Portrait of Scott Glenn

Scott Glenn

Acting

Biography

Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26, 1939) 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).

Born: January 26, 1939

Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Filmography

2025
Eugene the Marine

as Gene Lee Grady

2024
Bad Monkey

as Jim Yancy

2023
The Hill

as Red Murff

2021
The White Lotus

as Jim Hollinger

2021
The Real Hunt for Red October

as Self (archive footage)

2020
Greenland

as Dale

2018
Castle Rock

as Alan Pangborn

2015
2015
The Barber

as Eugene Van Wingerdt

2014
The Leftovers

as Kevin Garvey Sr.

2012
The Paperboy

as W.W. Jansen

2012
The Bourne Legacy

as Ezra Kramer

2011
Magic Valley

as Ed Halfner

2011
Blood Meridian Test Reel

as Tobin The Ex Priest

2011
Sucker Punch

as Wise Man

2010
Secretariat

as Chris Chenery

2008
W.

as Donald Rumsfeld

2008
Nights in Rodanthe

as Robert Torrelson

2008
Surfer, Dude

as Alister Greenbough

2008
Camille

as Sheriff Foster

2007
The Bourne Ultimatum

as CIA Director Ezra Kramer

2007
Freedom Writers

as Steve Gruwell

2005
Code Breakers

as Coach Earl 'Red' Blaik

2005
Faith of My Fathers

as Jack McCain

2005
Gone But Not Forgotten

as Martin Darius

2004
Homeland Security

as Joe Johnson

2004
Homeland Security

as Joe Johnson

2004
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze

as Clayton Price

2003
Bataan Rescue

as Narrator (voice)

2003
A Painted House

as Eli 'Pappy' Chandler

2003
Seabiscuit

as Narrator

2002
Buffalo Soldiers

as Sergeant Lee

2002
Monk

as Sheriff Rollins

2001
The Shipping News

as Jack Buggit

2001
Training Day

as Roger

2001
The Seventh Stream

as Owen Quinn

2000
Vertical Limit

as Montgomery Wick

2000
The Virgin Suicides

as Father Moody

1999
The Last Marshal

as Cole McClary

1998
Naked City: A Killer Christmas

as Sgt. Daniel Muldoon

1998
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet

as Sgt. Daniel Muldoon

1998
Firestorm

as Wynt Perkins

1997
1997
Absolute Power

as Bill Burton

1996
Carla's Song

as Bradley

1996
1996
1996
Edie & Pen

as Harry

1995
Reckless

as Lloyd

1995
Night of the Running Man

as David Eckhart

1994
Past Tense

as Gene Ralston

1994
The Spy Within

as William B. Rickman

1993
Slaughter of the Innocents

as Stephen Broderick

1993
Extreme Justice

as Dan Vaughn

1993
Shadowhunter

as John Cain

1992
The Player

as Scott Glenn

1991
Mara

as Henry

1991
Backdraft

as John 'Axe' Adcox

1991
The Silence of the Lambs

as Jack Crawford

1990
The Hunt for Red October

as CDR Bart Mancuso (USS Dallas)

1989
1989
The Outside Woman

as Jesse Smith

1988
American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

1988
Intrigue

as Crawford

1988
The Verne Miller Story

as Verne Miller

1988
Off Limits

as Colonel Dexter Armstrong

1987
Man on Fire

as Creasy

1986
As Summers Die

as Willie Croft

1985
Wild Geese II

as John Haddad

1985
Silverado

as Emmett

1984
The River

as Joe Wade

1984
1983
The Keep

as Glaeken Trismegestus

1983
The Right Stuff

as Alan Shepard

1982
1982
Personal Best

as Terry Tingloff

1980
1979
Apocalypse Now

as Lieutenant Richard M. Colby

1979
1976
Fighting Mad

as Charlie Hunter

1975
Nashville

as Pfc. Glenn Kelly

1973
Hex

as Jimbang

1972
Gargoyles

as James Reeger

1972
Emergency!

as Forklift Driver (uncredited)

1971
1970
The Baby Maker

as Tad Jacks

1967
Ironside

as Lonnie Burnett

1967
Ironside

as Frank Lenox

1951
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Eli "Pappy" Chandler