George C. Scott

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Wikidata Q182450: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (14 films) instead.

Draws on

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Drawn on by

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What the speakers said they did

Acting (24) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): George C. Scott → Doctor Strangelove. Scott looks wily in his Strangelove era.
    “very looking very wily in his sort of Doctor Strangelove era”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:47:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (refused award): George C. Scott → Patton. Scott refused the Hustler nomination and refused the Patton Oscar, which the Academy gave him anyway.
    “They gave it to him the one time for Patton where they're like, look, you're one of the greatest actors ever, and you just were in this movie that's winning best picture”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:05:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (people): Firestarter → George C. Scott. George C. Scott's Firestarter performance is the weirdest, maybe dead or drunk.
    “which has the weirdest George C. Scott performance ever.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:10:02 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Anatomy of a Murder → George C. Scott. Scott plays the out-of-town prosecutor and echoes the checklist's big-shot opponent.
    “He's the out of town prosecutor that you were mentioning earlier”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:46:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. people (performance comparison): George C. Scott → Robert Duvall. Scott is likened to Duvall in Network for walking a line of overacting with a foot in reality.
    “He's kind of the Deval of this movie where he's like, he's towing a really fine line of like overacting, but with like a foot in reality”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:33:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue → George C. Scott. The sentient cloud of drug smoke in the anti-drug cartoon special is voiced by George C. Scott.
    “He's played by George C. Scott.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:40:06 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about George C. Scott: Scott was federally barred from pool halls in the joke; the Academy gave him Patton anyway after he refused; he refused the Hustler nomination too.
    “He was like, I call bullshit on your whole thing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:05:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about George C. Scott: Scott did over-the-top warm-up takes Kubrick had assured him he would not use, then Kubrick used them. Scott did not like that.
    “Kubrick was supposedly assuring him, like, we won't use these.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:35:48 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about George C. Scott: Scott and Kubrick played chess constantly; Scott respected that Kubrick annihilated him.
    “they would play chess all the time because I guess George C. Scott fancying himself a chess man and he respected that Stanley Kubrick like annihilated him at chess.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:36:11 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about George C. Scott: Kubrick reversed his 100-takes system for Scott: he told him a take was only a rehearsal, then used it.
    “Kubrick actually reverses his own system on this movie and is like, to get one good take out of a notoriously self-serious actor. I need to tell him it's a rehearsal and it doesn't count.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:37:40 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about George C. Scott: Scott refused his Patton nomination; the producer accepted the Oscar and returned it the next day. The next year Scott was nominated again.
    “the following year after refusing the Academy Award, he was nominated again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:39:39 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about George C. Scott: Scott voiced Smoke, a sentient cloud of drugs, in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, at full intensity.
    “he also voiced smoke and cartoon all-stars to the rescue.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:41:36 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)