George C. Scott - biography

“Actors are the world’s oldest, underprivileged minority - looked upon as nothing but buffoons, one step above thieves and charlatans.  These award ceremonies simply compound the image for me.”

“Bette Davis is my bloody idol.  I admire her more than any film star.”

“[Marlon Brando] is an authentic genius in his field.  No question in my mind about that.  The thing about his genius is the originality, the freshness he brought to acting.  Just overwhelming.  Nobody had ever seen anything like that before.  I wouldn’t want to do an entire film with the little darling - he’d drive me crazy.  He’s dreadfully slow, does it over and over and over.  Marlon would improve all the time.”

“Directors are supposed to help the audience.  Good directors don’t direct actors.”

“[Stanley Kubrick is] an incredibly, depressingly serious man, with a wild sense of humor.  But paranoid.  He’s a perfectionist.”

“It’s just a meat parade in front of an international television audience - degrading to have actors in competition with each another.”

“But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn’t get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.”

“There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition.  Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you’re enjoying it.”

George C. Scott has appeared in the following films:
The Hanging Tree (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
The Hustler (1961)
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
Not with My Wife, You Don’t! (1966)
The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
Petulia (1968)
Patton (1970)
They Might Be Giants (1971)
The Last Run (1971)
The Hospital (1971)
The New Centurions (1972)
Rage (1972)
Oklahoma Crude (1973)
The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
Bank Shot (1974)
The Savage Is Loose (1974)
The Hindenburg (1975)
Islands in the Stream (1977)
Crossed Swords (1977)
Movie Movie (1978)
Hardcore (1979)
The Changeling (1980)
The Formula (1980)
Taps (1981)
Firestarter (1984)
The Exorcist III (1990)
The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
Malice (1993)
Angus (1995)
Gloria (1999)


George C. Scott directed the following films:
Rage (1972)
The Savage Is Loose (1974)