George Randolph Scott was an American film actor whose career spanned the years from 1928 to 1962.
64 Facts About Randolph Scott
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Randolph Scott worked with a diverse array of cinematic leading ladies, from Shirley Temple and Irene Dunne to Mae West and Marlene Dietrich.
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Randolph Scott appeared in Quigley's Top Ten Money Makers Poll from 1950 to 1953.
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Randolph Scott's father was George Grant Scott, born in Franklin, Virginia, the first person licensed as a certified public accountant in North Carolina.
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Randolph Scott's mother was Lucille Crane Scott, born in Luray, Virginia, a member of a wealthy North Carolina family.
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From an early age, Randolph Scott developed and displayed his athleticism, excelling in football, baseball, horse racing, and swimming.
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Randolph Scott was trained as an artillery observer and earned promotion to corporal in October 1917 and sergeant in February 1918.
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In May 1918, Randolph Scott entered active duty at Fort Monroe, Virginia as a member of the 2nd Trench Mortar Battalion.
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Randolph Scott received his commission as a second lieutenant of Field Artillery in May 1919 and departed for the United States soon afterwards.
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Randolph Scott made use of his wartime experience in his acting career, including his training in horsemanship and the use of firearms.
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Randolph Scott then transferred to the University of North Carolina, where he majored in textile engineering and manufacturing.
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Randolph Scott eventually dropped out and went to work as an accountant in the textile firm where his father, a CPA, was employed.
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Around 1927, Randolph Scott developed an interest in acting and decided to make his way to Los Angeles and seek a career in the motion picture industry.
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Fortunately, Randolph Scott's father had become acquainted with Howard Hughes and provided a letter of introduction for his son to present to the eccentric millionaire filmmaker.
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Reputedly, Randolph Scott served as Cooper's dialect coach in this latter film.
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In 1932 Randolph Scott appeared in a play at the Vine Street Theatre in Hollywood entitled Under a Virginia Moon.
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Randolph Scott eventually signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures at a salary of US$400 per week.
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In between his Pasadena Playhouse days and Vine Street Theatre performance Randolph Scott made his film debut.
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In 1931 Randolph Scott played his first leading role in Women Men Marry, a film, now apparently lost, made by a Poverty Row studio called Headline Pictures.
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Randolph Scott followed that movie with a supporting part in a Warner Bros.
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Randolph Scott's first role under his new Paramount contract was a small supporting part in a comedy called Sky Bride starring Richard Arlen and Jack Oakie.
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The film was popular and Randolph Scott would go on to make ten "B" Western films loosely based on the novels of Zane Grey.
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Back at Paramount, Randolph Scott acted in the Westerns Man of the Forest and To the Last Man, both with Hathaway from Zane Grey novels and featuring Noah Beery Sr.
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Randolph Scott was loaned to Monogram Pictures for Broken Dreams then was back with Hathaway for The Last Round-Up.
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Randolph Scott did three more Zane Grey Westerns without Hathaway: Wagon Wheels directed by Charles Barton, Home on the Range from Arthur Jacobson, and Rocky Mountain Mystery with Barton.
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RKO liked Scott and kept him on for Village Tale, directed by John Cromwell, and She, an adaptation of the novel by H Rider Haggard from the makers of King Kong.
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Randolph Scott went back to Paramount for So Red the Rose with Margaret Sullavan, then was reunited with Astaire and Rogers at RKO in Follow the Fleet.
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Randolph Scott was in a car drama at Paramount, And Sudden Death, directed by Barton, then was loaned to independent producer Edward Small, to play Hawkeye in another adventure classic, The Last of the Mohicans, adapted from the 1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper.
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Randolph Scott was a love interest for Mae West in Go West, Young Man and was reunited with Irene Dunne in a musical, High, Wide and Handsome.
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Randolph Scott went to 20th Century Fox to play the romantic male lead in a Shirley Temple film, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
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Randolph Scott was billed fourth as a sympathetic marshal after the James brothers; it was his first film in color.
