George C. Scott Filmography

Rocky Marciano

Actors: Jon Favreau, Penelope Ann Miller, Judd Hirsch, George C. Scott

Synopsis: Jon Favreau, George C. Scott, and Judd Hirsch star in this biography (produced for the Showtime premium cable network) about the life and career of Rocky Marciano, who rose from a childhood of poverty through the often corrupt ranks of professional boxing to become the only undefeated heavyweight Read More

Inherit the Wind

Actors: Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, Piper Laurie, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: The celebrated stage drama by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, based on the real-life Scopes trial in which a teacher was jailed in 1925 for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, is filmed for the third time in this adaptation produced for the Showtime premium cable network. Jack Lemmon plays Read More

Family Rescue

Actors: George C. Scott, Ally Sheedy, Rachael Leigh Cook, Don Diamont

Synopsis: The drama Family Rescue stars George C. Scott as the grandfather of a child caught in the middle of a custody battle. The baby's father raped her mother, and the act produced the pregnancy. When a court grants custody to the felonious father, the grandfather makes it his mission to change the Read More

12 Angry Men

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Courtney Vance, George C. Scott, Mykelti Williamson, Armin Mueller-Stahl

Synopsis: A jury argues a case in a stuffy room on a hot summer's day. Eleven say "guilty!" But one holdout (Jack Lemmon) is convinced of the defendant's innocence and stubbornly argues "reasonable doubt." This tense courtroom drama is a remake of Sidney Lumet's 1957 favorite and was produced for the Read More

Titanic

Actors: Tim Curry, Peter Gallagher, Marilu Henner, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eva Marie Saint, George C. Scott

Synopsis: In 1912, the H.M.S. Titanic was the largest ocean liner built to date, and its designers had incorporated several features they believed would make the ship virtually unsinkable. However, the Titanic never returned from its maiden voyage; after striking an iceberg, the ship slowly sank to the Read More

Tyson

Actors: Paul Winfield, Michael Jai White

Synopsis: This made-for-television movie tells the story of the tumultuous life of heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson. The movie follows the boxer (played by Michael Jai White) from his early New York youth as criminal offender all the way to his years as a national boxing celebrity. With the help of Read More

Angus

Actors: Charlie Talbert, George C. Scott, Kathy Bates, Ariana Richards, Chris Owen

Synopsis: High schooler Angus (Charlie Talbert), a jumbo-sized lad, seems underappreciated in all aspects of his life: he is a standout offensive lineman on the football team, but golden-boy quarterback Rick (James Van der Beek) gets all the accolades for his blood, sweat, and pass-blocking; he is also an Read More

Curaao

Deadly Currents

Actors: William L. Petersen, Trish VanDevere, George C. Scott

Synopsis: Carl Schultz' made-for-television thriller Deadly Currents stars George C. Scott as a man with a secret. The former captain of a ship that exploded, Cornelius Wettering (Scott) runs a bar in Curacao. He is friendly with the head of security for the American embassy, Guerin (William Petersen). The Read More

Malice

Actors: Joshua Malina, Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman, Bebe Neuwirth, George C. Scott

Synopsis: Alec Baldwin stars in this thriller as Dr. Jed Hill, a brilliant young trauma specialist who begins to believe he can do no wrong after he saves the life of a patient given up for dead by another doctor. Jed runs into an old classmate, Andy Safian (Bill Pullman), who is now a college dean. Andy Read More

CIA: Exiled

Synopsis: CSI star William Peterson headlines this adaptation of James David Buchanan's novel The Price of Malta concerning an ex-CIA agent who is exiled to the island of Curcao after pulling the trigger on a traitorous colleague. Upon arriving at the remote island paradise, former agent Stephen Guerin Read More

Finding the Way Home

Actors: Hector Elizondo, George C. Scott

Synopsis: Made for television, Finding the Way Home was based on Mittelman's Hardware, a novel by George Raphael Small. George C. Scott stars as irascible 60-year-old businessman Max Mittelman, whose life and career are in tatters. Involved in a traffic accident, Mittelman suffers a concussion, loses his Read More

