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Randolph Scott
George Randolph Scott was an American film actor, whose Hollywood career ran from 1928 to 1962. He was a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, appearing in more than 60 Westerns, and over 40 dramas, comedies, musicals, adventures, war, horror and fantasy films.
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Born 23 January 1898 · Died 2 March 1987 · Q295984
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2026· 2 entries
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1999· 1 entry
A Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him
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1987· 3 entries
Died 1987-03-02.
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At the age of 89 in Beverly Hills, California
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Randolph Scott died of heart and lung ailments in 1987 at the age of 89 in Beverly Hills, California.
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1975· 1 entry
Scott was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
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1974· 1 entry
"Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott" was a hit single for The Statler Brothers
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1962· 1 entry
Scott made his final film appearance in Ride the High Country
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1955· 1 entry
Screenwriter Burt Kennedy wrote the script Seven Men from Now, which was scheduled to be filmed by Batjac Productions with John Wayne as the film's star and Budd Boetticher as director
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1950· 1 entry
Adopted two children, Sandra and Christopher
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1946· 1 entry
After playing roles that had him wandering in and out of the saddle for many years, Scott appeared in Abilene Town, a UA release which cast him in what would become one of his classic images, the fearless lawman cleaning
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1944· 4 entries
Scott and Grant stopped living together, but they remained close friends for the rest of their lives
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Scott married the actress Patricia Stillman, who was 21 years his junior
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Attended the massive rally organized by David O
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In 1944 Scott and Grant stopped living together, but they remained close friends for the rest of their lives.
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1942· 1 entry
And 1943 Scott appeared in several war films, as well as The Desperadoes (1943), Columbia Pictures' first feature in Technicolor
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1936· 1 entry
Became the second husband of heiress Marion duPont, daughter of William du Pont Sr
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1931· 1 entry
Scott played his first leading role (with Sally Blane) in Women Men Marry (1931), a film, now apparently lost, made by a Poverty Row studio called Headline Pictures
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-01-23.
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