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[h3]George Campbell Scott was an immensely talented actor, a star of screen, stage and television who was born in Virginia in 1927. At the age of eight his mother died and his father, an executive at Buick, raised him. [/h3]

In 1945 he joined the Marine Corps and spent four years with them, no doubt an inspiration for portraying [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/375:0/George_S_Patton.htm]Gen. George S. Patton [/urlnew]years later.

When Scott left the Marines he enrolled in a course in journalism at the University of Missouri, but it was while performing in a play there that the acting bug bit him. He was later quoted as saying "it clicked, just like tumblers in a safe."

In the late 1950s, he landed a role in "Richard III". The play in a theatre in New York was a hit and brought the young actor to the attention of critics. Soon he began to get work on television, mostly in live broadcasts of plays, and in 1959 he landed the part of the crafty prosecutor in Anatomy of a Murder (1959). It was this role that won him his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Scott first came to public attention in the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb where he played the part of General "Buck" Turgidson.

It was said that Stanley Kubrick told Scott that he had all the takes for one of the early scenes in that film and asked to redo the scene in an "over the top" fashion. This take was the one that is actually used in Dr. Strangelove.

Scott's portrayal of the controversial General Patton in the 1970 film Patton became his most iconic performance. Scott had researched extensively for the role, studying films of the general and talking to those who knew him. Having declined an Academy Award nomination for his appearance in the 1961 film, The Hustler, Scott returned his Oscar for Patton, stating in a letter to the Academy that he didn't feel himself to be in competition with other actors. He has been quoted as saying "The (Academy Awards) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons."
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Scott found further success in the 1980s with two films in particular. The first of these was The Changeling (1980), a film often packaged as a horror movie but one that's really more of a supernatural thriller. He plays John Russell, a composer who loses his wife and daughter in a tragic accident. Seeking solace, he moves into an old mansion that had been unoccupied for 12 years. It is while researching the house's past that he discovers its horrific secret of long ago.

The following year, he starred alongside the unknown [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/590:0/Sean_Penn.htm]Sean Penn[/urlnew] and [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/824:0/Tom_Cruise.htm]Tom Cruise[/urlnew] in the intense drama Taps (1981). He played the head of a military academy that's suddenly slated for destruction when the property is sold to local developers who plan to build condos. The students take over the academy when they feel that the regular channels are closed to them.

In 1984, Scott was cast in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in a television adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Critics and the public alike praised his performance. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for the role.

In 1990, he voiced the villain Smoke in the TV special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, where his character was alongside popular cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny. That same year, he voice acted the villain Percival McLeach in the Disney film, The Rescuers Down Under.

Scott died in 1999 from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. He was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California.
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Inherit the Wind (1999) (TV)

Rocky Marciano (1999) (TV)

Gloria (1999)

12 Angry Men (1997) (TV)

The Searchers (1997) (TV)

Country Justice (1997) (TV)

Titanic (1996) (TV)

"New York News" (3 episodes)

The Whipping Boy (1995) (TV)

Angus (1995)

Tyson (1995) (TV)

In the Heat of the Night: A Matter of Justice (1994) (TV)

"Traps" (1994) TV Series (unknown episodes)

Curacao (1993) (TV)

Malice (1993)

Finding the Way Home (1991) (TV)

"Brute Force" (1991) TV Series (voice)

Descending Angel (1990) (TV)

The Rescuers Down Under (1990) (voice)

The Exorcist III (1990)

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990) (TV) (voice)

The Ryan White Story (1989) (TV)

"Mr. President" (1987) TV Series

Pals (1987) (TV)

The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986) (TV)

The Last Days of Patton (1986) (TV)

Choices (1986) (TV)

"Mussolini: The Untold Story" (1985) (mini) TV Series

A Christmas Carol (1984) (TV)

Firestarter (1984)

China Rose (1983) (TV)

Oliver Twist (1982/I) (TV)

Taps (1981)

Casey Stengel (1981) (TV)

Mister Lincoln (1981) (TV)

The Formula (1980)

The Changeling (1980)

Hardcore (1979)

Movie Movie (1978)

Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder (1978) (TV) (uncredited)

Crossed Swords (1977)

Islands in the Stream (1977)

Beauty and the Beast (1976) (TV)

The Hindenburg (1975)

Fear on Trial (1975) (TV)

The Savage Is Loose (1974)

Bank Shot (1974)

The Day of the Dolphin (1973)

Oklahoma Crude (1973)

Rage (1972)

The New Centurions (1972)

The Hospital (1971)

The Last Run (1971)

They Might Be Giants (1971)

"ITV Saturday Night Theatre" (1 episode, 1971)

"Hallmark Hall of Fame" (2 episodes, 1959-1971)

Jane Eyre (1970) (TV)

Patton (1970)

This Savage Land (1969) (TV)

Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall (1969) (TV)

Petulia (1968)

The Flim-Flam Man (1967)

The Crucible (1967) (TV)

Not with My Wife, You Don't! (1966)

The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)

"The Road West" (2 episodes, 1966)

"Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre" (1 episode, 1965)

The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)

"East Side/West Side" (26 episodes, 1963-1964)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)

"The Eleventh Hour" (1 episode, 1962)

"The Virginian" (1 episode, 1962)

"Naked City" (1 episode, 1962)

The Power and the Glory (1961) (TV)

"Ben Casey" (1 episode, 1961)

The Hustler (1961)

"Dow Hour of Great Mysteries" (1 episode, 1960)

Don Juan in Hell (1960) (TV)

"Play of the Week" .... The Devil (1 episode, 1960)

"Playhouse 90" (1 episode, 1959)

"Sunday Showcase" (1 episode, 1959)

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

"The United States Steel Hour" (1 episode, 1959)

The Hanging Tree (1959)

"Kraft Television Theatre" (2 episodes, 1958)

The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1958) (TV)

"The DuPont Show of the Month" (1 episode, 1958)

"Omnibus" (1 episode, 1958)
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