Biography
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 on the HBO drama series In Treatment.
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Awards & recognition
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series · 2008
- Ovation Awards
Filmography50+ titles
The Wire
Fargo
Criminal Minds
Power Book II: Ghost
Suits
Scrubs
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
How to Get Away with Murder
ER
Straw
FBI: Most Wanted
The Neighborhood
In Treatment
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Paradise
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
NCIS: Los Angeles
Men of Honor
Murder, She Wrote
The River Niger
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Race
The Parent 'Hood
Burlesque
The Defenders
The Wayans Bros.
Touched by an Angel
Freddy's Nightmares
Five on the Black Hand Side
The Red Line
American Gods
Mr. Mercedes
A Different World
Matlock
Gremlins
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Flashforward
Cooley High
Super 8
Deep Cover
The Devil You Know
Bumblebee
Light It Up
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
The Way Back
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
House of Lies
The Bernie Mac Show
The Magnificent Seven
Rustin