Known for:	Ride the High Country, My Favorite Wife, 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders
Birth name:	George Randolph Scott
Birthday:	23 January 1898, Orange County, Virginia, USA
Height:	6' 4" (1.93 m)

During the Thirties, was roommates with Cary Grant in a beach house known jocularly as Bachelor Hall. The close friendship between Scott and Grant, as well as the steady stream of women into and out of Bachelor Hall, have fed rumor mills for years. Rode a beautiful palomino horse named Stardust in his Westerns. Best friends were Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, and the Reverend Billy Graham. Formed Ranown Productions with producer Harry Joe Brown, and produced several films. Interred at Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, just four blocks from his boyhood home at 312 W. 10th Street. Was the inspiration for the popular 1973 song "Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?," a top-20 country hit for the The Statler Brothers. Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1975. Remained close friends with Cary Grant until the day he died. When he heard of his old friend's death, he reportedly put his head in his hands and wept. His image from his Westerns as an upright, outstanding sheriff or cowboy was so strong, it was paid homage to in Mel Brooks's classic comedy Blazing Saddles. When the African American sheriff chides the reluctant townspeople that they would have helped Randolph Scott, the great Western star's name is intoned by a chorus on the soundtrack and the townspeople are won over.

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