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Randolph Scott

Randolph Scott

Birthday: 1898-01-23 | Place of Birth: Orange County, Virginia, USA

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1962
Ride the High Country

as    Gil Westrum

1960
Comanche Station

as    Jefferson Cody

1959
Ride Lonesome

as    Ben Brigade

1959
Westbound

as    Capt. John Hayes

1958
Buchanan Rides Alone

as    Tom Buchanan

1957
Decision at Sundown

as    Bart Allison

1957
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

as    Buck Devlin

1957
The Tall T

as    Pat Brennan

1956
7 Men from Now

as    Ben Stride

1955
Rage at Dawn

as    James Barlow

1955
Tall Man Riding

as    Larry Madden

1955
A Lawless Street

as    Marshal Calem Ware

1954
The Bounty Hunter

as    Jim Kipp / James Collins

1954
Riding Shotgun

as    Larry Delong

1953
Thunder Over the Plains

as    Capt. David Porter

1953
The Stranger Wore a Gun

as    Jeff Travis

1953
The Man Behind The Gun

as    Major Ransome Callicut

1952
Hangman's Knot

as    Major Matt Stewart

1952
Carson City

as    Silent Jeff Kincaid

1951
Santa Fe

as    Britt Canfield

1951
Sugarfoot

as    Jackson 'Sugarfoot' Redan

1951
Fort Worth

as    Ned Britt

1951
Man in the Saddle

as    Owen Merrit

1950
The Nevadan

as    Andrew Barclay

1950
The Cariboo Trail

as    Jim Redfern

1950
Colt .45

as    Steve Farrell

1949
The Doolins of Oklahoma

as    Bill Doolin / Bill Daley

1949
The Walking Hills

as    Jim Carey

1949
Fighting Man of the Plains

as    Jim Dancer

1949
Canadian Pacific

as    Tom Andrews