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Scott Wilson
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Film & TV
Thomasville, Georgia, USA
Scott Wilson (March 29, 1942 – October 6, 2018) was an American film and television actor. Wilson has more than 50 film credits from the 1960s to the 2010s, including In the Heat of the Night, In Cold Blood, The Great Gatsby, Dead Man Walking, Pearl Harbor, and Junebug.In 1980, Wilson received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his role in The Ninth…
Known for
- The Walking Dead: The Return — Hershel Greene (archive footage)2024
- Hostiles — Cyrus Lounde2017
- The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking — Hershel Greene (voice)2017
- The OA — Abel Johnson2016
- Damien — John Lyons2016
- Bosch — Dr. Guyot2015
- Linkers: Codes Secrets2014
- Dorfman in Love — Winston Cooke Sr.2013
- Five — Bill (Older)2011
- Radio Free Albemuth — President Fremont2010
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Key facts
- Born
- William Delano Wilson , ( 1942 -03-29 ) March 29, 1942, Thomasville, Georgia , U.S.
- Died
- October 6, 2018 (2018-10-06) (aged 76), Los Angeles , California , U.S.
- Resting place
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park , Hollywood Hills, California , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Southern Polytechnic State University
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1967–2018
- Spouse
- Heavenly Wilson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1977 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Scott
- Family name
- Wilson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Atlanta
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- acting
- Image
- Scott Wilson by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg
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- name in native language
- Scott Wilson
- birth name
- William Delano Wilson
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
- date of birth
- 1942-03-29
- Commons category
- Scott Wilson (actor)
- date of death
- 2018-10-06
- cause of death
- leukemia
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- medical condition
- leukemia
- end of work period
- 2018-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
William Delano Wilson (March 29, 1942 – October 6, 2018), known professionally as Scott Wilson, was an American film and television actor.
His breakout role was as real-life murderer Richard Hickock in the critically-acclaimed film In Cold Blood (1967). He subsequently appeared in films like The Grissom Gang (1971), The New Centurions (1972), The Great Gatsby (1974), The Right Stuff (1983), A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), The Exorcist III (1990), Dead Man Walking (1995), Shiloh (1996) and its sequels, Pride (1998), The Way of the Gun (2000), Pearl Harbor (2001), The Last Samurai (2003), Junebug (2005), and The Host (2006). He received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his role in William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration (1980).
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