George Campbell Scott was an American actor, director, and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayals of the prosecutor Claude Dancer in Anatomy of a Murder and General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove. Scott was the first actor to refuse the Academy Award for Best Actor. He died of a heart attack at the age of 69.
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George Campbell Scott was an American actor, director, and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayals of the prosecutor Claude Dancer in Anatomy of a Murder and General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove. Scott was the first actor to refuse the Academy Award for Best Actor, having warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences months in advance that he would do so on philosophical grounds if he won. Scott’s first public appearance on stage was as the barrister in a university production of Terence Rattigan’s The Winslow Boy, directed by H. Donovan Rhynsburger. He won an Obie Award for his performances in Children of Darkness, for As You Like It, and for playing the title character in William Shakespeare’s Richard III . Scott’s Broadway debut was in Comes a Day which had a short run. He returned to Broadway to direct General Seeger by Ira Levin but it only lasted two performances. The play Great Day in the Morning, in which he was directed by José Quintero, also had only a brief run. In 1962, Scott appeared as school teacher Arthur Bell on NBC’s The Virginian, in the episode “The Ballad of Lilly Bell” He also performed in The Merchant of Venice off-Broadway. He appeared opposite Julie Graham and Julie Graham in The Power and the Glory, opposite Laurence Olivier and Julie Harris. He also appeared in The Eleventh Hour in a White-Painted House episode, “I Don’t Belong in A White House” He appeared in a feature film, The Hanging Tree, opposite Gary Cooper and Maria Schell.
Scott also appeared as General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and Ebenezer Scrooge in Clive Donner’s film A Christmas Carol. He died of a heart attack at the age of 69. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and a son, George Campbell Scott, Jr., and a step-son, David Campbell Scott. Scott is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., where he served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1945-49. He later said that during his duty at Arlington, he picked up a solid drinking habit that stayed with him from then on. Scott died on October 18, 2012, at age 89. He had a son and step-daughter, George Dewey Scott, III, and daughter-in-law, Helena Agnes Scott, both of whom he also played in the Broadway production of The Hustler. Scott wrote many short stories, none of which was published. As an adult, he tried on many occasions to write a novel, but never completed one to his own satisfaction. Scott first rose to prominence for his work with Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival. Scott made his feature film debut in The H hanging Tree, starring Gary Cooper, Maria Scheill, and Gary Cooper. Scott earned his first Academy Award nomination for his performance.
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