Celebrity Biographies
George C Scott
George C. Scott, the actor who rejected the Academy Award for his portrayal of General Patton, passed away on September 22, 1999. He will be remembered by many as a man of character and a strong personality, traits he imprinted on most of the characters he brought to life in his long film career.
Scott’s life was pretty hectic. As a young man he enlisted in the Marines and studied journalism at the University of Missouri. After a failed attempt to become a writer, he decided to try his luck in show business, touring the country in different theater companies. In New York he triumphed with the representation of Richard III . In 1958 he made the leap to the movies in The Hanged Tree , where he played a religious fanatic. From then on he did not stop working: 70 movies and TV series are the proof. All this with a hectic personal life, five marriages, his fondness for drinking and a rowdy streak that led him to be involved in more than one fight.
Among his filmography, the cynical promoter of a young pool player ( Paul Newman ) in El Buscavidas stood out . The construction of this ambiguous and emotionless character, for whom anything goes as long as he wins, and who revels in the humiliation of the loser (in life or in a game of billiards), earned him an Oscar nomination. In 1964 he filmed under the orders of Stanley Kubrich Red Telephone We Flew To Moscow , a crazy comedy about the cold war, in which he gave life to a rabidly anti-communist general. But if George C. Scott is immediately remembered for one role, it’s the one he played in Patton .. The individualistic, rebellious and arrogant character of this great World War II soldier was perfectly captured. Other titles of interest to the actor are Anatomy of a Murder , The Yellow Rolls-Royce , Crazy Bank Robbery and The Exorcist III .