Danny Glover Net Worth

Raquel Davies | October 25, 2013

NET WORTH

$15 million

  • REAL NAME

    Danny Lebern Glover

  • DATE OF BIRTH

    July 22, 1946

  • OCCUPATION

    Actor

  • HEIGHT & WEIGHT

    6 foot 4 inches and 215lbs

  • SIGN

    Cancer

  • REPRESENTATION

    John Burnham at ICM Partners

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Danny Glover has an estimated net worth of $15 million

Danny Glover is an American actor, film director, and voice-over actor with an estimated net worth of $15 million. He is best known for playing Mr. Albert Johnson in the film The Color Purple and for the Lethal Weapon movies. He is 6’4″ and weighs 215 pounds. Danny Lebern Glover was born on July 22, 1946 in San Francisco, California. Glover’s parents were postal workers and he grew up suffering from epilepsy, although he swears by a method of coping with it that has resulted in not having a seizure since he was 34.

Initially, Glover’s career path took him into city administration working on community development but as an adult he became involved with the Conservatory Theater training program in San Francisco. His love for the art led him to quit his work for the city as he moved to Los Angeles to look for work as an actor. Glover’s big screen debut came in 1979 in Clint Eastwood’s Escape from Alcatraz and would continue to get small parts until he got his big break in 1985’s The Color Purple opposite Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey. His critically acclaimed performance would lead to the role that would define his career – Sergeant Roger Murtaugh alongside Mel Gibson in 1987’s Lethal Weapon.

The Lethal Weapon franchise – four movies in total – would be among the most successful franchises of all time – and thrust Glover into international celebrity. It would also open the door to a variety of other films, including taking the lead in Predator 2 in 1990, Angels in the Outfield in 1994, The Royal Tenenbaums in 2001, Dreamgirls in 2006. He also played the president of the United States in 2009’s 2012. Glover co-founded the Robey Theatre Company in 1994 and is continues to work prolifically into his late 60s. Glover has been married twice and has a child with his first wife and step children from his second.

Danny Glover has enough net worth to buy:

1. 556,586.3 Lethal Weapon Collection on blu-ray: ($26.95 each)

2. 2,780.3 Naval Academy Men’s Tag Heuer Carrera Tachymeter ($5,395.00 each)

3. 333,333.3 50-cal. Smith & Wesson Necklace  ($45.00 each)

Danny Glover has enough net worth to give everyone in Cambodia $1.

 

 

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Written by Raquel Davies

Raquel is a staff writer for PlentyofCheddar.com. She received her Bachelor's of Arts in Public Relations from Barry University. Raquel enjoys reading Sci-Fi/ Fantasy novels and watching films of that same genre. Raquel is also enjoys the theater arts and fine dining. She was raised in Maryland but currently resides in Miami. Check her out on !

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