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Nickname:	/ G.C. (ex-wife Colleen Dewhurst's nickname for him)
Known for:	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Patton, The Changeling
Birth name:	George Campbell Scott
Birthday:	18 October 1927, Wise, Virginia, USA
Height:	6' 1" (1.85 m)

He had six children. Daughters Michelle, Victoria and Devon and son Matthew born in the fifties; and sons Alexander and Campbell born in the sixties. The only products that George C. Scott ever endorsed in a TV commercial shown in the USA were the Renault Alliance Sedan and Encore Coupe (later the Alliance Coupe), built in the USA. by American Motors. Father of Campbell Scott. Was the first actor ever to refuse an Academy Award (1970, for _Patton (1970)_ ). He was followed by Marlon Brando, who also turned down the award for The Godfather. The reason he claimed for missed the cermony where he won the Oscar was that he was busy watching a hockey game. Was infamous for his intense, intimidating personality. When Julie Christie, appearing with Scott on Broadway in Served in the U. S. Marines (1945-49). Although Scott refused the Oscar he won for Patton, he accepted the Emmy he won for his performance in the television version of Arthur Miller's The Price, saying that he felt that the Emmy Awards were a more honest appreciation of an actor's work. Played two roles originated by actor Lee J. Cobb. Lt. Kinderman was played by Cobb in the original The Exorcist III. Scott later played Juror #3 in the remake of 12 Angry Men, a role played by Cobb in the original. He also received a Tony nomination for playing Cobb's signature role of Willy Lohman in Death of a Salesman on Broadway. There were only two feature films shot in the Dimension 150 process. He starred in both of them: The Bible: In the Beginning... (aka La Bibbia) and Patton. Stanley Kubrick earned his life-long respect by being his superior at chess while they filmed Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, as Scott was a notoriously skillful chess player. Best known for playing the legendary General 'George S. Patton, Jr' . According to his Patton co-star Karl Malden, Scott caused a shooting delay on the set of that movie...by holding an impromptu "ping-pong" tournament against a world-champion table-tennis player. Scott, who was in full costume as "General Patton," kept losing to the world champ...and was determined to keep playing him all night, if need be, until winning at least one set. Attended the University of Missouri Journalism School for 1 year (1950), where he began taking drama classes. Was nominated for a 1996 Tony Award as Best Actor for "Inherit the Wind," but he lost to George Grizzard in "A Delicate Balance." Scott's first Tony nomination was in 1959 as Best Featured Actor in a Play in "Comes a Day." His competition that year was Grizzard, who was nominated in the same category for "The Disenchanted." They were both beaten by Charles Ruggles in "The Pleasure Of His Company." Was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award five times: as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic),in 1959 for "Comes a Day;" as Best Actor (Dramatic), in 1960 for "The Andersonville Trial" and in 1974 for "Uncle Vanya;" and, as Best Actor (Play), in 1976 for a revival of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and in 1996 for a revival of "Inherit the Wind." Despite these five nominations, he never won a Tony Award. Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 550-551. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. He played Lt. William 'Bill' Kinderman in _The Excorcist III_ . Ex-wife Colleen Dewhurst was the voice of Satan in The Excorcist III. Son Campbell Scott played Ethan Thomas in The Exorcism of Emily Rose. His performance as General George S. Patton, Jr. in Patton is ranked #82 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006). In his autobiography, Marlon Brando, Scott's co-star in the film The Formula -- in a caption for a picture from the film -- recounts that George C. Scott asked him during the shooting of the film whether he, Brando, would ever give the same line-reading twice. Brando replied, "I know you know a cue when you hear one." Scott and Marlon Brando played chess together while shooting The Formula. In his Playboy interview of December 1980 (Vol. 27, Iss. 12, pg. 81- 138), Scott told Lawrence Grobel -- who had conducted the famous interview with Brando for Playboy a year earlier -- that Marlon was not that good a player. Many years later, Christiane Kubrick leveled the same charge against Scott, who was beaten regularly by her late husband Stanley Kubrick on the set of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb between setups. Kubrick, however, was renowned as a master-level chess player who used to hustle other players in his youth in New York City.

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