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Acting

Danny Glover

Career: Active from 1981 to 2025, busiest in 2016 with 12 main titles.

Leading roles: 106
top three billing

Average score: 53/100

Highest rated: Lonesome Dove
92/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 160 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Danny Glover Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Eroticism
1.2, average 1.8
Romance
3.3, average 3.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 17
Social Commentary 13
Thought-Provoking 7
Coming-of-Age 7
Historical Drama 6
Redemption 6
Character Study 6
Psychological Thriller 5
Family-Friendly 5
Cultural Clash 4
Moral Dilemma 4
Contemporary Setting 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

238

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

4 titles

Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story

as Narrator (voice)

Lethal Weapon 5

as Roger Murtaugh

Killing Winston Jones

as Washington Carver

Untitled Dinah Washington Biopic

Executive Producer

2020s

16 titles · average score 66

Harvest

66

Thanks

Grizzly Peak

as Will

The Naughty Nine

57

as Santa Claus

President

77

Executive Producer

Double Soul

as Michael Tedeschi

Press Play

65

as Cooper

American Dreamer

49

as Jerry

Prayers for the Stolen

84

Co-Producer

Memoria

72

Co-Producer

The Drummer

as Mark Walker

Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man

as Narrator (voice)

Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War

as Narrator (voice)

2010s

107 titles · average score 53

The Dead Don't Die

51

as Hank Thompson

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy

52

as Baltimore Bob

Proud Mary

39

as Benny

The Christmas Train

60

as Max Powers

Almost Christmas

55

as Walter

Mr. Pig

58

as Ambrose

Andron

21

as Chancellor Gordon

Bad Asses on the Bayou

39

as Bernie Pope

Toxin

20

as Dr. Locke

Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses

49

as Bernie Pope

Supremacy

49

as Mr. Walker

Age of the Dragons

18

as Ahab

2000s

45 titles · average score 59

Night Train

56

as Miles

Blindness

52

as Man with Black Eye Patch

Be Kind Rewind

60

as Mr. Fletcher

Shooter

60

as Colonel Isaac Johnson

Honeydripper

57

as Tyrone Purvis

Poor Boy's Game

72

as George

Barnyard

45

as Miles (voice)

Dreamgirls

74

as Marty Madison

Manderlay

58

as Wilhelm

Missing in America

64

as Jake Neely

Saw

62

as David Tapp

Legend of Earthsea

38

TV show · as Ogion

1990s

36 titles · average score 60

Lethal Weapon 4

55

as Roger Murtaugh

The Prince of Egypt

75

as Jethro (voice)

Antz

71

as Barbatus (voice)

Beloved

57

as Paul D

Switchback

45

as Bob Goodall

Gone Fishin'

24

as Gus Green

Operation Dumbo Drop

35

as Capt. Sam Cahill

Angels in the Outfield

48

as George Knox

Lethal Weapon 3

58

as Roger Murtaugh

Pure Luck

37

as Raymond Campanella

Flight of the Intruder

39

as Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli

Predator 2

49

as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan

1980s

28 titles · average score 67

Lethal Weapon 2

75

as Roger Murtaugh

Lonesome Dove

92

TV show · as Joshua Deets

Bat★21

67

as Capt. Bartholomew Clark

Lethal Weapon

75

as Roger Murtaugh

Mandela

65

as Nelson Mandela

The Color Purple

78

as Albert

Silverado

72

as Malachi 'Mal' Johnson

Witness

79

as McFee

And the Children Shall Lead

as William

Places in the Heart

77

as Moze

Iceman

54

as Loomis

Out

37

as Jojo / Roland

1970s

2 titles · average score 75

Escape from Alcatraz

82

as Inmate

Saturday Night Live

69

TV show · as Roger Murtaugh (uncredited)