HOLLYWOOD (CNS) – A star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame was unveiled on Thursday, July 10, honoring actor Glynn Turman for a film profession that has included roles in “Cooley Excessive,” “Gremlins” and “How Stella Acquired Her Groove Again.”
Actor Don Cheadle and filmmaker Ava Duvernay joined Turman in talking on the 11:30 a.m. ceremony at 7065 Hollywood Blvd.
Cheadle and Turman have been castmates within the 2012-16 Showtime comedy drama about administration consultants “Home of Lies” and the 1996 made-for-HBO film, “Rebound: The Legend of Earl ‘The Goat’ Manigault.”
Cheadle directed one of many three episodes Turman appeared within the 2024 Apple TV+ biographical drama of the escape of Black Panther Celebration co-founder Huey Newton to Cuba, “The Huge Cigar.”
Duvernay created the 2016-22 Oprah Winfrey Community drama “Queen Sugar” which Turman appeared in in the course of the first season because the patriarch of a rural Louisiana household and was an govt producer of “The Pink Line,” a 2019 eight-episode CBS drama through which Turman portrayed a Chicago alderman in 4 episodes.
Duvernay was the publicist for the 2000 movie drama “The Go to,” whose solid included Turman as a parole board member.
The star was positioned subsequent to his late buddy Sidney Poitier’s star. Turman and Poitier have been castmates within the authentic 1959 manufacturing of “A Raisin within the Solar,” which acquired 4 Tony nominations, together with for greatest play with Poitier being nominated for greatest actor in a play.
All Stroll of Fame ceremonies are streamed on walkoffame.com, and might later be seen on YouTube.com/@HwdWalkofFame.
The star is the two,816th for the reason that completion of the Stroll of Fame in 1961 with the preliminary 1,558 stars.
Born Jan. 31, 1947 in New York Metropolis, Turman made his tv debut on “Black Monday,” the Jan. 16, 1961, version of the anthology sequence “The Play of the Week” on WNTA-TV Channel 13 in New York Metropolis. The solid for the drama in regards to the first day of integration at a Southern highschool additionally included Robert Redford, Edward Asner, James Caan and Charles Grodin.
After graduating from The Excessive College of Performing Arts, Turman carried out at regional and repertory firms all through the nation and on tv. He was a secondary solid member of the ABC prime-time cleaning soap opera “Peyton Place” in its closing season and likewise made visitor appearances on “Julia” and “Room 222.”
Turman made his movie debut within the 1971 interracial romance drama “Honky.” He starred with Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs within the 1975 unbiased coming-of-age comedy-drama movie “Cooley Excessive,” described by NPR in 2015 as a “basic of black cinema” and “a touchstone for filmmakers like John Singleton and Spike Lee.”
Turman’s different movie credit embody “The Means Again,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Backside,” “Rustin,” and “80 For Brady.”
Turman’s best-known tv function was Hillman School arithmetic professor and ROTC commander Col. Bradford Taylor on the 1987-93 NBC comedy “A Totally different World.”
Turman received an Excellent Visitor Actor in a Drama Collection Emmy in 2008 for his portrayal of the daddy of traumatized fighter pilot Alex Prince (Blair Underwood) on HBO’s “In Therapy.” He was additionally nominated within the class in 2019 for recurring function as a mentally ailing longtime jail inmate on the ABC authorized drama thriller “How one can Get Away with Homicide.”
Turman’s different tv credit embody recurring roles on the FX Black comedy-crime drama “Fargo” and the Disney+ fantasy sequence “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.”
Turman was inducted into the Western Heritage Multi-Cultural Museum’s Corridor of Fame in 2011 for his accomplishments as a rodeo competitor and horseman. He and his spouse Jo-An co-founded a free, nonprofit, western-style summer time camp program program Camp Gid D Up for inner-city and at-risk youth.
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