Scott Glenn

Scott Glenn
Glenn at the Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party in April 2011
Born	Theodore Scott Glenn January 26 [1] Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater	College of William and Mary
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1965–present
Spouse	Carol Schwartz ​ (m. 1968)​
Children	2

Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26 between 1938 and 1942) ^[1] is an American actor. His roles have included Bill Lester in She Came to the Valley (1979), Pfc Glenn Kelly in Nashville (1975), Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy (1980), astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983), Emmett in Silverado (1985), Captain Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), John Adcox in Backdraft (1991), Bill Burton in Absolute Power (1997), Roger in Training Day (2001), Ezra Kramer in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Chris Chenery in Secretariat (2010), Kevin Garvey Sr. in the HBO series The Leftovers (2014–2017), and as Stick in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Daredevil (2015–2016) and The Defenders (2017).

Early life

Glenn has Irish and Native American ancestry. ^[2] During his childhood, he was regularly ill, and for a year was bed-ridden, including having scarlet fever. ^[3] Through intense training in boxing, wrestling and tang soo do, he recovered from his illnesses, also overcoming a limp.^{[ citation needed ]}

After graduating from a Pittsburgh High School, Glenn entered the College of William & Mary, where he majored in English. He joined the United States Marine Corps for three years, then worked for about seven months in 1963 as a news and sports reporter for the Kenosha News , in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He tried to become an author, but found he could not write dialogue that satisfied the readers. To learn the art of dialogue, he began taking acting classes.^{[ citation needed ]}

Career

Glenn made his Broadway debut in The Impossible Years in 1965. He joined George Morrison’s acting class, helping direct student plays to pay for his studies and appearing onstage in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club productions.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 1968, he joined The Actors Studio ^{[4] [5]} and began working in professional theatre and TV. Two of Glenn's early television roles were as Hal Currin in the 1966 crime series Hawk , starring Burt Reynolds, and Calvin Brenner on the CBS daytime serial The Edge of Night . In 1970, director James Bridges offered him his first movie role, in The Baby Maker , released the same year.

Glenn spent eight years in Los Angeles, California, acting in small roles in films and doing TV stints, including a TV movie Gargoyles. In 1978, Glenn left Los Angeles with his family for Ketchum, Idaho, and worked as a barman, huntsman, and mountain ranger, occasionally acting in Seattle stage productions.^{[ citation needed ]} He appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) and worked with directors such as Jonathan Demme and Robert Altman.

In 1980, he appeared as ex-convict Wes Hightower in Bridges' Urban Cowboy . After that, he starred in the World War II horror film, The Keep (1983), and action films such as Wild Geese II (1985) opposite Laurence Olivier, Silverado (1985), and The Challenge (1982), and drama films such as The Right Stuff (1983), TV film Countdown to Looking Glass (1984), The River (1984), and Off Limits (1988) as he alternately played good guys and bad guys during the 1980s. He returned to Broadway in Burn This in 1987. That same year, he tried his hand at gangster movies when he starred as the real-life sheriff turned gunman Verne Miller in the movie Gangland: The Verne Miller Story , which was given a theatrical release only in Finland and went straight to video in the U.S.^{[ citation needed ]}

In the beginning of the 1990s, Glenn's career was at its peak as he appeared in several well-known films, such as The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Backdraft (1991), and The Player (1992). He played a vicious mob hitman in a critically acclaimed performance in Night of the Running Man (1995). Later, he gravitated toward more challenging movie roles, such as in the Freudian farce Reckless (1995), tragicomedy Edie & Pen (1997), and Ken Loach's sociopolitical declaration Carla's Song . In the late 1990s, Glenn alternated between mainstream films ( Courage Under Fire (1996), Absolute Power (1997)), independent projects (Lesser Prophets (1997) and Larga distancia (1998), written by his daughter Dakota Glenn) and TV (Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998)). He was also cast in a supporting role in Training Day (2001). Glenn was cast in the FX drama Sons of Anarchy (2008), as Clay Morrow, but he was replaced after an early pilot episode by Ron Perlman. ^[6] He portrayed Eugene van Wingerdt in a leading role in the thriller film The Barber. ^[7] Glenn acted in the 2011 film Sucker Punch as Wise Man.

