Glynn Turman
Glynn Turman was born in New York City, New York, United States on January 31st, 1947 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 77, Glynn Turman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Glynn Russell Turman (born January 31, 1947) is an American stage, television, and film actor as well as a writer, producer, and producer.
Turman is best known for his appearances on Lew Miles' prime-time soap opera Peyton Place (1968–69), high school teacher and former Army colonel Bradford Taylor on the NBC sitcom A Different World (1988–93), and fictional Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on HBO's drama series The Wire.
On the showtime program House of Lies, Jeremiah Kaan portrayed him recently.
Early life
Turman was born in New York City. Turman traces his ancestry with Nigeria's Edo people, according to a DNA report. Turman attended High School of Performing Arts, which is located in the Manhattan section of New York City, and graduated in 1965.
Personal life
Turman has been married three times and has three children. Turman was married to Ula M. Walker from 1965 to 1971. Turman and Walker had three children as a team. Aretha Franklin, a young woman from Detroit, Michigan, married Aretha Franklin on April 11, 1978 at her father's (C. L. Franklin) New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan. Turman and Franklin married in 1982 and divorced in 1984. In 1992, Turman married Jo-Ann Allen. Jo-Ann, his wife, has one daughter.
Career
Travis Younger was the first prominent actor to appear in Lorraine Hansberry's classic play, A Raisin in the Sun, opposite Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett Jr., John Fiedler, and Diana Sands. He apprenticed in regional and repertory companies throughout the United States, including Tyrone Guthrie's Repertory Theatre, in which he appeared in late 1960s revivals of Good Boys, Harper's Ferry, The Visit, and The House of Atreus. In William Hanley's Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, he made his Los Angeles debut. A 1974 appearance in The Wine Sellers earned him a Los Angeles Critics Award nomination and a Dramalogue Award. What The Wine Sellers Buy was also performed on Broadway as What The Wine Sellers Buy.
Turman received his first NAACP Image Award for his role in the American's Play Eyes. He received his second NAACP Image award for his job as the conductor of Deadwood Dick at the Inner City Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
He has produced episodes of The Parent 'Hood, Hangin', A Different World, and The Wayans Bros.
Turman started his film career in the 1970s with Five on the Black Hand Side (1973), Thomasine & Bushrod (1974), and Together Brothers (1975), then on to roles in Cooley High (1976). A Hero Ain't Nothin' (1978) and A Sandwich (1978). Carter's Army, Attica's opulent Centennial, Attica, and Minstrel Man, for which he received his third NAACP Image Award, were among the television films.
Turman appeared in television movies Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in 1994, Buffalo Soldiers, and Freedom Song. Penitentiary II (1982), Gremlins (1992), The Lost Boys (1992), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Men of Honor (2004), Burlesque (2005), and Super 8 (2011). In 2004, he appeared on HBO's The Wire portraying Mayor Clarence Royce's recurring role as a full-time regular, and he became a full-time regular in 2006. In 2007, his portrayal of Mayor Royce earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Turman was a patient in the Scrubs episode "My Last Words" when he appeared on The Wire. Turman's other television appearances include Hawaii Five-O (as Harley Dartson, 1973), "Tricks Are Not Treating"), the Twilight Zone segment "Paladin of the Lost Hour" (co-starring Danny Kaye), Matlock, Millennium, and the sitcom All of Us. In 2008, he received a Primetime Emmy award for his guest appearance on HBO's In Treatment. He appeared in ABC's Detroit 1-8-7. Movin' Man is a one-man film about his life.
Turman was selected for the role of Han Solo in Star Wars. Turman recalled: "This was in George Lucas' book." I had an eye on the role, but then realized that there would be too much controversy between a white Princess and a black Han Solo, and he didn't want to get involved with it. I had no idea at the time. "I just went to the audition, did it, and got out of there." He appeared on House of Lies in 2012 as the father of the characters played by Don Cheadle and Larenz Tate. In 2016, he appeared on Oprah Winfrey Network TV show Queen Sugar, in which he played Ernest Bordelon.
In ten episodes of ABC's How to Get Away With Murder, Nate Lahey Sr. was cast as Nate Lahey Sr. in 2017. Nate Lahey's estranged father (Billy Brown), a former police officer, investigator, and lover of series actor Annalise Keating (Viola Davis), is the subject of his character. Turman appeared on Suits as Vic in 2018.
Turman is expected to appear in the ABC limited series Women of the Movement in 2021, as Emmett Till's great-uncle Mose Wright.