American actor

Glynn Turman

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.

Born

1947

January 31

Died

Living

Era

1940s

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Key dates

1947 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

314 Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
1208 The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the throne as King Eric X of Sweden.
1266 The Mudéjar of Murcia, who had rebelled against the Crown of Castile during the Mudéjar revolt of 1264–1266, surrender the city to James I of Aragon after a siege lasting a month.
1504 The Treaty of Lyon ends the Italian War, confirming French domination of northern Italy, while Spain receives the Kingdom of Naples.

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The world in 1947

When Glynn arrived

april 1 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
april 15 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
april 16 An explosion on board a freighter in port causes Texas City in the state of Texas, United States, to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.
april 16 Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Akbar Ganji 1960– Iranian journalist and author Daniel Tammet 1979– English author and educator Franz Schubert 1797–1828 Austrian pianist and composer (died 1828) Gouverneur Morris 1752–1816 American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France (died 1816) Grant Morrison 1960– Scottish author and screenwriter Jersey Joe Walcott 1914– American boxer and police officer (died 1994) Kenzaburō Ōe 1935–2023 Japanese author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023) Len Chappell 1941– American basketball player (died 2018) Nolan Ryan 1947– American baseball player

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1947

Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947– Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California Alain Bashung 1947– French singer-songwriter and actor (died 2009) Albert Brooks 1947– American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter Andrea Martin 1947– American-Canadian actress, singer, and screenwriter Ángel Nieto 1947– Spanish motorcycle racer (died 2017) Angry Anderson 1947– Australian singer and actor Anton Mosimann 1947– Swiss chef and author Assata Shakur 1947– American-Cuban criminal and activist (died 2025) Barry Melton 1947– American singer-songwriter and guitarist

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