July 13, 2025
Based on Ana Martinez, the producer of the Stroll of Fame, Turman was chosen for the glory as a result of mark he has left on the business
Glynn Turman, who started his appearing journey at simply 12 years previous performing alongside Sidney Poitier within the authentic Broadway manufacturing of Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin within the Solar,” now has his personal star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame, fittingly positioned beside that of his longtime mentor.
Based on Black Press USA, whereas Glynn Turman is extensively acknowledged for his position on “A Totally different World”–the sitcom that introduced the fictional HBCU Hillman School to life–he’s additionally a multifaceted expertise with credit as a director, producer, author, and composer.
Turman can also be a distinguished determine within the 2022 Netflix documentary “Is That Black Sufficient For You?,” which was written and directed by Elvis Mitchell. Per the movie’s entry on IMDB, though the movie focuses on Seventies cinema, it’s invested in monitoring the historical past of Black movies throughout a number of a long time.
Given Turman’s prolonged profession in Hollywood, it’s becoming that he can be tapped to debate Black movies. Turman’s roles in movie stretch from 1975’s “Cooley Excessive” to Tyler Perry’s not too long ago launched and present Netflix hit, “Straw,” giving Turman a outstanding five-decade profession in entrance of the digital camera.
Per a press launch from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, on July 10, Turman’s star turned quantity 2,816 to be devoted alongside Hollywood Boulevard.
Based on Ana Martinez, the producer of the Stroll of Fame, Turman was chosen for the glory as a result of mark he has left on the business.
“The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is honored to welcome Glynn Turman with this well-deserved star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame,” Martinez stated. “His distinctive abilities and dedication to the craft of appearing have left an indelible mark on the business, and we’re proud to immortalize his legacy on this iconic boulevard. Glynn’s star will probably be subsequent to his good friend Sidney Poitier’s star, whom he carried out with on Broadway in 1959.”
A seasoned cowboy and achieved equestrian, Turman started competing in rodeo occasions about 35 years in the past. In 1999, he earned nationwide recognition by inserting within the prime 5 on the U.S. Crew Roping Champion Finals in Oklahoma Metropolis.
In 2011, Turman was inducted in Fort Value, Texas’ Western Heritage Multicultural Museum’s Corridor of Fame and he additionally manages a free, non-profit, western-themed summer season camp program together with his spouse, Jo-An, “Camp Gid D Up,” which was created to assist internal metropolis and at-risk youth in 1992.
The visitor audio system on the ceremony, actor Don Cheadle and filmmaker Ava DuVernay, issued remarks about their experiences with Turman. Whereas DuVernay was extra severe, Cheadle opted to share a humorous reflection on his expertise working with Turman.
Though lighthearted, Cheadle was reverent of Turman in his feedback, joking that regardless of the frequent recommendation to by no means meet your heroes, Turman stands, to him, because the exception to that trope.
“Be conscious, by no means meet your heroes — except, after all, in some way, a way, they develop into Mr. Glynn Turman,” Cheadle instructed the viewers.
DuVernay instructed the group that she refers to him as “Mr. Turman” and never by his first title as an indication of that respect and admiration.
“I don’t name him Glynn. I name him Mr. Turman as a result of I simply can’t,” DuVernay stated throughout her remarks. “As a result of there are artists after which there are architects.”
She continued, “Artistic human beings who don’t solely carry out. However who construct, who form, who carve paths, who create constructions that others stroll by means of and dwell in lengthy after the curtain is lowered and the cameras cease rolling. On this attractive summertime day we collect to have a good time such an architect, a grasp builder of tradition, a person whose title alone conjures not solely recollections of performances, however total eras of the nation’s historical past, its magnificence, its bruises, its ache, its poetry. Glynn Turman is an American establishment.”
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