Scott Glenn
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Scott Glenn (b. January 26, 1941, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -) muscular actor who's arguably best known roles are as Wes in "Urban Cowboy" (1980), as Jack Crawford in "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), and as astronaut Alan Shepard in "The Right Stuff" (1983).
Glenn was born Theodore Scott Glenn in 1941 in Pennsylvania. During his childhood he was regularly ill and was for a year bed ridden. Through intense training programs he got over his illnesses and a limp that he had had.
After graduating from high school, Glenn entered William and Mary College where he majored in English. He then joined the Marines for three years and worked roughly five months as a reporter for the Kenosha Daily Tribune. He then tried to become an author but found he could not write sufficent dialogues and to get over it started going to acting classes.
In 1966, Glenn went to New York and joined George Morrison's acting class. He helped direct student plays to pay for his studies and appeared onstage in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club productions. In 1967 he married Carol Schwartz, his wife up to now. In 1968 he joined The Actors Studio and began working in professional theatre and TV. In 1970, director James Bridges offered him his first movie work in "The Baby Maker", released the same year.
Glenn that year left for LA and spent about 8 years there acting small roles in films and doing brief TV stints. He appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" (1979), in a small role, while there and also worked with directors like Jonathan Demme and Robert Altman. Fed up with Hollywood, in 1978 Glenn left LA with his family for Ketchum, Idaho and worked for the some two years he lived there as a barman, huntsman and mountain ranger, occasionally acting in Seattle stage productions.
In 1980, Glenn got back into acting in films, by appearing as ex-convict Wes Hightower in Bridges's "Urban Cowboy". After, he appeared in action films like "Silverado" (1985), and "The Challenge" (1982) and drama films like "The Right Stuff" (1983), tv film "Countdown to Looking Glass" (1984), and "The River" (1984) as he alternately played good guys and bad guys during the 1980's. In the beginning of the 1990's his career was at its peak as he appeared in such disputable masterpieces as "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), The Hunt for Red October (1990), and The Player (1992). Later he gravitated toward more different movie role, such as in black Freudian farce "Reckless" (1995/I), tragicomedy "Edie and Pen" (1997) and Ken Loach's socio-political declaration "Carla's Song" (1996). Today Glenn alternates mainstream films (Courage Under Fire (1996), Absolute Power (1997)), with independent projects (Lesser Prophets (1997) and Larga distancia (1998), written by his daughter Dakota Glenn) and TV (Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998).
