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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.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70% |
|
Hostiles | Cyrus Lounde (Character) | $29.8M | 2017 |
| 21% |
|
Dorfman in Love | Winston Cooke Sr. (Character) | $13.7K | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kiss the Abyss | Mark (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 33% |
|
Radio Free Albemuth | President Fremont (Character) | $5.6K | 2010 |
| 14% |
|
Saving Grace B. Jones | Reverend Potter (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 11% |
|
Big Stan | Warden Gasque (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 20% |
|
Open Window | Eddie (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 50% |
|
The Sensation of Sight | Tucker (Character) | $23.1K | 2006 |
| 76% |
|
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon | Eugene (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 93% |
|
The Host | US Doctor in Morgue (Character) | $2.2M | 2006 |
| 84% |
|
Come Early Morning | Lowell Fowler (Character) | $117.6K | 2006 |
| 41% |
|
Saving Shiloh | Judd Travers (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 86% |
|
Junebug | Eugene (Character) | $2.7M | 2005 |
| 82% |
|
Monster | Horton (Character) | $34.5M | 2003 |
| 66% |
|
The Last Samurai | Ambassador Swanbeck (Character) | $111.1M | 2003 |
| 48% |
|
Coastlines | Pa Mann (Character) | $6.5K | 2002 |
| 14% |
|
Bark! | Harold (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don't Let Go | Jimmy Ray Stevens (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 24% |
|
Pearl Harbor | Gen. George C. Marshall (Character) | $198.5M | 2001 |
| 46% |
|
The Way of the Gun | Hale Chidduck (Character) | $6.0M | 2000 |
| 70% |
|
Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season | Judd Travers (Character) | $40.4K | 1999 |
| 80% |
|
The Jack Bull | Governor (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 61% |
|
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% |
|
Shiloh | Judd Travers (Character) | $1.0M | 1997 |
| 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% |
|
Dead Man Walking | Chaplain Farlely (Character) | $37.1M | 1995 |
| 48% |
|
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% |
|
Geronimo: An American Legend | Redondo (Character) | $18.4M | 1993 |
| 70% |
|
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 |
|
Femme Fatale | Dr. Beaumont (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 15% |
|
Pure Luck | Frank Grimes (Character) | $21.3M | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fatal Woman | Dr. Beaumont (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 59% |
|
The Exorcist III | Dr. Temple (Character) | $25.0M | 1990 |
| 60% |
|
Johnny Handsome | Mikey Chalmette (Character) | $6.6M | 1989 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Tracker | John "Red Jack" Stillwell (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jesse | Sam Maloney (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 29% |
|
Malone | Paul Barlow (Character) | $2.5M | 1987 |
| 0% |
|
Blue City | Perry Kerch (Character) | $6.0M | 1986 |
| 73% |
|
A Year of the Quiet Sun | Norman (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 20% |
|
The Aviator | Jerry Stiller (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet |
|
On the Line | Mitch (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 81% |
|
The Ninth Configuration | Capt. Billy Cutshaw (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Lolly Madonna XXX | Thrush (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 60% |
|
The New Centurions | Gus (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 46% |
|
The Grissom Gang | Slim Grissom (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Gypsy Moths | Malcolm Webson (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 40% |
|
Castle Keep | Cpl. Clearboy (Character) | - | 1969 |
| 76% |
|
In Cold Blood | Dick Hickock (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 96% |
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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 |