glover to be honored by San Francisco State University |publisher=Sfsu.edu |accessdate=October 25, 2008}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfsu.edu/~100years/textonlycent/time/longtime.htm#1968 |title=SFSU Centennial history – Timeline |publisher=SFSU |date=March 3, 2000 |accessdate=October 25, 2008}}</ref> 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, D.C.|Washington]] during a protest over Sudan's [[War in Darfur|humanitarian crisis]] in [[Darfur]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3600520.stm |title=Lethal Weapon star arrested in US |publisher=BBC news |date=August 26, 2004 |accessdate=April 18, 2010}}</ref>

Glover's long history of union activism includes support for the [[United Farm Workers]], [[UNITE HERE]], and numerous service unions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080124/glover_trespass_080124/20080124?hub=Entertainment|title=Danny Glover convicted of trespassing in Ontario}}</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124399061 Glover: Help Ohio Plant, Shun Hugo Boss At Oscars], [[NPR]]</ref>

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]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE42dp6DoF4&list=HL1321476560|title=Danny Glover Speech at Occupy Oakland | publisher=Youtube}}</ref>

===Political activism===

[[File:Danny Glover for Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign in South Carolina.webm|thumb|Glover speaking to Bernie Sanders supporters on the 2016 campaign trail in South Carolina, February 2016]]

Glover was an early supporter of former [[North Carolina]] Senator [[John Edwards]] in the [[2008 Democratic presidential primaries]] until Edwards' withdrawal,<ref>[http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/danny-glover-ca.html "Danny Glover Campaigns for Edwards"], [[ABC News]] (December 27, 2007)</ref> although some news reports indicated that he had endorsed [[Ohio]] Congressman [[Dennis Kucinich]],<ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3139687&page=1 "Bringin' Home the Bacon, Vegan-Style"], [[ABC News]] (May 4, 2007)</ref> whom he had endorsed in [[United States presidential election, 2004|2004]].<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/archive/200401/20040130_glover.html Interview] with [[Tavis Smiley]], [[PBS]]</ref> After Edwards dropped out, Glover then endorsed [[Barack Obama]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Tom |last=Hayden |authorlink=Tom Hayden |author2=Bill Fletcher, Jr. |author3=Danny Glover |author4=[[Barbara Ehrenreich]] |title=Progressives for Obama |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/progressives-obama |work=[[The Nation]] |date=March 24, 2008 |accessdate=March 27, 2008 }}</ref> In February 2016, Glover endorsed [[Vermont]] Senator [[Bernie Sanders]] for the Democratic presidential nomination.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-glover/sanders-campaign-genuine-progressive-movement_b_9163960.html | title= Sanders Campaign Is a Genuine Progressive Social Movement for Democracy|publisher=Washington Post.com|accessdate=February 6, 2016|date=February 6, 2016|author=Danny Glover}}</ref>

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."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://cbs2chicago.com/slideshows/hardcore.liberal.celebrities.20.836647.html?rid=8 |title=Actor and activist Danny Glover to be honored by San Francisco State University |publisher=cbs2chicago.com |author=Ligeia Polidora |date=April 26, 1999 |location=San Francisco |accessdate=October 25, 2008 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/20081019005812/http://cbs2chicago.com:80/slideshows/hardcore.liberal.celebrities.20.836647.html?rid=8 |archivedate=October 19, 2008 }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://moneydick.com/wordpress/2008/11/03/got-a-robocall-from-danny-glover-today |title=Chip Glover robocalled me today}}</ref>

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 projecting 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?"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newsone.com/nation/news-one-staff/danny-glover-i-see-no-difference-between-bush-and-obama-policies|title=Danny Glover: I See No Difference Between Bush And Obama Policies|publisher=News One}}</ref>

Glover wrote the foreword to Phyllis Bennis' book, ''Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power.''{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} 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===
[[File:CAMPAÑA LA MANO SUCIA DE CHEVRON - 11532437603.jpg|thumb|right|Glover in Ecuador in November 2013, protesting against Chevron and issues relating to the [[Lago Agrio oil field]].]]

====Africa====
Glover is an active board member of the [[TransAfrica Forum]].<ref>[[TransAfrica Forum]]</ref> On April 6, 2009, Glover was given a [[chieftaincy]] title in [[Imo State]], Nigeria.<ref>Ogbu, Rachel. [http://news.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=1420&z=3 "Forest Whitaker, Danny Glover Find Their Roots in Imo State Nigeria"] ''OnlineNigeria.com''. April 6, 2009.</ref> Glover was given the title ''Enyioma of Nkwerre'', which means ''A Good Friend'' in the language of the [[Igbo people]] of Eastern Nigeria.

