16 Facts About Scott Glenn

1.

Scott Glenn joined the United States Marine Corps for three years, then worked for about seven months in 1963 as a news and sports reporter for the Kenosha News, in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

2.

Scott Glenn tried to become an author, but found he could not write dialogue that satisfied the readers.

3.

Scott Glenn made his Broadway debut in The Impossible Years in 1965.

4.

Scott Glenn joined George Morrison's acting class, helping direct student plays to pay for his studies and appearing onstage in La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club productions.

5.

Scott Glenn spent eight years in Los Angeles, California, acting in small roles in films and doing TV stints, including a TV movie Gargoyles.

6.

In 1978, Scott Glenn left Los Angeles with his family for Ketchum, Idaho, and worked as a barman, huntsman, and mountain ranger, occasionally acting in Seattle stage productions.

7.

Scott Glenn appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and worked with directors such as Jonathan Demme and Robert Altman.

8.

Scott Glenn returned to Broadway in Burn This in 1987.

9.

Scott Glenn played a vicious mob hitman in a critically acclaimed performance in Night of the Running Man.

10.

Scott Glenn was cast in a supporting role in Training Day.

11.

Scott Glenn was cast in the FX drama Sons of Anarchy, as Clay Morrow, but he was replaced after an early pilot episode by Ron Perlman.

12.

Scott Glenn portrayed Eugene van Wingerdt in a leading role in the thriller film The Barber.

13.

Scott Glenn acted in the 2011 film Sucker Punch as Wise Man.

14.

Scott Glenn appeared in the drama Freedom Writers, in which he played the father of Hilary Swank's character, and in The Bourne Ultimatum and The Bourne Legacy as CIA Director Ezra Kramer.

15.

Scott Glenn played the character Stick in Netflix's television series Daredevil and returned to the character in The Defenders series a year later.

16.

Scott Glenn married Carol Schwartz in 1968 and upon their marriage, Glenn converted to Judaism, his wife's faith, from Catholicism.