Glynn Turman
Birthday: 1947-01-31
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: 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 Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series "The Wire" and "House of Lies." His filmography includes impactful roles in "Gremlins" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." With a captivating presence, Turman continues to enthrall audiences, showcasing remarkable versatility and depth in his performances.
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Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
Russell B. Parker, a former vaudeville hoofer, is a man of big dreams but small ambitions. He hardly...
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80 for Brady
Four lifelong friends set out on an unforgettable journey to see their hero Tom Brady play in Super ...
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Freedom Song
Freedom Song is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi...
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Sahara
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African dese...
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Men of Honor
Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, le...
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Outlaw Johnny Black
Hell bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and becom...
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy bui...
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Rustin
Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights his...
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Cooley High
In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy li...
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Burlesque
Ali leaves behind a troubled life and follows her dreams to Los Angeles, where she lands a job as a ...
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Super 8
In late 1970s Ohio, a group of friends filming a homemade zombie movie witness a devastating train d...
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J.D.'s Revenge
Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit rema...
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Out of Bounds
Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will ...
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of m...
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Light It Up
On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in a...
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John Dies at the End
A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an other...
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The River Niger
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet,...
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The Legend of Glynn Turman
Actor Glynn Turman makes his Broadway debut at 12 years old in the original production of “A Raisin ...
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The Inkwell
The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976....
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it....
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Preaching To The Pastor
Preaching To The Pastor is a musical comedy about the controversy going on at High And Mighty Missio...
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The Devil You Know
Once-incarcerated Marcus Cowans is trying to turn over a new leaf with the support of his loving fam...
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Kings of the Evening
Homer Hobbs, home after two years in jail, discovers that life on the outside can be crueler than th...
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Secrets of a Married Man
A man going through a mid-life crisis, starts patronizing prostitutes. Eventually, he meets a very e...
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Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
Criminology professor Jonathan Maxwell investigates a murder at a new age retreat where the leader i...
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Buffalo Soldiers
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-Ameri...
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Fire & Ice
While many celebrities believe their fame gives them good luck with the opposite gender, one man wit...
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The Pastor's Secret
After paying his debt to society, a convicted man is redeemed, called by God to become the pastor of...
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Thomasine & Bushrod
A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white cap...
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Someone Else's Child
Ten years after the birth of her son, Corey Maddox discovers an awful truth: Her son was switched at...
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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands o...
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Is That Black Enough for You?!?
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making ...
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Subterfuge
Scuba-diver turned beach-bum Jonathan Slade is forced back into his previous milieu - the world of i...
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The Seat Filler
Derrick is a struggling law student who takes a job as an awards show seat filler to make ends meet....
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The Blue Knight
In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force ...
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Act Like You Love Me
Kelly Lofton is a young, successful dentist who has all the material things a woman could ask for. H...
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Five on the Black Hand Side
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American f...
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Minstrel Man
Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two ...
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A Hero's Journey: The Making of Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Alongside a passionate cast and crew, follow Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri a...
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Deep Cover
Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest...
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Honky
Sheila, an affluent black teenager, begins dating working class white teen Wayne, and asks him for h...
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Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based ...
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The Richard Pryor Special?
Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reveren...
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Carter's Army
A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowin...
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Together Brothers
A group of ghetto kids try to find out who killed a popular police officer....
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
Fritz, now married and with a son, is desperate to escape from the domestic hell he now finds himsel...
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City Teacher
A Jewish parole officer, Jeff Solomon White, struggles in his new role as a reading teacher for illi...
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Race
Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field at...
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Takers
A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings, John Rahway, A.J., and brothers Jake and...
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The Obama Effect
A serious health scare ignites John Thomas, an insurance salesman in his 50s, to take a closer look ...
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Thornwell
The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to ...
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The Serpent's Egg
In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while...
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Attica
Acclaimed dramatization recreating the incidents surrounding the 1971 revolt in New York's Attica St...
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Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the fac...
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August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Sm...
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Penitentiary II
An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when...
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Gremlins
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three i...
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Bumblebee
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town....
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Solace
Following the death of her father, a 17-year-old girl is sent to live with her estranged family and ...
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Ask Max
A 12-year-old genius, poor Max is a washout socially. To impress his girlfriend, he sells the design...
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Windows on the World
After watching the news on 9/11 with his family, Fernando travels from Mexico to New York City to fi...
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The Visit
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his ...
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording s...
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Sextuplets
Father-to-be Alan is shocked to learn that he was born a sextuplet. With his newfound brother Russel...
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The Way Back
A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addicti...
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Justine
A woman dealing with the loss of her husband, the struggle of parenthood and finding work in a new s...
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AWOL
In Sweden, young US soldier, Willy, goes a.w.o.l and teams up with other deserters in Stockholm. The...
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen
Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, George C. Wolfe and more share the heart, soul and history that brou...
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Air Rage
A Marine Colonel and his men are sent abroad on hostage rescue mission. When they arrive, they find ...
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The Tapestry
A television drama directed by Maya Angelou. In 1975, the accomplished writer became the first Afric...
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Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
An intimate look at the Oscar-nominated actor’s incomparable artistry, and the acting process which ...
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In Search of America
Michael (Jeff Bridges) drops out of college with the intention of finding himself. When his parents ...
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Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold
A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business ...
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Uncle P
Rapper/multi-millionaire P. Miller becomes the guardian of his sister's three children - all of whom...
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STRAW
What will be her last straw? A devastatingly bad day pushes a hardworking single mother to the break...
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A Different World
A Different World is an American sitcom television series and a spin-off of The Cosby Show. It aired...
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Dakota's Summer
Cowgirls 'n Angels Dakota's Summer tells the story of Dakota Rose, a cowgirl and competitive trick r...
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