Scott Wilson

Scott Wilson was exactly the kind of actor Hollywood used to make and doesn't anymore — a guy from Atlanta with a quiet intensity that could fill a screen without ever chewing it. His turn as Richard Hickock in In Cold Blood (1967) is genuinely chilling; he wasn't playing a monster, he was playing a man, and somehow that made it worse. He spent decades doing solid character work in films like The Right Stuff and In the Heat of the Night before a whole new generation discovered him as Hershel Greene on The Walking Dead, where he brought a weathered, dignified warmth that the show desperately needed. He died in 2018, right in the middle of filming that final season, and you could feel the absence. A career defined by craft over fame — the best kind.

Name (English)

Scott Wilson

Name (Japanese)

スコット・ウィルソン

Reading

すこっと・うぃるそん

Born

March 29, 1942 – October 6, 2018

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

Origin

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Occupation

film actor / television actor / actor

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3

Tags

• Georgia
• film actor
• television actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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