Danny Glover

Danny Glover
Danny Glover, January 2008
Born	Danny Lebern Glover[1] July 22, 1946 (1946-07-22) (age 62) San Francisco, California, USA
Spouse(s)	Asake Bomani (1975 - present) (filed for divorce) 1 child
Awards won NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture 1989 Lethal Weapon 1999 Beloved Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special 1990 Mandela 1995 Queen 2001 Freedom Song

Danny Lebern Glover^[1] (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Activism 2 Filmography 3 Planned directorial debut 4 Aw Shucks! 5 References 6 External links

Biography

Early life

Glover was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Carrie (née Hunley) and James Glover, both of whom were postal workers and were active in the NAACP. Glover grew up with a love for sports just like his father. Glover's mother, daughter of a midwife, was born in Louisville, Georgia and graduated from Paine College.^[2] Glover graduated from George Washington High School (San Francisco) before attending American University and matriculating at San Francisco State University. At university, he also met his future wife Asake Bomani, whom he married in 1975. They have been divorced for some time now.

In his late twenties, Glover enrolled in the Black Actors Workshop at the American Conservatory Theater, a regional training program in San Francisco. Glover also trained with Jean Shelton at the Shelton Actors Lab in San Francisco. In an interview on Inside the Actor's Studio, Glover credited Shelton for much of his development as an actor. Deciding that he wanted to be an actor, Glover resigned from his city administration job and soon began his career as a stage actor. He moved to Los Angeles for more opportunities in acting.

Glover suffered from epilepsy as a teenager and young adult; according to his own account, he "developed a way of concentrating so that seizures wouldn't happen." Using this technique, which he describes as a type of self-hypnosis, Glover says he hasn't suffered a seizure since the age of 35.^[3]

Career

He has had a variety of film, stage, and television roles, and is best known for playing Los Angeles police Sgt. Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon series of action films. He is also known as the abusive husband to Whoopi Goldberg's character Celie in The Color Purple.

In Predator 2, the sequel to the sci-fi actioner Predator, Glover earned top billing for the first time. In addition, Glover has been a voice actor in many children's movies. Glover was featured in the popular 2001 film Royal Tenenbaums, also starring Gywneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.

Among many awards, he has won five NAACP Image Awards for his achievements as an actor of color.

Glover joined the ranks of actors, such as Humphrey Bogart, Elliott Gould, and Robert Mitchum, who have portrayed Raymond Chandler's private eye detective Philip Marlowe in the episode 'Red Wind' of the Showtime network's 1995 series Fallen Angels. Glover made his directorial debut with the Showtime channel short film Override in 1994. Also in 1994, Glover and actor Ben Guillory formed the Robey Theatre Company in Los Angeles, focusing on theatre by and about the Black experience.

In 2005, Glover and Joslyn Barnes announced plans to make "No FEAR," a movie about Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo's experience.^[4] Coleman-Adebayo won a 2000 jury trial against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The jury found the EPA guilty of violating the civil rights of Coleman-Adebayo on the basis of race, sex, color and a hostile work environment, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Coleman-Adebayo was terminated shortly after she revealed the environmental and human disaster taking place in the Brits, South Africa, vanadium mines. Her experience inspired passage of the No FEAR Act.

Activism

While attending San Francisco State University, Glover was a member of the Black Students Union^[5], that along with the Third World Liberation Front led the five-month strike to establish a department of Ethnic Studies. This action helped create the first school of Ethnic Studies in the U.S., and it was the longest student strike in the U.S.^[6] During the strike, Glover protested with Hari Dillon, now the president of the Vanguard Public Foundation. Glover sits on its advisory board.

Glover serves as a board member to numerous national and international organizations. He is presently chair of the TransAfrica Forum, "a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the general public — particularly African-Americans — on the economic, political and moral ramifications of U.S. foreign policy as it affects Africa and the Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America". He is also a board member of Cheryl Byron's Something Positive Dance Group. In March 1998, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton as ambassador to the United Nations Development Programme.

Glover is among a number of high-profile U.S. supporters of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. The group also includes singer Harry Belafonte and Princeton University scholar Cornel West, who have sided with the Venezuelan president against accusations of abuses against democratic freedoms. Glover also serves on the Advisory Council for TeleSUR, "Television of the South", a pan-Latin American television network based in Caracas, financed by the Venezuelan government. It began broadcasting on July 24, 2005. His role in this capacity and his resulting interaction with Chávez have drawn criticism for Glover from some Western media.^[7] Between 2007 and 2008, Glover has received "loans" close to U.S. $28 million from the Venezuelan government to make a film based on the life of François Dominique Toussaint-Louverture, an Haitian freedom fighter.^[8][9][10]

On January 24, 2008, he was convicted of trespassing during a union rally at a Sheraton Hotel in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He was convicted along with union representative Alex Dagg and Ontario Federation of Labour president Wayne Samuelson.^[11]Although Canadian Niagara Hotels were seeking $22,000 in a private prosecution, Glover, Dagg and Samuelson were sentenced with a $100,000 fine on February 8, 2008. The justice of the peace suggested that "the prosecution was unnecessary to protect the interests of the hotel's owner, and that the company should have put more effort toward good faith negotiations with the union".^[12]

After John Edwards withdrew from the race, Glover endorsed Barack Obama for the 2008 Presidential election.^[13]

