Another unsung hero of Film and TV - Glenn Plummer

There's never a plumber around when you need one is there? You'd be wrong there. Just turn on the TV and there's a good chance you'll come across this fellow without ever having known his name before. I've taken a liberty here because his name is Glenn Plummer and.....ah jesus.... that's a god awful joke. I'm ashamed of myself here. Sorry. Anyway. Back to Glenn, a longtime "I KNOW HIM" actor. Sadly one who never got his due but one who's always a welcome sight onscreen.

He's started his career in a terrible Madonna film and spend the rest of the 80's bouncing between Vietnam films and gangster drama's set in South Central LA. He's been beaten up by David Carradine and punked by the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Turned up in Paul Verhoeven cheesefests that have been banned in Ireland and god awful Stephen King adaptions that died on their arses. He's starred in two of the best action film's of the 90's. Played a big part in the show that more or less created The Wire and a hospital receptionist in one of the most famous shows of all time. He's been in disaster movies, torture porn flicks, Tarantino rip offs and biker gang shows. If you can think of an American tv show he's popped up in it. So far this year he's been in 10 films & shows and there's another 5 on the way. No mere pandemic can slow him down. Check out his eclectic 34 year old career here

Greatest hits

King Of The Hill - Tyrone Debray. A young black star in a almost exclusively white world of Baseball. A great part in a really underrated film.

South Central - Bobby Johnson. OG gone straight. One of the many new wave of Black cinema films that popped up after Boyz N The Hood and still one of the best.

Menace II Society - Pernell. A small but memorable part in one of the most vicious films of the 90's.

Speed - Maurice, the Jag dude. Picked the worst possible day to go for a ride in his new car.

Strange Days - Jeriko One. The rapper who's murder by cops sets the whole labyrinthine plot in motion. A powerful part in a superb film that never got it's due.

The Corner - George ‘Blue’ Epps. A real life addict on the streets of Baltimore who managed to escape the life and stay out. The inspiration for Bubbles from The Wire. A career best turn.

ER - Timmy. Desk clerk extraordinaire. Keeps the whole department running and never breaks a sweat. Leaves halfway through season 1 and turns up again 12 years later with no explanation. A cool cat.

Previous Heroes

Kevin Corrigan

Kathy Baker

Tess Harper

Michael Berryman

Mike Starr
M.C. Gainey
Mare Winningham
Dale Dickey
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Harris Yulin
Pepe Serna
Udo Kier
Fairuza Balk
Ernie Hudson
Lin Shaye
James Remar
Cloris Leachman
James Hong
David Strathairn
Frankie Faison
Conchata Ferrell
Dick Miller
Veronica Cartwright
Edie McClurg
Barry Shabaka Henley           
Raymond Cruz                        
Reg E.Cathey                          
Elizabeth McGovern               
John Amos                              
Bruce Greenwood                  
Mary McDonnell                     
Gerald McSorley                       
John Rothman                        
Margo Martindale                   
Kurtwood Smith                     
Paula Malcolmson                 
Luis Guzman                          
David Morse                           
Linda Hunt                              
Keith David                             
Zeljko Ivanek
Fiona Shaw
Xander Berkeley
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
C.C.H Pounder
William Forsythe
Beth Grant
Sven-Ole Thorsen
Regina King
Ric Young
Mark Rolston
Illeana Douglas
Jeanette Goldstein
Al Leong
Allan Graf
Bill Nunn
Thomas Rosales Jr