North side of the 6200 block of Hollywood Boulevard
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Randolph Scott
Born Randolph Crane Scott on
Jan. 23, 1898
in Orange County, VA
Died
March 2, 1987
of heart ailment in Bel-Air, CA
Randolph Scott is best known as the tall, handsome cowboy of countless Hollywood westerns, an actor whose square-jawed countenance and poker-faced stare became prototypes for the generation of western heroes who followed him. One of the first actors to form his own production company — during the 1940s when most other stars were under contract to major studios — Scott was thus also one of the first to have a measure of control over what movies he made, and over their box-office profits. A multimillionaire with extensive investments in real estate, he was considered one of Hollywood's wealthiest actors. Although Scott never won an Oscar, his lanky cowboy heroes — soft-spoken but resolute, quiet but fearless, virile but at heart loners — became so famous that the image of manhood Scott created became, to post-World War II moviegoers, synonymous with the American ideal.
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