Danny Glover

Glover was born on July 22, 1946,[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune-the-tampa-tribute/145364810/in The Tampa Tribune]. October 29, 2004. in San Francisco, California, the son of Carrie (née Hunley) and James Glover.{{cite web |url=http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1999/10/05/met_271691.shtml |title=Augusta area tied to celebrities |website=Chronicle.augusta.com |access-date=July 31, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129225919/http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1999/10/05/met_271691.shtml |archive-date=January 29, 2016 |url-status=dead }} Both of his parents were postal workers,{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/07/11/danny-glover-postal-service-banking-reform-column/1692850001/|title=Actor Danny Glover: My parents proudly worked for the US Postal Service. Don't destroy it.|first=Danny|last=Glover|website=USA TODAY}} and were active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), working to advance equal rights.{{cite episode |title=Danny Glover |series=Inside the Actors Studio |first=James (host) |last=Lipton |network=Bravo |date=October 11, 1998 |season=4 |number=8 |author-link=James Lipton}} Glover's mother, daughter of a midwife, was born in Louisville, Georgia, and graduated from Paine College in Augusta, Georgia.{{Cite web |url=http://chronicle.augusta.com/login.shtml?orq%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fchronicle.augusta.com%2Fstories%2F050602%2Fmet_174-7006.000.shtml |title=Chronicle.augusta.com |access-date=February 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710205405/http://chronicle.augusta.com/login.shtml?orq:http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/050602/met_174-7006.000.shtml |archive-date=July 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} His father was a World War II veteran. He graduated from George Washington High School in San Francisco.{{cite book | last =Finkelman | first =Paul | title =Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present: From the age of segregation to the twenty-first century | publisher =Oxford University Press | year =2009 | pages =307 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=6gbQHxb_P0QC&q=danny+glover+george+washington+high+school&pg=RA1-PA307

| isbn =9780195167795 }}

As an adolescent and a young adult, Glover had epilepsy but has not had a seizure since age 35.{{cite news|title='Sharing Miracles' Television Program to Feature Award-Winning Hollywood Star Danny Glover|url=http://www.newson6.com/story/11033032/sharing-miracles-television-program-to-feature-award-winning-hollywood-star-danny-glover|access-date=January 24, 2015|work=News on 6|agency=PR Newswire|date=September 2, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213204350/http://www.newson6.com/story/11033032/sharing-miracles-television-program-to-feature-award-winning-hollywood-star-danny-glover|archive-date=February 13, 2015|df=mdy-all}} He attended San Francisco State University (SFSU) in the late 1960s but did not graduate. SFSU later awarded him the Presidential Medal of San Francisco State University for his service to education.{{cite news|title=Actor and activist Danny Glover to be honored by San Francisco State University|url=http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/prsrelea/fy98/069.htm|access-date=January 24, 2015|work=San Francisco State University|date=April 26, 1999}} Glover trained at the Black Actors' Workshop of the American Conservatory Theater.{{cite news|last=Lewis|first=Princine|title=Actor, director, producer, political activist Danny Glover headlines 2014 MLK celebration at Vanderbilt|url=http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/11/danny-glover-mlk/|access-date=January 24, 2015|work=Vanderbilt University|date=November 15, 2013}}

file:Danny Glover 1997.jpg

Glover originally worked in city administration working on community development{{Cite web |last=CHAKRABORTY |first=SUDEEPTO |date=July 4, 2020 |title=DANNY GLOVER – Changemakers |url=https://usfblogs.usfca.edu/sfchangemakers/2020/07/04/danny-glover/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407121445/https://usfblogs.usfca.edu/sfchangemakers/2020/07/04/danny-glover/ |archive-date=April 7, 2023 |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=usfblogs.usfca.edu}} before transitioning to theater. He has said:

{{blockquote|I didn't think it was a difficult transition. Acting is a platform that can become a conveyer for ideas. Art is a way of understanding, of confronting issues and confronting your own feelings—all within that realm of the capacity it represents. It may have been a leap of faith for me, given not only my learning disability (dyslexia) but also the fact that I felt awkward. I felt all the things that someone that's 6'3" or 6'4" feels and with my own diminished expectations of who I could be [and] would feel. Whether it's art, acting or theater that I've devoted myself to I put more passion and more energy into it.{{cite web|url=https://www.abilitymagazine.com/glover_interview.html|work=Ability Magazine | title=Actor and Activist, Danny Glover|access-date=October 31, 2023}}}}

His first theater involvement was with the American Conservatory Theater, a regional training program in San Francisco.{{cite web |url=http://www.act-sf.org/content/dam/act/pressreleases/ACT%20Season%20Gala%202015%20Announcement%20Release_FINAL.pdf |title=COME GET STRANDED! |publisher=American Conservatory Theater |access-date=August 7, 2017 |archive-date=May 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150513070043/http://www.act-sf.org/content/dam/act/pressreleases/ACT%20Season%20Gala%202015%20Announcement%20Release_FINAL.pdf |url-status=dead }} Glover also trained with Jean Shelton at the Shelton Actors Lab in San Francisco. In an interview on Inside the Actors Studio, Glover credited Jean 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. Glover then moved to Los Angeles for more opportunities in acting.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}

Glover made his film acting debut in Escape from Alcatraz (1979). He has since had a variety of film, stage and television roles. His earlier work included a recurring role on Hill Street Blues, and the role of Moses Hadner in the 1984 drama film Places in the Heart.

