Biography
Glenn Morshower is an American character actor. He is best known for playing Secret Service Agent Aaron Pierce in 24 and Colonel (later General) Sharp Morshower in the Transformers film series. He has also appeared in many feature films and television series.
Known For
Complete Filmography

PARATUS A 20th Anniversary Special
2025
A look back 20 years ago, on the challenges Coast Guard air crews and rescue swimmers had to overcome in New Orleans, to successfully rescue thousands...

Viridian
2025
as Marcus
A family hunting trip goes awry when a stranger in the woods is accidentally shot. As each family member denies responsibility, they begin to suspect ...

The Short Game
2024
as Jack Odom
Jeremy Avery is vying for a college golf scholarship, but his preparation and game are affected by family pressures related to his younger autistic br...

On Fire
2023
as Marv
Inspired by true and harrowing events, an ordinary man finds his world suddenly torn apart as devastating wildfires rip through the surrounding countr...

Grumpy Old Santa
2023
as Nic Monts
Nic (Glenn Morshower), a devoted father, husband, and friend with a passion for fishing and bowling, had the perfect life until his wife left after th...

Grumpy Old Santa
2023
Executive Producer
Nic (Glenn Morshower), a devoted father, husband, and friend with a passion for fishing and bowling, had the perfect life until his wife left after th...

Blackwood
2022
as Wallace Price
After a gang of violent outlaws forces a Native American woman to lead them through a treacherous forest in search of a fortune in gold, they unknowin...

Delicate State
2022
as Glenn
Shot over the course of their actual pregnancy with cast doubling as 2-man crew, Paula and Charlie document their impending parenthood during a time o...

A Dark Foe
2021
as Special Agent Stewart
The plot follows a tortured FBI agent suffering from an irrational fear of darkness, as he investigates a mysterious former prostitute in order to cat...

Under the Stadium Lights
2021
as Coach Warren
After a crushing defeat ended their prior season, everyone counted the Abilene Eagles out of title contention. Facing doubts and personal challenges b...

The Little Things
2021
as Captain Henry Davis
Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culp...

Neon Days
2020
as Luke
With the help of a seasoned therapist, a young man explores his past, present, and future with a different outlook.

Scream Test
2020
as Doctor Doubleday
Scream Queen with injured vocal chords rehabs on a remote island resort where people are dying in the same vein as in her films.

The Runners
2020
as Pete
A man races against time to save his teenage sister from human traffickers who want to sell her to a Mexican cartel.

The Challenger Disaster
2019
as Finch Richards (Lawyer)
On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer goes to the extreme to stop the launch. This hot-headed engineer makes a desperate race ag...

Every Other Holiday
2018
as Ed
Recently separated parents Tracie and Rick spend every other holiday with their young daughters Harper and Ava. But this Christmas, the girls have onl...

Curvature
2017
as Tomas
Helen tries to cope with the recent death of her husband, a scientist who killed himself right when he was on the verge of successfully completing the...

Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
as General Morshower
Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history ...

Bomb City
2017
as Cameron Wilson
An ongoing feud between punk rockers and a more affluent clique in a small Texas town leads to a hate crime.

Aftermath
2017
as Matt
A fatal plane crash changes the lives of Roman and Jake forever. Roman loses his wife and daughter in the accident, while Jake loses his mind—as he ha...

When the Bough Breaks
2016
as Martin Cooper
A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.

Bug
2016
as Gerald
Bug is a 12-year-old girl who finds out that her grandpa, the town's retired sheriff, may have committed and covered up a racially motivated murder ye...

The Doo Dah Man
2015
as Smitty
A New Jersey college student running away from home finds himself travelling through the back roads of Texas with a con man who's just escaped from pr...

Dark Places
2015
as Jim Jeffreys
A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

Hoovey
2015
as Dr. Kattner
The true and inspiring story of the Elliott family, who refused to surrender, instead turning to one another and their faith in the worst of circumsta...

I Did Not Forget You
2015
as COL. John Redbow

Flutter
2014
as Lonny
With her husband away indefinitely, a young mother struggles to nurture her son in the face of poverty, isolation and incarceration. FLUTTER explores ...

