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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

2024
The Big Cigar

as    Walter

2023
Rustin

as    A. Philip Randolph

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

2019
Windows on the World

as    Lou

2019
Justine

as    Papa Don

2018
Solace

as    Clay (Pastor Davis)

2018
Bumblebee

as    General Whalen

2013
John Dies at the End

as    Detective Lawrence 'Morgan Freeman' Appleton

2012
House of Lies

as    Jeremiah Kaan

2008
Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery

as    Sheriff Bob Monroe

2005
Sahara

as    Dr. Frank Hopper

2004
The Seat Filler

as    Derrick's Dad