Glover gained acclaim in 1985{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}} starring as the husband to Whoopi Goldberg's character Celie in the celebrated literary adaptation The Color Purple. The same year he played Lieutenant James McFee in the crime thriller film Witness, and Mal in the western film Silverado.

Glover is best known for playing Los Angeles police Sergeant Roger Murtaugh in the action film Lethal Weapon (1987), and in the 1989, 1992 and 1998 sequels of the film series, starring alongside Mel Gibson. He received Primetime Emmy Award {{Citation needed |date=July 2024}} nominations for his roles as Nelson Mandela in the HBO television film Mandela (1987) and Joshua Deets in CBS western miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989). In 1990, he earned top billing for the first time in the blockbuster Predator 2 with Gary Busey, the sequel to the science-fiction action film Predator. That same year, he starred in Charles Burnett's To Sleep with Anger, for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}} He also appeared in films such as Grand Canyon (1991) and Bopha! (1993).

During his career, Glover has also made several cameos, appearing, for example, in the Michael Jackson video "Liberian Girl" of 1987. In 1994, Glover and actor Ben Guillory founded the Robey Theatre Company in Los Angeles in honor of the actor and concert singer Paul Robeson.{{Cite web |title=The Robey Theatre Company |url=https://www.therobeytheatrecompany.org/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230828235516/https://www.therobeytheatrecompany.org/ |archive-date=August 28, 2023 |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=The Robey Theatre Company |language=en-US}} Its purpose was to focus on theatre by and about Black people.{{cite news|url=https://www.lasentinel.net/the-robey-theatre-company-awakens-the-past-present-and-future.html|title=The Robey Theatre Company Awakens the Past, Present, and Future|website=Los Angeles Sentinel|date=March 18, 2019

|accessdate=July 15, 2023}}

Also in 1994, Glover made his directorial debut with the Showtime channel short film Override. That same year, he played the role of baseball manager George Knox in Angels in the Outfield for Walt Disney Pictures. Disney originally wanted Bob Hoskins for the role of George Knox, but he was considered too short for the role and Glover was cast because of his height and is the same size as the actors playing the California Angels.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}

In common with Humphrey Bogart, Elliott Gould and Robert Mitchum, who have played Raymond Chandler's private eye detective Philip Marlowe, Glover played the role in the episode "Red Wind" of the Showtime network's 1995 series Fallen Angels, earning him a Primetime Emmy Award{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}} nomination. Also that year, Glover played Captain Sam Cahill in the war film Operation Dumbo Drop.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102614291/dumbo-drop-not-typical-disney-film/ |title='Dumbo Drop' not typical Disney film |first=Ellis |last=Fortinberry |newspaper=Sun Herald |department=Marquee |page=34 |date=July 28, 1995 |accessdate=May 27, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}

In 1997, under his former production company banner Carrie Films, 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. In 1998, he starred as Paul D. in the drama film Beloved, based on Toni Morrison's novel. In addition, Glover has been a voice actor in many children's movies including The Prince of Egypt (1998), Antz (1998) and Our Friend, Martin (1999). In 2000, he played Will Walker in TNT biographical film Freedom Song, which earned him another Primetime Emmy Award{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}} nomination.

Glover was featured in the Wes Anderson directed 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums, also starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.

File:Danny Glover 2014 Phoenix Comicon 2 (cropped).jpg]]

In 2004, he appeared in the low-budget horror film Saw as Detective David Tapp. In 2005, Glover and Joslyn Barnes announced plans to make No FEAR,{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1846984/ |title=No Fear |publisher=IMDb }} a film about Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo's experience. 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 the passage of the Notification and Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No-FEAR Act). {{As of|2013}} the No Fear title has not appeared but The Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Story was announced as the next major project of No Fear Media Productions.{{cite web|url=http://www.marshacoleman-adebayo.com/no-fear-the-film.html|title=Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: The Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Story|publisher=Marsha Coleman-Adebayo|access-date=February 25, 2013|archive-date=August 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827180441/http://www.marshacoleman-adebayo.com/no-fear-the-film.html|url-status=usurped}}

Glover portrayed David Keaton in the television film The Exonerated (2005)—a real-life story of Keaton's experience of being arrested, jailed, and then freed from death row. In 2006, he voiced Miles, an elderly mule, in the animated film Barnyard, and played Marty Madison in the musical Dreamgirls. In 2007, he played Colonel Isaac Johnson in the action thriller Shooter.