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Randolph Scott was reunited with Temple in Susannah of the Mounties, Temple's last profitable film for Fox.
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Back at Fox, Randolph Scott returned to Zane Grey country by co-starring with Robert Young in the Technicolor production Western Union, directed by Fritz Lang.
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Randolph Scott played a "good bad man" in this film and gave one of his finest performances.
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Randolph Scott, who begins to look and act more and more like William S Hart, herein shapes one of the truest and most appreciable characters of his career as the party's scout.
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In 1941 Randolph Scott co-starred with a young Gene Tierney in another western, Belle Starr.
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Randolph Scott was billed above Wayne in both films but Wayne actually played the heroic leading man roles and enjoyed more screen time in each movie.
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Shortly after the United States entered World War II, Randolph Scott attempted to obtain an officer's commission in the Marines, but because of a back injury years earlier he was rejected.
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Randolph Scott made The Desperadoes, Columbia Pictures' first feature in Technicolor.
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Randolph Scott was one of many Universal stars who made a cameo in Follow the Boys.
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Randolph Scott was in a "northern" with Gypsy Rose Lee, Belle of the Yukon, and made a swashbuckler film for producer Benedict Bogeaus alongside Charles Laughton, the cheaply made production Captain Kidd.
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In 1946, after playing roles that had him wandering in and out of the saddle for many years, Randolph Scott appeared in Abilene Town, a UA release which cast him in what would become one of his classic images, the fearless lawman cleaning up a lawless town.
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Randolph Scott mostly made Westerns for producers Nat Holt or Harry Joe Brown at Warner Bros, although he did make Albuquerque at Paramount.
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Increasingly Randolph Scott becomes the man who has seen it all, who has suffered pain, loss, and hardship, and who has now achieved a stoic calm proof against vicissitude.
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Randolph Scott did two Westerns for Nat Holt at RKO, Badman's Territory and Trail Street.
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Randolph Scott followed it with another pair for Holt at that studio, Return of the Bad Men at RKO and Canadian Pacific, then they did Fighting Man of the Plains and The Cariboo Trail at Fox.
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Randolph Scott renewed his acquaintance with producer Harry Joe Brown at Columbia with Gunfighters.
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Randolph Scott stayed at the studio to do Sugarfoot, Fort Worth, Carson City, The Man Behind the Gun, Thunder Over the Plains, Riding Shotgun, Tall Man Riding Most of these were directed by Andre de Toth.
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In 1962 Randolph Scott made his final film appearance in Ride the High Country.
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An avid golfer with a putting green in his yard, Randolph Scott was a member of the Bel Air Country Club, Los Angeles Country Club and Eldorado Country Club in Indian Wells, California.
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Randolph Scott was described by his son Christopher as a deeply religious man.
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Randolph Scott was an Episcopalian and the Scott family were members of All Saints' Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills and St Peter's Episcopal Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Randolph Scott owned and co-designed Cresta Verde golf course in Corona, California.
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Marion had previously married George Somerville, with Randolph Scott serving as best man at the wedding.
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In 1944 Randolph Scott married the actress Patricia Stillman, who was 21 years his junior.
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Randolph Scott met Grant on the set of Hot Saturday, and shortly afterwards, they moved in together and shared a beach house in Malibu that became known as "Bachelor Hall".
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Randolph Scott died of heart and lung ailments in 1987 at the age of 89 in Beverly Hills, California.
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Randolph Scott was interred at Elmwood Cemetery in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Randolph Scott died in 2004 and is buried next to her husband.
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The Randolph Scott papers were left to the UCLA Library Special Collections.
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Randolph Scott is caricatured in the Lucky Luke comic book album Le Vingtieme de cavalerie as Colonel McStraggle.
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Randolph Scott is the subject of a Rodney Dangerfield joke told on the 1981 NBC special "The Stars Salute the President".
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Randolph Scott received an In Memoriam Golden Boot Award for his work in Westerns.
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Randolph Scott supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election and Ronald Reagan in the 1966 California gubernatorial election.