Danny GloverFilmography

Born:: July 22, 1947 in San Francisco, CA
Occupation:: Actor, Executive Producer
Biography:: 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...Read More

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Alpha and Omega

Actors: Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Christina Ricci, Danny Glover, Dennis Hopper, Larry Miller

Synopsis: Lionsgate presents this animated tale of two wolves (voiced by Justin Long and Hayden Panettiere) trying to find their way home to their pack after being kidnapped. Christina Ricci, Danny Glover, Dennis Hopper, and Larry Miller also supply voices for the Crest Animation production, helmed by Anthony Bell Read More

10/1/10
Death at a Funeral

Actors: Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Tracy Morgan, Danny Glover, Regina Hall

Synopsis: Frank Oz's 2007 black comedy laugher Death at a Funeral is given the remake treatment with an urban spin in this Chris Rock-penned production. The comedian will head up an ensemble that comes together after a death in the family, with disastrous results. Rock penned the script with Aeysha Carr for Read More

1/1/10
2012

Actors: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) crafts this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller following an academic researcher who opens a portal into a parallel universe, making contact with his double in an effort to prevent the catastrophic prophecies of the ancient Read More

11/13/09
Battle for Terra

Actors: Evan Rachel Wood, Justin Long, Luke Wilson, Dennis Quaid, Amanda Peet, Chris Evans

Synopsis: When the peaceful inhabitants of the planet Terra come under attack from humans in search of a new home, the friendship between a human pilot and an alien girl may hold the key to saving both races. Mala (Evan Rachel Wood) is an alien girl living on the planet Terra. The Terrians are gentle race Read More

5/1/09
The Garden

Synopsis: In the aftermath of the 1992 L.A. riots, something truly remarkable happened at the intersection of 41st Street and Alameda Avenue thanks to an uncharacteristically charitable move by the city government; where once existed a barren field littered with garbage and syringes suddenly appeared a Read More

4/24/09
Soundtrack for a Revolution

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Soundtrack for a Revolution takes a look at the American civil rights movement, focusing on the role that music--spiritiuals and protest songs--played, as the backdrop and the inspiration for the pickets, sit-ins and demonstrations of the turbulent era. Directors Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman Read More

2009
Down for Life

Actors: Jessica Romero, Danny Glover, Kate del Castillo, Emily Rios, Laz Alonso

Synopsis: A teenager considers an opportunity that could save her life or end it in this streetwise drama from director Alan Jacobs. Rascal (Jessica Romero) is fifteen years old and attending high school in East Los Angeles. Rascal is also one of the leaders of a gang of young Latinas who inherited their Read More

2009
Blindness

Actors: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura

Synopsis: Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago's novel Blindness begins when an epidemic of blindness strikes the world. Mark Ruffalo stars as an eye doctor who awakens one morning to find that he suffers from the unexplained disorder. He, along with other victims, is Read More

10/3/08
Trouble the Water

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Relegated to the role of refugees in their own country the moment the levees broke, New Orleans residents Kimberly and Scott Roberts document their harrowing struggle against the forces of nature and the evils of man as they nobly attempt to rebuild their lives amidst one of the greatest natural Read More

8/22/08
Be Kind Rewind

Actors: Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz

Synopsis: When a bumbling movie lover becomes magnetized while attempting to sabotage a local power plant and accidentally erases all of the videotapes in the small video store where his best friend works, the pair attempt to keep the store's loyal customer base by remaking as many of the top-renting movies Read More

2/22/08
Gospel Hill

Actors: Angela Bassett, Giancarlo Esposito, Danny Glover, Julia Stiles, Adam Baldwin

Synopsis: Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, Julia Stiles, and Samuel L. Jackson headline actor-turned-director Giancarlo Esposito's ensemble drama about a small southern town still haunted by a racially motivated murder that occurred there thirty years prior. Civil rights activist Peter Malcolm (Jackson) was at Read More

2008
Night Train

Actors: Danny Glover, Steve Zahn, Leelee Sobieski, Matthias Schweighofer, Geoff Bell

Synopsis: A train conductor (Danny Glover), a pre-med student (LeeleeSobieski), and a fast-talking salesman (Steve Zahn) find their greed clashing with their better judgment after stumbling into a fortune in diamonds aboard a speeding locomotive, and attempting to figure out a way to keep their discovery a Read More

2008
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare - The Rematch of the Century

Actors: Jay Leno, Danny Glover, Drake Bell, Vivica A. Fox, Keke Palmer

Synopsis: The imaginative producers at the Jim Henson Company update the age-old story of The Tortoise and the Hare in this award winning animated adventure featuring the voices of Jay Leno, Danny Glover, Vivica A. Fox, and Keke Palmer. With his "slow and steady" philosophy, Mr. Tortoise may have crossed Read More

