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GLYNN TURMAN

The recipient of the NAACP’s Lifetime Achievement Award for theater Glynn is a veteran of the Stage and screen. On March 11, 2000, Glynn celebrated his 40th anniversary starring on Broadway at the tender age of twelve, in Lorraine Hansberry’s Landmark production of “A Raisin in the Sun” starring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee. This charmed beginning lead him to pursue his dreams. He studied drama at the famed High School of Performing Arts in New York and upon graduation appeared in the productions at The Actors Studio, The Tyrone Guthrie Repertory Theatre and Lincoln Center. Los Angeles Theater audience was introduced to Glynn when Vinnette Carroll cast him in “Slow Dance on the Killing Ground.” This proved to be the beginning of a long love affair with the critics, who recently praised his performance in “Son’s of Lincoln”. They loved his work in “The Wine Sellers,” which earned him a Los Angeles Critics Award nomination, a Dramalogue Award and a NAACP Image Award for “Eyes of the American.”
Glynn is also a director producer, earning a second NAACP Image Award for his direction of “Deadwood Dick” at the Inner City Cultural Center and further acclaim for his PBS production of “Money Rider.” He has directed several seasons of “The Parenthood”, “A Different World”, “Hanging with Mr. Cooper” and “The Wayans Bros.” Glynn has had numerous successful leading roles on television , but he is perhaps best remembered. as the staunch, ‘Colonel Taylor’ on NBC-TV’s hit series “A Different World”. He also appeared in leading roles on “Centennial,” “Attica”, “Buffalo Soldiers”, and the “Minstrel Man,” for which he won a third NAACP Image Award. He has appeared in many films and guest appeared on several television shows. Summer 2000 he appeared in Terry McMillan’s. “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”. Other film credits include “The river Niger,” “Five on the Black Hand Side”, Steven Spielberg’s “Gremlins,” “J.D.’s Revenge,” “Out of Bounds,” Ingmar Bergman’s “The Serpent Egg,” “Deep Cover”, “The Inkwell”, and the cult classic “Cooley High.” Some of Glynn’s new films that have been recently released are “Men of Honor” and “The Visit”. He also appeared in TNT’s hit movie “Freedom Song” starring Danny Glover and has a semi-recurring role on Showtime’s hit series “Resurrection Blvd.” Glynn was most recently seen as a series regular FBI agent ‘Teddy Olsen’ on the CBS drama “Big Apple”. He is currently in the process of writing his biography while performing and producing a one man show about his life.
Glynn feels that he was spared the fate of Juvenile delinquency because his mother sent him to summer camp. Which exposed him to additional alternatives life has to offer, Glynn saw when one put emphasis on any endeavor one chooses in life, success will follow. With the help and support of his wife, Jo-An, they established Camp Gid D Up, a free western style summer camp for inner-city and at-risk children. Since 1992 hundreds of children have enjoyed camping at their 40-acre ranch every summer just outside of Los Angeles. The Turman’s have been honored with several awards for their camp and community services.
On top of his film accomplishments, Glynn the cowboy and rodeo star recently won the state’s Regional Team Roping Finals and placed in the top five in the National Rodeo Finals in Oklahoma City. Glynn Proves that you can be a successful director, producer, father, husband, humanitarian, accomplished actor, camp director, writer and a cowboy.
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