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  • Stuff happens for Glenn - 13 May 2008
    Apocalypse Now actor Scott Glenn is to take on the role of former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Oliver Stone's new biopic of Bush the younger, W., according to reports. -Digital Spy says the 67-year-old, whose other credits include The Bourne Ultimatum, The

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  • Silverado
  • Silverado review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 4 March 2006
    ... his behemoth 'deputies.' The four disparate heroes-Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn and Danny Glover-prepare to do battle against Dennehy for personal reasons rang...  
  • Absolute Power
  • Absolute Power review by muggsley from Lancashire
    Rated - 3 stars Slick Clint flic with powerful cast 13 June 2005
    ...this movie, but with a cast containing (amongst others)Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn and Laura Linney, it's hard not to. The plot's cleverly done, Clint is excel...  
  • Buffalo Soldiers
  • Buffalo Soldiers review by from London
    Rated - 2 stars WHAT A NASTY MIXTURE 28 August 2004
    ...t bone-headed soldier on the make, but I found myself rooting for the sergeant (Scott Glenn) hell bent on bringing him to justice. Which he does spectacularly well ? if yo...  

Scott Glenn - filmography


  • W. on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Josh Brolin,  James Cromwell,  Ellen Burstyn
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver Stone is bringing the life of our 43rd president to the big screen as only he can. W takes viewers ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 10,435 members
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  • Journey to the End of the Night on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Brendan Fraser,  Mos Def,  Scott Glenn
    Director: Eric Eason
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Two Americans in exile have been carving out a living in Brazil running a nightclub brothel but they both harbor dreams of getting out the business once and for all. When a client is killed in their establishment, they find a suitcase with drugs which could answer all their prayers. Their hopes of ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 11 members
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  • Homeland Security on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Tom Skerritt,  Leland Orser,  Grant Show
    Director: Daniel Sackheim
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 2004, Emmy Award-winning director Daniel Sackheim (NYPD BLUE, LAW & ORDER, THE X FILES) created a weekly television series that would dramatise the events surrounding the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. While the series never aired, the pilot episode has been repackaged as ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 44% from 44 members
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  • Training Day on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Ethan Hawke,  Scott Glenn
    Director: Antoine Fuqua
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Antoine Fuqua (THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS, BAIT) turns up the intensity level with TRAINING DAY, a charged drama about police corruption in downtown Los Angeles. Ethan Hawke stars as Jake Hoyt, a well-intentioned young officer who thinks he's found his ticket to becoming a detective in the form of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 19,556 members
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  • Buffalo Soldiers on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Scott Glenn,  Ed Harris,  Elizabeth McGovern
    Director: Gregor Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Joaquin Phoenix stars in this dark service comedy as Ray Elwood, an Army clerk stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Part of a company made up almost entirely of ex-convicts and school dropouts, Elwood takes advantage of his daft commanding officer, Col. Berman (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 14,631 members
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  • Vertical Limit on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Chris O'Donnell,  Bill Paxton,  Robin Tunney
    Director: Martin Campbell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    As action director Martin Campbell's heart-pumping thriller VERTICAL LIMIT begins, an eagle glides gracefully over the stunningly filmed mesas of Utah. Its shadow falls on a vertical rock face being climbed by Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell), his father (Stuart Wilson), and his sister Annie (Robin ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 5,795 members
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  • The Last Marshall on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Scott Glenn,  William Forsythe,  Constance Marie
    Director: Mike Kirton
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A Texas Marshall, Cole McClary doesn't believe in the criminal having any rights. He believes the law should shoot first and ask questions later. When a drug gang arrive on his turf to do a spot of kidnapping he takes exception and a bullet which was meant for a judge. Taking the law into his own ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 70 members
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  • Firestorm on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Howie Long,  Scott Glenn,  Suzy Amis
    Director: Dean Semler
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sinister convicts revolt when their prison work detail is dispatched to battle a roaring wildfire. But their carefully conceived escape plan doesn't account for skilled "smoke jumper" Jesse Graves, who parachutes in to mete out justice and rescue their hostages. A by-the-numbers debut for both ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 122 members
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  • Absolute Power on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Gene Hackman,  Ed Harris
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this slick political thriller, an emotionally disconnected, aesthetically refined master thief is out for one final score before retiring to his treasure-lined hideaway. But during a robbery at a mansion near Washington, he witnesses a bizarre sex murder involving the President of the United ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 3,989 members
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  • The Last Bet on DVD (1997)
    Starring: John Turturro,  Scott Glenn,  Elizabeth Perkins
    Director: William Devizia
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Power Of Attorney An ambitious US attorney is determined to prosecute a Mafia don and make a name for himself. Fate deals a hand when he is forced to resign... The Last Bet A cop on the trail of three small-time bookies from New York ensures that they never stay in one place too long...
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 76 members
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  • Silence Of The Lambs on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Jodie Foster,  Scott Glenn
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An evil serial killer who skins his female victims is on the loose. FBI agent, Clarice Starling is assigned to the case. Desperate for any leads she seeks the help of psychiatrist-turned-psychopath, Dr Hannibal Lecter..... Winner of 5 Oscars. Based on the novel by Thomas Harris.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 59,001 members
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  • Backdraft on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Kurt Russell,  William Baldwin,  Robert De Niro