2008
Salt of This Sea

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis, Shelly Goral

Synopsis: A woman confronts the realities of life in the occupied Palestinian territories in this drama. While she was born and raised in New York, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) is of Palestinian heritage and has long dreamed of returning to the land of her ancestors. When Soraya learns that her grandfather Read More

2008
Read You Like a Book

Actors: Tony Amendola, Barbara Crampton, Catalina Larranaga, Lorenzo Pisoni, Karen Black

Synopsis: A whistle-blowing doctor hides incriminating information in a magical book with the power to transform all who come onto contact with it, prompting unwanted attention from the heavies at a powerful pharmaceutical company and setting five unwitting strangers on a strange collision course. Bookstore Read More

2008
Honeydripper

Actors: Danny Glover, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Keb' Mo', Yaya DaCosta, Charles S. Dutton, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Kel Mitchell

Synopsis: Tyrone (Danny Glover) is the proprietor of the Honeydripper juke joint. When business at the once-popular club begins to trail off and Tyrone hires unpredictable electric guitarist Sonny (Gary Clark Jr.) against his better judgment, Tyrone's last-ditch bid to draw in crowds during harvest time has Read More

12/28/07
Shooter

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas

Synopsis: A top Marine sniper who previously abandoned the military after a routine mission gave way to tragedy is double-crossed by the government after reluctantly being pressured back into service in Training Day director Antoine Fuqua's adaptation of Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact. There was a Read More

3/23/07
Bamako

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Aïssa Maïga, Hélène Diarra, Tiecoura Tracore, Djénéba Koné, Habib Dembélé

Synopsis: Abderrahmane Sissako wrote and directed this offbeat, satiric comedy which imagines how the powers that be in the West might be forced to answer for the damage they've done in the Third World. Mele (Aissa Maiga) is an attractive Malian lounge singer married to Chaka (Tiecoura Traore), though their Read More

2/14/07
Africa Unite

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rita Marley, Danny Glover, Angelique Kidjo, Lauryn Hill, Ziggy Marley

Synopsis: In this concert staged on what would have been reggae legend Bob Marley's sixtieth birthday, a whole host of musicians gather in historic Meskel Square of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for a twelve hour concert presented to highlight Marley's timeless message of universal unity and understanding. In Read More

2007
Poor Boy's Game

Actors: Rossif Sutherland, Danny Glover, Greg Bryk, Flex Alexander, Laura Regan

Synopsis: Released from prison after serving ten years for pummeling his opponent to the point of inflicting severe brain damage, working class pugilist Donnie Rose (Rossif Sutherland) finds his efforts to start life anew complicated by simmering racism and long-suppressed vengeance. In the aftermath of Read More

2007
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation

Actors: Carl Lumbly, Danny Glover, Joel Haikali, Chrisjan Appollus, Obed Emvula

Synopsis: Charles Burnett's Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation tells the rise to power of Samuel Nujoma (Carl Lumbly), a prominent leader in Namibia's struggle for independence from South Africa, and that country's first president. Opening when Nujoma was 16 years old and the country is under constant Read More

2007
Dreamgirls

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose, Keith Robinson, Sharon Leal

Synopsis: Director Bill Condon brings Tom Eyen's Tony award-winning Broadway musical to the big screen in a tale of dreams, stardom, and the high cost of success in the cutthroat recording industry. The time is the 1960s, and singers Effie (Jennifer Hudson), Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose), and Deena (Beyoncé Knowles Read More

12/15/06
Barnyard

Actors: Kevin James, Courteney Cox Arquette, Sam Elliott, Danny Glover, Wanda Sykes

Synopsis: A cow learns to walk like a man, both literally and figuratively, in this computer-animated comedy written and directed by Steve Oedekerk, the creator of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Ben (voice of Sam Elliott) is a cow who for years has been the leader and sober voice of reason among the animals at Read More

7/28/06
The Shaggy Dog

Actors: Tim Allen, Robert Downey, Jr., Kristin Davis, Danny Glover, Spencer Breslin

Synopsis: An unexpected transformation helps a workaholic attorney learn that there's more to life than the courtroom in this remake of the 1959 Disney canine classic of the same name. Deputy District Attorney Dave Douglas (Tim Allen) takes his job in the halls of justice very seriously -- so seriously in Read More

3/10/06
Manderlay

Actors: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankolé, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Michael Abiteboul

Synopsis: The politics of slavery and the follies of nation-building highlight Danish director Lars von Trier's thought-provoking follow-up to the director's 2003 drama Dogville, featuring The Village's Bryce Dallas Howard in the role originally played by Nicole Kidman, and shot in the same stage-bound Read More

