George C. Scott

George was nominated for two SAG Awards. In 1998, he was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries for Twelve Angry Men. In 2000 he was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries for Inherit The Wind.

Scott had an older sister named Helen.

Scott won two Golden Globes: one in 1971 for Best Movie Actor for Patton and one in 1998 for Best Actor in a TV Movie for 12 Angry Men.

Scott was nominated for a Tony Award five times but never won.

Scott's TV series East Side, West Side was critically acclaimed but lasted only one season on NBC.

In 1999, Scott's life was the subject of an episode of A&E's Biography.

Scott was originally buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetary in Los Angeles but in the summer of 2006 his body was re-buried in a family vault in Powell Valley Memorial Gardens near his hometown of Wise, Virginia.

George C.Scott has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Scott once played a man who thought he was Sherlock Holmes in the movie They Might be Giants. Joanne Woodward played Dr. Watson.

Scott was not a fan of rock and roll music. In an interview, Scott once said that rock and roll was the worst thing to ever happen to this country.

Favorite baseball team was the Detroit Tigers.

According to co-star Karl Malden, Scott held up filming on the set of Patton playing a game of ping pong with a world class table tennis player. Scott kept playing until he finally won a set from his opponent.

Scott was a skilled chess player. On the set of Dr. Strangelove director Stanley Kubrick earned Scott's respect by defeating him at chess.

Scott's favorite actor was James Cagney, and his favorite actress was Bette Davis.

Reprised his most famous role of Gen. George S. Patton in the 1986 made for TV movie The Last Days of Patton.

Scott had nothing but derision for famed Method acting guru Lee Strasberg and his Actor's Studio.

His son Campbell Scott co-starred with Julia Roberts in the film Dying Young.

He attained the rank of Buck Sergeant during his stint in the Marine Corps.

In later years Scott claimed that he first began drinking heavily during his stint in the Marine Corps.

George C. Scott directed an acclaimed version of The Andersonville Trial which aired on PBS in 1970.

Scott was married to his fourth wife Trish Van Devere from 1972 until his death in 1999.

Scott won an Emmy in 1971 for his work in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production The Prize. He won another in 1998 for his work in the re-make of 12 Angry Men.

George C. Scott accepted an Emmy award just one year after refusing an Oscar. He said that the Emmys were given out more on the basis of an actor's performance as opposed to the Oscar which in his opinion, were nothing more than popularity contests.

Scott's hometown of Wise, VA recently put up three signs commemorating the fact that he was born there.

When conjuring up images of General George S. Patton one usually includes the deep baritone voice of George C. Scott playing him in the movie, but the real Patton had a high-pitched, squeaky voice.

Despite his refusal of the Academy Award in 1970, the Motion Picture Academy nominted Scott again the following year for his performance in The Hospital.

While appearing in a stage production with Scott, an actress complained to the director that she was afraid of him. "My dear," replied the director. "Everyone is afraid of George. Even me."

Scott claimed that he was watching a hockey game on television instead of the ceremony where he had won an Academy Award.

George C. Scott had six children by four different wives.

First Academy Award nomination was for his role as a prosecuting attorney in the 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder in which Scott opposed Jimmy Stewart in the courtroom.

Scott is from the same hometown as former Green Bay Packers WR Carroll Dale.

George C. Scott was the narrator for the documentary film Legend in Granite which was about Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi.

He had a tempestuous affair with Ava Gardner on the set of The Bible in 1965.

He first got noticed as an actor for his performance in the title role of Shakespeare's Richard III in which he appeared as part of theatrical producer Joseph Papp's Shakespeare in the Park series.

Scott's most famous movie role, General George S. Patton, was originally offered to Robert Mitchum who declined and advised the producer to cast Scott in the role because "he cares."

Scott and fellow Academy Award declinee Marlon Brando did not get along when they worked together in the movie The Formula.

Scott and actress Colleen Dewhurst were married and divorced twice.

Scott's film debut was in The Hanging Tree in which he co-starred with Gary Cooper and Karl Malden. Scott would appear with Malden once again in Patton.

Scott attended college at the University of Missouri originally intending to study journalism.

Scott served in the Marine Corps from 1945-49. He was stationed at Quantico Marine Base near Washington DC.

Scott's mother passed away when he was nine years old and his older sister, Helen, served as a surrogate mother to him.

Scott's great uncle, C. Bascom Slemp, was a long-time Congressman from Virginia who later became Chief of Staff to President Calvin Coolidge.

Father George Dewey Scott was a mining engineer who moved the family from Wise, VA to Detroit after losing his job due to the Great Depression. The elder Scott later went to work for General Motors.

Tony Randall once called Scott the greatest American actor in history. Jack Lemmon concurred with Randall.