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Danny Glover
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Danny Glover

Born 1946 · San Francisco, California, USA · Active 1952–2026

Born in 1946, Danny Glover emerged from San Francisco's vibrant theater scene to become a notable figure in American cinema. He plays the role of the formidable lawman in Silverado (1985), a film that revitalized the Western genre with its blend of action and character-driven storytelling. Glover's performance brings depth to the ensemble, showcasing his ability to navigate complex roles. Known for his work across various genres, he has also made significant contributions to the conversation around race and representation in film.

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Silverado

Silverado

1985 ★ 7.0
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 has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail, and learn who their real friends are.

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Filmography

297 credits
2020s 12 credits
2025
Movie
2023
Double Soul as Michael Tedeschi
Movie ★ 5.5
2023
The Naughty Nine as Santa Claus
Movie ★ 6.3
2022
Movie ★ 5.9
2022
Press Play as Cooper
Movie ★ 6.5
2021
Movie ★ 7.0
2020
The Drummer as Mark Walker
Movie ★ 5.5
2020
After Fact as Self
Movie
2020
Movie ★ 8.0
2010s 101 credits
2019
Movie ★ 5.0
2019
Movie ★ 7.0
2019
Always in Season as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 6.8
2019
Movie ★ 6.9
2019
The Dead Don't Die as Hank Thompson
Movie ★ 5.4
2019
Movie ★ 10.0
2019
Movie ★ 1.0
2018
Howard as Self (archive footage)
Movie ★ 6.8
2018
Movie ★ 6.2
2018
Come Sunday as Gilbert Pearson
Movie ★ 5.8
2018
Movie ★ 6.4
2018
Proud Mary as Benny
Movie ★ 5.5
2018
Movie ★ 6.8
2018
Movie ★ 4.9
2018
Movie ★ 6.4
2018
Movie ★ 5.7
2017
Vagabonds as Uncle Issa
Movie ★ 1.0
2017
Extortion as Detective Constable Haagen
Movie ★ 6.2
2017
Birth of a Movement as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 6.4
2017
Movie ★ 5.5
2017
Tour de Pharmacy as Slim Robinson Present Day
Movie ★ 6.7
2017
Agents of Change as Self - Narrator (voice)
Movie
2017
Movie ★ 6.5
2017
The Christmas Train as Max Powers
Movie ★ 6.4
2017
Cold Case Files as Self - Narrator (voice)
TV ★ 7.9
2016
Monster Trucks as Mr. Weathers
Movie ★ 6.1
2016
Back in the Day as Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
Movie ★ 3.0
2016
Movie ★ 5.1
2016
Diablo as Benjamin Carver
Movie ★ 4.9
2016
Dirty Grandpa as Stinky
Movie ★ 5.9
2016
Darkweb as The Boss
Movie ★ 2.9
2016
Mr. Pig as Ambrose
Movie ★ 6.0
2016
Gridlocked as Sully
Movie ★ 5.9
2016
Movie ★ 6.0
2016
Movie ★ 6.0
2016
93 Days as Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri
Movie ★ 5.7
2016
Movie
2015
Movie ★ 6.0
2015
Toxin as Dr. Locke
Movie ★ 3.1
2015
Consumed as Hal Westbrook
Movie ★ 5.5
2015
Movie ★ 5.9
2015
Checkmate as Elohim
Movie ★ 3.9
2015
Waffle Street as Edward Collins
Movie ★ 6.1
2015
Andron as Chancellor Gordon
Movie ★ 3.7
2015