1/27/06
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

Synopsis: The timeless tales of Uncle Remus come to life as never before as Brer Fox, Brer Bear, and the mischievous Brer Rabbit hip hop their way into children's hearts in an animated adventure featuring the vocals talents of Danny Glover, D.L. Hughley, Wanda Sykes, Wayne Brady, and Nick Cannon. Brer Read More

2006
Aristide and the Endless Revolution

Actors: Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Synopsis: Jean-Bertrand Aristide was the first democratically elected president of Haiti, a nation long marked by political instability and corruption, but while the former Catholic priest was voted in as a friend of the poor and the disadvantaged, staying in office proved to be his greatest challenge. Aristide Read More

11/17/05
The Exonerated

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Aidan Quinn, Danny Glover, Brian Dennehy, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: Adapted by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen from their own off-Broadway play, The Exonerated dramatizes the real-life stories of six innocent citizens who spent anywhere from three to 20 years on death row until DNA testing proved that they had all been falsely convicted. Each of the six stories is Read More

2005
Missing in America

Actors: Danny Glover, Linda Hamilton, David Strathairn, Ron Perlman, Zoë Weizenbaum

Synopsis: A reclusive Vietnam veteran finds his quiet life thrown into chaos upon receiving an unexpected visitor in this tale of friendship and healing starring Danny Glover, Linda Hamilton, and Ron Perlman. Though 35 years have passed since Jake (Glover) returned to American soil after fighting in the Read More

2005
Saw

Actors: Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer

Synopsis: The directorial debut from filmmaker James Wan, this psychological thriller comes from the first screenplay by actor Leigh Whannell, who also stars. Whannell plays Adam, one of two men chained up in a mysterious chamber. The other, Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes), like Adam, has no idea how either of them Read More

10/29/04
The Cookout

Actors: Danny Glover, Jenifer Lewis, Ja Rule, Tim Meadows, Storm P, Meagan Good

Synopsis: When Todd Anderson (Storm P) signs a 30-million-dollar contract with the New Jersey Nets after being named the number one NBA draft pick of the year, his mother (Jenifer Lewis) vows to prevent her son from forgetting his roots. Not used to balancing his new life with his old, Todd mistakenly Read More

9/3/04
Earthsea

Actors: Shawn Ashmore, Kristin Kreuk, Isabella Rossellini, Danny Glover, Sebastian Roche, Chris Gauthier, Jennifer Calvert, Mark Hildreth

Synopsis: Lord of the Rings fans take note, acclaimed fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin's epic tale of wizardry and prophecy comes to life as never before in director Robert Lieberman's imaginative screen adaptation of her popular Earthsea novels. Adapted for the Sci-Fi Channel, the two-part miniseries Read More

2004
The Peace! DVD

Actors: Harry Belafonte, Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Ossie Davis, Danny Glover

Synopsis: A pair of pacifist-minded documentarians reach out to dozens of their generation's greatest thinkers in a bid to ensure a peaceful future for all in this documentary that encourages viewers to take an active role in the peace process. From September 2002 to May 2003, filmmakers Gabriele Zamparini Read More

2004
The Art of Romare Bearden

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Danny Glover

Synopsis: Romare Bearden is widely regarded as one of the most gifted and visionary American artists of his generation, and among the most important African-American visual artists of the 20th century. Best known for his work in collage, in which he captured both the sights and the energies of the various Read More

2003
The John Garfield Story

Actors: Julie Garfield

Synopsis: According to this made-for-cable documentary, stage and film star John Garfield set the standard for naturalistic acting that blazed the trail for such future "method" types as Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro. Lovingly narrated by Garfield's actress daughter, Julie Garfield, the film details the Read More

2003
Good Fences

Crew: Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Zachary Simmons Glover, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Ashley Archer

Synopsis: A black family gets a first-hand look at the trials and tribulations of upward mobility and suburban segregation in this pointed comedy. In 1973, Tom (Danny Glover) is an African-American attorney who is determined to raise himself up by his own bootstraps from his position near the bottom of the Read More

2003
The Forts and Castles of Ghana

Synopsis: Narrated by respected actor Danny Glover, The Forts and Castles of Ghana offers a tour of ancient structures in the African country. Many of these buildings date back to the days of the slave trade. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2003
The Real Eve

Synopsis: The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can be traced to a common ancestor. The mitochondrial DNA of one prehistoric woman, who lived in Africa, has according to this theory been passed down from generation to generation over a span of Read More

2002
The Royal Tenenbaums

Actors: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson

Synopsis: Director Wes Anderson and his longtime friend and writing partner Owen Wilson follow up Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) with this similarly offbeat comedy about a dysfunctional family reunion. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) was a successful attorney who had three children with his wife Read More

12/14/01
3 A.M.