In 2009, 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeoplespeak.com/pages/credits/ |title=Bringing History to Life | Voices of a People's History in the US |website=Thepeoplespeak.com |access-date=July 31, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100713025528/http://www.thepeoplespeak.com/pages/credits/ |archive-date=July 13, 2010 |df=mdy}} He also had recurring roles on the shows ER and Brothers & Sisters.

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. In 2010, Glover participated in the black comedy film Death at a Funeral, and a Spanish film called I Want to Be a Soldier. In 2012, he starred in the film Donovan's Echo.

File:Danny Glover 2014.jpg

Glover co-starred in the science fiction comedy film Sorry to Bother You,{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/07/sorry-to-bother-you-movie-danny-glover-david-cross-patton-oswalt-boots-riley-1202136106/|title=Danny Glover, David Cross and Patton Oswalt Join 'Sorry to Bother You'|last=Busch|first=Anita|website=Deadline Hollywood|date= July 26, 2017|access-date=May 19, 2018}} which was released in theaters on July 6, 2018.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/watch-lakeith-stanfield-in-wild-sorry-to-bother-you-trailer-w520411|title=Watch Lakeith Stanfield Make Millions With 'White Voice' in Wild 'Sorry to Bother You' Trailer|last=Blistein|first=Jon|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=May 17, 2018|access-date=May 19, 2018|archive-date=May 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519204721/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/watch-lakeith-stanfield-in-wild-sorry-to-bother-you-trailer-w520411|url-status=dead}} He also appeared in the film The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019). In December 2019, he played Milo Walker in the action comedy film Jumanji: The Next Level starring Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan.

{{update section|date=August 2019}}

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 Poland, filming from late 2006 into early 2007.{{cite news|first=John|last=Hopewell|url=https://variety.com/2006/film/markets-festivals/glover-kingsley-meeting-of-the-minds-1200335768/|title=Glover, Kingsley: Meeting of the minds|website=Variety |publisher=Reed Business Information |date=May 22, 2006|access-date=July 7, 2008}} In May 2007, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez contributed $18 million to fund the production of Toussaint for Glover, who was a prominent U.S. supporter of Chávez. The contribution annoyed some Venezuelan filmmakers, who said the money could have funded other homegrown films and that Glover's film was not even about Venezuela.{{cite journal |first=Anna Marie | last=De la Fuente |url=https://variety.com/2007/film/markets-festivals/venezuela-s-chavez-funding-glover-film-1117965537/ |title=Venezuela's Chavez funding Glover film | journal=Variety |publisher=Reed Business Information |date=May 21, 2007 | access-date=July 7, 2008}}{{cite web |author=Gómez |first=Ángel Ricardo |date=May 23, 2007 |title=Cineastas reprueban coproducción de Glover con Venezuela |url=http://www.eluniversal.com/2007/05/23/til_art_cineastas-reprueban_295975.shtml |access-date=October 25, 2008 |publisher=eluniversal.com |language=es |archive-date=November 4, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081104173543/http://www.eluniversal.com/2007/05/23/til_art_cineastas-reprueban_295975.shtml |url-status=dead }}

In April 2008, the Venezuelan National Assembly authorized an additional $9,840,505 for Glover's film.{{cite web |url=http://www.eluniversal.com/2008/04/10/til_art_asamblea-aprueba-9-m_800033.shtml |title=Asamblea aprueba 9 millones de dólares para Danny Glover |publisher=eluniversal.com |date=April 10, 2008 |access-date=October 25, 2008}} In 2015, Glover gave an update on the Toussaint project, stating, "The film that we always missed is a movie on the Haitian revolution and Toussaint Louverture. The company is fortuitously named after him and that was the movie that I wanted to do. We've developed a script. We thought we were going to get it done four years ago. We thought we were going to be making it right now. But also there are other kinds of things that intrigue me."{{cite web|url=https://shadowandact.com/danny-glovers-toussaint-louverture-film-that-never-was-but-could-still-be-other-films-on-the-haitian-revolutionary/|title=Danny Glover's Toussaint L'Ouverture Film That Never Was, But Could Still Be & Other Films on the Haitian Revolutionary|website=shadowandact.com}}

