1898-01-23 ( 127 years old ) in Orange County, Virginia, USA
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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.
Movies
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018-07-27
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997-11-01
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
1994-08-09
La Classe américaine
1993-12-31
Legends of the West
1992-09-08
Ride the High Country
1962-06-20
Comanche Station
1960-03-01
Westbound
1959-04-25
Ride Lonesome
1959-02-01
Buchanan Rides Alone
1958-08-01
Decision at Sundown
1957-11-10
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
1957-05-04
The Tall T
1957-04-02
7th Cavalry
1956-12-01
Seven Men from Now
1956-07-24
A Lawless Street
1955-11-15
Tall Man Riding
1955-06-18
Rage at Dawn
1955-03-26
Ten Wanted Men
1955-02-01
The Bounty Hunter
1954-09-25
Riding Shotgun
1954-04-01
Thunder Over the Plains
1953-10-27
Three Lives
1953-09-17
The Stranger Wore a Gun
1953-07-30
The Man Behind The Gun
1953-01-31
Hangman's Knot
1952-11-15
Carson City
1952-06-13
Starlift
1951-12-14
Man in the Saddle
1951-12-02
Fort Worth
1951-07-14
Santa Fe
1951-04-01
Sugarfoot
1951-02-11
The Cariboo Trail
1950-08-01
Colt .45
1950-05-27
The Nevadan
1950-01-11
Fighting Man of the Plains
1949-11-16
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949-05-27
Canadian Pacific
1949-05-19
The Walking Hills
1949-03-05
Return of the Bad Men
1948-07-17
Coroner Creek
1948-07-01
Albuquerque
1948-02-20
Christmas Eve
1947-10-31
Gunfighters
1947-07-15
Trail Street
1947-02-19
Home Sweet Homicide
1946-10-02
Badman's Territory
1946-05-04
Abilene Town
1946-01-11
Captain Kidd
1945-11-22
China Sky
1945-05-16
Belle of the Yukon
1944-12-27
Gung Ho!
1943-12-20
Corvette K-225
1943-09-29
The Desperadoes
1943-05-25
Bombardier
1943-05-14
Pittsburgh
1942-12-11
To the Shores of Tripoli
1942-11-09
The Spoilers
1942-06-11
Paris Calling
1941-12-04
Belle Starr
1941-09-12
Three Of A Kind
1941-08-01
Western Union
1941-02-21
When the Daltons Rode
1940-08-23
My Favorite Wife
1940-05-17
Virginia City
1940-03-23
20,000 Men a Year
1939-10-26
Coast Guard
1939-08-04
Frontier Marshal
1939-07-28
Susannah of the Mounties
1939-06-13
Jesse James
1939-01-14
The Texans
1938-08-12
The Road to Reno
1938-08-01
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938-03-18
High, Wide and Handsome
1937-07-21
Go West Young Man
1936-11-18
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936-09-11
The Last of the Mohicans
1936-07-02
And Sudden Death
1936-06-16
Follow the Fleet
1936-02-20
So Red the Rose
1935-12-20
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935-11-20
She
1935-07-12
Village Tale
1935-06-15
Roberta
1935-03-07
The Fighting Westerner
1935-03-01
Home on the Range
1935-02-01
Wagon Wheels
1934-09-15
The Last Round-up
1934-05-01
Broken Dreams
1933-10-19
To the Last Man
1933-09-15
Man of the Forest
1933-08-24
Cocktail Hour
1933-06-05
Sunset Pass
1933-05-26
Supernatural
1933-04-21
Murders in the Zoo
1933-03-31
The Thundering Herd
1933-03-01
Hello, Everybody!
1933-02-17
Wild Horse Mesa
1932-11-25
Hot Saturday
1932-10-28
Heritage of the Desert
1932-09-30
A Successful Calamity
1932-09-17
Sky Bride
1932-04-19
Born Reckless
1930-05-11
Dynamite
1929-12-13
Half Marriage
1929-10-12
Sailor's Holiday
1929-09-14
The Black Watch
1929-05-22
The Far Call
1929-04-28
Why Be Good?
1929-02-28
Weary River
1929-02-10
The Wolf of Wall Street
1929-02-09
Sharp Shooters
1928-01-15
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