Parkland
2013
as Mike Howard
November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This f...

After Earth
2013
as Commander Velan
One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Ra...

Backwards
2012
as Coach Spriklin
When a fiercely competitive 30 year old rower fails to make the Olympic boat for the second time, she takes a coaching job at a school but struggles t...
Rogue Assassin
2012
A band of black water operatives get wiped out while in Northern Iraq. The sole survivor is left alone to fend for his life. While trying to fend for ...

Moneyball
2011
as Ron Hopkins
The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-gen...

Transformers: Dark of the Moon
2011
as General Morshower
The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes ap...

X-Men: First Class
2011
as Colonel Hendry
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. B...

The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy
2011
as J.H. Gordon
In 1870s Texas, a ruthless bounty hunter and an Irish desperado flee the law with a young criminal claiming to possess a treasure more valuable than g...

Psychic Experiment
2010
as Mr. Anderson
A idyllic, small, self-sufficient community. On the surface, it seems like the perfect neighborhood. Everything you could possibly need is within walk...

The Waiter
2010
as Nigel Hamilton
A man travels through corporate corruption and his own sin to find his soul.

The Crazies
2010
as Intelligence Officer
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.

The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009
as Major General Holtz
A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Ea...

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2009
as General Morshower
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is drag...

ExTerminators
2009
as Boss
Alex is a lonely accountant whose one act of rage results in her being sentenced to court-ordered therapy. There she meets Stella, the owner of a smal...

Desdemona: A Love Story
2009
as Father Wade
Gil Garcia is at the end of his life. Wounded and bleeding in a church confessional, he tells an unsuspecting Father Wade his tragic story. At a young...

Fire from Below
2009
as General Cook
Digging at a nearby cave, a careless industrialist unearths a vein of pure base Lithium and inadvertently brings it to the surface, where the Lithium ...

Grizzly Park
2008
as Ranger Bob
A giant grizzly bear stalks 8 troubled young adults and a park ranger in a forest reserve called Grizzly Park after making the demise of an escaped se...

Transformers
2007
as SOCCENT Sergeant
Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobot...

Delta Farce
2007
as General
Three bumbling Army reservists are hustled onto a plane headed for combat in Iraq -- but the fact that the plane drops them in Mexico doesn't stop the...

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
2006
as Admr. Henry D. Wheeler
Navy SEALS, headed by Lt. Bobby James, are dispatched to North Korea on a covert mission, all in an effort to take out a missile site...

All the King's Men
2006
as Commissioner
The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 ...

Striking Range
2006
as Ted Billings
When millionaire businessman Ted Billings (Glenn Morshower) double-crosses his partners in a weapons deal, he decides to hire some protection. Billing...

Disaster!
2005
as General Washington / The President (voice)
A spoof of disaster films, an asteroid is coming towards earth and Harry Bottoms is in charge of saving us all...again...

Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005
as Colonel Anderson
The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

The Island
2005
as Medical Courier
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled envi...

Hostage
2005
as Lt. Leifitz
When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the stan...

The Last Shot
2004
as Agent McCaffrey
A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent worki...

Gacy
2003
as Ted Boyle
Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and b...

The Core
2003
as FBI Agent
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapid...

Blood Work
2002
as Captain
Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a seri...

Black Hawk Down
2001
as LTC Tom Matthews
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and ...

Pearl Harbor
2001
as William Halsey Jr.
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love ...

Sole Survivor
2000
as Robert Donner
A reporter loses his wife and daughter to a plane crash, but when the sole survivor appears, the reporter realizes that it wasn't a mere accident, but...

My Little Assassin
1999
as Agent Larrigoy
1981: Marita Lorenz checks into an Havana hotel and, in a flashback, remembers 22 years' before. At 19, visiting Cuba from New York, she comes to the ...

The Jack Bull
1999
as Col. Jeffries
The Jack Bull tells the story of Myrl Redding, a Wyoming horse trader who clashes with Henry Ballard, a fellow rancher, after Ballard abuses two of My...