Glover appeared at London Film and Comic Con 2013 at Earls Court 2 over 2.5 days during Friday 5th to Sunday, July 7. He participated in a panel discussion in McComb, Mississippi on July 16, 2015.{{cite web |last=Thornton |first=Lauren |url=http://www.enterprise-journal.com/news/article_fb3b4058-2b23-11e5-b4a7-1b3046f0d70a.html |title=Danny Glover, 'Waiting to Exhale' author coming to JPAC - enterprise-journal.com: News |website=Enterprise-journal.com |date=July 15, 2015 |access-date=July 31, 2016 |archive-date=November 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110032455/http://www.enterprise-journal.com/news/article_fb3b4058-2b23-11e5-b4a7-1b3046f0d70a.html |url-status=dead }} The event, co-sponsored by The Gloster Project and Jubilee Performing Arts Center, included noted authors Terry McMillan and Quincy Troupe.

On January 30, 2015, Glover was the Keynote Speaker and 2015 Honoree for the MLK Celebration Series at the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI). Glover used his career and personal story to speak on the topic "Creativity and Democracy: Social Change through the Arts". At the University of the Virgin Islands, Glover gave a speech that encouraged the graduates in their upcoming journey.{{cite web|url=https://events.risd.edu/event/mlk_series_keynote_danny_glover|title=MLK Series Keynote: Danny Glover|work=Rhode Island School of Design}}

It was announced in July 2018 that Glover will be the featured guest at the Port Townsend Film Festival in Washington State.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}

Mr Glover attended the Seattle Storm versus Los Angeles Sparks on September 15, 2024. He was announced over the public address system and received a standing ovation. {{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}

Glover married Asake Bomani in 1975 and they have a daughter, Mandisa, born in 1976. Glover and Bomani divorced in 2000. Glover married Eliane Cavalleiro in 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.zimbio.com/Eliane+Cavalleiro/articles/slpr9_QF-UT/Eliane+Cavalleiro+Danny+Glover+Tying+Knot/|title=Eliane Cavalleiro and Danny Glover Are Tying the Knot|website=zimbo.com}} They divorced in 2022.{{cite news|url=https://www.blackenterprise.com/75-year-old-danny-glover-shows-off-his-new-girlfriend-who-has-a-youthful-body/#:~:text=Glover%20who%20reportedly%20divorced%20his,Megan%20Thee%20Stallion's%20body%2Dody.|title=75-Year-Old Divorced Danny Glover Shows Off His New Girlfriend Who Has A Youthful Body-Ody|first=Kia Morgan|last=Smith|publisher=Black Enterprise|date=June 18, 2022|accessdate=February 17, 2023}}

Glover purchased a {{convert|6000|ft2|adj=on}} house in Dunthorpe, Oregon, in 1999.{{cite web

| url = http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/real-estate/articles/streetcar-1010

| title = Burb Battle

| first = Zach

| last = Dundas

| date = September 13, 2010

| work = Portland Monthly

| quote = These particular rails slice through Dunthorpe, the most legendarily exclusive neighborhood in Portland (or rather, unincorporated Multnomah County, as the mansion-studded enclave—home base of actor Danny Glover, the occasional Trail Blazer, and other notables—refuses to join the city).

| access-date = February 16, 2014

}}{{cite web

| url = https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000418/bio

| title = Danny Glover Biography

| work = Internet Movie Database

| access-date = February 16, 2014

}} As of 2011, he no longer lives in Oregon.{{cite news |url= http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2011/04/danny_glover_guest_stars_in_le.html |title= Danny Glover to Guest Star in 'Leverage' |last= Turnquist |first= Kristi |date= April 11, 2011 |newspaper= The Oregonian |access-date= February 13, 2015}}

Image:Danny Glover Madison3.jpg, in 2007.]]

While attending San Francisco State University (SFSU), Glover was a member of the Black Students' Union,{{cite web|url=http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/prsrelea/fy98/069.htm |title=Actor and activist Danny Glover to be honored by San Francisco State University |publisher=Sfsu.edu |access-date=October 25, 2008}} which, along with the Third World Liberation Front and the American Federation of Teachers, collaborated in a five-month student-led strike to establish a Department of Black Studies. The strike was the longest student walkout in U.S. history.{{cite web|url=http://www.sfsu.edu/~100years/textonlycent/time/longtime.htm#1968 |title=SFSU Centennial history – Timeline |publisher=SFSU |date=March 3, 2000 |access-date=October 25, 2008}} It helped create not only the first Department of Black Studies but also the first School of Ethnic Studies in the United States.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}

Hari Dillon, current president of the Vanguard Public Foundation, was a fellow striker at SFSU. Glover later co-chaired Vanguard's board. He is also a board member of the Algebra Project, the Black AIDS Institute, Walden House and Cheryl Byron's Something Positive Dance Group. He was charged with disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly after being arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington during a protest over Sudan's humanitarian crisis in Darfur.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3600520.stm |title=Lethal Weapon star arrested in US |work=BBC News |date=August 26, 2004 |access-date=April 18, 2010}}