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two feuding brothers carry on a heroic family tradition in the Chicago Fire Department. Before the smoke clears, love affairs are rekindled and lives are shattered as the brothers fight to resolve their differences and solve a puzzling series of arson attacks, each ignited by explosive phenomena ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 8,807 members
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  • Backdraft - HD DVD Version (1990)
    Starring: Kurt Russell,  William Baldwin,  Robert De Niro
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two feuding brothers carry on an heroic family tradition in the Chicago fire Department. Whilst trying to resolve their own differences, they must solve a baffling series of arson attacks. Each fire ignited by the phenomena known as backdraft.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 291 members
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  • The Hunt For Red October on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Alec Baldwin,  Sam Neill
    Director: John McTiernan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    It is the pre-Glasnost era, and the captain of a Soviet sub intends to betray his brutal government and defect, but as the deadly Red October approaches the eastern seaboard of the United States, only special agent Jack Ryan might be able to head off a nuclear confrontation. Based on Tom Clancy's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 10,119 members
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  • Miss Firecracker on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Holly Hunter,  Mary Steenburgen,  Tim Robbins
    Director: Thomas Schlamme
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Orphaned as a child, Carnelle has grown up in the shadow of her beautiful cousin, a proper southern belle and past Miss Firecracker. Carnelle sets her sights on the current crown and devises a scheme to enter and win the contest.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 140 members
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  • Silverado on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Kevin Kline,  Scott Glenn,  Linda Hunt
    Director: Lawrence Kasdan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    As the result of a chance meeting, four cowboys on horseback are drawn together to defeat a corrupt frontier sheriff and his vicious posse. An enjoyable high-spirited western. Starring Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Brain Dennehy and Rosanna Arquette, and written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan (THE ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,520 member
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  • Wild Geese 2 on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Scott Glenn,  Barbara Carrera,  Edward Fox
    Director: Peter R. Hunt
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Directed by Peter Hunt (ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE) this action-packed sequel to the much-loved 1978 original sees an American TV mogul hiring a tough gang of mercenaries to pull off an incredible coup... to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau prison.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 26 members
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  • Silverado - BLU-RAY Version (1985)
    Starring: Kevin Kline,  Scott Glenn,  Linda Hunt
    Director: Lawrence Kasdan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    As the result of a chance meeting, four cowboys on horseback are drawn together to defeat a corrupt frontier sheriff and his vicious posse. An enjoyable high-spirited western. Starring Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Brain Dennehy and Rosanna Arquette, and written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan (THE ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 37 members
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  • The Right Stuff on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Sam Shepard,  Scott Glenn,  Dennis Quaid
    Director: Philip Kaufman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This epic chronicle of the seven pilots chosen to become astronauts for Project Mercury is based on the novel by Tom Wolfe (THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES) and directed by visionary filmmaker Philip Kaufman (QUILLS, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING).Deep in the desert during the 1950s, army test ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,628 members
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  • The Keep (1983)
    Starring: Scott Glenn,  Ian McKellen,  Gabriel Byrne
    Director: Michael Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    It's World War II, in German occupied Romania. Nazi soldiers have been sent to garrison a mysterious fortress, but a nightmarish discovery is soon made. 'The Keep' was not built to keep anything out. The masive structure was, in fact, built to keep something in....
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 255 members
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  • Urban Cowboy on DVD (1980)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Debra Winger,  Scott Glenn
    Director: James Bridges
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    John Travolta and Debra Winger star in this cowboy version of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, in which all the action takes place at Gilley's country-western bar, a rough-and-tumble honky-tonk in the heart of Houston. Travolta plays Bud, a young country farmer who moves to the city to find work at an oil ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 197 members
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  • Angels Hard As They Come on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Scott Glenn,  Gary Busey,  Dennis Art
    Director: Joe Viola
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Jonathan Demme wrote this inventive satire of biker movies. The standard road fare culminates in a gang fight in a ghost town. ANGELS HARD AS THEY COME features Busey's debut and an early Scott Glenn role.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 67 members
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  • Carla's Song on DVD
    Starring: Robert Carlyle,  Oyanka Cabezas,  Scott Glenn
    Director: Ken Loach
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Paul Laverty drew on his experiences as a lawyer working with human rights groups in Nicaragua in writing the script for CARLA'S SONG, which stars Robert Carlyle (TRAINSPOTTING) as George, a Glasgow bus driver. Attracted to Carla (Oyanka Cabezas), a beautiful but impoverished Nicaraguan woman who ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,020 members
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Scott Glenn facts

5 most recent films

W. - 3.0 stars
W. - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Nights in Rodanthe - 3.0 stars
Nights In Rodanthe - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Freedom Writers - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Silence Of The Lambs - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Silence Of The Lambs - 4.0 stars
Training Day - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Freedom Writers - 3.5 stars
The Hunt For Red October - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Slaughter of the Innocents - 2.0 stars
Homeland Security - 2.0 stars
Journey to the End of the Night - 2.5 stars
Wild Geese 2 - 3.0 stars
Silverado - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jodie Foster - 4 times - show films
Frankie R. Faison - 4 times - show films
Kasi Lemmons - 4 times - show films
Anthony Heald - 4 times - show films
Ted Levine - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Jonathan Demme - 4 times - show films
George C. Wolfe - 2 times - show films
Antoine Fuqua - 2 times - show films
Oliver Stone - 2 times - show films
Martin Campbell - 2 times - show films