Caffeinated as Coffee Lover
Movie ★ 6.0
2015
Mississippi Inferno as Narrator (voice)
Movie
2014
Chasing Shakespeare as William Ward
Movie ★ 3.1
2014
Beyond the Lights as Captain Nicol
Movie ★ 6.8
2014
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses as Bernie Pope
Movie ★ 6.1
2014
Rage as Detective St. John
Movie ★ 5.3
2014
Movie ★ 2.9
2014
Supremacy as Mr. Walker
Movie ★ 5.7
2014
Yellowbird as Darius (voice)
Movie ★ 5.0
2014
Movie ★ 5.2
2014
Movie ★ 6.7
2014
The Ninja Immovable Heart as Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
Movie ★ 4.7
2014
Movie ★ 1.5
2014
TV ★ 7.5
2014
black-ish as Uncle Norman
TV ★ 7.1
2013
LUV as Arthur
Movie ★ 5.8
2013
Movie ★ 5.6
2013
Tula: The Revolt as Shinishi
Movie ★ 4.5
2013
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight as Justice Thurgood Marshall
Movie ★ 6.4
2013
Space Warriors as Commander Phillips
Movie ★ 5.3
2013
The Bouquet as Reverend John
Movie ★ 5.0
2013
Extraction as Harding
Movie ★ 4.8
2013
Shuffleton's Barbershop as Charlie Shuffleton
Movie ★ 5.2
2013
Movie ★ 3.5
2013
The Shift as Floyd
Movie ★ 5.0
2013
Ironside as Frank Ironside
TV ★ 5.1
2012
Casting By as Self
Movie ★ 6.9
2012
Movie ★ 5.8
2012
Hannah's Law as Isom Dart
Movie ★ 4.9
2012
Sins as Father Leonard
Movie ★ 2.3
2012
Movie
2012
Movie ★ 6.6
2012
Touch as Professor Arthur Teller
TV ★ 6.6
2011
Mooz-lum as Dean Francis
Movie ★ 4.6
2011
Son of Morning as Gabriel Peters
Movie ★ 3.0
2011
Mysteria as Investigator
Movie ★ 3.9
2011
Movie ★ 4.0
2011
Rise Like Lions as Self (Occupy Oakland)
Movie
2011
Donovan's Echo as Donovan Matheson
Movie ★ 6.0
2010
Alpha and Omega as Winston (voice)
Movie ★ 6.0
2010
Death at a Funeral as Uncle Russell
Movie ★ 5.9
2010
Legendary as Harry 'Red' Newman
Movie ★ 6.6
2010
Down for Life as Mr. Shannon
Movie ★ 3.5
2010
Movie ★ 5.5
2010
I Want to Be a Soldier as School Director
Movie ★ 5.7
2010
Dear Alice as Franzis
Movie ★ 5.6
2010
I'm Still Here as Danny Glover
Movie ★ 6.0
2010
Sam Cooke: Crossing Over as Narrator (voice)
Movie
2010
Human Target as Client
TV ★ 7.2
2000s 52 credits
2009
2012 as President Thomas Wilson
Movie ★ 5.9
2009
Night Train as Miles
Movie ★ 5.6
2009
The Harimaya Bridge as Joseph Holder
Movie ★ 4.9
2009
Movie ★ 7.2
2009
PoliWood as Self
Movie ★ 6.5
2009
TV
2008
Gospel Hill as John Malcolm
Movie ★ 4.7
2008
Be Kind Rewind as Mr. Fletcher
Movie ★ 6.3
2008
Blindness as Man with Black Eye Patch
Movie ★ 6.5
2008
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare as Walter Tortoise (voice)
Movie ★ 5.8
2008
Agent Crush as Major Rusty Gubbins
Movie ★ 4.8
2008
Fats Waller Was Born Here as "Fats" Waller's Father/Mr. Fletcher
Movie
2008
Leverage as Charlie Lawson
TV ★ 7.6
2007
Shooter as Colonel Isaac Johnson
Movie ★ 7.1
2007
Honeydripper as Tyrone Purvis
Movie ★ 5.9
2007
Movie ★ 5.5
2007
Battle for Terra as President Chen (voice)
Movie ★ 6.1
2007
Movie ★ 6.0
2007
Bamako as Cow-boy
Movie ★ 7.0
2006
Dreamgirls as Marty Madison
Movie ★ 6.7
2006
The Shaggy Dog as Ken Hollister