Glenn appeared in the drama Freedom Writers , in which he played the father of Hilary Swank's character, and in The Bourne Ultimatum and The Bourne Legacy as CIA Director Ezra Kramer.

He played the character Stick in Netflix's television series Daredevil and returned to the character in The Defenders ^[8] series a year later.

In 2020 he played the grandfather in Greenland, opposite Gerard Butler & Morena Baccarin-- an apocalyptic thriller about a comet destroying most of Earth.

Personal life

He wed Carol Schwartz in 1968 and upon their marriage, Glenn converted to Judaism, his wife's faith, from Catholicism. ^{[9] [2]} They have two daughters. ^[9]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1970	The Baby Maker	Tad Jacks
1971	Angels Hard as They Come	Long John
1972	She Came to the Valley	Bill Lester
1973	Hex	Jimbang
1975	Nashville	Pfc. Glenn Kelly
1976	Fighting Mad	Charlie Hunter
1979	She Came to the Valley	Bill Lester
	Apocalypse Now	Captain Richard M. Colby
	More American Graffiti	Newt
1980	Urban Cowboy	Wes Hightower
1981	Cattle Annie and Little Britches	Bill Dalton
1982	Personal Best	Terry Tingloff
	The Challenge	Rick
1983	The Right Stuff	Alan Shepard
	The Keep	Glaeken
1984	The River	Joe Wade
1985	Wild Geese II	John Haddad
	Silverado	Emmett
1987	Gangland: The Verne Miller Story	Verne Miller
	Man on Fire	Creasy
1988	Off Limits	Colonel Dexter Armstrong
1989	Miss Firecracker	Mac Sam
1990	The Hunt for Red October	Captain Bart Mancuso
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Jack Crawford
	My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys	H.D. Dalton
	Backdraft	John "Axe" Adcox	Also performed stunts in the film
1992	The Player	Himself
1993	Extreme Justice	Dan Vaughn
	Slaughter of the Innocents	Stephen Broderick
1995	Night of the Running Man	David Eckhart
	The Spy Within	William B. Rickman
	Tall Tale	J.P. Stiles
	Reckless	Lloyd
1996	Edie & Pen	Harry
	Courage Under Fire	Tony Gartner
	Carla's Song	Bradley
1997	Absolute Power	Agent Bill Burton
	Lesser Prophets	Iggy
1998	Firestorm	Wynt Perkins
	Larga distancia	Senor Grem
1999	The Virgin Suicides	Father Moody
	The Last Marshal	Cole
2000	Vertical Limit	Montgomery Wick
2001	Training Day	Roger
	Buffalo Soldiers	1SG Robert E. Lee
	The Shipping News	Jack Buggit
2004	Puerto Vallarta Squeeze	Clayton Price
2006	Journey to the End of the Night	Sinatra
2007	Freedom Writers	Steve Gruwell
	The Bourne Ultimatum	Ezra Kramer, Director of the CIA
	Camille	Sheriff Foster
2008	Surfer, Dude	Alister Greenbough
	Nights in Rodanthe	Robert Torrelson
	W.	U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
2010	Secretariat	Christopher Chenery
2011	Sucker Punch	The Wise Man / The General / The Bus Driver [10]
	Magic Valley	Ed Halfner
2012	The Paperboy	W.W James
	The Bourne Legacy	Ezra Kramer, Director of the CIA
2014	The Barber	Eugene Van Wingerdt / Francis Allen Visser
2015	Into the Grizzly Maze	Sully
2020	Greenland	Dale
2023	The Hill	Red Murff	[11]
TBA	Eugene the Marine	Gene Lee Grady	[12]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1965	The Patty Duke Show	Harry / Waiter	2 episodes
1966	Hawk	Hal Currin	Episode: "Wall of Silence"
1967	N.Y.P.D.	Roddy	Episode: "The Pink Gumdrop"
1969	The Edge of Night	Calvin Brenner	Episode: "#1.3490", uncredited
1971	The Young Lawyers	Nick Field	Episode: "The Outspoken Silence"
1971–73	Ironside	Lonnie Burnett / Frank Lenox	2 episodes
1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Junkie Gambler	Episode: "The Thirty-Year Pin", uncredited
	Gargoyles	James Reeger	Television film
	The Sixth Sense	Mark Hall	Episode: "And Scream by the Light of the Moon, the Moon"
1973	Emergency!	Forklift Driver	Episode: "Seance", uncredited
1975	Khan!		Episode: "Triad"
1975	Baretta	Dave	Episode: "A Bite of the Apple"
1984	Countdown to Looking Glass	Michael Boyle	Television film
1986	As Summers Die	Willie Croft
1988	Intrigue	Crawford
1989	The Outside Woman	Jesse Smith
1991	Women & Men 2	Henry
1993	Shadowhunter	John Cain
1994	Past Tense	Gene Ralston
1998	Naked City: Justice with a Bullet	Sgt. Daniel Muldoon
	Naked City: A Killer Christmas
2001	The Seventh Stream	Owen Quinn
2003	A Painted House	Eli "Pappy" Chandler
	American Experience	Narrator	Voice 2 episodes
2004	Homeland Security	Joe Johnson	Television film
2005	Gone, But Not Forgotten	Martin Darius / Peter Lake
	Faith of My Fathers	Jack McCain
	Code Breakers	Earl "Red" Blaik
2008	Monk	Sheriff Rollins	2 episodes
2014–2017	The Leftovers	Kevin Garvey Sr.	11 episodes
2015–2016	Marvel's Daredevil	Stick	5 episodes
2017	The Defenders		6 episodes
2018	Castle Rock	Alan Pangborn	8 episodes
2024	Bad Monkey	Jim Yancy	5 episodes

