Scott Glenn turned down the role he was offered in The Silence of the Lambs.
Scott Glenn . His roles have included Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy ( 1980 ) , astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff ( 1983 ) , Emmett in Silverado ( 1985 ) , Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October ( 1990 ) , Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ) , Roger in Training Day ( 2001 ) , Ezra Kramer in The Bourne Ultimatum ( 2007 ) , Kevin Garvey , Sr. in The Leftovers ( 2014 -- 2017 ) and as Stick in both Daredevil ( 2015 -- ) and The Defenders ( 2017 ) . The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American horror-thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster , Anthony Hopkins , and Scott Glenn .