Scott Glenn

Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26 between 1938 and 1942) 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. During his childhood, he was regularly ill, and for a year was bed-ridden, including having scarlet fever. Through intense training in boxing, wrestling and tang soo do, he recovered from his illnesses, although he would limp for a couple of years.

After graduating from a Pittsburgh high school, Glenn entered the College of William & Mary, where he majored in English and graduated in 1961. 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.

In 1968, he joined The Actors Studio 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. 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.

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. He portrayed Eugene van Wingerdt in a leading role in the thriller film ''The Barber''. 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'' 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. They have two daughters.

Filmography

Film

Television

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Male actors from Pittsburgh
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