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Pam Grier, Michelle Rodriguez, Sergej Trifunovic, Sarita Choudhury

Synopsis: New York City may be the city that never sleeps, but that means some people have to stay awake all night to look after the folks whose days begin after the sun goes down; this made-for-premium-cable drama looks at a group of cabbies trying to get by while working the night shift. The Lady Luck Cab Read More

2001
Civil War Journal: West Point Classmates, Civil War Enemies

Synopsis: This video is part of an acclaimed series from the History Channel that chronicles the American Civil War. The series, narrated by Danny Glover, uses archival photographs, diaries, articles, reenactments, and scholarly commentary to tell the story of the War Between the States. Many of the Read More

2001
Just a Dream

Crew: Director

Actors: Rodney Grant, Amy Madigan, Ally Sheedy, Robby Benson, Carl Lumbly, Jeremy Sumpter

Synopsis: A wide-eyed young boy finds his small-town life turned upside down in the feature directorial debut from actor Danny Glover. Jeremy Sumpter of Frailty stars as Henry, a youngster in rural America who dreams of Hollywood when a big-studio movie crew comes to town to shoot a new picture. Also Read More

2001
Civil War Journal: Robert E. Lee

Synopsis: This video is part of an acclaimed series from the History Channel that chronicles the American Civil War. The series, narrated by Danny Glover, uses archival photographs, diaries, articles, reenactments, and scholarly commentary to tell the story of the War Between the States. This volume Read More

2001
Ennis' Gift

2001
Boesman & Lena

Actors: Angela Bassett, Danny Glover

Synopsis: Angela Bassett and Danny Glover star in this gripping film adaptation of Athol Fugard's renowned play. Though written during the apex of apartheid and first staged in 1970, director John Berry downplays the work's historical background and strips the play of its poetic symbolism, lending the film Read More

11/3/00
Freedom Song

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Vicellous Shannon, Loretta Devine, Glynn E. Turman

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie focuses on the grassroots efforts of a Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to combat the entrenched racism of the segregated South. The film focuses on Owen Walker (Vicellus Reon Shannon), a youth who longs to address the injustices of his hometown in rural Read More

2000
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later

1999
The Prince of Egypt

Actors: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: Dreamworks Pictures has taken the biblical story of Exodus, put it into cartoon form, and released it on the big screen as an epic animated feature. The Prince of Egypt tells the story of Moses releasing the Jews from Egyptian slavery under the hand of the evil pharaoh Rameses. Think of The Ten Commandments Read More

12/18/98
Beloved

Actors: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beah Richards

Synopsis: Jonathan Demme directed this adaptation of Toni Morrison's fact-based fifth novel (winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize), written in an experimental stream-of-consciousness flow and capturing the impact and aftermath of slavery on the human soul. In 1873, middle-aged Sethe (Oprah Winfrey) lives near Read More

10/16/98
Antz

Actors: Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Gene Hackman, Christopher Walken

Synopsis: DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images collaborated on this all computer-animated comedy-adventure about the ant angst of misfit worker ant, Z (voice of Woody Allen), who feels trapped by the conformist confines of his totalitarian ant civilization and eventually sets forth in search of Insectopia. Read More

10/2/98
Lethal Weapon 4

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock

Synopsis: Detectives Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) reteamed for their fourth foray together in this buddy-cop action-comedy series based on characters created by Shane Black. With the passage of years, Murtagh's daughter Rianne (Traci Wolfe) is now about to upgrade Murtagh to Read More

7/10/98
Life By the Numbers: Chances of a Lifetime - Probability

1998
Life By the Numbers: The Numbers Game - Sports

1998
Life By the Numbers: Patterns of Nature - Biology

1998
Story of a People, Vol. 2: Black Youth

1998
Story of a People, Vol. 4: Affirmative Action on Trial

Synopsis: In this episode of Story of a People, Danny Glover hosts an in-depth look at the issues surrounding affirmative action. All sides of the issue are given equal time. The same weight is assigned affirmative action's triumphs and its failures. Through interviews with people from a wide variety of Read More

1998
Life By the Numbers: Making a Difference - Education

1998
Life By the Numbers: Shape of the World - Exploration

1998
Life By the Numbers: A New Age - Information Age

1998
Life By the Numbers: Seeing is Believing - Special Effects

1998
Gone Fishin'

Actors: Joe Pesci, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn Whitfield, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: Just how much trouble can two guys get into while trying to catch some fish? Joe Waters (Joe Pesci) and Gus Green (Danny Glover) are two guys from New Jersey who've known each other since childhood; they've always been friends, and they've always been inept to the point of posing a threat to life Read More

