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