Biography
Theodore Scott Glenn (born January 26, 1939) is an American actor. His roles have included Bill Lester in She Came to the Valley (1979), Pfc Glenn Kelly in Nashville (1975), Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy (1980), astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983), Emmett in Silverado (1985), Captain Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), John Adcox in Backdraft (1991), Bill Burton in Absolute Power (1997), Roger in Training Day (2001), Ezr...
Known For
Complete Filmography

A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Exploring Michael Mann's 1983 film adapted from the F. Paul Wilson novel and its impact.

The Hill
2023
as Red Murff
The story of Rickey Hill, who overcomes his physical disability and repairs his relationship with his father in a quest to become a major league baseb...

Greenland
2020
as Dale
John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Am...

Urban Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of Gilley's
2015
as Self
A chronicle of the cultural phenomenon sparked by the 1980 film Urban Cowboy and its inspiration, Gilley's.

The Barber
2015
as Eugene Van Wingerdt
Eugene is a small town barber, beloved by the local community, but hiding a deadly secret. John is hunting for a serial killer not to expose him but t...

Into the Grizzly Maze
2015
as Sully
Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly b...

The Paperboy
2012
as W.W. Jansen
A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

The Bourne Legacy
2012
as Ezra Kramer
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.

Magic Valley
2011
as Ed Halfner
As one warm October day unfolds, the sleepy town of Buhl, Idaho will never be the same. A fish farmer finds his crop destroyed, a couple of kids are p...

Blood Meridian Test Reel
2011
as Tobin The Ex Priest
James Franco's pre production test reel for Blood Meridian. Originally selected to direct a feature length adaptation, James Franco filmed a 32 minute...

Sucker Punch
2011
as Wise Man
A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world where she envisions a plan to escape. Gathering a grou...

Secretariat
2010
as Chris Chenery
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. ...

W.
2008
as Donald Rumsfeld
The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith—and the critical days leading up...

Nights in Rodanthe
2008
as Robert Torrelson
Adrienne is trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not, and her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is travelling to reconcile w...

Surfer, Dude
2008
as Alister Greenbough
A wave twisting tale of a soul searching surfer experiencing an existential crisis.

Camille
2008
as Sheriff Foster
A twisted honeymoon adventure about a young couple on their way to Niagara Falls.

The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
as CIA Director Ezra Kramer
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a...

Breaking the Silence: Picture-in-Picture Commentary
2007
as Jack Crawford
A visual commentary for "The Silence Of The Lambs" with the cast & crew in a "picture in picture" mode.

Freedom Writers
2007
as Steve Gruwell
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Journey to the End of the Night
2006
as Rosso
In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Rosso and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted in cocaine ...

Code Breakers
2005
as Coach Earl 'Red' Blaik
In 1951, a cheating scandal rocks West Point academy, as 83 cadets -- including the son of the school's football coach (Glenn) -- are implicated and u...

Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005
as Self
Hollywood's Greatest Villains

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
2005
as Charles Duke (voice)
Twelve men who belong to one of the world's most exclusive fraternities -- people who've walked on the surface of the moon -- are paid homage in this ...

Faith of My Fathers
2005
as Jack McCain
Faith of My Fathers is based on the story of Lieutenant Commander John McCain's experiences as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half ...

Gone But Not Forgotten
2005
as Martin Darius
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has...

Homeland Security
2004
as Joe Johnson
Admiral McKee is retired, when following the events of 9/11 he receives a call from the White House informing him that his commander in chief requires...

Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
2004
as Clayton Price
An American government hit man on the run makes a pact with two travelers to help him disappear in the Mexican jungle.

Bataan Rescue
2003
as Narrator (voice)
This is the story of a group of 514 prisoners of war from the Bataan Death March and how they were rescued near the end of the war. The reason this wa...

Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'The Hunt for Red October'
2003
as Self
This program features the standard mix of movie clips, production materials, and interviews. Cast and crew start at the beginning and discussed the ac...

A Painted House
2003
as Eli 'Pappy' Chandler
A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanw...

Seabiscuit
2003
as Narrator
He was boxy, with stumpy legs that wouldn't completely straighten a short straggly tail and an ungainly gait; though he didn't look the part, Seabiscu...

Buffalo Soldiers
2002
as Sergeant Lee
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
as Self
Documentary about the adaptation of the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris into the 1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme. Originally presented in two parts o...

The Shipping News
2001
as Jack Buggit
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

Training Day
2001
as Roger
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2001
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of this Oscar winning thriller, prepared for its tenth anniversary. Includes interviews with star Anthony Hopki...

The Seventh Stream
2001
as Owen Quinn
She's a beautiful stranger lost in his world. Can they find a place in each other's hearts?

The Making of The Virgin Suicides
2000
as Self
While Sofia Coppola directed her first feature, her mother, the artist and filmmaker Eleanor Coppola, was there to document the experience.

Vertical Limit
2000
as Montgomery Wick
Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message an...

The Virgin Suicides
2000
as Father Moody
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
The Making of Silverado
1999
as Self
Making of the film Silverado directed by Lawrence Kasdan.

The Last Marshal
1999
as Cole McClary
Marshall McClary, one of the most violent, racist, foul- mouthed Marshalls in Texas, is in the middle of resolving a hostage situation (by shooting ev...

Naked City: A Killer Christmas
1998
as Sgt. Daniel Muldoon
An ambitious reporter gets in the way of two cops assigned to investigate a serial killer who becomes active around Christmas time..

Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998
as Sgt. Daniel Muldoon
A pair of taxi-driving NYC detectives take up the case of tourists who are robbed of their money and luggage by a shady limo driver. Things get dicey ...