References

1. 1939 are most commonly cited as the year of birth, though sources range from 1938 to 1942.
2. Archerd, Army (2002-03-05). "Friedkin wraps difficult 'Hunted' shoot". Variety . Archived from the original on 2016-02-01. Retrieved 2007-01-06.
3. Skipper, Clay; Marino, Nick (January 30, 2016). "Scott Glenn is a 75-Year-Old Knife-Fighting, Spear-Fishing Madman". GQ . Archived from the original on June 28, 2018. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
4. Kolson, Ann (November 17, 1983). "Glenn Practices Hard to Make Roles Authentic". Ottawa Citizen . p. 90.
5. Garfield, David (1980). "Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980". A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio . New York: MacMillan Publishing. p. 278. ISBN   978-0-0254-2650-4.
6. Carpenter, Susan (October 26, 2006). "Think Hamlet on Harleys". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on September 25, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2008.
7. "'The Barber' Trailer Takes a Little Off the Top". Bloody Disgusting!. 2 March 2015. Archived from the original on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
8. Perry, Spencer (November 2, 2016). "Scott Glenn, Rachael Taylor, and Rosario Dawson Confirmed for The Defenders". ComingSoon.net . Archived from the original on November 3, 2016. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
9. "Scott Glenn Is Spaced Out, Wife Carol's Gone to Pot, but Both of Them Have the Right Stuff". People . Archived from the original on 2021-03-07. Retrieved 2020-05-02.
10. Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub (2009-06-24). "Zack Snyder talks WATCHMEN Director's Cut Blu-ray, Comic-Con 2009, 300 Blu-ray, and SUCKER PUNCH". Collider . Archived from the original on 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2011-09-12.
11. Fleming, Mike Jr. (January 5, 2023). "Briarcliff Entertainment Acquires Dennis Quaid-Led Sports Drama 'The Hill;' Sets Wide Domestic Theatrical Release August 18". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 5, 2023.
12. Earl, William (October 23, 2024). "85-Year-Old Scott Glenn Stars in Bloody Action Thriller 'Eugene the Marine,' More Than 60 Years After Enlisting in Real Life (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved October 25, 2024.

External links

• United States portal
• Biography portal

• Scott Glenn at IMDb
• Scott Glenn at the Internet Broadway Database
• Scott Glenn at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Scott Glenn at the TCM Movie Database