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Scott Glenn

Scott Glenn

5 films · 259 frames · top-billed in 4 · 19832011

Born 26 January 1939 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Theodore Scott Glenn 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), Ezra Kramer in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Chris Chenery in Secretariat (2010), Kevin Garvey Sr. in the HBO series The Leftovers (2014–2017), and as Stick in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Daredevil (2015–2016) and The Defenders (2017).

How their films are shot

Measured across 259 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Scott takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 5 films we hold, 64% of their frames are night, 69% low key — the look of the work Scott takes.

Time of day

Night64%
Day26%
Interior8%

Lighting

Low key69%
Natural22%
High key5%

Shot size

Medium39%
Closeup36%
Wide19%
Establishing4%

Camera angle

Eye level80%
Low angle10%
High angle9%

Mood

Neutral40%
Tense37%
Ominous11%
Oppressive6%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 259 frames from Scott Glenn's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.