Glynn Russell Turman is a writer, director, and producer from the United States. Turman is best known for his roles as Lew Miles on Peyton Place, 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 Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series The Wire. Turman won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in the HBO drama series In Treatment.
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Turman’s performance in the play Eyes of the American earned him his first NAACP Image Award. Turman received his second NAACP Image Award for directing Deadwood Dick at the Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center. He has directed episodes of The Parent ‘Hood, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, A Different World, and The Wayans Bros. for television.
Turman appeared in the 1994 television films Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad, Buffalo Soldiers, and Freedom Song. Penitentiary II (1982), Gremlins (1984), Deep Cover (1992), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Men of Honor (2000), Sahara (2005), Kings of the Evening (2007), Burlesque (2010), and Super 8 are among his other notable films (2011).
