biography
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Scott, George C(ampbell)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1927–99)
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| biography:
| Stage and film actor, born in Wise, Virginia, USA. He grew up in Detroit and served in the US Marine Corps (1945–9). After starting at the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, he changed to English and drama and began to act in student shows (1949–53). He spent the next four years holding odd jobs as he worked in small theatre companies in Toledo, Ohio, Washington, DC, and Ontario, Canada. His New York stage debut in the 1957 Shakespeare Festival brought him such praise that he was soon taking leading roles in stage plays and films, and starred in an admired television series, East Side, West Side (1963–4). He made his film debut in The Hanging Tree (1959), and other early roles included The Hustler (1961) and Dr Strangelove (1963). His most celebrated film role was in Patton (1970), for which he received an Oscar for best actor, but he refused to accept it after denouncing the Academy Awards as a ‘meat parade’. In 1971 he also refused the Emmy Award as best actor in a TV production of Arthur Miller's The Price (1970). Intense as an actor and in person, he was particularly known for his portrayal of ‘angry men’, but he also played comic and warm-hearted characters. He directed two films, Rage (1972) and The Savage is Loose (1974), and occasionally returned to the theatre to take on stage roles. Later films included Dick Tracy (1989), Malice (1993), and Country Justice (1997). |
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