Glynn Turman
Glynn Turman is an actor, born 1947. Their work on CrossBinge spans TV and films, including The Wire, with ratings and cross-media recommendations.
Glynn Turman is an American actor. First coming to attention as a child actor in the original 1959 Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun, Turman is known for his roles as Lew Miles on the prime-time soap opera Peyton Place (1968, 1969), 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 (1988, 1993), and Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series The Wire. He received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role…
Films (33)
- Bumblebee (2018)
- STRAW (2025)
- Gremlins (1984)
- Men of Honor (2000)
- Super 8 (2011)
- Sahara (2005)
- Burlesque (2010)
- The Way Back (2020)
- Takers (2010)
- Sextuplets (2019)
- Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024)
- Race (2016)
- 80 for Brady (2023)
- Deep Cover (1992)
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
- How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
- John Dies at the End (2013)
- Rustin (2023)
- A Hero's Journey: The Making of Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2024)
- Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996)
- The Inkwell (1994)
- Cooley High (1975)
- Uncle P (2007)
- The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)
- The Seat Filler (2004)
- Light It Up (1999)
- Dakota's Summer (2014)
- Attica (1980)
- Out of Bounds (1986)
- Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022)
TV (15)
- The Wire (2002)
- How to Get Away with Murder (2014)
- In Treatment (2008)
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023)
- A Different World (1987)
- Mr. Mercedes (2017)
- Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022)
- House of Lies (2012)
- The Defenders (2010)
- The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder (2022)
- The Paper Chase (1978)
- The Big Cigar (2024)
- Centennial (1978)
- The Tony Randall Show (1976)
- The Red Line (2019)