Randolph Scott

Randolph Scott

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Randolph Scott
Film: North side of the 6200 block of Hollywood Boulevard
Actor
Born George Randolph Scott on Jan. 23, 1898 in Orange County, VA
Died March 2, 1987 of heart ailment in Bel-Air, Calif.

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.

[Updated Feb. 4, 2014: An earlier version incorrectly reported Scott’s birth name. He was born George Randolph Scott.]

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