Danny Glover

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Recent Role:
Arthur Teller on Touch
Gender:
Male
Born:
7-22-1946
Birthplace:
San Fransisco CA
Birth Name:
Danny Lebern Glover
A distinguished actor of the stage and screen, Danny Glover is known for his work in both Hollywood blockbusters and serious dramatic films. Towering and quietly forceful, Glover lends gravity and complexity to the diverse characters he has portrayed throughout his lengthy career.

A native of San Francisco, where he was born July 22, 1947, Glover attended San Francisco State and received his dramatic training at the American Conservatory Theatre's Black Actors' Workshop. He made his film debut in Escape from Alcatraz (1979). In the early '80s, Glover made his name portraying

More characters ranging from the sympathetic in Places in the Heart (1984) to the menacing in Witness (1985) and The Color Purple (1984). He reached box-office-gold status with the three Lethal Weapon flicks produced between 1987 and 1992, playing the conservative, family-man partner of "loose cannon" L.A. cop Mel Gibson. Glover carried over his fiddle-and-bow relationship with Gibson into his off-screen life, and also contributed an amusing cameo (complete with his Lethal Weapon catch-phrase "I'm gettin' too old for this!") in Maverick (1994). In 1998, Glover again reprised his role for the blockbuster-proportioned Lethal Weapon 4, and that same year gave a stirring performance in the little-seen Beloved.


On television, Glover played the title role in Mandela (1987), cowpoke Joshua Deets in the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove, legendary railroad man John Henry in a 1988 installment of Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales, and the mercurial leading character in the 1989 "American Playhouse" revival of A Raisin in the Sun. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    How can Movietome member flannys dislike Danny Glover he is a great actor. He did great in Lethal Weapon and Operation Dumbo Drop. He didn't do well in Saw, but he does great.

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    Danny Glover is a disgrace to the United States. The movie he is having Hugo Chavez finance should be boycotted by any real American. He is virtually a traitor. He should move to Venezuela. Without Mel Gibson he would be barely known hide show

    Danny Glover movie that is being financed by Chavez is a disgrace. He has become such a has been he needs to have a terrorist pay to make his movies. Of course, Hollywood will give, and I mean give, him an Oscar for being a virtual traitor. The loony left will heap praise on this disgrace as will the media. The N.Y. Slimes, The Washington (Com)Post. Hopefully, true Americans will send a message making his new movie the biggest flop in Hollywood History. Then Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte (an almost dead has been) should move to Venezuela and live happily ever after.

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    Good actor, though some of his movies are not one of the best, I must say that he has some cool movies all around hijm. I must say that some good films were make my film, but some others were not (Saw), but overall Danny Glover is a very good actor, and he is really underrated in some places. He is very good.

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    Danny Glover is a true actor. You really believe that he got into acting because he loves it for what it is. You'll never see him in any tabloids and you won't hear any gossip about him. In his roles, you sense more realism than many other actor's who are considered more talented than he. Of all of his roles in all of his movies, my favorite has to be "Lethal Weapon."

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