Scott Wilson
- Born: 30 Nov, 1941
Well-established second lead and character player of film and TV with a long face and rugged, slightly uneven features. Wilson was studying architecture in college on a basketball scholarship when an injury forced him to leave school. Later, accepting a friend's bet to take an acting class, Wilson found a new career and began working on the LA stage. Cast in a supporting role in his feature debut, the Oscar-winning "In the Heat of the Night" (1967), Wilson later found out that "Heat" director Norman Jewison had screened dailies for Richard Brooks, who was planning to adapt Truman Capote's powerful and disturbing "In Cold Blood". And so, that same year, Wilson played his first leading role, and one of his best remembered parts in features, as one of two wanderi...
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- wife Heavenly Wilson:
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