====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 [[2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference|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..."<ref>{{cite web|author=13 januari 2010 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ft5JkNWJA |title=GRITtv: Danny Glover and Marie St. Cyr on Haiti |publisher=YouTube |accessdate=March 8, 2010}}</ref> 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 has been an outspoken critic of the Iraq War before the war 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".<ref>[http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/615 "To the Conscience of the World"] Solidarity</ref>
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 and activist/professor [[Cornel West]], in a meeting with [[President of Venezuela]] [[Hugo Chávez]], with Glover calling Chávez "remarkable". In 2007, the Venezuelan government allotted $18 million to Glover for a film about a slave uprising in Haiti with Hugo Chávez hoping "to mobilise world public opinion against imperialism and western oppression". Glover was also a board member of [[TeleSUR]], a media network primarily funded by the Venezuelan government.<ref name=GUARDIAN>{{cite news|last1=Carroll|first1=Rory|title=Venezuela giving Danny Glover $18m to direct film on epic slave revolt|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/21/film.venezuela|accessdate=22 August 2015|agency=''[[The Guardian]]''|date=20 May 2007}}</ref>

During the beginning of the [[2014 Venezuela Protests]], Glover shared his support to Chávez's successor, President [[Nicolas 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.<ref name=NP2014>{{cite news|title=Actor Danny Glover voices support for Venezuelan president during visit to honour Hugo Chavez as anti-government protests continue|url=http://news.nationalpost.com/scene/actor-danny-glover-supports-venezuelan-government-during-visit-to-honour-hugo-chavez|accessdate=22 August 2015|agency=''[[National Post]]''|date=7 March 2014}}</ref>

===Music===
Glover has become an active member of board of directors of The [[Jazz Foundation of America]].<ref name="Danny Glover Jazz Foundation ">looktothestars.org. 2009-13-10. [http://www.looktothestars.org/charity/301-jazz-foundation-of-america Jazz Foundation of America]. Accessed: January 19, 2010</ref> Danny became involved with The Jazz Foundation in 2005, and has been a featured host for their annual benefit ''A Great Night in Harlem''<ref name="Danny Glover at the JFA ">[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-144569283.html "Danny Glover Joins the Jazz Foundation of America (JFA) to Kick Off 5th Annual 'Great Night in Harlem' Benefit"], PR Newswire, April 17, 2006</ref> 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 (Sunday, February 2, 2008) at the [[Theatre Royal Stratford East]], London.

==Honors and awards==

===Utah State University===
In 2010, Glover delivered the Commencement Address and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from [[Utah State University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700030728/Danny-Glover-urges-USU-graduates-to-be-informed-engaged.html|title=Danny Glover urges USU graduates to be informed, engaged|author=Wendy Leonard|work=Deseret News}}</ref>

===Starr King School for the Ministry===
Also in 2010, [[Starr King School for the Ministry]] awarded the Doctorate of Humane Letters (Litterarum Humanarum Doctor), in absentia, to Mr. Glover. His call to humanity to see itself as the recipient of a legacy of caring and commitment that began with prior parental and religious communities and that it should carry on for the sake of those who will follow are in alignment with Starr King's values.
Mr. Glover was awarded the doctorate specifically for his long history of passionate 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. Mr. Glover is co-founder and CEO of Louverture Films, dedicated to the development and production of films of historical relevance, social purpose, commercial value and artistic integrity; we honored his commitment to using film to lift up and advance social justice issues, such as his then recently released project "Trouble the Water", a documentary about New Orleans in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.

Glover has had a close association with Starr King School through his role as guest lecturer in its course on Non Violent Social Change and lending his support and presence to events sponsored by Starr King's Masters of Arts in Social Change (MASC) program.

