Randolph Scott

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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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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1898-01-21
  • event Death Date 1987-03-02
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 3.9
  • info Birth Place Orange County, Virginia, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Randolph Scott

6.6

Comanche Station

1960-03-01

6.5

The Last of the Mohicans

1936-07-02

5.2

Abilene Town

1946-01-11

6.1

Rage at Dawn

1955-03-26

7

Roberta

1935-03-07

0

Sharp Shooters

1928-01-15

6.9

7 Men from Now

1956-08-04

6.6

Ride Lonesome

1959-02-01

6.8

Follow the Fleet

1936-02-20

6.9

My Favorite Wife

1940-05-17

7

Ride the High Country

1962-06-20

7

The Tall T

1957-04-02

5.8

7th Cavalry

1956-12-01

5.5

A Lawless Street

1955-11-15

6.8

Albuquerque

1948-02-20

6

Coroner Creek

1948-07-01

5.5

She

1935-07-12

5.4

The Stranger Wore a Gun

1953-07-30

6.4

Buchanan Rides Alone

1958-08-01

6.5

Man in the Saddle

1951-12-02

6.2

The Spoilers

1942-06-11

6

Western Union

1941-02-21

6.4

Jesse James

1939-01-14

6

Captain Kidd

1945-11-22

5.4

Bombardier

1943-05-14

6.2

Pittsburgh

1942-12-11

4.7

Belle of the Yukon

1944-12-27

6.7

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1938-03-18

5.8

Ten Wanted Men

1955-02-01

6.3

Susannah of the Mounties

1939-06-13

5.3

Canadian Pacific

1949-05-19

5.8

Badman's Territory

1946-05-04

5.8

The Nevadan

1950-01-11

6.3

Decision at Sundown

1957-11-10

6.1

Virginia City

1940-03-23

5.8

Murders in the Zoo

1933-03-31

5.3

Gung Ho!

1943-12-20

5

The Fighting Westerner

1935-03-01

6.6

Hot Saturday

1932-10-28

6

High, Wide and Handsome

1937-07-21

5.3

Go West Young Man

1936-11-18

6.1

Carson City

1952-06-13

6.6

Fort Worth

1951-07-14

5.6

Belle Starr

1941-09-12

5.4

Thunder Over the Plains

1953-10-27

6.2

Hangman's Knot

1952-11-15

4.8

Cocktail Hour

1933-06-05

5.3

Gunfighters

1947-07-15

5.7

Colt .45

1950-05-27

5.5

Tall Man Riding

1955-06-18

5.1

To the Shores of Tripoli

1942-11-09

5.7

The Man Behind The Gun

1953-01-31

5.7

The Desperadoes

1943-05-25

5.4

Christmas Eve

1947-10-31

5.2

Paris Calling

1941-12-04

5.5

China Sky

1945-05-16

6.4

Trail Street

1947-02-19

6

Supernatural

1933-04-21

5.6

The Texans

1938-08-12

6.1

Westbound

1959-04-25

5.1

Wagon Wheels

1934-09-15

5

Coast Guard

1939-08-04

4.5

Village Tale

1935-06-15

4.7

Home Sweet Homicide

1946-10-02

6.8

The Doolins of Oklahoma

1949-05-27

6

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

2018-07-27

6

Frontier Marshal

1939-07-28

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Legends of the West

1992-09-08

4.8

Sugarfoot

1951-02-11

5.8

Riding Shotgun

1954-04-01

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The Far Call

1929-04-28

8.5

The Wolf of Wall Street

1929-02-09

6.5

Why Be Good?

1929-02-28

6

When the Daltons Rode

1940-08-23

5

Heritage of the Desert

1932-09-30

3.8

The Thundering Herd

1933-03-01

6.8

Santa Fe

1951-04-01

6.6

The Bounty Hunter

1954-09-25

5.9

To the Last Man

1933-09-15

5.5

Man of the Forest

1933-08-24

6.3

Return of the Bad Men

1948-07-17

6

Hello, Everybody!

1933-02-17

5.6

Starlift

1951-12-14

6.1

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

1957-05-04

5.7

Fighting Man of the Plains

1949-11-16

6.3

The Cariboo Trail

1950-08-01

6

Broken Dreams

1933-10-19

5.2

Half Marriage

1929-10-12

6.1

The Walking Hills

1949-03-05

0

The Last Round-up

1934-05-01

6

So Red the Rose

1935-12-20

6

Sunset Pass

1933-05-26

5.6

Weary River

1929-02-10

0

Three Of A Kind

1941-08-01

5.2

Sailor's Holiday

1929-09-14

0

And Sudden Death

1936-06-16

0

Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

1994-08-09

2

The Road to Reno

1938-08-01

5.5

20,000 Men a Year

1939-10-26

5.2

A Successful Calamity

1932-09-17

6.2

Corvette K-225

1943-09-29

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Wild Horse Mesa

1932-11-25

5.6

Born Reckless

1930-05-11

6

The Black Watch

1929-05-22

0

Sky Bride

1932-04-19

5.6

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

1935-11-20

0

Home on the Range

1935-02-01

6

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

1936-09-11

5

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

1997-11-01

7.7

La Classe américaine

1993-12-31

7.3

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004-07-25

0

Three Lives

1953-09-17

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