George C. Scott

He WAS George C. Scott!

He used to beat up Ava Gardner when they dated. Sinatra allegedly had him roughed up when he found out.

Both George C. Scott and Eric Porter played Fagin from Oliver Twist.

Can you picture him masturbating, OP? I mean, really jerking it while pulling down on his nutsack? What do you think he had in his Spank Bank?

He was a heavy drinker, too

Heavy drinker? He was a hardcore alcoholic.

By the time he appeared on stage for the last time, he had to wear makeup on his hands and forearms because his skin had turned yellow.

He was awesome in The Hospital.

Interesting and sad article on his life

Patton is one of my favorite movies but the actor was a mean drunk. I’m guessing that if you could’ve talked to the women he beat up they’d say “compassionate” is a bit of a ridiculous stretch.

"You (Nathan Lane) worked with that one famous drunk actor with an initial. What was he like?"

R11 Are you sure it was Scott?

He was perfect as Maj. Buck Turgidson. Have to wonder if his physical endowment inspired the name.

General.

^General, not Major...

Was he hot?

He fisted Paul Newman

I was laying in my bunk in Vietnam in 1965 when a buddy rushed in and said to get my ass to the Enlisted Men's club right away. As I walked in I spotted George C holding court with a bunch of G.I.'s sitting around him. He was buying all the drinks and was so easy going and personable with all of us. When I finally got a word in, I asked him about one of my favorite actresses at that time, Colleen Dewhurst. I wasn't sure of their marital status then, but he hesitated and gave me this "look" and I thought that I had really fucked up, but then he smiled bigly and let me know that she was one of his favorite actresses too. Only later did I read that they had divorced and that it was actually his second divorce from her as they had married a second time but it was not to be. One very handsome result of that marriage was actor Campbell Scott.

What did G.I. possess?

Does anyone know whaat campbell's relationship with George, his father, was?

Campbell is a beautiful product of the relationship between Colleen and George.

I met Campbell once, briefly. Gorgeous in real life...

R2, he beat up Ava while filming "The Bible," so director John Huston hired bodyguards to keep him away from her, but she coudn't stay away from him. When shooting was done, she ended their romance and fled to London, but Scott tracked her down and beat her up at the Savoy. Then she fled to Rome, and he again tracked her down and beat her up in her hotel. She then holed up at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and he beat her up there.

Desperate for help, she rang up Sinatra, whom she had previously dissuaded from harming Scott, but this time she gave her blessing to have him roughed up.

R19 Don't troll a Nam Vet.

He’s too gruff and shouty for my taste. Not to mention his penchant for intimate partner violence.

Remember The Savage is Loose, one of his directorial efforts. He plays the father, Trish plays the mother. They are shipwrecked on an island with their young son. The son grows into a horny young man who has eyes for his mother and cites Cain and Abel. At the climax, John David Carson nearly kills Scott and in order to save his life, mom gives son a very unmotherly kiss. The movie was really controversial at the time.

I wonder what ever happened with that lawsuit filed against George Dressel Scott and his mother, Trish Van Devere, alleging that Dressel Scott imprisoned and repeatedly physically and sexually assaulted a 14 year-old girl at the Scott Malibu home, and that Miss Van Devere was well aware of it but did nothing.

The Exorcist III is a great film

[quote]I asked him about one of my favorite actresses at that time, Colleen Dewhurst.

What had you seen her in, r18?

He had a great ass when he was young.

He was married to the lovely Trish Van Devere until his death, and she straightened him out. Both Gardner and Scott were big drinkers in their time. The clip is from an interview they did for The Savage is Loose (1974)

My folks loved him starting with the tv show East Side/West Side, so we grew up loving him too. They Might Be Giants with Joanne Woodward was great fun.

Peter Medak's The Changeling (1980) starring Sott and Van Devere is one of the best haunted house films ever

Scott received his first Oscar nomination for Otto Preminger's Anatomy of the Murder (1959) which is one of the finest courtroom dramas ever and probably Preminger's best film the entire cast is exemplary including Kathryn Grant aka Mrs. Bing Crosby.

I liked him in Jane Eyre.

I've seen his son Campbell Scott around Manhattan a few times in the 1990s. A truly lovely man. Photos just do not do him justice.

R32 Agreed. And what a cast it was:

Jimmy Stewart, Lee Remick, George C. Scott, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, Murray Hamilton, Arthur O'Connell, Kathryn Grant, Orson Bean, Joseph N. Welch, and Duke Ellington

How lovely, much younger Trish Van Devere could marry that old bent face alcoholic always made be BARF.

Big dick nose.

Even as a very young gayling, I knew he had big dick energy on the screen.

[quote] He fisted Paul Newman

Then he fisted Joanne Woodward.

Then he fisted all of their children!

He knows Lestah.

He was married to Colleen Dewhurst and used to beat her . Went on for years. He was a drunk. Brilliant actor though.

R41 summarized the thread quite handily.

R41, they were married and divorced twice. His affair with Ava was between those marriages.

I had no idea he was a drunk wife beater. How sad.

The C stood for cunt and believe me, Miss Scott could cunt it up with the very best of them!

He's excellent in the very ridiculous Hardcore. At times it's like General Patton in Pornoland. Season Hubley, however, is even better in the film.

George Shee Schcott! A conshumate theshpian!

Hardcore and his performance in it are great but it's a movie I find difficult to watch.

as the object of Petulia's affections Scott manages to be charming and attractive

“Turn it off! Turn it off!!!”

He's most remembered for turning down the Oscar.

Not long before his death he actually attended the Oscars. I can remember them cutting to him in the audience.

He later explained he turned down the Patton Oscar because of hard feelings over not being nominated for Dr. Strangelove.

R51 he declined an Oscar nomination for the Hustler (1961) 2 years before Dr. Strangelove was released

Scott is my favorite Scrooge.

I like the popular Alistair Sims performance, too, but I more admire Scott's quieter take on the character.

In fact, the 1982 "A Christmas Carol" is my favorite film version. The screenplay, sets, location, plus Susannah York.

Scrooches!

lol, r54.

He's sort of got BD face, but some of his features are too "delicate" - it's a weird combination.

I’ve never heard anyone refer to George C. Scott or his feature as delicate.

His ass was BIG in that episode of The Virginian.

He re-imagined Patton and created a legend. Patton himself had a high, whiny voice and sacrificed troops for personal reasons (trying to rescue a captured son-in-law), had a long, drawn out affair with his niece who wound up committing suicide. Patton the man was nothing like portrayed in the movie. George C made him an icon.

A little gift for you Campbell Scott fans…

Oh man, yes! R60... Campbell Scott!

He was very good in the film adaptation of Hemingway's Islands in the Stream, which featured the sexy Hart Bochner as his eldest son.