Randolph Scott

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George Randolph Crane Scott (born January 23, 1898 in Orange County , Virginia , † March 2, 1987 in Beverly Hills , California ) was an American film actor . His career spanned from the end of silent film in the late 1920s to the early 1960s. Scott achieved his high popularity during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s with films such as Gold Smuggling to Virginia , The Buccaneer , Ticket to the Afterlife , To Head and Collar or Sacramento .

life and career

Scott made his first appearances on camera in the late 1920s. His prominent position as a western actor was satirized by Mel Brooks in his 1974 film The wild wild west - which, however, underlines his extraordinary importance for the genre of the idealistic-heroic American western.

In 1936 he married Marion DuPont of the billionaire DuPont family . This marriage was divorced three years later. In 1944 he married Patricia Stillman. The marriage lasted until his death. Both had two adopted children.

Randolph Scott died in Beverly Hills in 1987 at the age of 89 and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Charlotte, North Carolina.

He always maintained the image of the clean man. Even so, there was a rumor that he was in a homosexual relationship with his fellow actor Cary Grant , because the two shared a house for around ten years. This early shared apartment was justified by the pronounced frugality of both, who at that time were already big stars and thus big earners. This cohabitation ended in 1942 when Cary Grant married the Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton , then the richest woman in the world. Randolph Scott himself also became a wealthy man as he invested his film royalties with foresight and started his own production company. He is also said to have successfully speculated on the stock market and was considered the richest Hollywood actor at the time of his consistent withdrawal from the public.

