Glynn Turman
Glynn Russell Turman, born on January 31, 1947, in New York City, is a revered American stage, television, and film actor as well as a writer, whose career spans decades. He gained early recognition for his role as Leroy "Preach" Jackson in the 1975 film "Cooley High." Turman's talent shone on Broadway, earning a Tony Award for "The Great White Hope." He's renowned for TV work in "The Wire," math professor and retired Army colonel Bradford Taylor on the NBC sitcom "A Different World," fictional Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series "The Wire" and "House of Lies." His filmography includes impactful roles in "Gremlins" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." With a captivating presence, Turman continues to enthrall audiences, showcasing remarkable versatility and depth in his performances.
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PHOTOS
TV Series
A Different World
7.121
Touched by an Angel
7.2
The Twilight Zone
7.748
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.933
Room 222
6
Millennium
7.654
Scrubs
8.011
In Treatment
7.644
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.6
Hail to the Chief
5
The Paper Chase
7.556
The Tony Randall Show
6.25
Women of the Movement
6.5
House of Lies
6.579
Revolution
6.416
Power Book II: Ghost
8.3
The Wire
8.599
FlashForward
7.028
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.323
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
5.81
FBI: Most Wanted
7.7
Centennial
7.667
Suits
8.223
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
7.3
How to Get Away with Murder
7.838
The Red Line
7.296
Alcatraz
6.343
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
7.514
The Big Cigar
5.3
T. J. Hooker
6.394
Criminal Minds
8.302
The Bernie Mac Show
6.452
Mr. Mercedes
7.1
black-ish
7.17
American Gods
7.072
Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Fargo
8.29
Murder, She Wrote
7.5
The Defenders
7.1
ER
7.824
The Neighborhood
7.568
NCIS: Los Angeles
7.532
Paradise
7.631
The Magnificent Seven
6
Movies
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
0
80 for Brady
6.291
Freedom Song
5.5
Sahara
5.91
The Killing Floor
0
Men of Honor
7.496
Outlaw Johnny Black
5.774
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
5.8
Rustin
6.6
Cooley High
6.846
Burlesque
7.206
Super 8
6.8
J.D.'s Revenge
5.774
Out of Bounds
5.5
Manimal
4.5
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
7.25
Light It Up
6.6
John Dies at the End
6.294
The River Niger
6.75
The Legend of Glynn Turman
0
The Inkwell
5.5
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
5.9
Preaching To The Pastor
1
The Devil You Know
6.73
Kings of the Evening
0
Secrets of a Married Man
2
Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
7
Buffalo Soldiers
5.2
Fire & Ice
8
The Pastor's Secret
0
Thomasine & Bushrod
6.313
Someone Else's Child
2
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
0
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
7.4
Subterfuge
6.3
The Seat Filler
4.3
The Blue Knight
0
Act Like You Love Me
5.4
Five on the Black Hand Side
6.8
Minstrel Man
0
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Percy Jackson and the Olympians
6.4
Deep Cover
6.778
Honky
4.8
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
7.102
The Richard Pryor Special?
7
Carter's Army
4.042
Together Brothers
5
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
5
City Teacher
0
Race
7.255
Takers
6.233
The Obama Effect
2.5
Thornwell
6
The Serpent's Egg
6.294
Attica
5.7
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
6.2
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
1
Penitentiary II
4.3
Gremlins
7.1
Bumblebee
6.721
Solace
4.7
Ask Max
6
Windows on the World
4
The Visit
7.6
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
6.653
Sextuplets
6.23
The Way Back
6.648
Justine
6.4
AWOL
0
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen
6.2
Air Rage
5.2
The Tapestry
6
Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
8.2
In Search of America
3
Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold
3.75
Uncle P
5.091
STRAW
7.89
A Different World
10