1997
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life and Music of Robert Johnson

Actors: Danny Glover, Keb' Mo'

Synopsis: A mix of new interviews with old footage and recordings, this documentary, narrated by Danny Glover, highlights legendary Mississippi blues guitarist-singer Robert Johnson (1911-38). Kevin Moore (who records as Keb Mo) appears as Johnson in narrated reenactment sequences, and producer Don Law is Read More

1997
Buffalo Soldiers

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Bob Gunton, Carl Lumbly, Tom Bower, Gabriel Casseus

Synopsis: Frank Military and Susan Rhinehart scripted this western, a look back at the post-Civil War Black cavalry troops known as the Buffalo Soldiers, the fierce fighting unit previously covered in a PBS four-parter (1970) and an NBC pilot (1979). In the New Mexico Territory, ex-slave Sgt. Wyatt (Danny Glover Read More

1997
Switchback

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, Jared Leto, R. Lee Ermey, Ted Levine

Synopsis: Scripter Jeb Stuart (Die Hard) made his directorial debut with this thriller about an FBI agent in pursuit of a serial killer. Politically ambitious Amarillo police chief Jack McGinnis (William Fichtner) uses a local murder to gain votes in his campaign, a setback for Sheriff Buck Olmstead (R. Lee Ermey Read More

1997
The Rainmaker

Actors: Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke

Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola is both scripter and director of this drama adapted from the John Grisham novel about broke, inexperienced Memphis law-school graduate Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon), ready to take any job he can find. Signing on with slimy Bruiser Stone (Mickey Rourke), he learns ambulance-chasing Read More

1997
Wild America

Actors: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Devon Sawa, Scott Bairstow, Frances Fisher, Jamey Sheridan

Synopsis: Based on the true saga of the Stouffer brothers, this movie is an unusual combination of comedy film and nature documentary. In the 1960s in rural Arkansas, Marty Stouffer (Jamey Sheridan) grooms his three sons to take over the family auto parts business. But the sons are more interested in Read More

1997
Street Soldiers

1997
Images & Realities: The African American Family

Synopsis: This program examines the history and traditions of the African-American family and takes a look at contemporary family life, considering stressful situations such as economic pressure, rising health care costs, divorce, and the complications of raising children in a culture where the effects of Read More

1996
Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain

Synopsis: Thomas Jefferson's eloquence and understanding of the importance of human dignity is forever captured in America's Declaration of Independence. Yet like so many others of his day, Jefferson felt owning slaves was an acceptable practice. This program includes a look at the widely known allegation Read More

1996
America's Dream

Actors: Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes

Synopsis: Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each of which is directed by a respected black director. The first tale, Long Black Song, was written by Richard Wright and is set in Alabama, 1938. It Read More

1996
Deadly Voyage

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Omar Epps, Joss Ackland, David Suchet, Sean Pertwee, Jean-Claude LaMarre

Synopsis: This made-for-cable thriller stars Omar Epps as Ofusu, one of nine asylum-seeking African refugees who sneak aboard a Russian cargo vessel en route to France. When the ship's captain (Joss Ackland) discovers the stowaways, he is reminded by his aggressively ambitious executive officer (Sean Pertwee Read More

1996
Happily Ever After Fairy Tales: The Frog Prince

Synopsis: What ever will princess Ebony do without the friends she so desperately wants? Her father, the king, has given her everything he can, except for friends she can call her own. This modernized fable finds the African-American princess Ebony kissing frogs in hopes of finding friends her own age. Read More

1995
Operation Dumbo Drop

Actors: Danny Glover, Ray Liotta, Denis Leary, Doug E. Doug, Corin Nemec

Synopsis: This old fashioned service comedy is suitable for the whole family. It is set in Vietnam during the war and chronicles the efforts of a small band of Green Berets as they endeavor to help out a beleaguered village located next to a major supply route for the Viet Cong. The leader, Capt. Sam Cahill Read More

1995
Angels in the Outfield

Actors: Danny Glover, Tony Danza, Brenda Fricker, Christopher Lloyd, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: Updated from the 1951 film of the same name, Angels In The Outfield takes liberties with the original to bring sentimental values to a modern setting. Roger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favorite baseball team, the Read More

1994
Maverick

Actors: Noah Emmerich, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, James Coburn

Synopsis: A gunslinging con man develops a tricky scheme to make a killing at a major poker tournament in this comic Western inspired by the popular television show. Mel Gibson assumes the role of Bret Maverick, the handsome rogue who hopes to cheat his way to success. In need of a large stake to enter a Read More

