Scott Wilson

Born

March 29, 1942

Died

Oct 6, 2018

From

Thomasville, Georgia, USA

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Writer
Actor

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Decades active

In short · Produced for seven decades — 67 credits.

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Biography

Scott Wilson (March 29, 1942 – October 6, 2018) was an American film and television actor. Wilson had more than 50 film credits spanning from the 1960s to the 2010s, including *In the Heat of the Night*, *In Cold Blood*, *The Great Gatsby*, *Dead Man Walking*, *Pearl Harbor*, and *Junebug*. In 1980, he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his role in *The Ninth Configuration*. From 2011 to 2013, Wilson was a main cast member on the AMC television series *The Walking Dead*, in which he played veterinarian and Greene family patriarch Hershel Greene. Wilson was well-known especially for his recurring role on *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation* as casino mogul Sam Braun, the father of investigator Catherine Willows.

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