Scott Wilson

Gender: Male
Born: 29th March 1942 (currently 70 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Walking Dead
Movies: In Cold Blood, The Ninth Configuration, Monster, The Great Gatsby, The Year of the Quiet Sun, Junebug, In the Heat of the Night, Shiloh, Blue City, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Saving Shiloh, Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season, The Exorcist III, The Grissom Gang, Big Stan, Come Early Morning, The Way of the Gun, Clay Pigeons, Johnny Handsome, Flesh and Bone, Dead Man Walking, The Animal, G.I. Jane, The Right Stuff, Castle Keep, The New Centurions, South of Heaven, West of Hell, Saving Grace B. Jones, For Sale by Owner, On the Line, The Gypsy Moths, The Aviator, Open Window, Bark, Pride, The Tracker, Malone, The Sensation of Sight, The Host, A Year of the Quiet Sun, The Heartbreak Kid

Scott Wilson (born March 29, 1942) is an American film and television actor. Wilson has more than fifty film credits from the 1960s to the 2010s, including In the Heat of the Night, The Great Gatsby, Dead Man Walking, Pearl Harbor , and Junebug. In 1980, Wilson received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his role in The Ninth Configuration.

More recently, Wilson joined the second season cast of the AMC television series, The Walking Dead, in 2011. He plays veterinarian and Greene family patriarch, Hershel Greene.

Wilson is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He hitchhiked from Atlanta to Los Angeles with a friend in 1961 when he was 19 years old. His friend eventually returned to Georgia, while Wilson enrolled in an acting class and pursued the craft as his profession.

Wilson made his screen debut portraying characters suspected of murder in his first two films.

In his first film, Wilson played a murder suspect in the 1967's In the Heat of the Night, which starred Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.

His follow up was the 1967 film, In Cold Blood, based on the book of the same name by Truman Capote. Wilson portrays real life criminal, Richard Hickock,

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