===Deauville American Film Festival===
He was also the recipient of a tribute paid by the Deauville American Film Festival in France on September 7, 2011.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of film credits
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1979
| ''[[Escape from Alcatraz (film)|Escape from Alcatraz]]''
| Inmate
| Acting debut
|-
| 1981
| ''[[Chu Chu and the Philly Flash]]''
| Morgan
|
|-
| 1982
| ''[[Deadly Drifter]]''
| Jojo/Roland
| Alternative title: ''Out''
|-
| 1984
| ''[[Iceman (1984 film)|Iceman]]''
| Loomis
|
|-
| 1984
| ''[[Places in the Heart]]''
| Moze
|
|-
| 1985
| ''[[Witness (1985 film)|Witness]]''
| Det. Lt. James McFee
|
|-
| 1985
| ''[[Silverado (film)|Silverado]]''
| Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
|
|-
| 1985
| ''{{sortname|The|Color Purple|The Color Purple (1985 film)}}''
| Mr. Albert Johnson
|
|-
| 1987
| ''[[Lethal Weapon]]''
| [[Roger Murtaugh|Sergeant Roger Murtaugh]]
|
|-
| 1988
| ''[[Bat*21]]''
| Capt. Bartholomew Clark
|
|-
| 1989
| ''[[Lethal Weapon 2]]''
| [[Roger Murtaugh]]
|
|-
| 1990
| ''[[To Sleep with Anger]]''
| Harry
| [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead]]
|-
| 1990
| ''[[Predator 2]]''
| Lt. Mike Harrigan
|
|-
| 1991
| ''[[Flight of the Intruder]]
| Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
|
|-
| 1991
| ''{{sortname|A|Rage in Harlem|A Rage in Harlem (film)}}''
| Easy Money
|
|-
| 1991
| ''[[Grand Canyon (1991 film)|Grand Canyon]]''
| Simon
|
|-
| 1991
| ''[[Pure Luck]]''
| Raymond Campanella
|
|-
| 1992
| ''[[Lethal Weapon 3]]''
| [[Roger Murtaugh]]
|
|-
| 1993
| ''[[The Saint of Fort Washington]]''
| Jerry/Narrator
|
|-
| 1993
| ''[[Bopha!]]''
| Micah Mangena
|
|-
| 1994
| ''[[Maverick (film)|Maverick]]''
| Bank Robber
| Uncredited
|-
| 1994
| ''[[Angels in the Outfield (1994 film)|Angels in the Outfield]]''
| George Knox
|
|-
| 1994
| ''[[Override (film)|Override]]''
|
| Director, TV short
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Operation Dumbo Drop]]''
| Capt. Sam Cahill
|
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Wild America (film)|Wild America]]''
| Bigfoot
| Uncredited
|-
| 1997
| ''{{sortname|The|Rainmaker|The Rainmaker (1997 film)}}''
| Judge Tyrone Kipler
| Uncredited
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Gone Fishin' (film)|Gone Fishin']]''
| Gus Green
|
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Switchback (film)|Switchback]]''
| Bob Goodall
|
|-
| 1998
| ''[[Lethal Weapon 4]]''
| [[Roger Murtaugh]]
|
|-
| 1998
| ''{{sortname|The|Prince of Egypt}}''
| [[Jethro (Bible)|Jethro]]
| Voice only
|-
| 1998
| ''[[Beloved (film)|Beloved]]''
| Paul D. Garner
|
|-
| 1998
| ''[[Antz]]''
| Barbatus
| Voice only
|-
| 1999
| ''[[Our Friend, Martin]]''
| Train Conductor
| Voice only
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Boesman and Lena]]''
| Boesman
|
|-
| 2001
| ''[[3 A.M. (2001 film)|3 A.M.]]''
| Charles "Hershey" Riley
|
|-
| 2001
| ''{{sortname|The|Royal Tenenbaums}}''
| Henry Sherman
|
|-
| 2002
| ''Just a Dream''
|
| Director<br />Nominated—[[Daytime Emmy Award]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emmys.com/celebrities/danny-glover|title=Danny Glover|work=Television Academy}}</ref> for Outstanding Directing for a Children/Youth/Family Special
|-
| 2004
| ''{{sortname|The|Cookout}}''
| Judge Crowley
|
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Saw (2004 film)|Saw]]''
| Detective David Tapp
|
|-
| 2005
| ''[[Manderlay]]''
| Wilhelm
|
|-
| 2005
| ''[[Missing in America]]''
| Jake Neeley
|
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Bamako (film)|Bamako]]''
| Cow-boy
|
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Barnyard (film)|Barnyard]]''
| Miles the Mule
| Voice
|-
| 2006
| ''{{sortname|The|Shaggy Dog|The Shaggy Dog (2006 film)}}''
| Ken Hollister
|
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Dreamgirls (film)|Dreamgirls]]''
| Marty Madison
|
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Shooter (2007 film)|Shooter]]''
| Colonel Isaac Johnson
|
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Poor Boy's Game]]''
| George
| Nominated—[[Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role]]
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Battle for Terra]]''
| President Chen
| Voice only
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Honeydripper (film)|Honeydripper]]''
| Tyrone Purvis
|
|-
| 2007
| ''Miranda Regresa''
| John Doe
|
|-
| 2008
| ''[[Be Kind Rewind]]''
| Mr. Fletcher
|
|-
| 2008
| ''[[Gospel Hill]]''
| John Malcolm
|
|-
| 2008
| ''Tiny Tears''
| Himself
|
|-
| 2008
| ''[[Blindness (film)|Blindness]]''
| Old man with the black eye patch/Narrator
|
|-
| 2008
| ''{{sortname|The|Garden|The Garden (2008 film)}}''
| Himself
|
|-
| 2008
| ''[[Saw V]]''
| Detective David Tapp
| Cameo and archive footage from ''[[Saw (2004 film)|Saw]]''
|-
| 2008
| ''[[Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare]]''
| Walter Tortoise
| Voice
|-
| 2009
| ''[[Night Train (2009 film)|Night Train]]''
| Miles
|
|-
| 2009
| ''[[Down for Life (film)|Down for Life]]''
| Mr. Shannon
|
|-
| 2009
| ''{{sortname|The|People Speak|The People Speak (film)}}''
| Himself
| Documentary
|-
| 2009
| ''{{sortname|The|Harimaya Bridge}}''
| Joseph Holder
|
|-
| 2009
| ''[[2012 (film)|2012]]''
| President Wilson
| Nominated—[[NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture]]
|-
| 2009
| ''At the End of Slavery''
| Narrator
|
|-
| 2010
| ''Stride''
| James 'Honeybear' Powell
|
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Death at a Funeral (2010 film)|Death at a Funeral]]''
| Uncle Russell
|
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Dear Alice]]''
| Franzis
| Original title: ''För kärleken''
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Legendary (film)|Legendary]]''
| Harry "Red" Newman
|
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Alpha and Omega (film)|Alpha and Omega]]''
| Winston
| Voice
|-
| 2010
| ''Son of Morning''
| Gabriel Peters
|
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Age of the Dragons]]''
| Ahab
|
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Mooz-lum]]''
| Dean Francis
|
|-
| 2010
| ''[[I Want to Be a Soldier]]''
| The Principal
|
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Five Minarets in New York]]''
| Marcus
| Original title: ''New York'ta Beş Minare''
|-
| 2011
| ''Heart of Blackness''
| Vaudreuil
|
|-
| 2011
| ''[[Donovan's Echo]]''
| Donovan
|
|-
| 2012
| ''Highland Park''
| Ed
|
|-
| 2012
| ''[[LUV (film)|LUV]]''
| Arthur
|
|-
| 2013
| ''[[Space Warriors (2013 film)|Space Warriors]]''
| Commander
|
|-
| 2013
| ''[[Chasing Shakespeare]]''
| William Ward
|
|-
| 2013<ref>[http://www.tulathemovie.com Tula The Revolt]. Retrieved on 6 May 2015.</ref>
| ''[[Tula: The Revolt]]''
