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), The River (1984) and Off Limits (1988) as he alternately played good guys and bad guys during the 1980s. In 1980, Glenn got back into acting in films, by appearing as ex-convict Wes Hightower in Bridges's Urban Cowboy. 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. 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. Glenn that year left for LA and spent about 8 years there acting small roles in films and doing brief TV stints. In 1970, director James Bridges offered him his first movie role in The Baby Maker, released the same year. In 1968, he joined The Actors Studio and began working in professional theatre and TV. In 1967, he married Carol Schwartz, his wife up to now. He helped direct student plays to pay for his studies and appeared onstage in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club productions, during this time. In 1966, Glenn went to New York and joined George Morrison's acting class. He then tried to become an author but found he could not write good dialogues and to get over it started going to acting classes. He then joined the Marines for three years and worked roughly five months as a reporter for the Kenosha Evening News. Through intense training programs he got over his illnesses and a limp that he had had.Īfter graduating from a Pittsburgh high school, Glenn entered College of William and Mary where he majored in English. Scott Glenn (born Theodore Scott Glenn on Januin Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a muscular actor whose arguably best known roles were as Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy (1980), Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983) and as Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October.ĭuring Glenn's childhood he was regularly ill, and was, for a year, bed-ridden.
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