In 1999, he used his leverage as a former San Francisco cab driver to raise awareness about African Americans being passed over for white passengers.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/04/nyregion/danny-glover-says-cabbies-discriminated-against-him.html|title=Danny Glover Says Cabbies Discriminated Against Him|first=Monte |last=Williams|website=The New York Times|date=November 4, 1999

|accessdate=June 10, 2023}} In response, Rudolph Giuliani launched Operation Refusal, which suspended the licenses of cab drivers who favored white passengers over black ones.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/11/nyregion/cabbies-who-bypass-blacks-will-lose-cars-giuliani-says.html|title=Cabbies Who Bypass Blacks Will Lose Cars, Giuliani Says|first=Elisabeth |last=Bumiller|website=The New York Times|date=November 11, 1999

|accessdate=August 2, 2023}}

Glover's long history of union activism includes support for the United Farm Workers, UNITE HERE, and numerous service unions.{{cite web|url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/danny-glover-convicted-of-trespassing-in-ont-1.272640|title=Danny Glover convicted of trespassing in Ontario|website=Ctv.ca|date=January 24, 2008|access-date=July 31, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216125531/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080124/glover_trespass_080124/20080124?hub=Entertainment|archive-date=December 16, 2008|df=mdy-all}} In March 2010, 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124399061|title=NPR|website=NPR}}

On November 1, 2011, 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE42dp6DoF4| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105014325/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE42dp6DoF4| archive-date=2011-11-05|title=Danny Glover Speech at Occupy Oakland | publisher=YouTube}}

Glover was an early supporter of former North Carolina Senator John Edwards in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries until Edwards' withdrawal,[http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/danny-glover-ca.html "Danny Glover Campaigns for Edwards"], ABC News (December 27, 2007) although some news reports indicated that he had endorsed Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich,[https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3139687&page=1 "Bringin' Home the Bacon, Vegan-Style"], ABC News (May 4, 2007) whom he had endorsed in 2004.[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/archive/200401/20040130_glover.html Interview]{{dead link|date=June 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} with Tavis Smiley, PBS After Edwards dropped out, Glover then endorsed Barack Obama.{{cite news |first1=Tom |last1=Hayden |author-link=Tom Hayden |first2=Bill Jr. |last2=Fletcher |first3=Danny |last3=Glover |first4=Barbara |last4=Ehrenreich |author4-link=Barbara Ehrenreich |title=Progressives for Obama |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/progressives-obama |work=The Nation |date=March 24, 2008 |access-date=March 27, 2008}} In February 2016, Glover endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-glover/sanders-campaign-genuine-progressive-movement_b_9163960.html|title= Sanders Campaign Is a Genuine Progressive Social Movement for Democracy|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=February 6, 2016|date=February 6, 2016|first=Danny|last=Glover}} In February 2019, Glover again endorsed Sanders for US president in 2020.{{cite tweet |user= mrdannyglover |last=Glover |first=Danny |number= 1100572393234288641 |date= February 26, 2019 |title= I also am putting my full support for @SenSanders for President in 2020 and the people's agenda he supports! I'm also grateful for @ninaturner leadership of @OurRevolution Sign up to join us in the movement: http://ourrev.us/SBS2020TW #FeelTheBern}}

In 2017, he co-authored a petition along with Noam Chomsky, Mark Ruffalo, Nancy Fraser, Oliver Stone and Eve Ensler, urging French citizens to vote for candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the 2017 presidential election.{{cite news|url=https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/france-please-dont-repeat |title=France: Please Don't Repeat Clinton vs. Trump Tragedy|access-date=April 19, 2017|publisher=Move On}}

Glover was an outspoken critic of George W. Bush, calling him a known racist. "Yes, he's racist. We all knew that. As Texas's governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together. And most of the people who died were Afro-Americans or Hispanics."{{cite news|url=http://cbs2chicago.com/slideshows/hardcore.liberal.celebrities.20.836647.html?rid=8 |title=Actor and activist Danny Glover to be honored by San Francisco State University |publisher=cbs2chicago.com |first=Ligeia |last=Polidora |date=April 26, 1999 |location=San Francisco |access-date=October 25, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019005812/http://cbs2chicago.com/slideshows/hardcore.liberal.celebrities.20.836647.html?rid=8 |archive-date=October 19, 2008}}

Glover's support of Proposition 7 led him to use his voice in an automated phone call to generate support for the measure before the election.{{cite news|url=http://moneydick.com/wordpress/2008/11/03/got-a-robocall-from-danny-glover-today |title=Chip Glover robocalled me today|website=Moneydick.com|access-date=July 31, 2016}}

