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Danny Glover Bio
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Danny Glover Daniel Lebern Glover is an American actor who has appeared in dozens of films. His most well known role is as Sergeant Roger Murtaugh in 1987's Lethal Weapon and 1989's Lethal Weapon 2, alongside Mel Gibson, Joe Pesci, and Rene Russo. In 1989, he also appeared on an episode of Saturday Night Live as Sergeant Murtaugh.
Contrary to many rumors, Glover is not related to the other Glover Living Color’s frontman Corey.
He was born on July 22, 1946, in San Francisco, California, and has a younger brother named Martin. Glover’s mother, Carrie Hunley Glover, was a 1942 graduate of the tiny Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. In 1990 Glover started a scholarship fund in her honor. He also spoke at the school’s 120th commencement in 2002 and shook the hands of all the graduates.
Glover studied at San Francisco University where he met his future wife, Asake Bomani, whom he married in 1975. The couple has one child, Mandisa, who is named after Glover’s father, film production assistant Mandisa Glover.
While at the university, Glover was a member of the Black Student union. After school Glover worked in a city administration job before deciding that he wanted to be an actor. He then enrolled in the Black Actors Workshop at the American Conservatory Theater.
In 1979, Glover made his film debut as an unnamed inmate in Escape from Alcatraz starring Clint Eastwood. He followed this up with parts in several movies and television programs before landing the memorable role as Whoopi Goldberg’s (Celie’s) abusive husband, Albert, in 1985’s The Color of Purple.
Glover has starred alongside Mel Gibson, Joe Pesci, and Rene Russo in the Lethal Weapon movies.
Besides movies, Glover has done some voice-over animation work. He was the voice of Barbatus in the star studded Antz in 1998, alongside the vocal skills of Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Jane Curtain, Gene Hackma, Jennifer Lopez, Slyvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, and Christopher Walken. He also voiced Miles the Mule in Barnyard in 2006; and the voice of Brer Turtle in The Adventures of Brer Rabbit in 2006.
In 1994 Glover made his directorial debut with the Showtime channel’s short sci-fi film, Override.
Three years later, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts Degree from San Francisco State University. The following year, in 1998, he was appointed a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Development Program. He has also won five NAACP awards for his achievements as an actor of color.
Glover is very involved in social and political activism. He currently serves as board chair of the TransAfrica Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to focusing on conditions of people in Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America . The goal of the organization is to promote human rights.
Glover is a supporter of the activist group A.N.S.W.E.R (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism); an anti-imperialist organization formed three days after the September 11 attacks. He also serves on the advisory council for TeleSUR (Television of the South), a pan-Latin American television network based in Caracas, that was intended to be a counterweight to the privately run and often Republican-friendly stations like CNN en Español and Univisión. YUDDY |
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Danny Glover - Appeared with Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 |
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Danny Glover - Appeared with Joss Ackland in Lethal Weapon 2 |
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Danny Glover - Appeared with Patsy Kensit in Lethal Weapon 2 |
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Danny Glover - Appeared with Darlene Love in Lethal Weapon 2 |
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Danny Glover - Appeared with Traci Wolfe in Lethal Weapon 2 |
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Danny Glover - Appeared with Steve Kahan in Lethal Weapon 2 |
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Danny Glover - Appeared with Mark Rolston in Lethal Weapon 2 |
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Danny Glover - Appeared with Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 3 |
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Danny Glover - Appeared with Rene Russo in Lethal Weapon 3 |
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Danny Glover - Appeared with Stuart Wilson in Lethal Weapon 3 |
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