1994
Civil War Journal: Sherman and the March to the Sea

Synopsis: This video is part of an acclaimed series from The History Channel that chronicles the American Civil War. The series uses archival photographs, diaries, articles, re-enactments, and scholarly commentary to tell the story of the War Between the States. This episode chronicles General William Read More

1994
Civil War Journal: Stonewall Jackson

Synopsis: This video is part of an acclaimed series from The History Channel that chronicles the American Civil War. The series uses archival photographs, diaries, articles, re-enactments, and scholarly commentary to tell the story of the War Between the States. Southern military hero Stonewall Jackson Read More

1994
Bopha!

Actors: Danny Glover, Malcolm McDowell, Alfre Woodard, Marius Weyers, Maynard Eziashi

Synopsis: This 1993 film adaptation of Percy Mtwa's South African play Bopha was rendered anachronistic by late-breaking events, though it still contains plenty of food for thought. Danny Glover stars as a black police officer in the waning days of apartheid. Though dedicated to his job, Glover has mixed Read More

1993
Civil War Journal: The 54th Massachusetts

Synopsis: This video is part of an acclaimed series from The History Channel that chronicles the American Civil War. The series uses archival photographs, diaries, articles, re-enactments, and scholarly commentary to tell the story of the War Between the States. This episode tells the story of the Read More

1993
The Saint of Fort Washington

Actors: Danny Glover, Matt Dillon, Rick Aviles, Nina Siemaszko, Ving Rhames

Synopsis: Danny Glover plays Jerry, a caring street person who takes a mentally retarded Matthew Dillon under his wing, teaching him the survival smarts so necessary to society's left-overs. The two team up with three other vagrants in an attempt to build a nuclear group-support community and find little Read More

1993
Civil War Journal: The Battle of 1st Bull Run

Synopsis: This video is part of an acclaimed series from The History Channel that chronicles the American Civil War. The series uses archival photographs, diaries, articles, re-enactments, and scholarly commentary to tell the story of the War Between the States. This episode chronicles the victory of Read More

1993
Civil War Journal: Destiny at Fort Sumter

Synopsis: This video is part of an acclaimed series from The History Channel that chronicles the American Civil War. The series uses archival photographs, diaries, articles, re-enactments, and scholarly commentary to tell the story of the War Between the States. This video explores the strategic importance Read More

1993
Civil War Journal: John Brown's War

Synopsis: This video is part of an acclaimed series from The History Channel that chronicles the American Civil War. The series uses archival photographs, diaries, articles, re-enactments, and scholarly commentary to tell the story of the War Between the States. This episode presents anti-slavery crusader Read More

1993
Lethal Weapon 3

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Stuart Wilson

Synopsis: Superstars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return with director Richard Donner for Lethal Weapon 3, the third in the phenomenally successful action series. In this film, Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is only eight days away from retirement and his partner Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) once again manages Read More

5/15/92
Rabbit Ears: Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion

Synopsis: From the series "American Heroes and Legends" this production of American Folk Tales show how brains overcome brawn. The musical score is from Dr. John. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1992
American Heroes and Legends: Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion

1992
Queen

Actors: Halle Berry, Tim Daly, Danny Glover, Ann-Margret, Jasmine Guy, Ossie Davis

Synopsis: In 1977, Alex Haley's groundbreaking mini-series Roots became one of the most watched programs in television history, telling the story of seven generations of the author's mother's family, from their capture in Africa and enslavement in the United States to their eventual emancipation more than a Read More

1992
Grand Canyon

Actors: Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Steve Martin, Mary McDonnell, Mary-Louise Parker, Alfre Woodard

Synopsis: Director Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon is a gathering of random events, uniting the film's wildly divergent protagonists. Driving home from an LA Lakers game, Mack (Kevin Kline), an immigration attorney, is stranded in an unsavory part of town when his car breaks down. He is rescued from a gang Read More

12/25/91
Pure Luck

Actors: Martin Short, Danny Glover, Sheila Kelley, Sam Wanamaker, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: This wacky buddy comedy was the fifth in a series of Hollywood remakes of films by French director Francis Veber, none of which were box office successes. Sheila Kelley is Valerie Highsmith, an heiress who, despite her family's wealth, suffers from horribly bad luck. On a vacation to Mexico, she Read More

8/9/91
A Rage in Harlem

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens, Zakes Mokae, Danny Glover

Synopsis: Bill Duke directs this quirky film adaptation of Chester Himes' crime novel -- a heavily plotted gangster tale with a sweet love story hidden underneath. The film begins in Natchez, Mississippi in 1956. During a police shoot-out with the mob leader Slim's (Badja Djola) gang, Slim's moll Imabelle (Robin Givens Read More

