Biography of Danny Glover -

Danny Lebern Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an
United States|American actor born in San
Francisco, California|San Francisco, California.
He currently serves as board chair of the
TransAfrica Forum, "a non-profit organization
dedicated to educating the general public â€“
particularly African Americans â€“ 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." In
March 1998, he was appointed Ambassador
(diplomacy)|ambassador to the United Nations
Development Programme.

He has been married to Asake Bomani since 1975 and
has one child named Mandisa. He also has a younger
brother named Martin. 

Among many awards, he has won five NAACP Image
Awards, for his achievements as a black actor.

He joined the ranks of actors, such as Humphrey
Bogart, Elliot Gould, 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.

He graduated from San Francisco State University,
where he met his wife.

He is a San Francisco Giants fan.


==Filmography==
*Legend of Earthsea (TV miniseries)|Legend of
Earthsea (2004) (tv miniseries)
*Saw (movie)|Saw (2004)
*The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
*Antz (1998)
*Beloved (movie)|Beloved (1998)
*The Prince of Egypt (1998)
*Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
*The Rainmaker (1997)
*Fallen Angels: Red Wind (1995)
*Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
*Angels in the Outfield (1994)
*Maverick (movie)|Maverick (1994)
*Alex Haley's Queen|Queen (1993) (tv miniseries)
*Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
*Predator 2 (1990)
*Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
*Lethal Weapon (1987)
*The Color Purple (1985)
*Silverado (1985)
*Places in the Heart (1984)
*Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

==External links==
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000418/ Danny Glover
at imdb.com
*http://www.transafricaforum.org/ The TransAfrica
Forum
*http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/
07/045256 Interview on Democracy Now! (audio)
*http://www.aarpmagazine.org/people/Articles/a2004
-03-17-mag-dglover.html Interview in AARP Magazine
*http://www.progressive.org/dec02/intv1202.html
Interview in The Progressive

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