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Glynn Turman

Glynn Turman

Birthday: 1947-01-31 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Glynn Russell Turman (born January 31, 1946) is an American stage, television, and film actor as well as a writer, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as high school student Leroy "Preach" Jackson in the 1975 coming-of-age film Cooley High, math professor and retired Army colonel Bradford Taylor on the NBC sitcom A Different World, and fictional Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series The Wire. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glynn Turman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2023
Outlaw Johnny Black

as    Bullseye Black

2022
The Devil You Know

as    Lloyd Cowans

2022
Women of the Movement

as    Mose Wright

2020
The Way Back

as    Doc

2020
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

as    Toledo

2019
Sextuplets

as    Leland

2018
Bumblebee

as    General Whalen

2013
John Dies at the End

as    Detective Lawrence 'Morgan Freeman' Appleton

2012
House of Lies

as    Jeremiah Kaan

2005
Sahara

as    Dr. Frank Hopper

2004
The Seat Filler

as    Derrick's Dad

2001
Fire & Ice

as    Robert Aimes Sr.

1999
Light It Up

as    Principal Allan Armstrong

1997
Buffalo Soldiers

as    Sgt. Joshua 'Joyu' Judges Ruth

1996
Subterfuge

as    Stallworth Hubbs

1987
A Different World

as    Colonel Bradford Taylor

1986
Out of Bounds

as    Lieutenant Delgado

1980
Attica

as    Raymond Franklin

1977
Minstrel Man

as    Harry Brown Jr.

1976
J.D.'s Revenge

as    Isaac / 'Ike'

1974
Together Brothers

as    Dr. Johnson

1974
Thomasine & Bushrod

as    Jomo J. Anderson

1970
Carter's Army

as    Pvt. George Brightman