12 Bucks
1998
Johnny and Tanner are two brothers raised in a violently dysfunctional family, with a brutal psychopath for a father. One day, their father's abuse of...

Phoenix
1998
as Anti-Abortionist
Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their head...

Godzilla
1998
as Kyle Terrington
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, includin...

Air Force One
1997
as Agent Walters
When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossibl...

Runaway Car
1997
as Captain Jim Louben
A nurse apprentice, who had a bad day at work, meets a computer programmer at a car garage. The man is urged to go somewhere, but his car is not ready...

Death Benefit
1996
as Tim O'Grady
Steven Keeney is a big corporate lawyer who decides to take on a small-time murder case to discover the true circumstances behind the death of a young...

Alien Nation: Body and Soul
1995
as Lt. Smith
Sikes and Francisco are called in to a case when a mysterious young girl, who looks part Newcomer, part human, appears. Her huge, brutish counterpart ...

Dominion
1995
as Lance
A hunting expedition goes awry when another hunter decides to make the hunters the hunted.

Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
1995
as Bill Loman
Police sketch artist Jack Whitfield helps blind rape victim Emmy describe her attacker – a serial rapist and murderer who is now out to get her.

Star Trek: Generations
1994
as Navigator
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star syste...

The River Wild
1994
as Policeman
Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th...

In the Army Now
1994
as Recruiting Sergeant Richard Day
Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman, two misguided youths, join the reserves to make some easy money for their entrepreneurial dreams. Unfortunately, no soo...

Precious Victims
1993
as Dog Handler
Paula and Robert Sims are desperate: their 12 days old baby has been kidnapped! Since there's no trace of the kidnappers, they address the public for ...

12:01
1993
as Detective Cryers
Office employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again ...

In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco
1993
as Conway LeBleu
Religious fanatics are barricaded in a building and surrounded by police. But they're not going to surrender; they prefer to die.

From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One
1992
as Det. Gary Graves
In the first of a potential series of films inspired by the real-life experiences of Los Angeles police officer turned bestselling author Joseph Wamba...

Under Siege
1992
as Ensign Taylor
A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've plann...

The Heroes of Desert Storm
1991
The first Iraq war saw many tragedies and acts of heroism. This is the story seen through the eyes of the men and women involved.

Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance
1991
as Prosecutor
A San Antonio, Texas policeman must stop his best friend, a fellow officer turned vigilante.

By Dawn's Early Light
1990
as F-18 Pilot
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race...

Follow Your Heart
1990
as Policeman
An ex-marine, in search of some defining life direction, unexpectedly faces a hurdle when his jeep breaks down in a sparsely populated Wyoming town. W...

Tango & Cash
1989
as Co-Worker
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income t...

Rock-A-Die Baby
1989
as Private Opie Thompson
A mother tells her daughter three scary bedtime stories: a small platoon in the jungles of Vietnam encounters a horror other than the war, a group of ...

Roe vs. Wade
1989
as Jerry
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, ...

84C MoPic
1989
as Cracker
An Army cameraman is embedded with a reconnaissance patrol and charts their mission across territory controlled by the North Vietnamese.

Defense Play
1988
as Bartender
Professor Vandemeer works on a secret project for the US-Air-Force called DART: a very small helicopter for scouting and defense. When he gets killed,...

The Philadelphia Experiment
1984
as Mechanic
Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent t...

Skeezer
1982
as Tom
A nurse-therapist uses her dog to reach emotionally disturbed children where she works.

A Few Days at Weasel Creek
1981
as Eugene
Serio-comic road movie about a feisty girl who sets out for California and hitches a ride for herself and her house trailer with a runaway farm boy an...

Dead & Buried
1981
as Jimmy
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living norm...

The Bermuda Triangle
1979
as Gallivan
Documentary on with strange goings-on in the 'devil's triangle'.

Drive-In
1976
as Orville Hennigson
The adventures of a group of teenagers at a drive-in theatre in Texas one weekend night.
Pickleball
N/A
as Chuck
When the beloved community center faces foreclosure, Father Joseph (Kevin Farley) does what any small-town priest would do—enter his late best friend’...