| Shinishi<ref>[http://www.tulathemovie.com/cast/international-cast/ International cast], Tula The Revolt. Retrieved on 6 May 2015.</ref>
|
|-
| 2013
| ''Extraction''
| Colonel<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2823574/|title=Extraction (2013)|author=onurb-divad|date=September 5, 2013|work=IMDb}}</ref>
|
|-
| 2013
| ''[[Alpha and Omega 2: A Howl-iday Adventure]]''
| Winston<ref name="dvdbox">{{cite web |title = Front and back of ''Alpha and Omega 2'' DVD case |url = http://dvd.box.sk/newsimg/dvdmov/max1386516957-frontback-cover.jpg |publisher = DVD Box |accessdate = August 21, 2014}}</ref>
|
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Bad Asses]]''
| Bernie Pope
|
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Rage (2014 film)|Rage]]''
| Detective St. John
|
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Beyond the Lights]]''
| Captain David Nicol
|
|-
| 2014
| ''[[Supremacy (film)|Supremacy]]''
| Mr. Walker
|
|-
| 2014
| ''S.O.S - Sights of Death''
| Sponge
|
|-
| 2014
| ''Day of the Mummy''
| Carl
|
|-
| 2015
| ''[[Bad Asses on the Bayou]]''
| Bernie Pope
|
|-
| 2015
| ''Checkmate''
| Elohim
|
|-
| 2015
| ''[[Scout (film)|Scout]]''
| Red
|
|-
| 2015
| ''[[Gridlocked (2015 film)|Gridlocked]]''
| Sully
| Post-production
|-
| 2015
| ''Waffle Street''
| Edward Collins
|
|-
| 2016
|''[[Dirty Grandpa]]''
| Stinky
|
|-
| 2016
| ''[[Complete Unknown]]''
| Roger
|
|-
| 2016
|''[[93 Days]]''
| <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.yeyepikin.com/2015/09/keppy-ekpenyong-to-star-as-patrick-sawyer-in-ebola-movie-93-days/|title=Danny Glover arrives Nigeria for the Shooting of 93 Days movie|accessdate=September 17, 2015 |publisher=YeYePikin.com }}</ref>
| Post-production
|-
| 2016
| ''[[A Meyers Christmas]]''
|
| Filming
|-
| 2016
| ''[[The Good Catholic]]''
|
| Filming
|-
| 2017
| ''[[Monster Trucks (film)|Monster Trucks]]''
| <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/frank-whaley-danny-glover-monster-trucks-687394 |title=Frank Whaley, Danny Glover Joining Lucas Till in 'Monster Trucks' (Exclusive)|accessdate=April 29, 2014 |publisher=hollywoodreporter.com |date= January 4, 2014 }}</ref>
| Post-production
|-
| TBA
| ''[[#Planned directorial debut|Toussaint]]''
|
| Director, producer<br /> Pre-production
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable" summary="List of television appearances and roles"
|+ List of television credits
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1979
| ''[[B. J. and the Bear]]''
| Matt Thomas, TV Reporter
| 1 episode, uncredited
|-
| 1979
| ''[[Lou Grant (TV series)|Lou Grant]]''
| Leroy
| 1 episode
|-
| 1979
| ''[[Paris (1979 TV series)|Paris]]''
|
| 1 episode
|-
| 1980
| ''Palmerstown, U.S.A.''
| Harley
| Unknown episodes
|-
| 1981
| ''Keeping On''
| Lester
| Television movie
|-
| 1981
| ''{{sortname|The|Greatest American Hero}}''
| Vice officer
| 1 episode
|-
| 1981
| ''[[Hill Street Blues]]''
| Jesse John Hudson
| 4 episodes
|-
| 1981
| ''[[Gimme a Break!]]''
| Bill
| 1 episode
|-
| 1983
| ''{{sortname|The|Face of Rage|nolink=1}}''
| Gary
| Television movie
|-
| 1983
| ''[[Chiefs (miniseries)|Chiefs]]''
| Marshall Peters
| Miniseries
|-
| 1983
| ''Memorial Day''
| Willie Monroe
| Television movie
|-
| 1985
| ''And the Children Shall Lead''
| William
| Television movie
|-
| 1986
| ''[[Tall Tales & Legends]]''
| John Henry
| 1 episode
|-
| 1987
| ''Place at the Table''
|
| Television movie
|-
| 1987
| ''[[Mandela (1987 film)|Mandela]]''
| Nelson Mandela
| Television movie<br />Nominated—[[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie]]
|-
| 1989
| ''{{sortname|A|Raisin in the Sun|A Raisin in the Sun#1989 adaptation}}''
| Walter Lee Younger
| Television movie
|-
| 1989
| ''[[Lonesome Dove (TV miniseries)|Lonesome Dove]]''
| [[Joshua Deets]]
| Miniseries<br />Nominated—[[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie]]. ''(See also [[Bose Ikard]])''
|-
| 1989
| ''Dead Man Out''
| Dr. Alex Marsh
| Television movie <br />Alternative title: ''Dead Man Walking''
|-
| 1989
| ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''
| Roger Murtaugh
| 1 episode
|-
| 1991
| ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]''
| Professor Apollo (Voice)
| 1 episode
|-
| 1992
| ''{{sortname|The|Talking Eggs|nolink=1}}''
| Narrator
| Television movie
|-
| 1993
| ''[[Alex Haley's Queen]]''
| Alec Haley
| Miniseries<br />[[NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special]]
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Fallen Angels (TV series)|Fallen Angels]]''
| [[Philip Marlowe]]
| 1 episode<br />Nominated—[[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Drama Series]]
|-
| 1996
| ''America's Dream''
| Silas
| Television movie (segment "Long Black Song")
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Buffalo Soldiers (1997 film)|Buffalo Soldiers]]''
| Sgt. Washington Wyatt
| Television movie
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Freedom Song (film)|Freedom Song]]''
| Will Walker
| Television movie<br />Nominated—[[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie]]<br />Nominated—[[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie]]
|-
| 2003
| ''[[Good Fences]]''
| Tom Spader
| Television movie
|-
| 2003
| ''[[Biography (TV series)|Biography]]''
| Narrator
| 1 episode
|-
| 2003
| ''{{sortname|The|Law and Mr. Lee|nolink=1}}''
| Henry Lee
| Television movie
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Legend of Earthsea]]''
| Ogion
| Miniseries
|-
| 2005
| ''{{sortname|The|Exonerated}}''
| David
| Television movie
|-
| 2005
| ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]''
| Charlie Pratt, Sr.
| 4 episodes
|-
| 2006
| ''Take 3''
| Col. Weldon
| Television movie
|-
| 2007–2008
| ''[[Brothers & Sisters (2006 TV series)|Brothers & Sisters]]''
| Isaac Marshall
| 6 episodes
|-
| 2009
| ''[[My Name Is Earl]]''
| Thomas Monroe
| 1 episode
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Human Target (2010 TV series)|Human Target]]''
| Client
| 1 episode
|-
| 2011
| ''[[Psych]]''
| Mel Hornsby
| 1 episode
|-
| 2011
| ''[[Leverage (TV series)|Leverage]]''
| Charlie Lawson
| 1 episode, Season 4 Episode 4, "The Van Gogh Job"
|-
| 2012
| ''[[Touch (TV series)|Touch]]<ref>http://seriable.com/danny-glover-touch-fox-arthur-teller/</ref>
| Professor Arthur Teller
| Co-starring role
|-
| 2012
| ''[[Hannah's Law]]''
| Ison Dart
| Television movie
|-
| 2013
| ''[[American Dad!]]''
| [[Krampus]]
| 1 episode, Season 10 Episode 8, "Minstrel Krampus"
|-
| 2013
| ''[[Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight]]''
| [[Thurgood Marshall]]
| Television movie
|-
| 2016
| ''[[Criminal Minds]]''
| Hank Morgan
| 1 episode, Season 11 Episode 16, "Derek"
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of theatre credits
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1983
|rowspan='2'| ''[["Master Harold"...and the Boys]]''
| Willy
|
|-
| 2003
| Sam
|
|}