On April 16, 2010, Glover was arrested in Maryland during a protest by SEIU workers for Sodexo's alleged unfair and illegal treatment of workers.{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/04/17/2010-04-17_actor_danny_glover_arrested_in_maryland_labor_protest.html |title=Actor Danny Glover arrested during Maryland labor union protest |publisher=NY daily news |date=April 17, 2010 |access-date=April 18, 2010}} He was given a citation and later released. The Associated Press reports "Glover and others stepped past yellow police tape and were asked to step back three times at Sodexo headquarters. When they refused, officers arrested them."{{cite web|url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/actor-danny-glover-11-others-arrested-in-md_article_31282|title=Danny Glover & 11 Others Arrested During Union Protest in Maryland|publisher=Access Hollywood}}

On the foreign policy of the Obama administration, Glover said: "I think the Obama administration has followed the same playbook, to a large extent, almost verbatim, as the Bush administration. I don't see anything different... On the domestic side, look here: What's so clear is that this country from the outset is protecting the interests of wealth and property. Look at the bailout of Wall Street. Why not the bailout of Main Street? He may be just a different face, and that face may happen to be black, and if it were Hillary Clinton, it would happen to be a woman.... But what choices do they have within the structure?"{{cite web|url=http://newsone.com/nation/news-one-staff/danny-glover-i-see-no-difference-between-bush-and-obama-policies|title=Danny Glover: I See No Difference Between Bush And Obama Policies|date=December 21, 2009|publisher=News One}}

Glover wrote the foreword to Phyllis Bennis' book, Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power.{{cite web |title=Challenging Empire People, Governments and the UN Defy US Power |url=https://www.tni.org/en/publication/challenging-empire-people-governments-and-the-un-defy-us-power |website=The Transnational Institute |date=June 6, 2006 |access-date=1 January 2019}} Glover is also a member of the board of directors of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a think tank led by economist Dean Baker.

File:CAMPAÑA LA MANO SUCIA DE CHEVRON - 11532437603.jpg]]

Glover is an active board member of the TransAfrica Forum.TransAfrica Forum On April 6, 2009, Glover was given a chieftaincy title in Imo State, Nigeria.Ogbu, Rachel. [http://news.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=1420&z=3 "Forest Whitaker, Danny Glover Find Their Roots in Imo State Nigeria"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414000649/http://news.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=1420&z=3 |date=April 14, 2009}} OnlineNigeria.com. April 6, 2009. His title, "Enyioma of Nkwerre", means A Good Friend in the language of the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}

In 2018, Glover, as the UN Goodwill Ambassador, met with Lula to express solidarity and support for his presidential candidacy. During a trip to Brazil, he also met with the family of Marielle Franco, the City Council member and LGBT activist murdered in Rio de Janeiro.{{Cite news|url=https://ibw21.org/news/actor-danny-glover-joins-free-lula-occupiers-in-brazil/|title=Actor Danny Glover Joins Free Lula Occupiers in Brazil|date=2018-06-02|work=Institute of the Black World 21st Century|access-date=2018-06-08|language=en-US}}

On January 13, 2010, 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. Glover said: "the threat of what happens to Haiti is a threat that can happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations ... they're all in peril because of global warming ... because of climate change ... when we did what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens".{{cite web|date=January 13, 2010 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ft5JkNWJA | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/a2ft5JkNWJA| archive-date=2021-10-30|title=GRITtv: Danny Glover and Marie St. Cyr on Haiti |publisher=YouTube |access-date=August 7, 2017}}{{cbignore}} In the same statement, he called for a new form of international partnership with Haiti and other Caribbean nations and praised Venezuela, Brazil and Cuba, for already accepting this partnership.

Danny Glover had been an outspoken critic of the Iraq War before it began in March 2003. In February 2003, he was one of the featured speakers at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco where other notable speakers included names such as author Alice Walker, singer Joan Baez, United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland.

Glover was a signatory to the April 2003 anti-war letter "To the Conscience of the World" that criticized the unilateral American invasion of Iraq that led to "massive loss of civilian life" and "devastation of one of the cultural patrimonies of humanity".{{cite web|url=http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/615 |title=To the Conscience of the World | Solidarity |access-date=May 25, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100627221148/http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/615 |archive-date=June 27, 2010 |df=mdy}}

During an anti-war demonstration in Downtown Oakland in March 2003, Glover praised the community leaders for their anti-war efforts saying that "They're on the front lines because they are trying to make a better America. ... The world has come together and said 'no' to this war—and we must stand with them."{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}

