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Known Movies: 16

Birthday: 1947-01-31

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

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Glynn Turman

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Glynn Russell Turman (born January 31, 1946) is an American stage, television, and film actor as well as a writer, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as 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, and fictional Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series The Wire.

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Acting
2013 John Dies at the End … Detective Lawrence 'Morgan Freeman' Appleton
2011 Super 8 … Dr. Woodward
2010 Burlesque … Harold Saint
2008 Kings of the Evening … Clarence Brown
2005 Sahara … Dr. Frank Hopper
2000 Men of Honor … Chief Floyd
1999 Light It Up … Principal Allan Armstrong
1998 How Stella Got Her Groove Back … Dr. Shakespeare
1994 The Inkwell … Spencer Phillips
1986 Out of Bounds … Lieutenant Delgado
1984 Secrets of a Married Man … Jesse
1978 A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich … Nigeria
1976 The River Niger … Jeff Williams
1976 J.D.'s Revenge … Isaac / 'Ike'
1975 Cooley High … Leroy "Preach" Jackson
1900 Preaching To The Pastor … Bishop Hightower