| Danny Glover  AKA Danny Lebern Glover
Born: 22-Jul-1946
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Lethal Weapon Danny Glover is an American actor, best known for action flicks such as Lethal Weapon 1, 2, 3, and 4, and Silverado. He played Whoopi Goldberg's abusive husband in The Color Purple, and portrayed Nelson Mandela in two different television movies, one for PBS and the other for HBO. In both films, his Winnie was Alfre Woodard. Glover's first film was Clint Eastwood's Escape from Alcatraz in 1979. His breakthrough roles were in Witness and Places in the Heart, both in 1984, playing a crooked cop in the former and a kindly cotton picker in the latter.
Glover is also widely known as a progressive political activist, using his celebrity to promote causes he believes in. He has publicly urged South Africa to pay more attention to the AIDS catastrophe there, demanded that Sudan stop its ongoing slaughter of 50,000 citizens, and protested the American invasion and occupation of Iraq. When he signed a petition protesting the American "campaign of destabilization" against Cuba, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough led other offended right-wingers in demanding Glover's firing as pitchman for MCI. The telecommunications giant soon declined to renew Glover's contract.
His parents were both active in the NAACP, and Glover has always been politically active. In high school, he became involved in the civil rights and anti-war movements. He worked as an anti-draft counselor during the height of the Vietnam War, lived in a commune for two years, and attended college in San Francisco during the height of the 1960s protests there.
As a boy he was dyslexic, and as a young man he suffered from epileptic seizures. Both conditions faded away as Glover reached adulthood.
Father: James Glover (postal worker)
Mother: Carrie Hunley (postal worker, d. 1983)
Wife: Asake Bomani (art gallery owner, m. 1975, one daughter)
Daughter: Mandisa Glover (b. 1976)
High School: George Washington High School, San Francisco, CA (1964)
University: BA Economics, San Francisco State University (1968)
Endorsement of Gap 2002, 2010
Planet Hollywood
Center for a New American Dream Advisory Board
RFK Memorial Board of Directors
TransAfrica Forum Board of Directors
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Board of Governors
Trespassing Gaithersburg, MD (16-Apr-2010)
Nigerian Ancestry
Risk Factors: Epilepsy, Dyslexia
TELEVISION
The Henry Lee Project Henry Lee (2003-)
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
Just a Dream (16-Mar-2002)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Five Minarets in New York (Nov-2010)
Alpha and Omega (16-Sep-2010) [VOICE]
Legendary (9-Sep-2010) · Harry "Red" Newman
I'm Still Here (6-Sep-2010) · Himself
Death at a Funeral (16-Apr-2010) · Uncle Russell
2012 (11-Nov-2009) · President Thomas Wilson
Night Train (2009) · Miles
The Garden (18-Jun-2008) · Himself
Blindness (14-May-2008)
Be Kind Rewind (20-Jan-2008)
Honeydripper (10-Sep-2007) · Tyrone Purvis
Battle for Terra (8-Sep-2007) · President Chen [VOICE]
Shooter (23-Mar-2007)
Poor Boy's Game (11-Feb-2007)
Dreamgirls (15-Dec-2006)
Barnyard (4-Aug-2006) [VOICE]
Bamako (21-May-2006)
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (21-Mar-2006) [VOICE]
The Shaggy Dog (9-Mar-2006)
Missing in America (28-May-2005) · Jake Neeley
Manderlay (16-May-2005) · Wilhelm
The Exonerated (27-Jan-2005)
Earthsea (13-Dec-2004)
The Cookout (3-Sep-2004)
Saw (19-Jan-2004)
Good Fences (23-Jan-2003)
The Royal Tenenbaums (5-Oct-2001)
3 AM (26-Jan-2001) · Hershey
Boesman & Lena (3-Nov-2000) · Boesman
Freedom Song (27-Feb-2000)
Our Friend, Martin (1999) [VOICE]
The Prince of Egypt (16-Dec-1998) · Jethro [VOICE]
Beloved (8-Oct-1998)
Antz (19-Sep-1998) [VOICE]
Lethal Weapon 4 (10-Jul-1998)
Buffalo Soldiers (7-Dec-1997)
Switchback (31-Oct-1997)
Gone Fishin' (30-May-1997)
Michael Jackson: HIStory on Film - Volume II (1997) · Himself
America's Dream (17-Feb-1996)
Operation Dumbo Drop (28-Jul-1995)
Angels in the Outfield (15-Jul-1994)
Bopha! (17-Sep-1993)
The Saint of Fort Washington (13-Sep-1993) · Jerry
Queen (14-Feb-1993)
Lethal Weapon 3 (15-May-1992) · Roger Murtaugh
Grand Canyon (25-Dec-1991) · Simon
Pure Luck (9-Aug-1991) · Campanella
A Rage in Harlem (3-May-1991) · Easy Money
Flight of the Intruder (18-Jan-1991)
Predator 2 (21-Nov-1990) · Harrigan
To Sleep with Anger (Jan-1990)
Lethal Weapon 2 (7-Jul-1989) · Roger Murtaugh
Dead Man Out (12-Mar-1989)
Lonesome Dove (5-Feb-1989)
A Raisin in the Sun (1-Feb-1989) · Walter Lee Younger
Bat * 21 (21-Oct-1988)
Mandela (20-Sep-1987)
Lethal Weapon (6-Mar-1987) · Roger Murtaugh
The Color Purple (18-Dec-1985)
Silverado (10-Jul-1985) · Mal
Witness (8-Feb-1985)
Places in the Heart (11-Sep-1984)
Iceman (13-Apr-1984) · Loomis
Chiefs (13-Nov-1983)
Out (1982)
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (28-Aug-1981)
Escape From Alcatraz (22-Jun-1979)
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