Glynn Turman
Known for: Acting
Born: January 31, 1947
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…
Known for
Cooley High
1975
J.D.'s Revenge
1976
The Legend of Glynn Turman
2022
The Pastor's Secret
2012
Minstrel Man
1977
Thornwell
1981
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen
2020
When They're Gone
2026
Out of Bounds
1986
City Teacher
2012
Penitentiary II
1982
The Tapestry
1976
Rustin
2023
Preaching To The Pastor
2009
The Devil You Know
2022
Kings of the Evening
2008
Secrets of a Married Man
1984
Buffalo Soldiers
1997
Fire & Ice
2001
The Blue Knight
1975
AWOL
1972
The Killing Floor
2017
The River Niger
1976
The Inkwell
1994
Thomasine & Bushrod
1974
Five on the Black Hand Side
1973
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2020
Justine
2019
Freedom Song
2000
John Dies at the End
2013
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
1977
Someone Else's Child
1994
Subterfuge
1996
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
2017
Ask Max
1986
Sextuplets
2019
The Way Back
2020
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
1975
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1996
Solace
2018
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2024
Carter's Army
1975
Windows on the World
2019
The Grand Baby
1983
Sahara
2005
The Seat Filler
2004
Act Like You Love Me
2013
The Richard Pryor Special?
1977
Air Rage
2001
STRAW
2025
Outlaw Johnny Black
2023
Honky
1971
Together Brothers
1974
Attica
1980
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
2017
Light It Up
1999
Bumblebee
2018
80 for Brady
2023
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998
Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
2008
In Search of America
1971
Burlesque
2010
Deep Cover
1992
Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
2021
Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold
1978
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022
Men of Honor
2000
Super 8
2011
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985
Takers
2010
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
1974
Gremlins
1984
The Visit
2001
Dakota's Summer
2014
Uncle P
2007
The Serpent's Egg
1977
Race
2016
The Obama Effect
2012
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
2024
A Different World
1987
Touched by an Angel
1994
The Twilight Zone
1985
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Room 222
1969
Millennium
1996
In Treatment
2008
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Hail to the Chief
1985
The Paper Chase
1978
The Tony Randall Show
1976
Women of the Movement
2022
House of Lies
2012
Revolution
2012
Power Book II: Ghost
2020
The Wire
2002
FlashForward
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
2022
FBI: Most Wanted
2020
Centennial
1978
Suits
2011
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2023
How to Get Away with Murder
2014
The Red Line
2019
Alcatraz
2012
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
2022
The Big Cigar
2024
Criminal Minds
2005
T. J. Hooker
1982
The Bernie Mac Show
2001
Mr. Mercedes
2017
black-ish
2014
American Gods
2017
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Fargo
2014
The Defenders
2010
ER
1994
The Neighborhood
2018
NCIS: Los Angeles
2009
Paradise
2025
The Magnificent Seven
1998
Freddy's Nightmares
1988
Hot Pursuit
1984
Graves
2016
Matlock
1986
Scrubs
2001
CBS Playhouse
1966
Big Apple
2001