"It's been up and down. It's always been. You have dry spells. At different times, you are starting over. If you love it, you stay with it. That's what I'm doing. I've accomplished more than I would have hoped to have accomplished. I don't want to be a big movie star. I can be someone who walks the streets and not get mobbed. I want to be as fine an actor as I can be. I am still striving to be as good as I can be."
Scott Wilson (born William Delano Wilson; March 29, 1942 – October 6, 2018) was an American film and television actor from Thomasville, Georgia.
He's had more than 50 film credits from the 1960s to the 2010s, and his best known role was perhaps Hershel Greene in The Walking Dead.
Film roles (partial list):
- In the Heat of the Night (1967) as Harvey Oberst
- In Cold Blood (1967) as Richard Hickock
- The Gypsy Moths (1969) as Malcolm Webson
- The New Centurions (1972) as Gus Plebesly
- Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973) as Thrush
- The Great Gatsby (1974) as George Wilson
- The Ninth Configuration (1980) as Captain Billy Cutshaw
- The Right Stuff (1983) as Scott Crossfield
- A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984) as Norman
- Johnny Handsome (1989) as Mikey Chalmette
- The Exorcist III (1990) as Dr. Temple
- Young Guns II (1990) as Governor Lew Wallace
- Pure Luck (1991) as Frank Grimes
- Judge Dredd (1995) as Pa Angel
- Dead Man Walking (1995) as Chaplain Farley
- G.I. Jane (1997) as Captain Salem
- The Way of the Gun (2000) as Hale Chidduck
- The Animal (2001) as the Mayor
- Pearl Harbor (2001) as General George Marshall
- Monster (2003) as Horton / Last "John"
- The Last Samurai (2003) as Ambassador Swanbeck
- Junebug (2005) as Eugene Johnsten
- The Host (2006) as US Doctor in Morgue
- Big Stan (2007) as Warden Francis Gasque
- The Heartbreak Kid (2007) as Boo
- Hostiles (2017) as Cyrus Lounde
Television roles (partial list):
- The Twilight Zone (1986) as Matthew Foreman
- The X-Files (2000) as Rev. Orison
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2001–06) as Sam Braun
- Law & Order (2005) as Ben Chaney
- Justified (2011) as Frank Reasoner
- Enlightened (2011) as Marv
- The Walking Dead (2011–14, 2018) as Hershel Greene note
- Bosch (2014–15) as Paul Guyot
- Damien (2016) as John Lyons
- The OA (2016) as Abel Johnson
