# What has happened to Scott Glenn? He looks very sick. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-scott-glenn-he-looks-very-sick/456924 "2008-07-18T04:59:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![greatshakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@greatshakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greatshakes)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-scott-glenn-he-looks-very-sick/456924/1 "2008-07-18T04:59:33Z")
Scott Glenn used to be an uber Stud. He apparently aged much more quickly than anybody I have ever seen. In the Right Stuff, he was some sort of man of iron; in 1991, seven years later, he looked in his early sixties. In the movie Freedom Writers, he looked 150 years old. Did he get some rare disease, or was it just the way he aged? Thanks, greatshakes ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-scott-glenn-he-looks-very-sick/456924/2 "2008-07-18T12:26:29Z")
The guy is nearly 70 years old (born in 1941). He looks pretty good to me. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-scott-glenn-he-looks-very-sick/456924/3 "2008-07-18T18:25:48Z")
I think it’s kind of a reverse Dorian Gray thing. His outer looks are finally catching up with his talent; he’s the worst actor who ever stepped in front of a camera. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-scott-glenn-he-looks-very-sick/456924/4 "2008-07-18T20:35:21Z")
He’s always been lean and bony. I think that shows age more than a fuller face. That coupled with the fact that he works among more people who have botox and cosmetic surgery than don’t. His hairline recession denial hairline can’t be helping either. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-scott-glenn-he-looks-very-sick/456924/5 "2008-07-18T22:24:38Z")
Same thing with that other guy I used to get mixed up with Scott Glenn. Ya know, the one who was also in “The Right Stuff.” Hendrickson, or something like that. Played the android in “Aliens.” Harlan Ellison called it “Time and the nibbling of minnows.” Happens to all of us. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-scott-glenn-he-looks-very-sick/456924/6 "2008-07-18T22:40:05Z")
Coincidentally, I was just watching him in [The Keep](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085780/) the other day. (An early Michael Mann movie, 1983). He was a good-lookin’ dude in his younger years. Fantastic movie too, with a hypnotic musical score. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-scott-glenn-he-looks-very-sick/456924/7 "2008-07-19T02:27:26Z")
[QUOTE=Sir Rhosis] Same thing with that other guy I used to get mixed up with Scott Glenn. Ya know, the one who was also in “The Right Stuff.” Hendrickson, or something like that. Played the android in “Aliens.” Harlan Ellison called it “Time and the nibbling of minnows.” Happens to all of us. Sir Rhosis [/QUOTE] That would be Lance Henriksen. He’s got to be one of the hardest working guys in Hollywood - currently he has no less than 8 different movies in production, and his Internet Movie Database listing has over 170 entries. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-scott-glenn-he-looks-very-sick/456924/8 "2008-07-19T16:50:07Z")
Yeah- he’s sort of a creepier Michael Caine. 🆒 PS- did all 170 of them co-star Bill Paxton and Jenette Goldstein? I kid, I kid… ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-scott-glenn-he-looks-very-sick/456924/9 "2008-07-19T16:56:42Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] I think it’s kind of a reverse Dorian Gray thing. His outer looks are finally catching up with his talent; he’s the worst actor who ever stepped in front of a camera. [/QUOTE] Are you joking? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-scott-glenn-he-looks-very-sick/456924/10 "2008-07-19T17:01:28Z")
[QUOTE=Sir Rhosis] Harlan Ellison called it “Time and the nibbling of minnows.” Happens to all of us. [/QUOTE] No, some of us get fat. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2008, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-to-scott-glenn-he-looks-very-sick/456924/11 "2008-07-20T12:13:09Z")
Clint Eastwood is going through the same thing. Eastwood, Glenn & Henrikson were (as already pointed out) very lean, sinewy men. I don’t think that type “ages well” - ditto for women like that, but I can’t come up with an example this early on a Sunday AM 😛 VCNJ~