In January 2006, Harry Belafonte led a delegation of activists, including Glover, activist/professor Cornel West, and activist/Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos Founder and Executive Director Daniel NANE Alejandrez in a meeting with President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez. In 2006, Glover had begun working on a film about Toussaint Louverture, who led the 18th century revolt in Haiti and, it was reported, that Chavez supported the film, "hoping the historical epic will sprinkle Hollywood stardust on his effort to mobilise world public opinion against imperialism and western oppression."{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/21/film.venezuela|title=Venezuela giving Danny Glover $18m to direct film on epic slave revolt|date=May 20, 2007|agency=The Guardian|last=Carroll|first=Rory|access-date=August 22, 2015}}{{cite news|last=Prensa|first=Asociada|title=Danny Glover recibe nuevo crédito en Venezuela|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/danny-glover-recibe-nuevo-credito-en-venezuela-article-1.278743|access-date=January 28, 2017|agency=New York Daily News|date=April 10, 2008}} In 2007, Glover agreed with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez that the Touissant Louverture film would be financed by Venezuela. On May 19, 2007, the National Assembly of Venezuela approved giving Glover $18 million for the film.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/21/film.venezuela|title=Venezuela giving Danny Glover $18m to direct film on epic slave revolt|last=Carroll|first=Rory|date=2007-05-21|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-04-20}} The following year, on April 9, 2008, the National Assembly of Venezuela, at the request of the Chávez, approved another $9 million to be handed to Glover in order to "continue" the filming of the film about Touissant. Surprisingly, in an interview dated January 5, 2015, published in Filmmaker magazine, Glover says, "The film that we always missed is a movie on the Haitian revolution and Toussaint Louverture. The company is fortuitously named after him and that was the movie that I wanted to do. We've developed a script. We thought we were going to get it done four years ago. We thought we were going to be making it right now. But also there are other kinds of things that intrigue me". {{as of|2015}}, the film had not been made.{{cite news|url=http://filmmakermagazine.com/88801-i-can-make-this-happen-danny-glover-on-producing/|title='I Can Make This Happen': Danny Glover on Producing|last=Anderson|first=Ariston|date=January 15, 2015|work=Filmmaker|access-date=16 August 2017}}

Glover was also a board member of TeleSUR, a media network primarily funded by the Venezuelan government. During the beginning of the 2014 Venezuelan protests, Glover extended his support to Chávez's successor, President Nicolás Maduro, calling members of his government "the stewards" of Venezuela's democracy. Glover also told Venezuelan government supporters to go fight for the sovereignty of Maduro's government.{{cite news|title=Actor Danny Glover voices support for Venezuelan president during visit to honour Hugo Chavez as anti-government protests continue|url=http://news.nationalpost.com/scene/actor-danny-glover-supports-venezuelan-government-during-visit-to-honour-hugo-chavez|access-date=August 22, 2015|agency=National Post|date=March 7, 2014}} Through the crisis in Bolivarian Venezuela, Glover continued to show his support for the Bolivarian government and President Maduro's administration.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lapatilla.com/site/2018/04/18/pura-risa-y-nada-de-la-millonada-danny-glover-y-el-teniente-escalona-en-miraflores-foto/|title=Pura risa y nada de la millonada... Danny Glover y el teniente Escalona en Miraflores (Foto)|website=La Patilla|date=April 18, 2018|language=es-ES|access-date=2018-04-20}}

On September 2, 2009, Glover signed an open letter of objection to the inclusion of a series of films intended to showcase Tel Aviv—without the participation of Palestinian filmmakers, at the Toronto International Film Festival.{{Cite web |date=September 9, 2009 |title=Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation: The Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation |url=http://torontodeclaration.blogspot.com/2009/09/toronto-declaration-no-celebration-of.html}}

Glover has become an active member of board of directors of The Jazz Foundation of America.looktothestars.org. 2009-13-10. [http://www.looktothestars.org/charity/301-jazz-foundation-of-america Jazz Foundation of America]. Accessed: January 19, 2010. He became involved with The Jazz Foundation in 2005, and has been a featured host for their annual benefit A Great Night in Harlem[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-144569283.html "Danny Glover Joins the Jazz Foundation of America (JFA) to Kick Off 5th Annual 'Great Night in Harlem' Benefit"]{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, PR Newswire, April 17, 2006 for several years, as well appearing as a celebrity MC at other events for the foundation. In 2006, Britain's leading African theatre company Tiata Fahodzi appointed Glover as one of its three Patrons, joining Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jocelyn Jee Esien opening the organization's tenth-anniversary celebrations (February 2, 2008) at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, London.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}

{{main|Danny Glover filmography}}

{{main|List of awards and nominations received by Danny Glover}}

In 2010, Glover delivered the Commencement Address and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Utah State University.{{cite web|url=https://www.deseret.com/2010/5/9/20113809/danny-glover-urges-usu-graduates-to-be-informed-engaged/|title=Danny Glover urges USU graduates to be informed, engaged|first=Wendy|last=Leonard|work=Deseret News|date=May 9, 2010}}