Movie ★ 4.9
2006
Barnyard as Miles (voice)
Movie ★ 5.9
2006
The Exonerated as David Keaton
Movie ★ 7.6
2006
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit as Brer Turtle (voice)
Movie ★ 6.4
2006
Movie ★ 3.6
2006
Brothers and Sisters as Isaac Marshall
TV ★ 7.1
2006
Psych as Mel Hornsby
TV ★ 7.9
2005
Manderlay as Wilhelm
Movie ★ 6.9
2005
Missing in America as Jake Neely
Movie ★ 5.8
2005
The Peace! as Self
Movie ★ 5.0
2005
Movie ★ 4.0
2005
P.N.O.K. as Col. Weldon
Movie
2005
Movie ★ 6.7
2005
TV ★ 4.8
2005
TV ★ 7.7
2005
American Dad! as Minstrel Krampus (voice)
TV ★ 7.0
2005
Criminal Minds as Hank Morgan
TV ★ 8.3
2004
Saw as David Tapp
Movie ★ 7.4
2004
The Cookout as Judge Crowley
Movie ★ 4.7
2004
Movie
2004
TV ★ 5.8
2003
Good Fences as Tom Spader
Movie ★ 5.9
2003
Movie ★ 8.4
2003
TV ★ 6.0
2002
The Real Eve as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 9.0
2001
The Royal Tenenbaums as Henry Sherman
Movie ★ 7.5
2001
3 A.M. as Hershey
Movie ★ 5.8
2000
Movie ★ 6.0
2000
Freedom Song as Will Walker
Movie ★ 5.7
2000
Movie ★ 4.5
1990s 46 credits
1999
Movie ★ 6.8
1999
Our Friend, Martin as Train Conductor (voice)
Movie ★ 7.1
1999
Movie
1999
Movie ★ 6.6
1998
Lethal Weapon 4 as Roger Murtaugh
Movie ★ 6.6
1998
Antz as Barbatus (voice)
Movie ★ 6.2
1998
The Prince of Egypt as Jethro (voice)
Movie ★ 7.3
1998
Beloved as Paul D
Movie ★ 5.8
1998
Movie ★ 8.8
1998
Soldier Child as Self - Narrator
Movie ★ 10.0
1998
Hollywood Squares as Self - Panelist
TV ★ 7.6
1997
Switchback as Bob Goodall
Movie ★ 6.0
1997
The Rainmaker as Richter Tyrone Kipler
Movie ★ 7.0
1997
Gone Fishin' as Gus Green
Movie ★ 4.9
1997
Buffalo Soldiers as Sgt. Washington Wyatt
Movie ★ 5.6
1997
Wild America as Bigfoot the Mountain Man (Uncredited)
Movie ★ 6.2
1997
The View as Self
TV ★ 4.4
1996
America's Dream as Silas (segment "Long Black Song")
Movie ★ 6.7
1995
Operation Dumbo Drop as Capt. Sam Cahill
Movie ★ 5.2
1995
Red Wind as Philip Marlowe
Movie
1995
TV
1995
TV ★ 6.3
1994
Movie ★ 6.0
1994
Maverick as Bank Robber (uncredited)
Movie ★ 6.9
1994
TV ★ 7.6
1994
ER as Charlie Pratt Sr.
TV ★ 7.8
1993
Movie ★ 6.7
1993
Bopha! as Micah Mangena
Movie ★ 5.6
1993
The Talking Eggs as Narrator (voice)
Movie ★ 8.0
1993
Fallen Angels as Marlowe
TV ★ 6.2
1993
Alex Haley's Queen as Alec Haley
TV ★ 7.0
1993
Civil War Journal as Self - Host
TV ★ 7.3
1993
TV ★ 7.3
1992
Lethal Weapon 3 as Roger Murtaugh
Movie ★ 6.7
1992
Movie
1991
Movie ★ 6.4
1991
A Rage in Harlem as Easy Money
Movie ★ 5.4
1991
Flight of the Intruder as Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
Movie ★ 5.8
1991
Pure Luck as Raymond Campanella
Movie ★ 5.6
1990
Predator 2 as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
Movie ★ 6.3
1990
Movie ★ 6.8
1990
Rabbit Ears - Moses in Egypt as Narrator (voice)
Movie
1990
TV ★ 6.9
1980s 30 credits
1989
Lethal Weapon 2 as Roger Murtaugh
Movie ★ 7.0
1989
Dead Man Out as Dr. Alex Marsh
Movie ★ 6.6
1989
A Raisin in the Sun as Walter Lee Younger
Movie ★ 7.0
1989
