ACTOR

Glynn Turman

1947 - Today

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Glynn 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 4,080,314 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Glynn Turman is the 4,234th most popular actor (up from 5,108th in 2019), the 6,229th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,580th in 2019) and the 1,898th most popular American Actor.

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  • 4.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Glynn Turman ranks 4,234 out of 13,578. Before him are Shirley Booth, Jason Patric, Pom Klementieff, Sandy Dennis, Antonia San Juan, and Vincent Gardenia. After him are Corinne Griffith, Lupita Nyong'o, Afife Jale, John Ericson, Stina Ekblad, and Valeri Zolotukhin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Glynn Turman ranks 479. Before him are Ladislav Kuna, Geydar Dzhemal, Renata Sorrah, Camille Paglia, Pia Kjærsgaard, and Peter Riegert. After him are Lev Rokhlin, Aneka, Nolan Ryan, Mike Krzyzewski, Richard Portnow, and Stuart Gordon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Glynn Turman ranks 6,229 out of 20,380. Before him are John Piper (1946), Shirley Booth (1898), Gene Pitney (1940), Jason Patric (1966), Sandy Dennis (1937), and Lee Ritenour (1952). After him are Laurene Powell Jobs (1963), Gordon Willis (1931), Marshall Applewhite (1931), Sting (1959), Theodore Freeman (1930), and Corinne Griffith (1894).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Glynn Turman ranks 1,898. Before him are Tiny Sandford (1894), Bellamy Young (1970), Peter Riegert (1947), Shirley Booth (1898), Jason Patric (1966), and Sandy Dennis (1937). After him are Corinne Griffith (1894), Ray Romano (1957), Renee O'Connor (1971), Aria Giovanni (1977), Carl Switzer (1927), and Nicholas Hammond (1950).

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Television and Movie Roles

Bumblebee
General Whalen
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary yellow VW bug.
Dec 15th 20186.7 / 10
Super 8
Dr. Woodward
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrifying truth behind the crash.
Jun 8th 20116.8 / 10
Gremlins
Roy Hanson
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, unleashing a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
Jun 8th 19847.12 / 10