Scott Glenn

Theodore Scott Glenn was born on January 26, 1941 in Pittsburgh (United States). The son of a businessman and a housewife, his childhood was the opposite of what any child would want. Bedridden for several years due to illness, all the doctors’ predictions indicated that he would drag the rest of his days with a pronounced limp. Rather than become discouraged, he and his family decided that he would undergo intensive rehabilitation programs to overcome this problem. He not only managed to remove the limp from him, but he even took up martial arts.

After smugly getting through his academic teens, he entered the University of William & Mary to major in his own language, English. He would later freely spend three years in the military, where he also served as a reporter for a small daily. The skills acquired with the pen from him led him to try to focus on being a writer, but he lacked the training to carry out such a profession with skill. And that was precisely when he discovered his vocation for acting, since he decided to give acting classes to improve and understand how to do the dialogues for his texts.

What’s more, he moved to New York in 1966 to join George Morrison’s classes and, two years later, the Actors Studio. And already the roles began to come little by little, in the professional theater and on television. After appearing in different roles in various Broadway productions, she went on to the big screen, with initial titles such as A Baby for My Wife (1970) or Fortune & Men’s Eyes (1971). Trying to climb the ranks, he moved to Los Angeles, but his time there would not give him all the satisfaction he expected.

He obtained tiny roles in tapes such as the Oscar-winning musical drama Nashville (1975), in the western When She Came from the Valley (1979), and even Francis Ford Coppola gave him the opportunity to intervene in one of those perennial film classics such as Apocalypse Now (1979). However, a mix of personal and professional circumstances caused Glenn to take a sabbatical in Idaho, where he did everything but act.

Although it is true that this golden retirement did not last long, because in 1980 James Bridges knocked on his door again, as he had already done in A baby for my wife . Thanks to the entertaining romantic comedy City Cowboy , where he shared a cast with John Travolta , he managed to become a more recognizable face for the general public. For this reason, he could be seen in the sports film His Best Brand (1982), in the action drama The Samurai Challenge (1982), in the Oscar nominees When the River Grows (1984) and in another western like Silverado ( 1985), as well as in Chosen for glory(1983), a film that did manage to win up to four statuettes.

Those 80’s were undoubtedly a period of splendor for Glenn, which would continue with brilliance in the 90’s. First, The Hunt for Red October (1990) gave him the opportunity to be in another film nominated endlessly for Academy Awards. In the second instance, not everyone can say that he has participated in one of the most outstanding police thrillers of that decade, such as The Silence of the Lambs (1991), where he was the boss of Jodie Foster . And thirdly, his not-so-important passage through the fiery Llamaradas (1991), was a clear example of the production in which he was acting, a production that was successful at the box office. Even a “cameo” in the satire The Hollywood Game(1992) highlighted this idyllic situation. A luxury for him and for his career.

Different roles in different films would alternate throughout the nineties, and until 1996 and 1997 he would not find another couple of notable roles. This time it would be thanks to the war drama In Honor of the Truth (1996), and Absolute Power (1996), the intriguing film directed by Clint Eastwood . In 2001 it would have its place in the corruption and debauchery thriller Training Day , as well as in the black comedy Buffalo Soldiers (2001), in the predictable social criticism that is made in The Dark Side of the Night (2006) . or in the “independent” comedy Camille (2007).

The CIA called him up to be its director in the action and spy film The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and in its sequel The Bourne Legacy (2012). That role close to law enforcement was embodied again in W. (2008), when he played Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense. Some of the latest films where he has appeared are Secretariat (2010), where he shares credits with Diane Lane and John Malkovich; and The Boy from the Newspaper (2012), a drama set in the southern United States in the 1960s.

Leaving aside his more cinematographic side, Glenn has acted in several coarse TV movies such as Disappears but is not forgotten (2005) or Code Breakers (2005); in addition to being one of the testimonials that make up documentaries such as Hollywood’s Greatest Villains (2005) or Backdraft: The Explosive Stunts (2006).

Regarding his personal life, he married Carol Schwartz in 1967, more than 40 years ago. He has had two daughters with her. The whole family has always been very involved in charitable tasks, such as the activities they organize together with the Special Warfare naval foundation or the aid they provide to the victims of naval wars.