Scott Glenn

Scott Glenn

Glenn at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party
Born Theodore Scott Glenn
January 26, 1941
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater College of William and Mary
Occupation Actor
Years active 1965–present
Spouse(s) Carol Schwartz (1968–present)

Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26, 1941), better known as Scott Glenn, is an American actor. His roles have included Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy (1980), astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983), Emmett in Silverado (1985), Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Roger in Training Day (2001), Ezra Kramer in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), and The Wise Man in Sucker Punch (2011).

Early life

Glenn was born Theodore Scott Glenn in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Elizabeth, a homemaker, and Theodore Glenn, a business executive.[1] He grew up in Pittsburgh, and has Irish and Native American ancestry.[2] During his childhood he was regularly ill, and for a year was bed-ridden. Through intense training programs he recovered from his illnesses, also overcoming a limp. After graduating from a Pittsburgh High School, Glenn entered The College of William and Mary where he majored in English. He then joined the United States Marine Corps for three years and then worked roughly five months as a reporter for the Kenosha Evening News, located in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He then tried to become an author, but found he could not write good dialogue. To learn the art of dialogue, he began taking acting classes.

In 1965, Glenn made his Broadway debut in The Impossible Years. 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. In 1967, he married Carol Schwartz; Glenn converted to his wife's Judaism upon their marriage.[2] In 1968, he joined The Actors Studio [3][4] and began working in professional theatre and TV. In 1970, director James Bridges offered him his first movie role, in The Baby Maker, released the same year.

Career

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

In 1980, he appeared as ex-convict Wes Hightower in Bridges' Urban Cowboy. After that he appeared in a gothic horror film The Keep, action films such as Wild Geese II (1985) opposite Laurence Olivier, Silverado (1985), 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 only given a theatrical release in Finland and went straight to video in the U.S. In the beginning of the 1990s his career was at its peak as he appeared in several well-known and/or blockbuster 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/I), tragicomedy Edie and Pen (1997) and Ken Loach's socio-political declaration Carla's Song. In the late '90s 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 the leader of an outlaw biker gang, but he was replaced after an early pilot episode by Ron Perlman.[5] He portrayed Eugene Van Wingerdt in a leading role, in the thriller film The Barber.[6]

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 plays the character Stick in Netflix's Daredevil series.

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ filmreference.com Biography
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Archerd, Army (2002-03-05). "Friedkin wraps difficult 'Hunted' shoot". Variety. Retrieved 2007-01-06.
  3. ↑ Kolson, Ann (November 17, 1983). "Glenn Practices Hard to Make Roles Authentic". The Ottawa Citizen. p. 90. Retrieved 2012-12-11.
  4. ↑ 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 Co., Inc. p. 278. ISBN 0-02-542650-8.
  5. ↑ LA Times: 'Sons of Anarchy': Think Hamlet on Harleys
  6. ↑ The Barber, starring Scott Glenn
  7. ↑ Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub (2009-06-24). "Zack Snyder talks WATCHMEN Director's Cut Blu-ray, Comic-Con 2009, 300 Blu-ray, and SUCKER PUNCH".

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