Glenn Morshower



Born April 24th, 1959, Glenn Grove Morshower is an American actor, who is best known for his role as Secret Service Agent Aaron Pierce on 24. Morshower began acting in theater at the age of 12 and then moved to TV commercials and a feature film before moving to Hollywood at 17. Over his career, Morshower has made guest appearances in numerous TV shows, from classics such as The Dukes of Hazzard and Matlock to more recent fare like NCIS, Bones and Dollhouse. His film career has him regularly in the roles of government agents and military personnel (see Typecasting below).

Morshower is also best known to gamers as Baseplate and Overlord in Modern Warfare 1 & 2 respectively, as well as Agent Gordon in Battlefield 3.

Roles
The following is an abridged list of his film and video game acting roles:


 * Battlefield 3 as Agent Gordon
 * X-Men: First Class as Colonel Hendry
 * Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen & Transformers: Dark of the Moon as General Morshower
 * Modern Warfare 2 as Overlord
 * Modern Warfare as Baseplate
 * Friday Night Lights as Mr. Clark
 * Star Trek: Enterprise as Sheriff MacReady
 * The Core as FBI Agent
 * Black Hawk Down as Lt. Colonel Tom Matthews
 * Pearl Harbor as Admiral William Halsey, Jr.
 * Godzilla as NSA Agent Kyle Terrington
 * Air Force One as Secret Service Agent Walters
 * Under Siege as Ensign Taylor
 * Star Trek: The Next Generation as Ensign Burke
 * Drive-In as Orville Hennigson (his debut role at 15)

Tropes

 * The Danza: General Morshower in all three Transformers films.
 * Ink Suit Actor: Agent Gordon in Battlefield 3.
 * Mission Control: Baseplate in Modern Warfare and Overlord in Modern Warfare 2.
 * Typecasting: Nearly every entry in his filmography contains a military rank.