He was also the recipient of a tribute paid by the Deauville American Film Festival in France on September 7, 2011.{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/deauville-film-festival-idUSRTR2QPJN/|title=Deauville film festival|website=reuters.com|date=September 7, 2011 }}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?act=url&depth=1&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=es&sp=nmt3&tl=en&u=http://www.icap.cu/noticias-del-dia/2016-12-29-reciben-medalla-de-la-amistad-danny-glover-estela-y-ernesto-bravo.html|title=Google Translate|website=translate.google.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiohc.cu/noticias/nacionales/117018-cuba-entregan-medalla-de-la-amistad-a-danny-glover-estela-y-ernesto-bravo|title=Cuba: Entregan Medalla de la Amistad a Danny Glover, Estela y Ernesto Bravo|website=radiohc.cu}}{{cite web|url=http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=7541&SEO=cuba-decorates-danny-glover-estela-and-ernesto-bravo|title=Cuba Decorates Danny Glover, Estela and Ernesto Bravo}}

On March 25, 2022, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) presented Glover with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Governors Awards ceremony.{{cite news |last=Willis |first=Courtney |date=March 26, 2022 |title=Samuel L. Jackson, Danny Glover honored at Governors Awards |publisher=The Grio |url=https://thegrio.com/2022/03/26/samuel-l-jackson-danny-glover-governors-awards/#:~:text=Originally%20scheduled%20for%20January%2C%20the,Awards%2C%20going%20down%20on%20Sunday.&text=Alfre%20Woodard%20also%20took%20the,to%20her%20friend%2C%20Danny%20Glover. |accessdate=March 26, 2022}}{{cite news |last=Beckett |first=Lois |date=March 26, 2022 |title='This is going to be cherished': Samuel L Jackson and Elaine May receive honorary Oscars |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/26/oscars-samuel-l-jackson-and-elaine-may-honorary-governors-awards |accessdate=March 26, 2022}}{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/lists/governors-awards-samuel-jackson-elaine-may-honorees/|title=Academy Honors Legacy Troupe Ahead of Governors Awards|first=Sharareh|last=Dury|work=Variety|date=March 24, 2022|accessdate=March 26, 2022}} In 2023, he was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia.{{Cite press release |last=Fame |first=Black Music and Entertainment Walk of |title=Black Music and Entertainment Walk of Fame Announces its Black History Month Class of Inductees |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/black-music-and-entertainment-walk-of-fame-announces-its-black-history-month-class-of-inductees-301736121.html |access-date=2023-03-12 |website=prnewswire.com |language=en}} IndieWire named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.{{cite news|last=Kiang|first=Jessica|date=1 January 2016|title=30 Great Actors Who've Never Been Oscar Nominated|work=Indiewire|url=http://www.indiewire.com/2016/01/30-great-actors-whove-never-been-oscar-nominated-90109/|access-date=15 October 2022}}

{{Reflist|30em}}

{{Commons category|Danny Glover}}

• {{IMDb name|418}}
• {{IBDB name}}
• {{Tcmdb name}}
• {{C-SPAN|41352}}
• {{Charlie Rose guest|63}}

{{Navboxes

|title = Awards for Danny Glover

|list =

{{IndependentSpiritBestMaleLead 1985–1999}}

{{Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award}}

{{MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo}}

{{NAACP Image Award – Chairman's Award}}

{{NAACP Image Award – President's Award}}

{{NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture}}

{{NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series}}

{{NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special}}

}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Glover, Danny}}

Category:Living people

Category:20th-century African-American male actors

Category:20th-century American male actors

Category:21st-century African-American male actors

Category:21st-century American male actors

Category:Activists from California

Category:African-American activists

Category:African-American film directors

Category:African-American film producers

Category:African-American television producers

Category:American anti-war activists

Category:American civil rights activists

Category:American Conservatory Theater alumni

Category:American male film actors

Category:American male television actors

Category:American male video game actors

Category:American male voice actors

Category:American socialists

Category:Audiobook narrators

Category:Center for Economic and Policy Research

Category:City College of San Francisco alumni

Category:Film directors from San Francisco

Category:Film producers from California

Category:Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead winners

Category:Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award winners

Category:Male actors from Oregon

Category:Male actors from San Francisco

Category:People from Dunthorpe, Oregon

Category:Actors with dyslexia

Category:American actors with disabilities

Category:People with epilepsy

Category:San Francisco State University alumni

Category:Television producers from California

Category:Television producers from Oregon

Category:American activists with disabilities

Category:Film directors with disabilities

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo

Category:1946 births