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.
Movie | Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2018-07-27 |
Movie | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | 2004-07-25 |
Movie | Womb Raider | Prince's Guard 1 | 2003-12-09 |
Movie | The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self (archive footage) | 1997-11-01 |
Movie | Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her | Self (archive footage) | 1994-08-09 |
Movie | La Classe américaine | Joël (archive footage) | 1993-12-31 |
Movie | Legends of the West | Wyatt Earp in 'Frontier Marshall' | 1992-09-08 |
Movie | Coming to America | Dancer (uncredited) | 1988-06-29 |
Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | 1965-12-31 | |
Movie | Ride the High Country | Gil Westrum | 1962-06-20 |
Movie | Comanche Station | Jefferson Cody | 1960-03-01 |
Movie | Ride Lonesome | Ben Brigade | 1959-02-01 |
Movie | Westbound | Capt. John Hayes | 1959-04-25 |
Movie | Buchanan Rides Alone | Tom Buchanan | 1958-08-01 |
Movie | The Tall T | Pat Brennan | 1957-04-02 |
Movie | Decision at Sundown | Bart Allison | 1957-11-10 |
Movie | Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend | Buck Devlin | 1957-05-04 |
Movie | 7 Men from Now | Ben Stride | 1956-08-04 |
Movie | 7th Cavalry | Capt. Tom Benson | 1956-12-01 |
Movie | Ten Wanted Men | John Stewart | 1955-02-01 |
Movie | Rage at Dawn | James Barlow | 1955-03-26 |
Movie | A Lawless Street | Marshal Calem Ware | 1955-11-15 |
Movie | Tall Man Riding | Larry Madden | 1955-06-18 |
Movie | Riding Shotgun | Larry Delong | 1954-04-01 |
Movie | The Bounty Hunter | Jim Kipp / James Collins | 1954-09-25 |
Movie | The Stranger Wore a Gun | Jeff Travis | 1953-07-30 |
Movie | The Man Behind The Gun | Major Ransome Callicut | 1953-01-31 |
Movie | Thunder Over the Plains | Capt. David Porter | 1953-10-27 |
Movie | Carson City | Silent Jeff Kincaid | 1952-06-13 |
Movie | Hangman's Knot | Major Matt Stewart | 1952-11-15 |
Movie | Santa Fe | Britt Canfield | 1951-04-01 |
Movie | Sugarfoot | Jackson 'Sugarfoot' Redan | 1951-02-11 |
Movie | Fort Worth | Ned Britt | 1951-07-14 |
Movie | Man in the Saddle | Owen Merrit | 1951-12-02 |
Movie | Starlift | Randolph Scott | 1951-12-14 |
Movie | The Nevadan | Andrew Barclay | 1950-01-11 |
Movie | The Cariboo Trail | Jim Redfern | 1950-08-01 |
Movie | Colt .45 | Steve Farrell | 1950-05-27 |
Movie | The Walking Hills | Jim Carey | 1949-03-05 |
Movie | Canadian Pacific | Tom Andrews | 1949-05-19 |
Movie | The Doolins of Oklahoma | Bill Doolin / Bill Daley | 1949-05-27 |
Movie | Fighting Man of the Plains | Jim Dancer | 1949-11-16 |
Movie | Albuquerque | Cole Armin | 1948-02-20 |
Movie | Return of the Bad Men | Vance | 1948-07-17 |
Movie | Coroner Creek | Chris Danning | 1948-07-01 |
Movie | Gunfighters | Brazos Kane | 1947-07-15 |
Movie | Trail Street | Bat Masterson | 1947-02-19 |
Movie | Christmas Eve | Jonathan 'Johnny' | 1947-10-31 |
Movie | Badman's Territory | Sheriff Mark Rowley | 1946-05-04 |
Movie | Abilene Town | Marshall Dan Mitchell | 1946-01-11 |
Movie | Home Sweet Homicide | Lt. Bill Smith | 1946-10-02 |
Movie | China Sky | Dr. Gray Thompson | 1945-05-16 |
Movie | Captain Kidd | Adam Mercy / Adam Blayne | 1945-11-22 |
Movie | Belle of the Yukon | Honest John Calhoun aka Gentleman Jack | 1944-12-27 |
Movie | Bombardier | Buck Oliver | 1943-05-14 |
