Glynn Turman
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 8.439 |
Birthday | 1947-01-31 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | 글린 터먼, Glynn Russell Turman, Glynn R. Turman, |
1975
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
0/0
Russell B. Parker, a former vaudeville hoofer, is a man of big dreams but small ambitions. He hardly works at all in fact, often spending the time inc...
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Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
2023
80 for Brady
6.4/146
Four longtime best friends decide to live life to the fullest by embarking on a wild trip to Super Bowl LI to see their hero, quarterback Tom Brady pl...
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80 for Brady
2000
Freedom Song
5.8/5
Freedom Song is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle...
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Freedom Song
2005
Sahara
5.91/1459
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a c...
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Sahara
2017
The Killing Floor
0/0
A documentary on making the movie JD'S REVENGE.
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The Killing Floor
2000
Men of Honor
7.479/2243
Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his...
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Men of Honor
2023
Outlaw Johnny Black
5.647/17
Hell bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and becomes a wanted man in the process while posing as a p...
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Outlaw Johnny Black
1998
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
5.9/112
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really li...
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back
2023
Rustin
6.69/168
Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington...
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Rustin
1975
Cooley High
6.884/56
In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting...
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Cooley High
2010
Burlesque
7.196/2211
Ali leaves behind a troubled life and follows her dreams to Los Angeles, where she lands a job as a cocktail waitress at the Burlesque Lounge, a once-...
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Burlesque
2011
Super 8
6.768/6510
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train dera...
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Super 8
1976
J.D.'s Revenge
5.9/27
Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist'...
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J.D.'s Revenge
1986
Out of Bounds
5.5/23
Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at...
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Out of Bounds
1983
Manimal
4.5/2
Jonathan Chase is a British college professor at New York University who has the unusual ability to transform into any kind of animal he wants. He dec...
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Manimal
2024
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
0/0
Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning 15 years before, during, and followi...
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2
1999
Light It Up
6.6/33
On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, cla...
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Light It Up
2013
John Dies at the End
6.297/643
A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of Earth is underway.
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John Dies at the End
1976
The River Niger
7.3/3
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support...
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The River Niger
2022
The Legend of Glynn Turman
0/0
Actor Glynn Turman makes his Broadway debut at 12 years old in the original production of “A Raisin in the Sun” opposite Sidney Poitier and becomes a...
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The Legend of Glynn Turman
1994
The Inkwell
5.433/15
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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The Inkwell
1977
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
5.9/8
A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
2009
Preaching To The Pastor
1/1
Preaching To The Pastor is a musical comedy about the controversy going on at High And Mighty Missionary Baptist Church. The Pastor has a dark secret...
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Preaching To The Pastor
2022
The Devil You Know
6.971/35
Once-incarcerated Marcus Cowans is trying to turn over a new leaf with the support of his loving family. Upon discovering that one of his brothers may...
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The Devil You Know
2008
Kings of the Evening
0/0
Homer Hobbs, home after two years in jail, discovers that life on the outside can be crueler than the back-breaking injustice of the chain gang...
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Kings of the Evening
1984
Secrets of a Married Man
2/2
A man going through a mid-life crisis, starts patronizing prostitutes. Eventually, he meets a very expensive one and he thinks he has it all. That is...
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Secrets of a Married Man
2008
Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
7/6
Criminology professor Jonathan Maxwell investigates a murder at a new age retreat where the leader is killed in a locked room surrounded by people in...
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Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
1997
Buffalo Soldiers
4.923/12
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, the...
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Buffalo Soldiers
2001
Fire & Ice
8/2
While many celebrities believe their fame gives them good luck with the opposite gender, one man with a successful television career discovers fame is...
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Fire & Ice
2012
The Pastor's Secret
0/0
After paying his debt to society, a convicted man is redeemed, called by God to become the pastor of a disgraced church and lead it back to glory. But...
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The Pastor's Secret
1974
Thomasine & Bushrod
5.9/6
A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white capitalists, and giving to Mexicans, Native Americans...
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Thomasine & Bushrod
1994
Someone Else's Child
0/0
Ten years after the birth of her son, Corey Maddox discovers an awful truth: Her son was switched at birth.
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Someone Else's Child
1985
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
0/0
At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners f...
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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
2022
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
7.4/26
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.
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Is That Black Enough for You?!?
1996
Subterfuge
6.333/3
Scuba-diver turned beach-bum Jonathan Slade is forced back into his previous milieu - the world of international espionage - in order to retrieve Blac...
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Subterfuge
2004
The Seat Filler
4.2/14
Derrick is a struggling law student who takes a job as an awards show seat filler to make ends meet. One day, he is seated next to the beautiful pop s...
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The Seat Filler
1975
The Blue Knight
0/0
In this pilot film that preceded the short-lived series, a street cop in his last week on the force before his retirement investigates the murder of h...