Firestorm
1998
as Wynt Perkins
Firefighter Jesse Graves has to save ornithologist Jennifer and other people caught in a forest fire, which was set up by the lawyer of convicted kill...

Lesser Prophets
1997
as Iggy
The police have three bookies under surveillance, but they escape and set up shop elsewhere. By chance, one of the police finds them; instead of turni...

Absolute Power
1997
as Bill Burton
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. H...

Larga distancia
1997
A man on a sailing cruise down the coast of Mexico lands in the fictional town of El Rosario. When his dog runs off, he ends up wandering around the t...

Carla's Song
1996
as Bradley
A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.

Courage Under Fire
1996
as Gartner
A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female cho...

Edie & Pen
1996
as Harry
In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming friends. Edie was married years ago, but her husband a...

Reckless
1995
as Lloyd
On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.

Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
1995
as J.P. Stiles
A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to ste...

Night of the Running Man
1995
as David Eckhart
A Las Vegas cab driver finds a million dollars of stolen money in his cab after his fare is murdered. Soon after, a ruthless hitman is in persuit; he ...

Past Tense
1994
as Gene Ralston
A former cop who is now a novelist notices an attractive young woman move in next door to him. He strikes up a conversation, one thing leads to anothe...

The Flight of the Dove
1994
as William B. Rickman
An explosives expert fleeing his past and a beautiful spy trading sex for secrets find themselves in love and fighting the spy ring out to kill them.

Slaughter of the Innocents
1993
as Stephen Broderick
A seasoned FBI Agent's child-genius son assists him on catching a child-killer, a schizophrenic mohab nut who believes he's been chosen by god to be a...

Extreme Justice
1993
as Dan Vaughn
Jeff Powers is the newest member of a very elite and very secret LAPD division. Their mission is to target important criminals and to get them to stop...

Shadowhunter
1993
as John Cain
An L.A. cop tracks down a seemingly mystic murderer on an Indian reservation.

The Player
1992
as Scott Glenn
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
1991
as Self
This brief throwback piece focused on interview snippets from Hopkins, Demme, Glenn, Foster, FBI agent John Douglas and another unnamed FBI agent.

Mara
1991
as Henry
An American writer in Paris meets a young prostitute Mara, leading to an evening together neither expect.

Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
1991
as Henry
Three short stories about women & men relationship.

Backdraft
1991
as John 'Axe' Adcox
Firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey battle each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torchi...

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
1991
as H.D. Dalton
H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed ...

The Silence of the Lambs
1991
as Jack Crawford
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatri...

The Hunt for Red October
1990
as CDR Bart Mancuso (USS Dallas)
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The Ameri...

Miss Firecracker
1989
as Mac Sam
Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before....

The Outside Woman
1989
as Jesse Smith
A factory worker is convinced to hijack a helicopter and help two prisoners escape from jail.

Intrigue
1988
as Crawford
A spy is looking for his old colleague who now works for the other side.

The Verne Miller Story
1988
as Verne Miller
Upon his release from prison, Verne Miller works his way into Al Capone's organization. He becomes a top assassin and earns Capone's trust. However, M...

Off Limits
1988
as Colonel Dexter Armstrong
McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time ...

Man on Fire
1987
as Creasy
Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swank...

As Summers Die
1986
as Willie Croft
Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threate...

Wild Geese II
1985
as John Haddad
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

Silverado
1985
as Emmett
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside...

The River
1984
as Joe Wade
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to s...

Countdown to Looking Glass
1984
as Michael Boyle
A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of ...

The Keep
1983
as Glaeken Trismegestus
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks i...

The Right Stuff
1983
as Alan Shepard
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history b...

The Challenge
1982
as Rick
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between t...

Personal Best
1982
as Terry Tingloff
Young sprinter Chris Cahill is having difficulty reaching her potential as an athlete, until she meets established track star Tory Skinner. As Tory an...

Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981
as Bill Dalton
In nineteenth century Oklahoma, two teen girls, fans of stories about outlaws, are on a quest to meet and join up with them. They find a shadow of a f...

Urban Cowboy
1980
as Wes
After moving to Pasadena, Texas, country boy Bud Davis starts hanging around a bar called Gilley's, where he falls in love with Sissy, a cowgirl who b...

More American Graffiti
1979
as Newt
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.

Apocalypse Now
1979
as Lieutenant Richard M. Colby
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." ...

She Came To The Valley
1979
as Bill Lester
Based on the book by Cleo Dawson, this film follows the struggle of a female settler as she becomes involved in a political conflict during the Spanis...

Fighting Mad
1976
as Charlie Hunter
An evil corporation tries to pressure a bunch of Arkansas farmers and ranchers to sell their land so they can strip-mine it for coal. The fiercely pro...

Nashville
1975
as Pfc. Glenn Kelly
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Te...

Hex
1973
as Jimbang
Set in rural Nebraska following the First World War, six veterans on motorcycles ride into the sleepy little town of Bingo. The locals are friendly un...

Gargoyles
1972
as James Reeger
After receiving word about a mysterious carcass/skeleton unearthed in the Arizona desert, a father and his daughter decide to remove it from the buria...

In Pursuit of Treasure
1972
In Pursuit of Treasure was shot over 11 weeks in 1970 with Panavision cameras in Kanab, Utah, with union waivers, a $220,000 budget and even logistica...

Angels Hard as They Come
1971
as Long John
A group of crazy bikers meet up with a group of drug-addicted hippies in a small town, but the two roving factions are soon at odds with one another a...

The Baby Maker
1970
as Tad Jacks
Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the...

Eugene the Marine
N/A
as Gene Lee Grady
A former marine fights to keep his life from unraveling as his son tries to force him out of his longtime family home and a series of gruesome murders...