Brute Force: Tanks

Synopsis: Narrated by George C. Scott, Brute Force: Tanks is part of the Definitive History of War Technology documentary series. The film, a comprehensive look at military ground weapons, focuses on the development and evolution of tanks. Viewers will see the slow-moving tanks used in World War I as well Read More

Brute Force: Infantry

Synopsis: Hosted by the 'General' himself, George C Scott, this documentary shows the dirty and violent world of the regular GI. Sub-titled The Definitive History of War Technology this tape comes to video via the A&E network and profiles the valiant and desperate life of a grunt soldier in the times of Read More

Brute Force: Helicopters

Synopsis: Military weapons of the air have experienced amazing evolutionary transformations since the bi-planes of World War II, as technology has advanced to enable us to create increasingly sophisticated and deadly agents of war. In this video, one of a three-part A&E series on air weaponry, host George C. Scott Read More

Brute Force: At Risk - Combat Camera

Brute Force: Fighters

Synopsis: Narrated by George C. Scott, Brute Force: Fighters is part of the Definitive History of War Technology documentary series. The film, a comprehensive look at military air weapons, focuses on the development and evolution of the fighter airplane. Viewers will see the wood and canvas biplanes used in Read More

Brute Force: Artillery

Synopsis: The development of artillery weapons has greatly changed over the centuries, from the first use of rock-hurling catapults of the Romans, to the invention of gunpowder in the 13th century, and eventually the creation of mortars, cannons, and rockets. Artillery usually describes howitzer cannons Read More

Brute Force: Bombers

Synopsis: Here's a chance to learn more about the bomber planes that have often played a crucial role in America's military victories. Watch as some of the earliest planes are shown that could only hold soldiers tossing out grenades. Listen as George C. Scott narrates this historical look at some of the Read More

The Rescuers Down Under

Actors: Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy, Tristan Rogers, Adam Ryen

Synopsis: Bernard (voice of Bob Newhart) and Miss Bianca (voice of Eva Gabor), the intrepid mouse squad from the International Rescue Society of The Rescuers, return to help a little boy from the Australian outback named Cody ({voice of Adam Ryen), who has been kidnapped by an evil poacher named McLeach Read More

The Exorcist III

Actors: George C. Scott, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif, Nicol Williamson

Synopsis: William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, directed this intriguing, deliberately-paced thriller based on his novel Legion. Ignoring the events of John Boorman's disappointing Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), the film moves ahead 15 years from the end of the original, when Georgetown is being Read More

Descending Angel

Synopsis: Originally made for cable television, this suspenseful thriller centers on a private investigation launched by a Romanian-American woman's fiancé after he begins suspecting that her father is a Nazi-war criminal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Where Have All the Dolphins Gone?

Synopsis: This information-packed documentary covers the atrocities that dolphins experience at the hands of man. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Ryan White Story

Actors: Lukas Haas, Judith Light, George C. Scott

Synopsis: Ryan White was the teenaged hemophiliac who contacted AIDS through a blood transfusion, then was barred from attending school in Kokomo, Indiana. All but ostracized by the community, Ryan's mother (Judith Light) engages the services of a high-powered attorney (George C. Scott) to win back her Read More

Pals

Actors: Don Ameche, Sylvia Sidney, George C. Scott, James Greene

Synopsis: The "pals" of the title, played by Don Ameche and George C. Scott, are Army chums living a sedentary retirement. Occasionally the twosome becomes a threesome when Scott's mother Sylvia Sidney shows up. All three are resigned to living out their lives on fixed incomes in a Georgia trailer park-and Read More

The Last Days of Patton

Actors: George C. Scott, Eva Marie Saint, Ed Lauter, Richard Dysart, Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: In this 1986 made-for-television sequel to the 1971 film that won George C. Scott his only Academy Award, the acclaimed actor once again portrays General George S. Patton. While the original film dealt exclusively with the legendary military man's life during World War II, this follow-up picks up Read More

