:Scott Glenn
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{{short description|American actor}}
{{Infobox person
| image = Scott Glenn 2011 Shankbone.JPG
| caption = Glenn at the Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party in April 2011
| name = Scott Glenn
| birth_name = Theodore Scott Glenn
| birth_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| birth_date = January 26{{efn|name="birth year note"}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Carol Schwartz |1968}}
| children = 2
| occupation = Actor
| education = College of William and Mary (BA)
| years_active = 1965–present
}}
Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26 between 1938 and 1942){{efn|name="birth year note"|Glenn was born on January 26, but disagreement exists between sources over the year. Secondary sources put Glenn's year of birth between 1939 and 1941.
Secondary sources
- 1941: Glenn was listed as being 75 in a January 30, 2016 interview.{{cite magazine |last1=Skipper |first1=Clay |last2=Marino |first2=Nick |date=January 30, 2016 |title=Scott Glenn is a 75-Year-Old Knife-Fighting, Spear-Fishing Madman |url=https://www.gq.com/story/actor-scott-glenn-76-year-old-badass |url-status=live |magazine=GQ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628044109/https://www.gq.com/story/actor-scott-glenn-76-year-old-badass |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |access-date=June 27, 2018}} He was also listed as being 76 in 2017.{{cite web | url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a57239/scott-glenn-interview/ | title=Scott Glenn Abandoned Hollywood in His 30s. That's when His Career Took off | date=29 August 2017 }}
- 1939: Various interviews had him listed being born in 1939, as signified by a 2017 interview that listed him as 78{{cite news |title=Scott Glenn, Wielding Knives on a Screen Near You |date=August 16, 2017 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/nyregion/scott-glenn-wielding-knives-on-a-screen-near-you.html |access-date=January 10, 2025}} and an October 2024 interview that had him state his age as being 85, suggesting a birth of 1939.{{cite magazine|last=Earl|first=William|title=85-Year-Old Scott Glenn Stars in Bloody Action Thriller 'Eugene the Marine,' More Than 60 Years After Enlisting in Real Life (EXCLUSIVE)|date=October 23, 2024|magazine=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/scott-glenn-eugene-the-marine-1236186377/|accessdate=October 25, 2024}}}} 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 television series The Leftovers (2014–2017), and Stick in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Daredevil (2015–2016) and The Defenders (2017).
Early life
Glenn has Irish and Native American ancestry.{{cite news |last=Archerd |first=Army |date=2002-03-05 |title=Friedkin wraps difficult 'Hunted' shoot |magazine=Variety |url=https://variety.com/2002/digital/columns/friedkin-wraps-difficult-hunted-shoot-1117861884/ |url-status=live |access-date=2007-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201062518/http://variety.com/2002/digital/columns/friedkin-wraps-difficult-hunted-shoot-1117861884/ |archive-date=2016-02-01}} During his childhood, he was regularly ill, and for a year was bed-ridden, including having scarlet fever.{{cite magazine |last1=Skipper |first1=Clay |last2=Marino |first2=Nick |date=January 30, 2016 |title=Scott Glenn is a 75-Year-Old Knife-Fighting, Spear-Fishing Madman |url=https://www.gq.com/story/actor-scott-glenn-76-year-old-badass |url-status=live |magazine=GQ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628044109/https://www.gq.com/story/actor-scott-glenn-76-year-old-badass |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |access-date=June 27, 2018}} Through intense training in boxing, wrestling and tang soo do, he recovered from his illnesses, although he would limp for a couple of years.{{Cite web |title=Welcome |url=https://www.tribliveoffers.com/welcome |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=www.tribliveoffers.com}}
After graduating from a Pittsburgh high school, Glenn entered the College of William & Mary, where he majored in English and graduated in 1961.{{Cite web |title=Theatre Alumni |url=https://www.wm.edu/as/theatre-performance/theatre/theatre-alumni/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=William & Mary |language=en}} 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 taught by William Hickey.
