Glynn Turman

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-01-31 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Glynn Turman

Biography

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 ...

Acting

2023

80 for Brady

as Mickey

2000

Freedom Song

as T-Bone Lanier

2005

Sahara

as Dr. Frank Hopper

2000

Men of Honor

as Chief Floyd

2023

Outlaw Johnny Black

as Bullseye Black

1998

2023

Rustin

as A. Philip Randolph

1975

Cooley High

as Leroy "Preach" Jackson

2010

Burlesque

as Harold Saint

2011

Super 8

as Dr. Woodward

1976

J.D.'s Revenge

as Isaac / 'Ike'

1986

Out of Bounds

as Lieutenant Delgado

1983

Manimal

as Ty Earl

1999

Light It Up

as Principal Allan Armstrong

2013

John Dies at the End

as Detective Lawrence 'Morgan Freeman' Appleton

1976

The River Niger

as Jeff Williams

1994

The Inkwell

as Spencer Phillips

2009

Preaching To The Pastor

as Bishop Hightower

2022

The Devil You Know

as Lloyd Cowans

2008

Kings of the Evening

as Clarence Brown

2008

1997

Buffalo Soldiers

as Sgt. Joshua 'Joyu' Judges Ruth

2001

Fire & Ice

as Robert Aimes Sr.

1974

Thomasine & Bushrod

as Jomo J. Anderson

1994

Someone Else's Child

as Judge Roullard

1996

Subterfuge

as Stallworth Hubbs

2004

The Seat Filler

as Derrick's Dad

1975

The Blue Knight

as Edwin Beall

2013

Act Like You Love Me

as David Lofton

1977

Minstrel Man

as Harry Brown Jr.

1992

Deep Cover

as Russell Stevens Sr.

1971

Honky

as Sailor at Bus Station

1977

The Richard Pryor Special?

as Booster Johnson

1975

Carter's Army

as Pvt. George Brightman

1974

Together Brothers

as Dr. Johnson

2012

City Teacher

as Kevin Sawyer

2016

Race

as Harry E. Davis

2010

Takers

as Chief Detective Duncan

2012

The Obama Effect

as Slim Sugar

1981

Thornwell

as James Thornwell

1977

1980

Attica

as Raymond Franklin

1984

Gremlins

as Roy Hanson

1982

Penitentiary II

as Charles Johnson

2018

Bumblebee

as General Whalen

2018

Solace

as Clay (Pastor Davis)

1986

Ask Max

as Lloyd Lyman

2001

The Visit

as Parole Board Member Reingold

2019

Sextuplets

as Leland

2020

2019

Justine

as Papa Don

1972

AWOL

as Mohammed G.

2001

Air Rage

as Ted Bigelow

1978

Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold

as Preston de Cordiva

2007

Uncle P

as Dr. Niles

2025

STRAW

as Richard

1987

A Different World

as Colonel Bradford Taylor

Production

2022

Women of Theatre, New York

as Executive Producer

2019

Justine

as Executive Producer

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