Birthday
1947/01/31 (78 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
글린 터먼, Glynn Russell Turman, Glynn R. Turman, گلین ترمن
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 ...Read more
(1975) Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
as Theo
(2023) 80 for Brady
as Mickey
(2000) Freedom Song
as T-Bone Lanier
(2005) Sahara
as Dr. Frank Hopper
(2017) The Killing Floor
as Self
(2000) Men of Honor
as Chief Floyd
(2023) Outlaw Johnny Black
as Bullseye Black
(1998) How Stella Got Her Groove Back
as Dr. Shakespeare
(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
(2024) Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
as ---
(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
(2022) The Legend of Glynn Turman
as G.T.
(1994) The Inkwell
as Spencer Phillips
(1977) A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
as Nigeria
(2009) Preaching To The Pastor
as Bishop Hightower
(2022) The Devil You Know
as Lloyd Cowans
(2008) Kings of the Evening
as Clarence Brown
(1984) Secrets of a Married Man
as Jesse
(2008) Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
as Sheriff Bob Monroe
(1997) Buffalo Soldiers
as Sgt. Joshua 'Joyu' Judges Ruth
(2001) Fire & Ice
as Robert Aimes Sr.
(2012) The Pastor's Secret
as ---
(1974) Thomasine & Bushrod
as Jomo J. Anderson
(1994) Someone Else's Child
as Judge Roullard
(1985) Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
as Joshua
(2022) Is That Black Enough for You?!?
as Self
(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
(1973) Five on the Black Hand Side
as Gideon
(1977) Minstrel Man
as Harry Brown Jr.
(2024) A Hero's Journey: The Making of Percy Jackson and the Olympians
as Self - Chiron
(1992) Deep Cover
as Russell Stevens Sr.
(1971) Honky
as Sailor at Bus Station
(1996) Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
as Coach Powell
(1977) The Richard Pryor Special?
as Booster Johnson
(1975) Carter's Army
as Pvt. George Brightman
(1974) Together Brothers
as Dr. Johnson
(1974) The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
as ---
(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) The Serpent's Egg
as Monroe
(1980) Attica
as Raymond Franklin
(2017) Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
as Self
(2017) August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
as ---
(1982) Penitentiary II
as Charles Johnson
(1984) Gremlins
as Roy Hanson
(2018) Bumblebee
as General Whalen
(2018) Solace
as Clay (Pastor Davis)
(1986) Ask Max
as Lloyd Lyman
(2019) Windows on the World
as Lou
(2001) The Visit
as Parole Board Member Reingold
(2020) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
as Toledo
(2019) Sextuplets
as Leland
(2020) The Way Back
as Doc
(2019) Justine
as Papa Don
(1972) AWOL
as Mohammed G.
(2020) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen
as Self - Presenter
(2001) Air Rage
as Ted Bigelow
(1976) The Tapestry
as ---
(2021) Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
as Self
(1971) In Search of America
as Bodhi
(1978) Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold
as Preston de Cordiva
(2007) Uncle P
as Dr. Niles
(1987) A Different World
as Colonel Brad Taylor
(2002) The Wire
as ---
(1994) Touched by an Angel
as Sheriff Ernie Guthrie
(1985) The Twilight Zone
as (segment "Paladin of the Lost Hour")
(1999) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Dr. Young
(1969) Room 222
as ---
(1996) Millennium
as James Glen
(2001) Scrubs
as George
(2008) In Treatment
as Alex Prince Sr.
(2001) Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Roy Hines
(1985) Hail to the Chief
as Secretary of State LaRue Hawkins
(1998) The Magnificent Seven
as ---
(1978) The Paper Chase
as ---
(1976) The Tony Randall Show
as ---
(2022) Women of the Movement
as Mose Wright
(2012) House of Lies
as Jeremiah Kaan
(2012) Revolution
as Major David Kipling
(2020) Power Book II: Ghost
as Gabriel
(2002) The Wire
as Clarence Royce
(2002) The Wire
as Mayor Clarence V. Royce
(2009) FlashForward
as Senator Noland
(2014) Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
(2022) The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
as Pa (voice)
(2020) FBI: Most Wanted
as Terry Daniels
(1978) Centennial
as Nate Person
(2011) Suits
as Vic
(2023) Percy Jackson and the Olympians
as Mr. Brunner / Chiron
(2014) How to Get Away with Murder
as Nathaniel Lahey
(2019) The Red Line
as Nathan Gordon
(2012) Alcatraz
as Emmitt Little
(2022) Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
as Sheriff Nate Craven
(2024) The Big Cigar
as Walter
(1982) T. J. Hooker
as Norman Powell
(2005) Criminal Minds
as Charles Johnson
(2001) The Bernie Mac Show
as Carl
(2017) Mr. Mercedes
as Judge Bernard Raines
(2014) black-ish
as Billy Blade
(2017) American Gods
as Reverend Hutchins
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Stan Lassiter
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Earl Browder
(2014) Fargo
as Doctor Senator
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Ben Coleman
(2010) The Defenders
as Judge Bob Owens
(1994) ER
as Mr. Holmes
(2018) The Neighborhood
as Otis
(2009) NCIS: Los Angeles
as James Pierce
(2025) Paradise
as Fred Collins