==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.{{fact|date=August 2024}}
In 1968, he joined The Actors Studio{{cite news |last=Kolson |first=Ann |date=November 17, 1983 |title=Glenn Practices Hard to Make Roles Authentic |page=90 |newspaper=Ottawa Citizen |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=k74yAAAAIBAJ&pg=1208,4281523}}{{cite book |last=Garfield |first=David |title=A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio |publisher=MacMillan Publishing |year=1980 |isbn=978-0-0254-2650-4 |location=New York |page=278 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf/page/276/mode/2up?q=%22life+members%22 |chapter=Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980 |chapter-url-access=registration}} 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.{{fact|date=August 2024}} 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.{{fact|date=August 2024}}
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.{{Cite news |last=Carpenter |first=Susan |date=October 26, 2006 |title=Think Hamlet on Harleys |work=Los Angeles Times |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-sonsofanarchy26-2008oct26,0,5826015.story?page=1 |url-status=live |access-date=December 4, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925004110/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-oct-26-ca-sonsofanarchy26-story.html |archive-date=September 25, 2022}} He portrayed Eugene van Wingerdt in a leading role in the thriller film The Barber.{{Cite web |date=2 March 2015 |title='The Barber' Trailer Takes a Little Off the Top |url=http://bloody-disgusting.com/videos/3334427/barber-trims-new-trailer/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321170741/http://bloody-disgusting.com/videos/3334427/barber-trims-new-trailer/ |archive-date=21 March 2015 |access-date=3 March 2015 |website=Bloody Disgusting!}} 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{{Cite web |last=Perry |first=Spencer |date=November 2, 2016 |title=Scott Glenn, Rachael Taylor, and Rosario Dawson Confirmed for The Defenders |url=http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/782357-scott-glenn-rachael-taylor-and-rosario-dawson-confirmed-for-the-defenders#/slide/1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103142719/http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/782357-scott-glenn-rachael-taylor-and-rosario-dawson-confirmed-for-the-defenders#/slide/1 |archive-date=November 3, 2016 |access-date=November 2, 2016 |website=ComingSoon.net}} 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.
In 2024 he joined the cast of season 3 of the HBO series The White Lotus as Jim Hollinger, co-owner of the Thailand White Lotus resort.
Personal life
He wed Carol Schwartz in 1968 and upon their marriage, Glenn converted to Judaism, his wife's faith, from Catholicism.{{cite news |title=Scott Glenn Is Spaced Out, Wife Carol's Gone to Pot, but Both of Them Have the Right Stuff |url=https://people.com/archive/scott-glenn-is-spaced-out-wife-carols-gone-to-pot-but-both-of-them-have-the-right-stuff-vol-20-no-17/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307231849/https://people.com/archive/scott-glenn-is-spaced-out-wife-carols-gone-to-pot-but-both-of-them-have-the-right-stuff-vol-20-no-17/ |archive-date=2021-03-07 |access-date=2020-05-02 |magazine=People |language=EN}} They have two daughters.
Filmography
=Film=
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
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1970
| Tad Jacks | |
1971
| Long John | |
1973
| Hex | Jimbang | |
1975
| Pfc. Glenn Kelly | |
1976
| Charlie Hunter | |
rowspan=3| 1979
| Bill Lester | |
Apocalypse Now
| Captain Richard M. Colby | |
More American Graffiti
| Newt | |
1980
| Wes Hightower | |
1981
| Cattle Annie and Little Britches | Bill Dalton | |
rowspan=2| 1982
| Terry Tingloff | |
The Challenge
| Rick | |
rowspan=2| 1983
| |
The Keep
| Glaeken | |
1984
| Joe Wade | |
rowspan=2| 1985
| John Haddad | |
Silverado
| Emmett | |
rowspan=2| 1987
| Gangland: The Verne Miller Story | Verne Miller | |
Man on Fire
| Creasy | |
1988
| Colonel Dexter Armstrong | |
1989
| Mac Sam | |
1990
| Captain Bart Mancuso | |
rowspan=3| 1991
| |
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
| H.D. Dalton | |
Backdraft
| John "Axe" Adcox | Also performed stunts in the film |
1992
| Himself | |
rowspan=2| 1993
| Dan Vaughn | |
Slaughter of the Innocents
| Stephen Broderick | |
rowspan=4| 1995
| David Eckhart | |
The Spy Within
| William B. Rickman | |
Tall Tale
| J.P. Stiles | |
Reckless
| Lloyd | |
rowspan= 3|1996
| Harry | |
Courage Under Fire
| Tony Gartner | |
Carla's Song
| Bradley | |
rowspan=2| 1997
| Agent Bill Burton | |
Lesser Prophets
| Iggy | |
rowspan=2| 1998
| Wynt Perkins | |
Larga distancia
| Senor Grem | |
rowspan=2| 1999
| Father Moody | |
The Last Marshal
| Cole | |
2000
| Montgomery Wick | |
rowspan=3| 2001
| Roger | |
Buffalo Soldiers
| 1SG Robert E. Lee | |
The Shipping News
| Jack Buggit | |
2004
| Clayton Price | |
2006
| Journey to the End of the Night | Sinatra | |
rowspan=3| 2007
| Steve Gruwell | |
The Bourne Ultimatum
| Ezra Kramer, Director of the CIA | |
Camille
| Sheriff Foster | |
rowspan=3| 2008
| Alister Greenbough | |
Nights in Rodanthe
| Robert Torrelson | |
W.
