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Scott Wilson

Scott Wilson

Highest Rated: 96% In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Lowest Rated: 0% Blue City (1986)

Birthday: Mar 29, 1942

Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

For most of his four-decade career in film and television, Scott Wilson essayed men on the brink of life-changing choices. He rose to fame as the amoral drifter Dick Hickcok in Richard Brooks' "In Cold Blood" (1967) and would play troubled, even dangerous roles in "The Grissom Gang" (1971), "The Great Gatsby" (1974) and "The Ninth Configuration" (1980). As Wilson grew older, his characters softened a bit; there was still a rough edge to them, like the reclusive Judd Travers in "Shiloh" (1996), but he also played a thoughtful father in "Junebug" (2003) and a mobster-turned-long-lost father on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (CBS, 2000-2015) before playing complicated patriarch Hershel Greene on the cable hit "The Walking Dead" (AMC 2010- ). Though rarely the lead, Wilson's history of solid support in numerous quality films made him one of the most dependable character actors in the film industry. Scott Wilson died of leukemia on October 6, 2018 at the age of 76.

Highest rated movies

96% In the Heat of the Night
95% Dead Man Walking
93% The Host
86% Junebug
84% Come Early Morning
82% Monster
81% The Ninth Configuration
80% The Jack Bull

Photos

BLUE CITY, Judd Nelson, Scott Wilson, 1986. ©Paramount THE GYPSY MOTHS, front from left: Burt Lancaster, Scott Wilson, 1969 THE GYPSY MOTHS, first and second, from front left: Burt Lancaster, Scott Wilson, 1969 THE GRISSOM GANG, Scott Wilson, 1971 IN COLD BLOOD, Scott Wilson, Robert Blake, 1967 IN COLD BLOOD, Scott Wilson, 1967 SAVING SHILOH, Scott Wilson, 2006, (c) Warner Brothers IN COLD BLOOD, Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, 1967 THE GYPSY MOTHS, from left: Burt Lancaster, Scott Wilson, 1969 IN COLD BLOOD, Scott Wilson, Robert Blake, 1967 IN COLD BLOOD, Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, 1967 THE GYPSY MOTHS, from left: Scott Wilson, Burt Lancaster, 1969 THE NINTH CONFIGURATION, (AKA TWINKLE TWINKLE,"KILLER" KANE), Scott Wilson, (center), Stacy Keach,(on right), 1980 IN COLD BLOOD, Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, 1967 IN COLD BLOOD, Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, 1967 IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, Lee Grant, Scott Wilson, Rod Steiger, 1967. IN COLD BLOOD, Robert Blake, John Forsythe, Scott Wilson, 1967 THE GYPSY MOTHS, from left: Scott Wilson, Burt Lancaster, 1969 IN COLD BLOOD, Scott Wilson, 1967 IN COLD BLOOD, Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, 1967

Filmography

Movies

Credit
70% 76% Hostiles Cyrus Lounde (Character) $29.8M 2017
21% 51% Dorfman in Love Winston Cooke Sr. (Character) $13.7K 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kiss the Abyss Mark (Character) - 2010
33% 53% Radio Free Albemuth President Fremont (Character) $5.6K 2010
14% 52% Saving Grace B. Jones Reverend Potter (Character) - 2009
11% 45% Big Stan Warden Gasque (Character) - 2007
20% 33% Open Window Eddie (Character) - 2006
50% 58% The Sensation of Sight Tucker (Character) $23.1K 2006
76% 75% Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon Eugene (Character) - 2006
93% 72% The Host US Doctor in Morgue (Character) $2.2M 2006
84% 49% Come Early Morning Lowell Fowler (Character) $117.6K 2006
41% 72% Saving Shiloh Judd Travers (Character) - 2006
86% 73% Junebug Eugene (Character) $2.7M 2005
82% 81% Monster Horton (Character) $34.5M 2003
66% 83% The Last Samurai Ambassador Swanbeck (Character) $111.1M 2003
48% 29% Coastlines Pa Mann (Character) $6.5K 2002
14% 57% Bark! Harold (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Don't Let Go Jimmy Ray Stevens (Character) - 2002
24% 66% Pearl Harbor Gen. George C. Marshall (Character) $198.5M 2001
46% 70% The Way of the Gun Hale Chidduck (Character) $6.0M 2000
70% 62% Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season Judd Travers (Character) $40.4K 1999
80% 73% The Jack Bull Governor (Character) - 1999
61% 68% Clay Pigeons Sheriff Mooney (Character) $1.8M 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pride Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Unme no Toki Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan (Character) - 1998
73% 63% Shiloh Judd Travers (Character) $1.0M 1997
53% 53% G.I. Jane C.O. Salem (Character) $48.2M 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Our God's Brother Adam Chmielowski (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mother Dr. Chase (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Haunted Heart Dr. Chase (Character) - 1996
95% 86% Dead Man Walking Chaplain Farlely (Character) $37.1M 1995
48% 52% Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill Zeb (Character) $8.2M 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Soul Survivors Bradley Facemeyer (Character) - 1995
50% 52% Geronimo: An American Legend Redondo (Character) $18.4M 1993
70% 42% Flesh and Bone Elliot (Character) $9.1M 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story Vernon Presley (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet 38% Femme Fatale Dr. Beaumont (Character) - 1991
15% 60% Pure Luck Frank Grimes (Character) $21.3M 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fatal Woman Dr. Beaumont (Character) - 1991
59% 57% The Exorcist III Dr. Temple (Character) $25.0M 1990
60% 47% Johnny Handsome Mikey Chalmette (Character) $6.6M 1989
No Score Yet 33% The Tracker John "Red Jack" Stillwell (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jesse Sam Maloney (Character) - 1988
29% 36% Malone Paul Barlow (Character) $2.5M 1987
0% 25% Blue City Perry Kerch (Character) $6.0M 1986
73% 88% A Year of the Quiet Sun Norman (Character) - 1985
20% 44% The Aviator Jerry Stiller (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 20% On the Line Mitch (Character) - 1984
81% 76% The Ninth Configuration Capt. Billy Cutshaw (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 31% Lolly Madonna XXX Thrush (Character) - 1973
60% 63% The New Centurions Gus (Character) - 1972
46% 70% The Grissom Gang Slim Grissom (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 42% The Gypsy Moths Malcolm Webson (Character) - 1969
40% 49% Castle Keep Cpl. Clearboy (Character) - 1969
76% 88% In Cold Blood Dick Hickock (Character) - 1967
96% 92% In the Heat of the Night Harvey Oberst (Character) - 1967

TV

Credit
84% 84% The OA Abel Johnson (Character) 2016
14% 82% Damien John Lyons (Guest Star) 2016
97% 94% Bosch Dr. Guyot (Guest Star) 2015
79% 78% The Walking Dead Hershel Greene (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star)
2011-2014
88% 88% Enlightened Marv (Guest Star) 2011
97% 94% Justified Unknown (Guest Star) 2011
No Score Yet 81% CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Sam Braun (Guest Star) 2001 2003-2007
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 2005
74% 85% The X-Files Rev. Orison (Guest Star) 2000