Movie | The Desperadoes | Sheriff Steve Upton | 1943-05-25 |
Movie | Corvette K-225 | Lt. Cm. McClain | 1943-09-29 |
Movie | Gung Ho! | Colonel Thorwald | 1943-12-20 |
Movie | The Spoilers | McNamara | 1942-06-11 |
Movie | To the Shores of Tripoli | Dixie Smith | 1942-11-09 |
Movie | Pittsburgh | Cash Evans | 1942-12-11 |
Movie | Western Union | Vance Shaw | 1941-02-21 |
Movie | Three Of A Kind | Himself | 1941-08-01 |
Movie | Belle Starr | Sam Starr | 1941-09-12 |
Movie | Paris Calling | Lt. Nicholas "Nick" Jordan | 1941-12-04 |
Movie | Virginia City | Vance Irby | 1940-03-23 |
Movie | My Favorite Wife | Steve Burkett | 1940-05-17 |
Movie | When the Daltons Rode | Tod Jackson | 1940-08-23 |
Movie | Jesse James | Marshall Will Wright | 1939-01-14 |
Movie | Susannah of the Mounties | Inspector Angus 'Monty' Montague | 1939-06-13 |
Movie | Frontier Marshal | Wyatt Earp | 1939-07-28 |
Movie | 20,000 Men a Year | Brad Reynolds | 1939-10-26 |
Movie | Coast Guard | Thomas 'Speed' Bradshaw | 1939-08-04 |
Movie | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Tony Kent | 1938-03-18 |
Movie | The Road to Reno | Steve Fortness | 1938-08-01 |
Movie | The Texans | Kirk Jordan | 1938-08-12 |
Movie | High, Wide and Handsome | Peter Cortlandt | 1937-07-21 |
Movie | Follow the Fleet | Bilge Smith | 1936-02-20 |
Movie | And Sudden Death | Police Lt. James Knox | 1936-06-16 |
Movie | Go West Young Man | Bud Norton | 1936-11-18 |
Movie | The Last of the Mohicans | Hawkeye | 1936-07-02 |
Movie | Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) | Self | 1936-09-11 |
Movie | Roberta | John Kent | 1935-03-07 |
Movie | Home on the Range | Tom Hatfield | 1935-02-01 |
Movie | The Fighting Westerner | Larry Sutton | 1935-03-01 |
Movie | She | Leo Vincey | 1935-07-12 |
Movie | So Red the Rose | Duncan Bedford | 1935-12-20 |
Movie | Pirate Party on Catalina Isle | Randolph Scott | 1935-11-20 |
Movie | Village Tale | T.N. 'Slaughter' Somerville | 1935-06-15 |
Movie | The Last Round-up | Jim Cleve | 1934-05-01 |
Movie | Wagon Wheels | Clint Belmet | 1934-09-15 |
Movie | Supernatural | Grant Wilson | 1933-04-21 |
Movie | Murders in the Zoo | Jack Woodford | 1933-03-31 |
Movie | The Thundering Herd | Tom Doan | 1933-03-01 |
Movie | Sunset Pass | Ash Preston | 1933-05-26 |
Movie | Hello, Everybody! | Hunt Blake | 1933-02-17 |
Movie | Cocktail Hour | Randolph Morgan | 1933-06-05 |
Movie | Broken Dreams | Dr. Robert Morley | 1933-10-19 |
Movie | To the Last Man | Lynn Hayden | 1933-09-15 |
Movie | Man of the Forest | Brett Dale | 1933-08-24 |
Movie | A Successful Calamity | Larry Rivers | 1932-09-17 |
Movie | Heritage of the Desert | Jack Hare | 1932-09-30 |
Movie | Sky Bride | Captain Frank Robertson | 1932-04-19 |
Movie | Wild Horse Mesa | Chane Weymer | 1932-11-25 |
Movie | Hot Saturday | Bill Fadden | 1932-10-28 |
Movie | Born Reckless | Dick Milburn (uncredited) | 1930-05-11 |
Movie | Why Be Good? | Man Dancing at The Boiler (uncredited) | 1929-02-28 |
Movie | Weary River | Audience Member (0:56) (uncredited) | 1929-02-10 |
Movie | The Wolf of Wall Street | Broker's Assistant | 1929-02-09 |
Movie | The Black Watch | Black Watch Soldier (uncredited) | 1929-05-22 |
Movie | Half Marriage | Night Club Patron | 1929-10-12 |
Movie | Sailor's Holiday | (uncredited) | 1929-09-14 |
Movie | The Far Call | Helms | 1929-04-28 |
Movie | Sharp Shooters | Foreign Serviceman in Moroccan Cafe (uncredited) | 1928-01-15 |