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- Birth nameWalter Jake Turnbull
- Walter J. Turnbull was born on July 19, 1944 in Greenville, Mississippi, USA. He is known for Glory (1989), Malcolm X (1992) and Jungle Fever (1991). He died on March 23, 2007 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Founder of the Boys Choir of Harlem.
- Received the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton in 1997.
- It's nothing grandiose or big. We just try to get kids to understand the importance of simple things and how they grow into big things.
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