==Awards==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of awards
|-
! Award
! Year
! Category
! Title of work
|-
| [[CableACE Award]]
| 1989
| Actor in a Movie or Miniseries
| ''Mandela''
|-
| CableACE Award
| 1996
| Dramatic or Theatrical Special
| ''America's Dream'' <small>(Shared with [[David Knoller]], Carolyn McDonald, Ron Stacker Thompson, and Ashley Tyler)</small>
|-
| CableACE Award
| 1996
| Actor in a Dramatic Special or Series
| ''America's Dream''
|-
| [[NAACP Image Awards]]
| 1989
| [[NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture|Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture]]
| ''Lethal Weapon''
|-
| NAACP Image Awards
| 1990
| [[NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special|Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie]]
| ''Mandela''
|-
| NAACP Image Awards
| 1995
| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Television Movie or Mini-Series
| ''Queen''
|-
| NAACP Image Awards
| 1999
| Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture
| ''Beloved''
|-
| NAACP Image Awards
| 2001
| Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
| ''Freedom Song''
|-
| [[Independent Spirit Award]]
| 1991
| Best Male Lead
| ''To Sleep With Anger''
|-
| Jamerican International Film Festival
| 2002
| Lifetime Achievement Award
|
|-
| [[Karlovy Vary International Film Festival]]
| 2008
| Festival President's Award
|
|-
| Los Angeles [[Pan African Film Festival]]
| 2003
| Lifetime Achievement Award
|
|-
| [[MTV Movie Award]]
| 1993
| Best On-Screen Duo
| ''Lethal Weapon 3'' <small>(Shared with [[Mel Gibson]])</small>
|-
| [[San Francisco International Film Festival]]
| 1993
| Piper-Heidsieck Award
|
|-
| Women in Film Crystal Awards
| 1994
| Humanitarian Award
|
|}

