| Danny Glover, one of
Hollywood’s most versatile and respected actors, has gained international star status
for his portrayal of police detective Roger Murtaugh opposite Mel Gibson in the mega-hit
Lethal Weapon film series. Mr. Glover made his directoral debut with the Chanticleer
Films production of Override. It aired on Showtime in October 1994. A native of San
Francisco, Mr. Glover attended San Francisco State College and trained at the Black
Actor’s Workshop of the American Conservatory Theatre. He appeared in numerous stage
productions, including The Island and Macbeth at the Los Angeles
Actors’ Theatre and Sizwe Banzi is Dead at the Eureka Theatre. However, it was
Mr. Glover’s performance in the New York production of Athol Fugard’s Master
Harold and The Boys, that first brought the actor national recognition. Mr. Glover
received widespread critical acclaim in the Academy Awarding winning Places in the
Heart with Sally Field. Mr. Glover brought to like the menacing character of Mister
in Steven Spielberg’s production of the Alice Walker novel The Color Purple.
For his work in Lethal Weapon, Mr. Glover was presented with the NAACP Image Award.
He received his second image Award as well as an ACE Award for his performance in
HBO’s presentation of Mandela. He went on to star in the PBS mini-series
Lonesome Dove, for which he earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor. Mr.
Glover starred in Charles Burnett’s award-winning and critically acclaimed To
Sleep With Anger, and made his debut as an Executive Producer which landed him the
Independent Feature Project/West’s Best Actor Award as well as another NAACP Image
Award nomination. He was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and in April,
received the prestigious Phoenix Award from the Black American Cinema Society. Mr. Glover
played villain Easy Money in Miramax’s A Rage in Harlem and starred with Kevin
Kline, Mary McDonnell and Alfre Woodard in Lawrence Kasdan’s contemporary drama Grand
Canyon. Mr. Glover also starred as a police officer in the powerful drama Bopha!
He was Executive Producer of two HBO projects, America’s Dream and Deadly
Voyage. Mr. Glover portrays Sgt. Washington Wyatt in Buffalo Soldiers, which he
is also Executive Producer. Currently, Mr. Glover and Oprah Winfrey re-team to do Tony
Morrison’s Beloved. Plus, Mr. Glover has recently signed to do Lethal
Weapon 4. |
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