History Creator / GeorgeCScott

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[[caption-width-right:350:Scott as Claude Dancer, cross-examining a witness in ''Film/AnatomyOfAMurder'']]

However, Scott failed to make a mark as a film director: neither ''Rage'' (1971) nor ''The Savage is Loose'' (1974) was well received. Also overlooked today is his performance as social worker Neil Brock in the avant-garde 1963–64 TV drama ''East Side/West Side'', which was one of the first series to feature a regular black cast member.

* GutturalGrowler: Adds an element of badass to pretty much all of his characters. This was {{averted}} in ''Film/AnatomyOfAMurder'', where his character Assistant Attorney-General Claude Dancer has a mellow voice...and makes up for it by being twice as lethal as the average badass.

* RatedMForManly: He did not have an impressive physique but more than compensated for this through his [[GutturalGrowler guttural voice]], [[HairTriggerTemper volatile temper]], and the unflinching and incisive quality that he brought to his iconic performances. Suffice to say, he would be horribly miscast in a ChickFlick.

* DoingItForTheArt: That seems to have been his reason for acting in the controversial 1979 film ''Film/{{Hardcore}}''.

George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American actor and director from Virginia, best remembered for his portrayal of General UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton in ''Film/{{Patton}}'' (1970) and his eccentric aversion to the UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, for which he was nominated four times in his career. Twice, he rejected the nominations without being successful. The one time he won the Award, for ''Patton'', he famously refused to attend the ceremony. Scott opposed competitive awards on the grounds that every dramatic performance was unique and therefore incomparable to others.

However, Scott failed to make a mark as a film director: neither ''Rage'' (1971) nor ''The Savage is Loose'' (1974) was well received. Also overlooked today is his performance as social worker Neil Brock in the avant garde 1963–64 TV drama ''East Side/West Side'', which was one of the first series to feature a regular black cast member.

An alcoholic with a violent temper, Scott had a long-standing reputation as being one of Hollywood's "bad boys", although he mellowed considerably with age. Scott was married five times to four different women: Carolyn Hughes (1951-1955), Patricia Reed (1955-1960), Colleen Dewhurst (1960-1965, 1967-1972) and Trish Van Devere (1972-1999). Two of his children followed him into acting: daughter Devon Scott (born 1958) and son Creator/CampbellScott (born 1961).

* MoneyDearBoy: He once said that the only reason he kept acting in films after the early 1970s was so that he could pay alimony to his three ex-wives and support his six children from the previous relationships. His real passion was the theatre.

* ''Film/{{The Hustler}}'' (1961) as Bert Gordon [[note]]second Oscar nomination[[/note]]

* ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'' (1997) as Juror #3

* ''Theatre/InheritTheWind'' (1999) as Matthew Harrison Brady

* ''Film/{{Patton}}'' (1970) as Gen. George S. Patton,[[note]]third Oscar nomination and only Oscar win[[/note]] reprised in 1986's ''The Last Days of Patton''.