==See also==
*[[List of peace activists]]


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 23:55, 24 June 2016

For the English footballer, see Danny Glover (footballer).

Danny Glover
Danny Glover in 2014
Born
Danny Lebern Glover

(1946-07-22) July 22, 1946 (age 78)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Actor, director, activist
Years active1979–present
Spouse(s)Asake Bomani (1975–1999; divorced)
Eliane Cavalleiro (2009–present)
Websitewww.louverturefilms.com

Danny Lebern Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist.

Glover is well known for his leading role as Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film series, The Color Purple (1985), To Sleep with Anger (1990) and Angels in the Outfield (1994). He also has prominent supporting roles in Silverado (1985), Witness (1985), Predator 2 (1990), Saw (2004), Shooter (2007), 2012 (2009), Death at a Funeral (2010), Beyond the Lights (2014) and Dirty Grandpa (2016). He has appeared in many other movies, television shows and theatrical productions, and is an active supporter of various humanitarian and political causes.

Early life

Glover was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Carrie (Hunley) and James Glover.[1] His parents, postal workers, were active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), working to advance equal rights.[2] Glover's mother, daughter of a midwife, was born in Louisville, Georgia and graduated from Paine College in Augusta, Georgia.[3]

Glover attended George Washington High School in San Francisco.[citation needed] He attended San Francisco State University (SFSU) in the late 1960s but did not graduate. SFSU later awarded him an honorary degree.[4] Glover trained at the Black Actors' Workshop of the American Conservatory Theater.[5]

As an adolescent and a young adult, Glover suffered from epilepsy but has not suffered a seizure since age 35.[6]

Career

Glover at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival

Glover originally worked in city administration working on community development[citation needed] 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.[7]

His first theater involvement was with Conservatory Theater, a regional training program in San Francisco.[8][unreliable source?] 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, where 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.[citation needed]

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 Gary Busey . Later he once again starred with Busey in the blockbuster Predator 2. He also starred as the husband to Whoopi Goldberg's character Celie in the celebrated literary adaptation The Color Purple, and as 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 formed 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 sci-fi 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. Glover was featured in the popular 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums, also starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.

Glover at the 2014 Phoenix Comicon

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,[9] a movie 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 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.[10]

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".[11]

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.

Planned directorial debut

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.[12] In May 2007, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez contributed $18 million to fund the production of Toussaint for Glover, who is 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.[13][14] In April 2008, the Venezuelan National Assembly authorized an additional $9,840,505 for Glover's film, which is still in planning.[15]

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. 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."[16]

Personal life

Glover purchased a 6,000-square-foot (560 m2) house in Dunthorpe, Oregon, in 1999.[17][18] As of 2011, he no longer lived in Oregon.[19]

On September 2, 2009, Glover signed an open letter of objection to the inclusion of a series of films intended to showcase Tel Aviv at the Toronto International Film Festival.[20]

On April 16, 2010, Glover was arrested in Maryland during a protest by SEIU workers for Sodexo's unfair and illegal treatment of workers.[21] 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, Starks says officers arrested them."[22]

Activism

Glover speaks at a March for Immigrants Rights in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2007

Civil rights activism

While attending San Francisco State University (SFSU), Glover was a member of the Black Students Union,[23] 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.[24] 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.[25]

Glover's long history of union activism includes support for the United Farm Workers, UNITE HERE, and numerous service unions.[26] 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.[27]

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.[28]

Political activism

Glover speaking to Bernie Sanders supporters on the 2016 campaign trail in South Carolina, February 2016

Glover was an early supporter of former North Carolina Senator John Edwards in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries until Edwards' withdrawal,[29] although some news reports indicated that he had endorsed Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich,[30] whom he had endorsed in 2004.[31] After Edwards dropped out, Glover then endorsed Barack Obama.[32] In February 2016, Glover endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.[33]

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."[34]

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.[35]

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 projecting 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?"[36]

Glover wrote the foreword to Phyllis Bennis' book, Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power.[citation needed] 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

Glover in Ecuador in November 2013, protesting against Chevron and issues relating to the Lago Agrio oil field.

Africa

Glover is an active board member of the TransAfrica Forum.[37] On April 6, 2009, Glover was given a chieftaincy title in Imo State, Nigeria.[38] Glover was given the title Enyioma of Nkwerre, which means A Good Friend in the language of the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria.

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..."[39] 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 has been an outspoken critic of the Iraq War before the war 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".[40] 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 and activist/professor Cornel West, in a meeting with President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez, with Glover calling Chávez "remarkable". In 2007, the Venezuelan government allotted $18 million to Glover for a film about a slave uprising in Haiti with Hugo Chávez hoping "to mobilise world public opinion against imperialism and western oppression". Glover was also a board member of TeleSUR, a media network primarily funded by the Venezuelan government.[41]

During the beginning of the 2014 Venezuela Protests, Glover shared his support to Chávez's successor, President Nicolas 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.[42]

Music

Glover has become an active member of board of directors of The Jazz Foundation of America.[43] Danny became involved with The Jazz Foundation in 2005, and has been a featured host for their annual benefit A Great Night in Harlem[44] 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 (Sunday, February 2, 2008) at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, London.

