12/21/2023 0 Comments Gangland movie verne miller![]() ![]() That same year he tried his hand at gangster movies when he starred as the real-life sheriff turned gunman Verne Miller in the movie Gangland: The Verne Miller Story which was given a theatrical release only in Finland and went straight to video in the U.S. ![]() He returned to Broadway in Burn This in 1987. After that he starred in the World War II horror film, The Keep (1983), and action films such as Wild Geese II (1985) opposite Laurence Olivier, Silverado (1985), The Challenge (1982) and drama films such as The Right Stuff (1983), TV film Countdown to Looking Glass (1984), The River (1984) and Off Limits (1988) as he alternately played good guys and bad guys during the 1980s. In 1980 he appeared as ex-convict Wes Hightower in Bridges' Urban Cowboy. He then appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) and worked with directors like Jonathan Demme and Robert Altman. Glenn left Los Angeles with his family for Ketchum, Idaho, in 1978, and worked for the two years he lived there as a barman, huntsman, and mountain ranger, occasionally acting in Seattle stage productions. Glenn spent eight years in Los Angeles, California, acting in small roles in films and doing TV stints, including a TV movie Gargoyles. In 1970 director James Bridges offered him his first movie role, in The Baby Maker, released the same year. An early television role was that of Calvin Brenner on the CBS daytime serial The Edge of Night. That same year, he joined The Actors Studio and began working in professional theatre and TV. He married Carol Schwartz in 1968 and converted to his wife's Judaism upon their marriage. He 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. Glenn made his Broadway debut in The Impossible Years in 1965. To learn the art of dialogue, he began taking acting classes. He tried to become an author, but found he could not write dialogue that satisfied the readers. He joined the United States Marine Corps for three years, then worked roughly five months as a reporter for the Kenosha Evening News, located in Kenosha, Wisconsin. After graduating from a Pittsburgh high school, Glenn entered The College of William and Mary where he majored in English. Through intense training programs he recovered from his illnesses, also overcoming a limp. During his childhood he was regularly ill, and for a year was bed-ridden. He has Irish and Native American ancestry. Glenn was born Theodore Scott Glenn in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Elizabeth, a housewife, and Theodore Glenn, a business executive.
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