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Glynn Turman

1947 - Today

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Glynn Russell Turman (born January 31, 1947) is an American actor, director, writer, and producer. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Glynn Turman has received more than 3,871,760 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Glynn Turman is the 5,117th most popular actor (up from 6,294th in 2019), the 7,595th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,785th in 2019) and the 2,388th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Glynn Turman ranks 5,117 out of 9,996. Before him are Anica Dobra, Dilraba Dilmurat, Nina Andrycz, Fisher Stevens, Hilda Gobbi, and Evanna Lynch. After him are Michał Żebrowski, Alice Eve, Rosemary Murphy, Takahiro Sakurai, Phil Harris, and Leigh Taylor-Young.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Glynn Turman ranks 509. Before him are Liz Torres, Mazie Hirono, Amos Biwott, Michèle Pierre-Louis, Gregory Chaitin, and Tomas Pettersson. After him are Sef Vergoossen, Arlo Guthrie, Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Ignazio La Russa, Louise Arbour, and Sylvestre Ilunga.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Glynn Turman ranks 7,595 out of 18,182. Before him are Mike Mills (1958), Samuel Eliot Morison (1887), Tom Heinsohn (1934), William M. Evarts (1818), Maurice Greene (1974), and Charles Dana Gibson (1867). After him are Bart D. Ehrman (1955), Tony Trabert (1930), Francesca Woodman (1958), R. B. Kitaj (1932), Phil Harris (1904), and Leigh Taylor-Young (1945).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Glynn Turman ranks 2,388. Before him are Tim Conway (1933), Robert Young (1907), Christie Brinkley (1954), Matthew Davis (1978), Regina King (1971), and Fisher Stevens (1963). After him are Phil Harris (1904), Leigh Taylor-Young (1945), Pinto Colvig (1892), Bebe Daniels (1901), Scott Foley (1972), and Jon-Erik Hexum (1957).

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