Honors and awards

Utah State University

In 2010, Glover delivered the Commencement Address and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Utah State University.[45]

Starr King School for the Ministry

Also in 2010, Starr King School for the Ministry awarded the Doctorate of Humane Letters (Litterarum Humanarum Doctor), in absentia, to Mr. Glover. His call to humanity to see itself as the recipient of a legacy of caring and commitment that began with prior parental and religious communities and that it should carry on for the sake of those who will follow are in alignment with Starr King's values. Mr. Glover was awarded the doctorate specifically for his long history of passionate 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. Mr. Glover is co-founder and CEO of Louverture Films, dedicated to the development and production of films of historical relevance, social purpose, commercial value and artistic integrity; we honored his commitment to using film to lift up and advance social justice issues, such as his then recently released project "Trouble the Water", a documentary about New Orleans in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.

Glover has had a close association with Starr King School through his role as guest lecturer in its course on Non Violent Social Change and lending his support and presence to events sponsored by Starr King's Masters of Arts in Social Change (MASC) program.

Deauville American Film Festival

He was also the recipient of a tribute paid by the Deauville American Film Festival in France on September 7, 2011.[citation needed]

Filmography

List of film credits
Year Title Role Notes
1979 Escape from Alcatraz Inmate Acting debut
1981 Chu Chu and the Philly Flash Morgan
1982 Deadly Drifter Jojo/Roland Alternative title: Out
1984 Iceman Loomis
1984 Places in the Heart Moze
1985 Witness Det. Lt. James McFee
1985 Silverado Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
1985 The Color Purple Mr. Albert Johnson
1987 Lethal Weapon Sergeant Roger Murtaugh
1988 Bat*21 Capt. Bartholomew Clark
1989 Lethal Weapon 2 Roger Murtaugh
1990 To Sleep with Anger Harry Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead
1990 Predator 2 Lt. Mike Harrigan
1991 Flight of the Intruder Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
1991 A Rage in Harlem Easy Money
1991 Grand Canyon Simon
1991 Pure Luck Raymond Campanella
1992 Lethal Weapon 3 Roger Murtaugh
1993 The Saint of Fort Washington Jerry/Narrator
1993 Bopha! Micah Mangena
1994 Maverick Bank Robber Uncredited
1994 Angels in the Outfield George Knox
1994 Override Director, TV short
1995 Operation Dumbo Drop Capt. Sam Cahill
1997 Wild America Bigfoot Uncredited
1997 The Rainmaker Judge Tyrone Kipler Uncredited
1997 Gone Fishin' Gus Green
1997 Switchback Bob Goodall
1998 Lethal Weapon 4 Roger Murtaugh
1998 The Prince of Egypt Jethro Voice only
1998 Beloved Paul D. Garner
1998 Antz Barbatus Voice only
1999 Our Friend, Martin Train Conductor Voice only
2000 Boesman and Lena Boesman
2001 3 A.M. Charles "Hershey" Riley
2001 The Royal Tenenbaums Henry Sherman
2002 Just a Dream Director
Nominated—Daytime Emmy Award[46] for Outstanding Directing for a Children/Youth/Family Special
2004 The Cookout Judge Crowley
2004 Saw Detective David Tapp
2005 Manderlay Wilhelm
2005 Missing in America Jake Neeley
2006 Bamako Cow-boy
2006 Barnyard Miles the Mule Voice
2006 The Shaggy Dog Ken Hollister
2006 Dreamgirls Marty Madison
2007 Shooter Colonel Isaac Johnson
2007 Poor Boy's Game George Nominated—Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
2007 Battle for Terra President Chen Voice only
2007 Honeydripper Tyrone Purvis
2007 Miranda Regresa John Doe
2008 Be Kind Rewind Mr. Fletcher
2008 Gospel Hill John Malcolm
2008 Tiny Tears Himself
2008 Blindness Old man with the black eye patch/Narrator
2008 The Garden Himself
2008 Saw V Detective David Tapp Cameo and archive footage from Saw
2008 Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare Walter Tortoise Voice
2009 Night Train Miles
2009 Down for Life Mr. Shannon
2009 The People Speak Himself Documentary
2009 The Harimaya Bridge Joseph Holder
2009 2012 President Wilson Nominated—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
2009 At the End of Slavery Narrator
2010 Stride James 'Honeybear' Powell
2010 Death at a Funeral Uncle Russell
2010 Dear Alice Franzis Original title: För kärleken
2010 Legendary Harry "Red" Newman
2010 Alpha and Omega Winston Voice
2010 Son of Morning Gabriel Peters
2010 Age of the Dragons Ahab
2010 Mooz-lum Dean Francis
2010 I Want to Be a Soldier The Principal
2010 Five Minarets in New York Marcus Original title: New York'ta Beş Minare
2011 Heart of Blackness Vaudreuil
2011 Donovan's Echo Donovan
2012 Highland Park Ed
2012 LUV Arthur
2013 Space Warriors Commander
2013 Chasing Shakespeare William Ward
2013[47] Tula: The Revolt Shinishi[48]
2013 Extraction Colonel[49]
2013 Alpha and Omega 2: A Howl-iday Adventure Winston[50]
2014 Bad Asses Bernie Pope
2014 Rage Detective St. John
2014 Beyond the Lights Captain David Nicol
2014 Supremacy Mr. Walker
2014 S.O.S - Sights of Death Sponge
2014 Day of the Mummy Carl
2015 Bad Asses on the Bayou Bernie Pope
2015 Checkmate Elohim
2015 Scout Red
2015 Gridlocked Sully Post-production
2015 Waffle Street Edward Collins
2016 Dirty Grandpa Stinky
2016 Complete Unknown Roger
2016 93 Days [51] Post-production
2016 A Meyers Christmas Filming
2016 The Good Catholic Filming
2017 Monster Trucks [52] Post-production
TBA Toussaint Director, producer
Pre-production
List of television credits
Year Title Role Notes
1979 B. J. and the Bear Matt Thomas, TV Reporter 1 episode, uncredited
1979 Lou Grant Leroy 1 episode
1979 Paris 1 episode
1980 Palmerstown, U.S.A. Harley Unknown episodes
1981 Keeping On Lester Television movie
1981 The Greatest American Hero Vice officer 1 episode
1981 Hill Street Blues Jesse John Hudson 4 episodes
1981 Gimme a Break! Bill 1 episode
1983 The Face of Rage Gary Television movie
1983 Chiefs Marshall Peters Miniseries
1983 Memorial Day Willie Monroe Television movie
1985 And the Children Shall Lead William Television movie
1986 Tall Tales & Legends John Henry 1 episode
1987 Place at the Table Television movie
1987 Mandela Nelson Mandela Television movie
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie
1989 A Raisin in the Sun Walter Lee Younger Television movie
1989 Lonesome Dove Joshua Deets Miniseries
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie. (See also Bose Ikard)
1989 Dead Man Out Dr. Alex Marsh Television movie
Alternative title: Dead Man Walking
1989 Saturday Night Live Roger Murtaugh 1 episode
1991 Captain Planet and the Planeteers Professor Apollo (Voice) 1 episode
1992 The Talking Eggs Narrator Television movie
1993 Alex Haley's Queen Alec Haley Miniseries
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
1995 Fallen Angels Philip Marlowe 1 episode
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Drama Series
1996 America's Dream Silas Television movie (segment "Long Black Song")
1997 Buffalo Soldiers Sgt. Washington Wyatt Television movie
2000 Freedom Song Will Walker Television movie
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
2003 Good Fences Tom Spader Television movie
2003 Biography Narrator 1 episode
2003 The Law and Mr. Lee Henry Lee Television movie
2004 Legend of Earthsea Ogion Miniseries
2005 The Exonerated David Television movie
2005 ER Charlie Pratt, Sr. 4 episodes
2006 Take 3 Col. Weldon Television movie
2007–2008 Brothers & Sisters Isaac Marshall 6 episodes
2009 My Name Is Earl Thomas Monroe 1 episode
2010 Human Target Client 1 episode
2011 Psych Mel Hornsby 1 episode
2011 Leverage Charlie Lawson 1 episode, Season 4 Episode 4, "The Van Gogh Job"
2012 Touch[53] Professor Arthur Teller Co-starring role
2012 Hannah's Law Ison Dart Television movie
2013 American Dad! Krampus 1 episode, Season 10 Episode 8, "Minstrel Krampus"
2013 Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight Thurgood Marshall Television movie
2016 Criminal Minds Hank Morgan 1 episode, Season 11 Episode 16, "Derek"
List of theatre credits
Year Title Role Notes
1983 "Master Harold"...and the Boys Willy
2003 Sam