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1979	Escape from Alcatraz	Inmate
1982	Deadly Drifter	Jojo/Roland
1983	Chiefs	Marshall Peters	TV Mini-series
1984	Places in the Heart	Moze
1985	Silverado	Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
	Witness	Det. Lt. James McFee
	The Color Purple	Albert
1987	Lethal Weapon	Sergeant Roger Murtaugh
	Mandela	Nelson Mandela	Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie
1988	Bat*21	Capt. Bartholomew Clark
1989	Lonesome Dove	Joshua Deets	TV miniseries Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie
	Lethal Weapon 2	Sergeant Roger Murtaugh
	A Raisin in the Sun	Walter Lee Younger
1990	To Sleep With Anger	Harry
	Predator 2	Lt. Mike Harrigan
1991	Flight of the Intruder	Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
	Grand Canyon	Simon
	Pure Luck	Raymond Campanella
1992	Lethal Weapon 3	Roger Murtaugh
1993	Queen	Alec Haley	TV miniseries
	The Saint of Fort Washington	Jerry/Narrator
	Bopha!	Micah Mangena
1994	Maverick	Bank Robber
	Angels in the Outfield	George Knox
1995	Operation Dumbo Drop	Capt. Sam Cahill
	Fallen Angels: Red Wind	Phillip Marlowe	Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Drama Series
1997	The Rainmaker	Judge Tyrone Kipler
	Gone Fishin'	Gus Green
	Switchback	Bob Goodall
1998	Lethal Weapon 4	Roger Murtaugh
	The Prince of Egypt	Jethro (voice)
	Beloved	Paul D. Garner
	Antz	Barbatus (voice)
2000	Boesman and Lena	Boesman
2001	3 A.M.	Charles "Hershey" Riley
	The Royal Tenenbaums	Henry Sherman
2004	The Cookout	Judge Crowley
	Saw	Detective David Tapp
	Legend of Earthsea	Ogion	TV miniseries
2005	Manderlay	Wilhelm
	Missing in America	Jake Neeley
2006	Bamako	Cow-boy
	Barnyard	Miles the Mule (voice)
	The Shaggy Dog	Ken Hollister
	Dreamgirls	Marty Madison
2007	Shooter	Colonel Isaac Johnson
	Poor Boy's Game	George
	Terra	President Chen (voice)
	Honeydripper	Tyrone Purvis
2008	Be Kind Rewind	Mr. Fletcher
	Gospel Hill	John Malcolm
	Blindness	Old man with the black eye patch/Narrator
	Por Vida	Mr. Shannon	post-production
	Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare[14]	Walter Tortoise (voice)	post-production
2009	Night Train	Miles	post-production
	Stride	James 'Honeybear' Powell	post-production
	The Harimaya Bridge	Joseph Holder	post-production
	2012	President Wilson	filming

Planned directorial debut

Glover sought to make a film biography of Toussaint Louverture for his directorial debut. In May 2006, the film had included cast members Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Roger Guenveur Smith, Mos Def, Isaach De Bankolé, and Richard Bohringer. Production, estimated to cost $30 million, was planned to begin in South Africa, filming from late 2006 into early 2007.^[15] In May 2007, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez contributed $18 million to fund the production of Toussaint for Glover, who is a prominent U.S. supporter of Chávez. The contribution infuriated Venezuelan filmmakers, who said the money could have funded local cinema and that Glover's film was not even about Venezuela.^[16][17] The following June, Venezuelan filmmakers petitioned for Glover to reconsider using the funds provided by their president while the actor was scouting locations outside the Venezuelan capital Caracas.^[18] The petition resulted in the local film guilds Anac and Caveprol being outlawed by Venezuela; the country's state-backed film institute Cnac was also instructed to sever ties with the guild.^[19] In April of 2008, the Venezuelan National Assembly authorized an additional $9,840,505 for Glover's film, which is still in planning.^[20]

Aw Shucks!

Late 2008 saw the opening and closing of Glover's Aw Shucks! restaurant in the Mission District section of San Francisco. Aw Shucks! was the first and only gastropub in San Francisco, with an emphasis on British-Indian fusion and a beer menu representing over 200 countries. The restaurant was shut down after only 15 days by the San Francisco County Department of Health citing faulty ventilation in the dining area.^{[citation needed]} In a nationally syndicated interview with NPR's Renée Montagne Glover admitted, "This being my first foray into the gastropub business I can honestly say that a lot of mistakes were made, but we're confident that the doors will be open again soon."^{[citation needed]}

Recent entries in Glover's personal blog have made it clear that though Aw Shucks! remains a great passion of his, its reopening will be put off until principal photography is complete for 2012.^{[citation needed]}

References

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External links

• Danny Glover at the Internet Movie Database
• Al Jazeera English's Riz Khan interview with Danny Glover
• A free video excerpt of a lecture by Glover
• InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse: Danny Glover (TV Interview)
• The TransAfrica Forum
• Interview on Democracy Now! (audio)
• Interview in AARP Magazine
• Interview in The Progressive
• Interview (4/5/2007) from Africa On Fire! on KBOO
• Danny Glover in the news supporting Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Danny Glover on Democracy Now! February 26 2007 discussing the Oscars and the Panafrican Film and Television Festival in Burkina Faso
• Danny Glover talks about Bamako
• The ongoing effort to draft Danny Glover into the San Francisco Mayoral race
• Cheryl Byron and Something Positive
• Danny Glover Interview on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Persondata
NAME	Glover, Danny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Glover, Danny Lebern
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	1946-7-22
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Francisco, California, USA
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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