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The Blue Knight
2013
Act Like You Love Me
5.5/4
Kelly Lofton is a young, successful dentist who has all the material things a woman could ask for. However, Kelly has struggled to find time for love...
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Act Like You Love Me
1973
Five on the Black Hand Side
7/2
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values whe...
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Five on the Black Hand Side
1977
Minstrel Man
0/0
Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two different goals. One brother is determined to succ...
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Minstrel Man
2024
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Percy Jackson and the Olympians
6.667/9
Alongside a passionate cast and crew, follow Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri as they step into worlds fit for gods, battle unfor...
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A Hero's Journey: The Making of Percy Jackson and the Olympians
1992
Deep Cover
6.7/204
Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian fore...
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Deep Cover
1971
Honky
4.8/5
Black girl from rich family loves white boy from poor family.
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Honky
1996
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
7.2/50
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison...
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Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1977
The Richard Pryor Special?
6.3/3
Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reverend James L. White, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Da...
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The Richard Pryor Special?
1975
Carter's Army
4.7/10
A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany. Their...
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Carter's Army
1974
Together Brothers
5/4
A group of ghetto kids try to find out who killed a popular police officer.
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Together Brothers
1974
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
4.9/68
Fritz, now married and with a son, is desperate to escape from the domestic hell he now finds himself in. Lighting up a joint, he begins to dream abou...
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
2012
A Hard Lesson
0/0
A Jewish parole officer, Jeff Solomon White, struggles in his new role as a reading teacher for illiterate teens at a New York high school. Hard Lesso...
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A Hard Lesson
2016
Race
7.25/1515
Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage...
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Race
2010
Takers
6.214/1251
A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings, John Rahway, A.J., and brothers Jake and Jesse Attica successfully complete their latest h...
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Takers
2012
The Obama Effect
2.5/4
A serious health scare ignites John Thomas, an insurance salesman in his 50s, to take a closer look at his life. Motivated by a misguided obsession wi...
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The Obama Effect
1981
Thornwell
6/2
The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents...
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Thornwell
1977
The Serpent's Egg
6.257/107
Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression,...
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The Serpent's Egg
1980
Attica
5.7/14
Acclaimed dramatization recreating the incidents surrounding the 1971 revolt in New York's Attica State Prison that lasted for 23 days and resulted in...
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Attica
2017
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
6.2/4
On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-ever b...
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Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
2017
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
0/0
Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Smithsonian African-American History Museum.
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August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
1984
Gremlins
7.114/6244
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mo...
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Gremlins
1982
Penitentiary II
4.1/11
An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his g...
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Penitentiary II
2018
Bumblebee
6.727/6020
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to...
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Bumblebee
2018
Solace
5/2
Following the death of her father, a 17-year-old girl is sent to live with her estranged family and finds comfort in a questionable friendship with a...
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Solace
1986
Ask Max
6/1
A 12-year-old genius, poor Max is a washout socially. To impress his girlfriend, he sells the design of his latest invention-a jumping bike-to a major...
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Ask Max
2019
Windows on the World
4/2
After watching the news on 9/11 with his family, Fernando travels from Mexico to New York City to find his father, an undocumented worker at the World...
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Windows on the World
2001
The Visit
7.6/6
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
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The Visit
2020
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
6.673/1139
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2019
Sextuplets
6.2/832
Father-to-be Alan is shocked to learn that he was born a sextuplet. With his newfound brother Russell riding shotgun, the duo sets out on a hilarious...
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Sextuplets
2020
The Way Back
6.675/1144
A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction, attempts to regain his soul and salvation by b...
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The Way Back
2019
Justine
6.4/13
A woman dealing with the loss of her husband, the struggle of parenthood and finding work in a new state finds solace in her relationship with an 8 ye...
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Justine
1972
AWOL
0/0
In Sweden, young US soldier, Willy, goes a.w.o.l and teams up with other deserters in Stockholm. There, he meets leftist radical beauty, Inga, who tri...
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AWOL
2020
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen
6/13
Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, George C. Wolfe and more share the heart, soul and history that brought August Wilson's timeless play to the screen.
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen
2001
Air Rage
5.222/9
A Marine Colonel and his men are sent abroad on hostage rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the hostages dead and decide to get payback by mas...
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Air Rage
1976
The Tapestry
6/1
A television drama directed by Maya Angelou. In 1975, the accomplished writer became the first African American woman to join the Directors Guild of A...
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The Tapestry
2021
Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
8.5/11
An intimate look at the Oscar-nominated actor’s incomparable artistry, and the acting process which informed his transformative performances. Viola Da...
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Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
1971
In Search of America
5/1
Michael (Jeff Bridges) drops out of college with the intention of finding himself. When his parents (Carl Betz and Vera Miles) balk, he talks them int...
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In Search of America
1978
Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold
3.333/3
A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.
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