Choices

Synopsis: When a man learns that both his wife and his young, unmarried daughter are both pregnant, he is forced to rethink his opposition to abortion in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Actors: George C. Scott

Synopsis: Edgar Allan Poe's classic 1841 detective story Murders in the Rue Morgue was adapted for television by David Epstein. Two women--a mother and a daughter--are brutally killed in their tiny Paris apartment. There are no eyewitnesses, and the earwitnesses are wildly contradictory. The evidence points Read More

Mussolini: The Untold Story

Actors: George C. Scott, Lee Grant, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Virginia Madsen, Raul Julia

Synopsis: The story in this two-part TV biopic was probably "untold" mainly because it was untrue. According to the revisionist script by Stirling Silliphant, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (overplayed by George C. Scott) may have been a fascist, a tyrant, a mass murderer and an intimate of Adolf Hitler Read More

Firestarter

Actors: David Keith, George C. Scott, Drew Barrymore, Martin Sheen, Heather Locklear, Art Carney

Synopsis: Firestarter is based on a bone-chilling novel by Steven King. Drew Barrymore plays Charlie McGee the young daughter of Andrew (David Keith) and Vicky (Heather Locklear) McGee, who years earlier had been guinea pigs for a top secret experiment. As a result, Charlie has acquired the unenviable Read More

A Christmas Carol

Actors: David Warner, George C. Scott

Synopsis: Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale of one man learning the true meaning of Christmas is brought to the screen once again in this made-for-TV movie. Ebenezer Scrooge (George C. Scott) is a cynical old man whose greatest concern is money, and who regards compassion as a luxury he can't afford. On Read More

The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt

Actors: Bob Boyd

Synopsis: In an era when opinion polls seem to determine the opinions of politicians, it is good to be reminded that President Teddy Roosevelt actually led the country on several major issues (right or wrong), without waiting for feedback from the polls to see if he should change his actions. Using Read More

China Rose

Synopsis: Filmed in Hong Kong, the made-for-TV China Rose stars George C. Scott as an American businessman. Scott arrives in Canton, China, trying to find out what has happened to his rebellious son, who was swept up in China's "cultural revolution". Ali MacGraw plays a freewheeling guide who falls in love Read More

Oliver Twist

Actors: George C. Scott

Synopsis: Clive Donner directs Oliver Twist, the 1982 made-for-TV version of the classic Dickens novel. Richard Charles plays Oliver Twist, an orphan boy who gets kicked out of his juvenile workhouse when he asks for some more food. He is sent to work as an apprentice, but he quickly escapes and joins a Read More

Taps

Actors: George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, Sean Penn, Tom Cruise

Synopsis: Devery Freeman's novel Father Sky was the inspiration for the far-fetched but convincingly acted and directed Taps. When an exclusive military school is threatened with demolition by a rapacious real-estate company, the students, headed by Timothy Hutton, take drastic action. Utilizing every bit Read More

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This TV-movie biography of legendary black ballplayer Leroy "Satchel" Paige unfortunately whitewashes and hokes up his fascinating story. Louis Gossett Jr. stars as Paige, who spends virtually his entire professional career in the Negro leagues because of the "gentlemen's agreement" barring Read More

The Formula

Actors: George C. Scott, Marthe Keller, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, John van Dreelen, Calvin Jung, G.D. Spradlin

Synopsis: With George C. Scott and Marlon Brando heading the cast, The Formula should have been far better than it is. Adapted by Steve Shagan from his own best-selling novel, the film is predicated on the concept that a formula for synthetic fuel had been developed by the Nazis during WW II. In the Read More

The Changeling

Actors: George C. Scott, Trish VanDevere, Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos, Jean Marsh