Filmography

  • 1928: Sharp Shooters
  • 1929: Weary River
  • 1929: dynamite ( dynamite )
  • 1929: The man from Virginia ( The Virginian )
  • 1929: The Far Call
  • 1929: The Black Watch
  • 1930: dynamite
  • 1931: Women Men Marry
  • 1932: Hot Saturday
  • 1932: Island of Lost Souls
  • 1932: A Successful Calamity
  • 1932: Sky Bride
  • 1932: Heritage of the Desert
  • 1932: Wild Horse Mesa
  • 1933: Broken Dreams
  • 1933: To the Last Man
  • 1933: Hello, Everybody!
  • 1933: The Thundering Herd
  • 1933: Murders in the Zoo
  • 1933: Cocktail Hour
  • 1933: Girls in robbery Wild West ( Man of the Forest )
  • 1933: Supernatural
  • 1933: Flame Rider ( Sunset Pass )
  • 1933: Buffalo Stampede
  • 1934: The Burning Stream ( Wagon Wheels )
  • 1934: Legion of Death ( The Last Round-Up )
  • 1935: Home on the Range
  • 1935: Village Tale
  • 1935: The Fighting Westerner
  • 1935: So Red the Rose
  • 1935: She - ruler of a sunken world (She)
  • 1935: Roberta
  • 1936: And Sudden Death
  • 1936: Navy Against Lovesickness ( Follow the Fleet )
  • 1936: The Last of the Mohicans ( The Last of the Mohicans )
  • 1936: Go West ( Go West, Young Man )
  • 1937: High, Wide, and Handsome ( Black Gold )
  • 1938: Shirley on Wave 303 (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
  • 1938: The Road to Reno
  • 1938: The Texans (Escaped across the border )
  • 1939: Jesse James, Man Without a Law ( Jesse James )
  • 1939: Miss Winnetou ( Susannah of the Mounties )
  • 1939: Coast Guard
  • 1939: Frontier Marshal
  • 1939: 20,000 Men a Year
  • 1940: My Favorite Wife ( My Favorite Wife )
  • 1940: Gold smuggling to Virginia ( Virginia City )
  • 1940: Gang of Five ( When the Daltons Rode )
  • 1941: Raid of the Ogalalla ( Western Union )
  • 1941: Paris Calling
  • 1941: Belle Starr
  • 1942: To the Shores of Tripoli
  • 1942: Pittsburgh
  • 1942: The Buccaneer (also Stahlharte Fäuste - The Spoilers )
  • 1943: Regardless of losses ( Bombardier )
  • 1943: Corvette K 225 ( Corvette K-225 )
  • 1943: The Thunderbolt Company ( Gung Ho! )
  • 1943: Desperados - Riot of the Outlaws ( The Desperadoes )
  • 1944: Follow the Boys
  • 1944: Belle of the Yukon
  • 1945: In the Sky of China ( China Sky )
  • 1945: Under the black flag ( Captain Kidd )
  • 1946: Bandits without a mask ( Abilene Town )
  • 1946: Land of the Bandits ( Badman's Territory )
  • 1946: Home Sweet Homicide
  • 1947: Christmas Eve
  • 1947: The Kansas Death Riders ( Trail Street )
  • 1947: Avengers without weapons ( Gunfighters )
  • 1947: Avengers of Death Gorge ( Albuquerque )
  • 1948: The Terror of Texas ( Return of the Bad Men )
  • 1948: Settlement in Coroner Creek ( Coroner Creek )
  • 1949: The City of Rough Men ( Man of the Plains )
  • 1949: Canadian Pacific ( Canadian Pacific )
  • 1949: Quicksand ( The Walking Hills )
  • 1949: Bandits at the Crossroads ( The Doolins of Oklahoma )
  • 1950: The Death Canyon of Arizona ( The Cariboo Trail )
  • 1950: The Nevada Man ( The Nevadan )
  • 1950: The Secret of the Black Gang ( Colt 45 )
  • 1951: Invisible Adversaries ( Santa Fe )
  • 1951: A stranger came to Arizona ( Sugarfoot )
  • 1951: Starlift
  • 1951: The Last Fort ( Fort Worth )
  • 1951: Man in the Saddle ( Man in the Saddle )
  • 1952: Sabotage ( Carson City )
  • 1952: The Rebel of California ( The Man Behind the Gun )
  • 1952: Gold heist in Texas ( Hangman's Knot )
  • 1953: Thundering Hooves ( Thunder over the Plains )
  • 1953: The silent stranger ( The Stranger Wore a Gun )
  • 1954: Avengers in Black ( Ten Wanted Men )
  • 1954: This Man Knows Too Much ( Riding Shotgun )
  • 1954: Knight of the Prairie ( The Bounty Hunter )
  • 1955: The City of Dead Souls ( Rage at Dawn )
  • 1955: The Devil in the Saddle ( Tall Man Riding )
  • 1955: A Man Like The Devil ( A Lawless Street )
  • 1956: It's the turn of the seventh ( Seven Men from Now )
  • 1956: The seventh cavalry ( Seventh Cavalry )
  • 1957: Ticket to the Hereafter ( Decision at Sundown )
  • 1957: Shot Ready ( Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend )
  • 1957: All About Head and Collar ( The Tall T )
  • 1958: His Colt was faster ( Buchanan Rides Alone )
  • 1959: On Your Own ( Ride Lonesome )
  • 1959: knife on the throat ( westbound )
  • 1960: One does not give up ( Comanche Station )
  • 1962: Sacramento ( Ride the High Country )

literature

  • Gregor Hauser: Muzzle flashes: The best 50 B-Westerns of the 50s and their stars . Verlag Reinhard Marheinecke 2015, ISBN 978-3-932053-85-6 . Pp. 223-226.
  • Randolph Scott in: Robert Nott, Max Evans: The Films of Randolph Scott . McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub, 2007.

Web links

Commons : Randolph Scott  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Randolph Scott in: Henryk Hoffmann: Western Movie References in American Literature . 2012, p. 156.
  2. ^ Obituary for Randolph Scott in: The Ney York Times , March 3, 1987
personal data
SURNAME Scott, Randolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scott, George Randolph Crane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Orange County , Virginia , USA
DATE OF DEATH March 2nd 1987
Place of death Beverly Hills , California , USA