5/3/91
The Flight of the Intruder

Actors: Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Brad Johnson, Rosanna Arquette, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: Two pilots go against the rule book in a bid to win the war in Viet Nam in this speculative military drama. Lieutenant Jake Grafton (Brad Johnson) is a U.S. Navy pilot stationed aboard an aircraft carrier after the death of his one-time flying partner Morgan McPherson (Christopher Rich), who Read More

1/18/91
Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby

Synopsis: Actor Danny Glover narrates this classic Southern tale of the spunky Brer Rabbit as he must figure out a way to escape the clutches of the no-mannered Tar Baby and Brer Fox. This animated tale is part of the series titled "We All Have Tales." ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
The Untold West: The Black West

Synopsis: The Emmy award-winning film and Cable Ace nominee The Untold West: The Black West is part of the three-volume The Untold West series. Directed by Nina Rosenblum and narrated by Danny Glover, this segment salutes the black cowboys of the western wilderness who fought alongside their Native American Read More

1991
Predator 2

Actors: Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Rubén Blades, Maria Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton

Synopsis: This special effects-heavy science fiction sequel moves the action from the first film's Amazon forest to the urban jungle of L.A. Danny Glover stars as Lt. Mike Harrigan, an LAPD detective baffled by his latest case, the ritualistic slaughter of several drug dealers by a devastating killer who Read More

11/21/90
To Sleep with Anger

Crew: Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Richard Brooks, Paul Butler, Mary Alice, Carl Lumbly, Sheryl Lee Ralph

Synopsis: African-American drifter Danny Glover shows up at the LA doorstep of his old pal Paul Butler. In the spirit of auld lang syne, Butler takes Glover in, though his wife (Mary Alice) is not happy with this intrusion. She already has enough on her hands contending with her grown live-in son Richard Brooks Read More

10/12/90
Lonesome Dove: The Making of an Epic

Synopsis: This documentary is about the making of the immensely popular television series Lonesome Dove. The Western epic, adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel, starred Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones as two aging cowboys and former Texas rangers, who organize a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. The Read More

1990
Lethal Weapon 2

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor

Synopsis: Lethal Weapon 2 reteams Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as, respectively, "loose cannon" LA detective Martin Riggs and Riggs' partner, the cautious family man Roger Murtaugh. The villain this time is a South African diplomat (Joss Ackland) who doubles as a drug dealer. Though Riggs knows what's going Read More

7/7/89
A Raisin in the Sun

Actors: Esther Rolle, Danny Glover

Synopsis: Raisin in the Sun is a 1989 TV adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 Broadway play (previously filmed in 1962). An African-American family hopes to use a $10,000 legacy left them by the family's late father to move out of the Chicago projects and into a white neighborhood. Spearheading the move Read More

1989
Lonesome Dove

Actors: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Rick Schroder, Robert Urich, Diane Lane, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: This six-hour miniseries, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Larry McMurtry, revitalized both the miniseries and Western genres, both of which had been considered dead for several years. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones star as fun-loving Gus MacRae and taciturn Woodrow Call Read More

1989
Dead Man Out

Actors: Danny Glover, Rubén Blades

Synopsis: Danny Glover and Ruben Blades costar in this made-for-cable death row thriller. Blades plays a condemned prisoner, while Glover plays his psychiatrist. The prisoner's behavior is so violent and erratic that he may be too sick to execute. Glover is brought in to calm Blades down--and if he does so Read More

1989
How the Leopard Got His Spots

Synopsis: Produced by the Windham Hill/Rabbit Ears collaborative team, How the Leopard Got His Spots is an entertaining animated interpretation of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Story. Danny Glover provides the narration, while Lori Lohstoeter provides the illustrations. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Read More

1989
Bat 21

Actors: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed, David Marshall Grant, Clayton Rohner

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Bat 21 follows the harrowing adventures of Lt. Colonel Iceal Hambleton (Gene Hackman), whose plane is shot down over enemy territory while on reconnaissance behind enemy lines in Vietnam. Because Hambleton used to call the shots from behind a desk, he lacks combat survival Read More

10/21/88
Lethal Weapon

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan, Tom Atkins

Synopsis: LA cop Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson), whose wife has recently died, is a loose cannon with a seeming death wish. This makes him indispensable in collaring dangerous criminals, but a liability to any potential partners. Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover), a conservative family man who wants to stay alive Read More