Awards

List of awards
Award Year Category Title of work
CableACE Award 1989 Actor in a Movie or Miniseries Mandela
CableACE Award 1996 Dramatic or Theatrical Special America's Dream (Shared with David Knoller, Carolyn McDonald, Ron Stacker Thompson, and Ashley Tyler)
CableACE Award 1996 Actor in a Dramatic Special or Series America's Dream
NAACP Image Awards 1989 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture Lethal Weapon
NAACP Image Awards 1990 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Mini-Series or Television Movie Mandela
NAACP Image Awards 1995 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Television Movie or Mini-Series Queen
NAACP Image Awards 1999 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture Beloved
NAACP Image Awards 2001 Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Freedom Song
Independent Spirit Award 1991 Best Male Lead To Sleep With Anger
Jamerican International Film Festival 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2008 Festival President's Award
Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award
MTV Movie Award 1993 Best On-Screen Duo Lethal Weapon 3 (Shared with Mel Gibson)
San Francisco International Film Festival 1993 Piper-Heidsieck Award
Women in Film Crystal Awards 1994 Humanitarian Award

See also

References

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  30. ^ "Bringin' Home the Bacon, Vegan-Style", ABC News (May 4, 2007)
  31. ^ Interview with Tavis Smiley, PBS
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  33. ^ Danny Glover (February 6, 2016). "Sanders Campaign Is a Genuine Progressive Social Movement for Democracy". Washington Post.com. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
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  37. ^ TransAfrica Forum
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