Movie ★ 6.0
1989
Movie
1989
Movie ★ 10.0
1989
Lonesome Dove as Joshua Deets
TV ★ 7.9
1988
Bat★21 as Capt. Bartholomew Clark
Movie ★ 6.3
1988
Movie ★ 4.5
1987
Lethal Weapon as Roger Murtaugh
Movie ★ 7.3
1987
Mandela as Nelson Mandela
Movie ★ 4.8
1986
John Henry as John Henry
Movie ★ 10.0
1985
Movie ★ 7.7
1985
Silverado as Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
Movie ★ 6.9
1985
Witness as McFee
Movie ★ 7.1
1985
Movie ★ 9.0
1985
The Stand-In as Apples Finnerty
Movie
1985
TV ★ 6.0
1984
Iceman as Loomis
Movie ★ 6.2
1984
Movie ★ 7.2
1983
Keeping On as Lester Traylor
Movie ★ 7.0
1983
Movie ★ 5.0
1983
Memorial Day as Willie Monroe
Movie ★ 6.0
1982
Out as Jojo / Roland
Movie ★ 4.8
1981
Movie ★ 5.2
1981
Movie ★ 7.0
1981
TV ★ 7.6
1981
TV ★ 6.7
1980
TV ★ 6.3
1980
Great Railway Journeys as Self - Presenter
TV ★ 7.0
1970s 3 credits
1979
Movie ★ 7.5
1975
Saturday Night Live as Roger Murtaugh (uncredited)
TV ★ 6.9
1960s 2 credits
1969
Movie ★ 10.0
1950s 2 credits
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
TV
1952
Today as Self
TV ★ 5.7
s 5 credits
Movie
Lethal Weapon 5 as Roger Murtaugh
Movie
Movie
Killing Winston Jones as Washington Carver
Movie
Crew Credits
2020s 8 credits
2026
Our Land Executive Producer
Movie ★ 7.9
2023
President Executive Producer
Movie ★ 7.5
2023
Movie
2022
Crane Lantern Executive Producer
Movie ★ 5.5
2021
Memoria Co-Producer
Movie ★ 6.0
2021
Movie ★ 7.6
2021
In Between Dying Executive Producer
Movie ★ 6.2
2020
The War on Cuba Executive Producer
TV
2010s 23 credits
2019
Easter Snap Executive Producer
Movie ★ 4.0
2019
Lynch: A History Executive Producer
Movie ★ 6.5
2018
Movie ★ 6.0
2018
Angels Are Made of Light Executive Producer
Movie ★ 10.0
2018
Capernaum Executive Producer
Movie ★ 8.1
2017
That Summer Executive Producer
Movie ★ 5.7
2017
Strong Island Executive Producer
Movie ★ 6.4
2017
Zama Co-Producer
Movie ★ 6.5
2016
White Sun Executive Producer
Movie ★ 7.1
2016
Shadow World Executive Producer
Movie ★ 7.6
2016
Movie ★ 6.7
2015
Movie ★ 5.9
2015
This Changes Everything Executive Producer
Movie ★ 6.0
2014
Movie ★ 7.0
2014
Life Is Sacred Executive Producer
Movie ★ 5.5
2012
Shenandoah Executive Producer
Movie ★ 6.6
2012
The House I Live In Executive Producer
Movie ★ 7.5
2012
Highway Producer
Movie ★ 5.8
2011
Dum Maaro Dum Executive Producer
Movie ★ 5.6
2011
Movie ★ 7.6
2010
Movie ★ 6.6
2000s 8 credits
2009
The Time That Remains Associate Producer
Movie ★ 7.2
2008
Trouble the Water Executive Producer
Movie ★ 6.9
2008
Salt of This Sea Co-Producer
Movie ★ 5.8
2007
Bamako Executive Producer
Movie ★ 7.0
2003
Good Fences Producer
Movie ★ 5.9
2002
Movie ★ 5.3
2001
3 A.M. Executive Producer
Movie ★ 5.8
2000
Freedom Song Executive Producer
Movie ★ 5.7
1990s 4 credits
1997
Buffalo Soldiers Executive Producer
Movie ★ 5.6
1996
America's Dream Executive Producer
Movie ★ 6.7
1994
Override Director
Movie ★ 8.0
1990
To Sleep with Anger Executive Producer
Movie ★ 6.8
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