1. Danny Glover is an American actor, producer, and political activist.
60 Facts About Danny Glover
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Danny Glover rose to fame in the late 1980s for playing Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film series.
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Danny Glover is known for his work in television, receiving four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles as Nelson Mandela in the HBO television film Mandela, Joshua Deets in CBS western miniseries Lonesome Dove, Philip Marlowe in the Showtime neo-noir series Fallen Angels, and Will Walker in TNT biographical film Freedom Song.
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Danny Glover is a member the TransAfrica Forum, and the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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Danny Glover was born on July 22,1946, in San Francisco, California, the son of Carrie and James Danny Glover.
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Danny Glover graduated from George Washington High School in San Francisco.
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Danny Glover attended San Francisco State University in the late 1960s but did not graduate.
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Danny Glover trained at the Black Actors' Workshop of the American Conservatory Theater.
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Danny Glover originally worked in city administration working on community development before transitioning to theater.
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Danny Glover trained with Jean Shelton at the Shelton Actors Lab in San Francisco.
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Danny Glover then moved to Los Angeles for more opportunities in acting.
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Danny Glover made his film acting debut in Escape from Alcatraz.
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Danny Glover has since had a variety of film, stage and television roles.
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Danny Glover gained acclaim in 1985 starring as the husband to Whoopi Goldberg's character Celie in the celebrated literary adaptation The Color Purple.
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Danny Glover is best known for playing Los Angeles police Sergeant Roger Murtaugh in the action film Lethal Weapon, and in the 1989,1992 and 1998 sequels of the film series, starring alongside Mel Gibson.
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Danny Glover received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles as Nelson Mandela in the HBO television film Mandela and Joshua Deets in CBS western miniseries Lonesome Dove.
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Also in 1994, Danny Glover made his directorial debut with the Showtime channel short film Override.
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Disney originally wanted Bob Hoskins for the role of George Knox, but he was considered too short for the role and Danny Glover was cast because of his height and is the same size as the actors playing the California Angels.
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In common with Humphrey Bogart, Elliott Gould and Robert Mitchum, who have played Raymond Chandler's private eye detective Philip Marlowe, Danny Glover played the role in the episode "Red Wind" of the Showtime network's 1995 series Fallen Angels, earning him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Also that year, Danny Glover played Captain Sam Cahill in the war film Operation Dumbo Drop.
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In 1997, under his former production company banner Carrie Films, Danny Glover executive produced numerous films of first time directors including Pamm Malveaux's neo-noir short film Final Act starring Joe Morton, which aired on the Independent Film Channel.
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Danny Glover was featured in the Wes Anderson directed 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.
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Danny Glover's experience inspired the passage of the Notification and Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002.
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In 2009, Danny Glover performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.
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Danny Glover played President Wilson, the President of the United States in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released in theaters November 13,2009.
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In 2010, Danny Glover participated in the black comedy film Death at a Funeral, and a Spanish film called I Want to Be a Soldier.
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Danny Glover co-starred in the science fiction comedy film Sorry to Bother You, which was released in theaters on July 6,2018.
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Danny Glover appeared in the film The Last Black Man in San Francisco.
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Danny Glover sought to make a film biography of Toussaint Louverture for his directorial debut.
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In May 2007, President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez contributed $18 million to fund the production of Toussaint for Danny Glover, who was a prominent US supporter of Chavez.
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The contribution annoyed some Venezuelan filmmakers, who said the money could have funded other homegrown films and that Danny Glover's film was not even about Venezuela.
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Danny Glover is fortuitously named after him and that was the movie that I wanted to do.
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Danny Glover appeared at London Film and Comic Con 2013 at Earls Court 2 over 2.5 days during Friday 5th to Sunday, July 7.
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Danny Glover participated in a panel discussion in McComb, Mississippi on July 16,2015.
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On January 30,2015, Danny Glover was the Keynote Speaker and 2015 Honoree for the MLK Celebration Series at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Danny Glover used his career and personal story to speak on the topic "Creativity and Democracy: Social Change through the Arts".
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At the University of the Virgin Islands, Danny Glover gave a speech that encouraged the graduates in their upcoming journey.
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Mr Danny Glover attended the Seattle Storm versus Los Angeles Sparks on September 15,2024.
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Danny Glover was announced over the public address system and received a standing ovation.
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Danny Glover married Asake Bomani in 1975 and they have a daughter, Mandisa, born in 1976.
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Danny Glover purchased a 6,000-square-foot house in Dunthorpe, Oregon, in 1999.
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Danny Glover is a board member of the Algebra Project, the Black AIDS Institute, Walden House and Cheryl Byron's Something Positive Dance Group.
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In March 2010, Danny Glover supported 375 union workers in Ohio by calling upon all actors at the 2010 Academy Awards to boycott Hugo Boss suits following announcement of Hugo Boss's decision to close a manufacturing plant in Ohio after a proposed pay decrease from $13 to $8.30 an hour was rejected by the Workers United Union.
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On November 1,2011, Danny Glover spoke to the crowd at Occupy Oakland on the day before the Oakland General Strike where thousands of protestors shut down the Port of Oakland.
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Danny Glover was an early supporter of former North Carolina Senator John Edwards in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries until Edwards' withdrawal, although some news reports indicated that he had endorsed Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, whom he had endorsed in 2004.
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In February 2016, Danny Glover endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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In February 2019, Danny Glover again endorsed Sanders for US president in 2020.
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Danny Glover wrote the foreword to Phyllis Bennis' book, Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power.
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Danny Glover is a member of the board of directors of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a think tank led by economist Dean Baker.
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Danny Glover is an active board member of the TransAfrica Forum.
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On January 13,2010, Danny Glover compared the scale and devastation of the 2010 Haiti earthquake to the predicament other island nations may face as a result of the failed Copenhagen summit the previous year.
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Danny Glover had been an outspoken critic of the Iraq War before it began in March 2003.
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Danny Glover is fortuitously named after him and that was the movie that I wanted to do.
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Danny Glover was a board member of TeleSUR, a media network primarily funded by the Venezuelan government.
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Danny Glover told Venezuelan government supporters to go fight for the sovereignty of Maduro's government.
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Danny Glover has become an active member of board of directors of The Jazz Foundation of America.
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Danny Glover became involved with The Jazz Foundation in 2005, and has been a featured host for their annual benefit A Great Night in Harlem for several years, as well appearing as a celebrity MC at other events for the foundation.
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In 2010, Danny Glover delivered the Commencement Address and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Utah State University.
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Danny Glover was the recipient of a tribute paid by the Deauville American Film Festival in France on September 7,2011.
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Danny Glover was awarded the Cuban National Medal of Friendship by the Cuban Council of State on December 29,2016, in a ceremony in Havana for his solidarity with the Cuban 5 during their time of incarceration in the United States.