Synopsis: Peter Medak's The Changeling is among a handful of films, including The Haunting (1963), Ghost Story (1981), and Lady in White (1988), that have successfully recreated the intimate, drawing-room atmosphere of supernatural horror fiction. After his wife and daughter are killed in a snowbound car Read More

Arthur Miller on Home Ground

Actors: Arthur Miller, Inge Monath

Synopsis: This 1979 documentary chronicles the first 64 years in the life of Arthur Miller (b. 1915), an important 20th-century American playwright, novelist and all-around man of letters. Miller also wrote several screenplays, notably for The Misfits and The Crucible. The last was based on his Read More

Hardcore

Actors: George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Leonard Gaines, Dick Sargent

Synopsis: "Oh my God, that's my daughter." So read the advertising copy of Hardcore. George C. Scott plays Jake Van Dorn, a man of means and conservative values who discovers that his precious daughter is appearing in X-rated films. Desperately making his way through the sub-rosa world of pornography, Van Read More

Movie, Movie

Actors: George C. Scott, Barbara Harris, Eli Wallach, Trish VanDevere, Red Buttons

Synopsis: This spoof of a "typical" double-feature bill of the 1930s is introduced by George Burns, who explains that we're about to see two classic films produced by the legendary Warren Brothers. The first, "Dynamite Fists," is a black-and-white takeoff of such boxing dramas as Golden Boy. Harry Hamlin Read More

The Prince and the Pauper

Actors: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Mark Lester, Ernest Borgnine, George C. Scott

Synopsis: A poor commoner and a young prince each find out how the other half lives in this adventure story based on the classic tale by Mark Twain. Tom Canty (Mark Lester) is a young man from a laboring family who bears a striking resemblance to Prince Edward (also played by Lester), the son of King Henry Read More

Islands in the Stream

Actors: George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Susan Tyrrell, Richard Evans

Synopsis: After a parade of top-heavy blockbusters (Papillon, Nicholas and Alexandra), director Franklin J. Schaffner retreats, like the Hemingway character of the film, to peaceful tropical serenity in Islands in the Stream (based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel). George C. Scott plays Read More

Beauty and the Beast

Actors: George C. Scott, Trish VanDevere, Virginia McKenna, Bernard Lee, Patricia Quinn

Synopsis: This Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast stars George C. Scott and his wife Trish Van Devere in the title roles -- and it should not take a rocket scientist to determine who plays what role. It all begins when Edward Beaumont (Bernard Lee) makes the Read More

Fear on Trial

Actors: William Devane, George C. Scott, Dorothy Tristan, William Redfield

Synopsis: William Devane stars as John Henry Faulk, a popular radio and TV entertainer of the 1950s. In 1956, Faulk is blacklisted on the basis of an attack from the self-appointed anticommunist group AWARE. Fired by CBS, Faulk decides to sue AWARE for libel. His attorney Louis Nizer (George C. Scott) warns Read More

The Hindenburg

Actors: George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young

Synopsis: "The German Air Force is not at all what it used to be," says Anne Bancroft's Countess, about 16 minutes into The Hindenburg, pausing and then adding, "But then, nothing is these days." That seems to sum up the ponderous, irony-laden script and plot of Robert Wise's movie, which is posited -- in Read More

The Savage Is Loose

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: George C. Scott

Synopsis: George C. Scott produced, directed and distributed this offbeat drama. Near the turn of the century, John (Scott), his wife Maidi (Trish VanDevere) and their young son David (Lee Montgomery) are shipwrecked on a remote island. Resigned to the fact they may never be rescued, John teaches Read More

Bank Shot

Actors: George C. Scott

Synopsis: This crime-caper film from director Gower Champion stars George C. Scott as a visionary thief. He doesn't merely intend to rob a bank; his plan is to steal the whole bank. This is accomplished by lifting the structure with house-moving machinery in the dead of night, then painting it pink and Read More

The Day of the Dolphin

Actors: Pat Englund, George C. Scott, Trish VanDevere, Paul Sorvino, Fritz Weaver, Jon Korkes

