# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/glynn-turman
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:58:19.875Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/glynn-turman"
name: "Glynn Turman"
slug: "glynn-turman"
description: "Glynn Turman is an American actor. 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. He received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role on the HBO drama series In Treatment."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Glynn_Turman_headshot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1947-01-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.95
  momentum:             6.636400593740378
  historical:           20.66640266666667
  currentAttention:     22.46357846985955
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0877270/"
    handle:    "nm0877270"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "글린 터먼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Glynn Turman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1532531"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/114674"
    title: "Glynn Turman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump