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Scott Glenn (born Theodore Scott Glenn on January
26, 1941 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was a
muscular actor whose arguably best known roles
were 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).

During Glenn's 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 a Pittsburgh high school,
Glenn entered William and Mary College where he
majored in English. He then joined the United
States Marine Corps|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 good dialogues
and to get over it started going to acting
classes.

In 1966, Glenn went to New York, New York|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, during this time. 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 role in The Baby Maker, released the same
year.

Glenn that year left for Los Angeles,
California|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, Washington|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 1980s. In the beginning of
the 1990s 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 (movie)|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).

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