"1947Z"^^ . "Glynn Russell Turman (born January 31, 1947) is an American stage, television, and film actor as well as a writer, director, and producer. He is known for his roles as 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, and fictional Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series The Wire."@en . "1972Z"^^ . . . "Turman, Glynn"@en . . . "Glynn Russell Turman"@en . . "1947-01-31Z"^^ . . . "Actor" .