| U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld | |
2010
| |
rowspan=2| 2011
| The Wise Man / The General / The Bus Driver{{Cite web |last=Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub |date=2009-06-24 |title=Zack Snyder talks WATCHMEN Director's Cut Blu-ray, Comic-Con 2009, 300 Blu-ray, and SUCKER PUNCH |url=http://www.collider.com/2009/06/24/zack-snyder-interview-watchmen-directors-cut-blu-ray-comic-con-200-300-blu-ray-and-sucker-punch/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108112145/http://collider.com/zack-snyder-interview-watchmen-directors-cut-blu-ray-comic-con-200-300-blu-ray-and-sucker-punch/2976/ |archive-date=2012-11-08 |access-date=2011-09-12 |website=Collider}} | |
Magic Valley
| Ed Halfner | |
rowspan=2| 2012
| W.W James | |
The Bourne Legacy
| Ezra Kramer, Director of the CIA | |
2014
| Eugene Van Wingerdt / Francis Allen Visser | |
2015
| Sully | |
2020
| Dale | |
2023
| The Hill |{{Cite web |last=Fleming |first=Mike Jr. |date=January 5, 2023 |title=Briarcliff Entertainment Acquires Dennis Quaid-Led Sports Drama 'The Hill;' Sets Wide Domestic Theatrical Release August 18 |url=https://deadline.com/2023/01/briarcliff-entertainment-acquires-dennis-quaid-starrer-sports-drama-the-hill-sets-wide-domestic-theatrical-release-august-18-1235212309/ |access-date=January 5, 2023 |website=Deadline Hollywood}} |
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| Gene Lee Grady |
=Television=
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
---|
1965
| Harry / Waiter | 2 episodes |
1966
| Hawk | Hal Currin | Episode: "Wall of Silence" |
1967
| N.Y.P.D. | Roddy | Episode: "The Pink Gumdrop" |
1969
| Calvin Brenner | Episode: "#1.3490", uncredited |
1971
| Nick Field | Episode: "The Outspoken Silence" |
1971–73
| Ironside | Lonnie Burnett / Frank Lenox | 2 episodes |
rowspan=3| 1972
| The Streets of San Francisco | Junkie Gambler | Episode: "The Thirty-Year Pin", uncredited |
Gargoyles
| James Reeger |
The Sixth Sense
| Mark Hall | Episode: "And Scream by the Light of the Moon, the Moon" |
1973
| Forklift Driver | Episode: "Seance", uncredited |
1975
| Khan! | | Episode: "Triad" |
1975
| Baretta | Dave | Episode: "A Bite of the Apple" |
1984
| Michael Boyle | rowspan=11| Television film |
1986
| Willie Croft |
1988
| Intrigue | Crawford |
1989
| The Outside Woman | Jesse Smith |
1991
| Henry |
1993
| Shadowhunter | John Cain |
1994
| Gene Ralston |
rowspan=2| 1998
| Naked City: Justice with a Bullet | rowspan=2| Sgt. Daniel Muldoon |
Naked City: A Killer Christmas |
2001
| The Seventh Stream | Owen Quinn |
rowspan=2| 2003
| Eli "Pappy" Chandler |
American Experience
| Narrator | Voice |
2004
| Joe Johnson | rowspan=4| Television film |
rowspan=3| 2005
| Martin Darius / Peter Lake |
Faith of My Fathers |
Code Breakers |
2008
| Monk | Sheriff Rollins | 2 episodes |
2014–2017
| Kevin Garvey Sr. | 11 episodes |
2015–2016
| rowspan=2| Stick | 5 episodes |
2017
| 6 episodes |
2018
| 8 episodes |
2024
| ''Bad Monkey | Jim Yancy | 5 episodes |
2025
| Jim Hollinger | 3 episodes |
References
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