3/6/87
Mandela

Actors: Danny Glover, Alfre Woodard

Synopsis: Described as a "biographical drama," the made-for-TV Mandela is the story of South African human-rights advocate Nelson Mandela, who at the time this film was made was in the 25th year of a prison sentence. Covering the years 1948 to 1987, the film traces Mandela's (Danny Glover) matriculation Read More

1987
The Color Purple

Actors: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Willard E. Pugh

Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her Read More

1985
And the Children Shall Lead

Synopsis: In honor of Martin Luther King's birthday, PBS' Wonderworks presentation of January 14, 1985 was And the Children Shall Lead. Set in Mississippi in 1964, the 60-minute drama recreates the black voter registration drive of that year. The events are seen through the eyes of a young black girl Read More

1985
Witness

Actors: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: In Peter Weir's thriller Witness, Samuel (Lukas Haas), a young Amish boy, witnesses a murder in the restroom of a Philadelphia bus station. Harrison Ford stars as John Book, the police detective investigating the murder. When Book discovers that the crime was part of a conspiracy involving several Read More

1985
The Stand-In

Actors: Danny Glover, Christa Victoria, Joe Bellan, Jane Dornacker, Marc Hayashi

Synopsis: Danny Glover stars in this low-budget comedy-murder story about an equally low-budget film director who kills a scruffy biker (Bob Sarlatte) in self-defense and then takes on the biker's identity. As he struggles to survive in adverse circumstances, the director is dissected by documentarians Read More

1985
Silverado

Actors: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, John Cleese

Synopsis: Lawrence Kasdan's Silverado is a fond hark back to the all-star, big-budget westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. The various plotlines converge at the town of Silverado, held in thrall by crooked sheriff Brian Dennehy and his behemoth "deputies." The four disparate heroes--Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn Read More

1985
Iceman

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, Josef Sommer, David Strathairn

Synopsis: We first see Asian cave dweller John Lone as he wanders around what seems to be his natural habitat of some 10,000 years ago. Soon we learn that Lone is in a controlled environment in a scientific lab--and that his frozen body was recently discovered during an expedition to the North Pole (hence Read More

1984
Places in the Heart

Actors: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover

Synopsis: Of the three "mortgage on the farm" films of 1984 (Country and The River were the other two), Places in the Heart is the only one set during the Depression. After her husband is killed, Sally Field is forced to take over the debt-ridden Texas family farm herself. Though slightly embittered by the Read More

1984
The Face of Rage

Synopsis: Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the made-for-TV The Face of Rage is set in a rehabilitation facility. Here a group of rapists are required to confront their victims face-to-face. The film concentrates on the bitter verbal sparring session between assaulter Richard (Graham Bechel) and Read More

1983
Chiefs

Synopsis: This TV miniseries concerns a Southern village where the murder of a boy has puzzled three different police chiefs since the 1920s. By the time that a black sheriff (Billy Dee Williams) takes over in 1962, he might have just enough evidence to find the culprit. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Memorial Day

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, Mike Farrell stars as an attorney who finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam, including Robert Walden and Edward Herrmann. The reunion stirs up painful memories and disturbing secrets for all involved. ~ Jason Read More

1983
Deadly Drifter

Actors: Scott Beach, Danny Glover, Jim Haynie, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Ronald Sukenick, this off-beat, slyly satirical road movie chronicles two decades in the life of a traveling mercenary who philosophizes about American culture and hopes to find himself while carrying out the orders of his enigmatic employer, who gives him assignments via bowls Read More

1982
Keeping on

Synopsis: Keeping On was the only "fiction" film directed by documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Like her earlier Harlan County USA and The American Dream, the film examines a labor-management struggle in a hardscrabble Southern mill town. Dick Anthony Williams plays a minister who encourages the Read More

1981
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash

Actors: Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden, Danny Aiello, Adam Arkin

Synopsis: A former baseball player (Alan Arkin) has descended into alcoholism, and meets up with a has-been entertainer (Carol Burnett) when both spot a briefcase containing secret documents. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Escape from Alcatraz

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward

Synopsis: No one can escape from Alcatraz, right? Try telling that to lifer Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood). This Donald Siegel-directed nailbiter is a reenactment of Frank Morris' 1962 attempt to bust himself and two other cons out of The Rock. Eastwood, as Morris, tilts with nasty warden Patrick McGoohan Read More

1979
Pumpkin Circle
Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends: John Henry

Actors: Danny Glover, Tom Hulce

Synopsis: John Henry was the hero of a popular ballad sung back during the times of the Industrial Revolution. Danny Glover stars as Henry. The rest of the cast includes Tom Hulce, Lou Rawls, Lynn Whitfield and Barry Corbin. As the story goes, John Henry supposedly crushed more rock than a steam drill. Some Read More

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