Randolph Scott
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1898-01-21
Deathday 1987-03-02 (89 years old)
Place of Birth Orange County, Virginia, USA
Also Known As George Randolph Scott, Randy Scott
Randolph Scott
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Randolph Scott (January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987) was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in a variety of genres, including social dramas, crime dramas, comedies, musicals (albeit in non-singing and non-dancing roles), adventure tales, war films, and even a few horror and fantasy films. However, his most enduring image is that of the tall-in-the-saddle Western hero. Out of his more than 100 film appearances more than 60 were in Westerns; thus, "of all the major stars whose name was associated with the Western, Scott most closely identified with it." Scott's more than thirty years as a motion picture actor resulted in his working with many acclaimed screen directors, including Henry King, Rouben Mamoulian, Michael Curtiz, John Cromwell, King Vidor, Alan Dwan, Fritz Lang, and Sam Peckinpah. He also worked on multiple occasions with some noted directors: Henry Hathaway (8 times), Ray Enright (7), Edwin R. Marin (7), Andre DeToth (6), and most notably, his seven film collaborations with Budd Boetticher. Scott also worked with a diverse array of cinematic leading ladies, from Shirley Temple and Irene Dunne to Mae West and Marlene Dietrich. He also appeared with Gene Tierney, Ann Sheridan, Maureen O'Hara, Nancy Carroll, Donna Reed, Gail Russell, Margaret Sullavan, Virginia Mayo, Bebe Daniels, Carole Lombard, and Joan Bennett. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.; 188 cm), lanky, and handsome, Scott displayed an easygoing charm and courtly Southern drawl in his early films that helped offset his limitations as an actor, where he was frequently found to be stiff or "lumbering". As he matured, however, Scott's acting improved while his features became burnished and leathery, turning him into the ideal "strong, silent" type of stoic hero. The BFI Companion to the Western noted: "In his earlier Westerns...the Scott persona is debonair, easy-going, graceful, though with the necessary hint of steel. As he matures into his fifties his roles change. Increasingly Scott becomes the man who has seen it all, who has suffered pain, loss, and hardship, and who has now achieved (but at what cost?) a stoic calm proof against vicissitude." During the early 1950s, Scott was a consistent box-office draw. In the annual Motion Picture Herald Top Ten Polls, he ranked tenth in 1950, eighth in 1951, and again tenth in 1952. Scott also appeared in the Quigley’s Top Ten Money Makers Poll from 1950 to 1953.
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as Self (archive footage)
as Joël (archive footage)
as Wyatt Earp in 'Frontier Marshall'
as Gil Westrum
as Jefferson Cody
as Capt. John Hayes
as Ben Brigade
as Tom Buchanan
as Bart Allison
as Buck Devlin
as Pat Brennan
as Capt. Tom Benson
as Ben Stride
as Marshal Calem Ware
as Larry Madden
as James Barlow
as John Stewart
as Jim Kipp / James Collins
as Larry Delong
as Capt. David Porter
as Self
as Jeff Travis
as Major Ransome Callicut
as Major Matt Stewart
as Silent Jeff Kincaid
as Randolph Scott
as Owen Merrit
as Ned Britt
as Britt Canfield
as Jackson 'Sugarfoot' Redan
as Jim Redfern
as Steve Farrell
as Andrew Barclay
as Jim Dancer
as Bill Doolin / Bill Daley
as Tom Andrews
as Jim Carey
as Vance
as Chris Danning
as Cole Armin
as Jonathan 'Johnny'
as Brazos Kane
as Bat Masterson
as Lt. Bill Smith
as Sheriff Mark Rowley
as Marshall Dan Mitchell
as Adam Mercy / Adam Blayne
as Dr. Gray Thompson
as Honest John Calhoun aka Gentleman Jack
as Colonel Thorwald
as Lt. Cm. McClain
as Sheriff Steve Upton
as Buck Oliver
as Cash Evans
as Dixie Smith
as McNamara
as Lt. Nicholas "Nick" Jordan
as Sam Starr
as Himself
as Vance Shaw
as Tod Jackson
as Steve Burkett
as Vance Irby
as Brad Reynolds
as Thomas 'Speed' Bradshaw
as Wyatt Earp
as Inspector Angus 'Monty' Montague
as Marshall Will Wright
as Kirk Jordan
as Steve Fortness
as Tony Kent
as Peter Cortlandt
as Bud Norton
as Hawkeye
as Police Lt. James Knox
as Bilge Smith
as Duncan Bedford
as Randolph Scott
as Leo Vincey
as T.N. 'Slaughter' Somerville
as John Kent
as Larry Sutton
as Tom Hatfield
as Clint Belmet
as Jim Cleve
as Dr. Robert Morley
as Lynn Hayden
as Brett Dale
as Randolph Morgan
as Ash Preston
as Grant Wilson
as Jack Woodford
as Tom Doan
as Hunt Blake
as Chane Weymer
as Bill Fadden
as Jack Hare
as Larry Rivers
as Captain Frank Robertson
as Dick Milburn (uncredited)
as Night Club Patron
as (uncredited)
as Black Watch Soldier (uncredited)
as Helms
as Man Dancing at The Boiler (uncredited)
as Audience Member (0:56) (uncredited)
as Broker's Assistant
as Foreign Serviceman in Moroccan Cafe (uncredited)
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