Synopsis: Director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Buck Henry team up again (after collaborating on The Graduate and Catch-22) for this adaptation of Robert Merle's best-selling adventure novel concerning dolphins who become pawns in a plot to kill the president. George C. Scott plays Dr. Jake Terrell, a Read More

Oklahoma Crude

Actors: George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills, Jack Palance, William Lucking

Synopsis: Taciturn Faye Dunaway insists upon drilling for oil in her small, unpromising patch of Oklahoma land. Drifter George C. Scott signs on to work the derrick, but only after Dunaway, who for unspecified reasons hates all men, warns him to stay at arm's length. Jack Palance, the strong-arm Read More

The New Centurions

Actors: George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson, Rosalind Cash

Synopsis: Joseph Wambaugh's best-seller about patrol-car cops in urban Los Angeles is given a competent yet antiseptic treatment by director Richard Fleischer. The film has a bad-tasting us-versus-them mentality in its depiction of patrolmen-civilian interaction, and its hopeless atmosphere carries over Read More

Rage

Crew: Director

Actors: George C. Scott, Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen, Barnard Hughes, Nicolas Beauvy

Synopsis: The second of actor George C. Scott's rare directorial efforts (his first being the 1970 television film The Andersonville Trial), this drama, produced at the height of the Vietnam War, was critical of the military's weapons testing. Scott stars as Dan Logan, a single father living with his Read More

Man Named Lombardi

Synopsis: Explore the life of legendary football coach Vince Lombardi and learn how players including Paul Hornung, Sonny Jurgenson and Fuzzy Thurston viewed the man. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Hospital

Actors: Rehn Scofield, George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes, Nancy Marchand, Stephen Elliott

Synopsis: Directed by Arthur Hiller from the second of three Academy Award-winning screenplays by Paddy Chayefsky, The Hospital is a black comedy centering on Dr. Herbert Bock (George C. Scott), a bitter, suicidal surgeon. While patients at the hospital die left and right due to the extreme carelessness and Read More

The Last Run

Actors: George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish VanDevere, Colleen Dewhurst

Synopsis: George C. Scott stars in The Last Run as an aging mob driver hoping to make one last big haul and retire. Harry Garmes (Scott) is persuaded by his old cronies to drive escaped criminal Paul Ricard (Tony Musante) and his girlfriend, Claudio Schemer (Trish VanDevere), across Spain to safety. Garmes Read More

They Might Be Giants

Actors: Staats Cotsworth, George C. Scott, Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford, Lester Rawlins, Rue McClanahan

Synopsis: George C. Scott stars as Justin Playfair, a retired, widowed judge who labors under the delusion that he's Sherlock Holmes. Feigning concern, Playfair's greedy brother Blevins (Lester Rawlins) hires psychologist Dr. Mildred Watson (Joanne Woodward) to certify that Justin is insane--and in so doing Read More

Jane Eyre

Actors: George C. Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen, Jack Hawkins, Nyree Dawn Porter

Synopsis: Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian novel is once again put through the paces, this time by Delbert Mann, in this stodgy Masterpiece Theater style television adaptation. Susannah York is Jane Eyre, the orphan girl who secures a position as a governess to the ward of Edward Rochester (George C. Scott Read More

The Andersonville Trial

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Basehart, Jack Cassidy, Cameron Mitchell, William Shatner, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: George C. Scott directed this made-for-television adaptation of Saul Levitt's award-winning stage drama, based on the true story of Andersonville Prison, a notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp in operation during the Civil War. In 1865, Captain Harry Wirz (Richard Basehart) is brought to Read More

Patton

Actors: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Karl Michael Vogler, Edward Binns

Synopsis: In 1943 North Africa, George Patton (George C. Scott) assumes command of (and instills some much-needed discipline in) the American forces. Engaged in battle against Germany's Field Marshal Rommel (Karl Michael Vogler), Patton drives back "The Desert Fox" by using the German's own tactics. Read More

This Savage Land

Synopsis: This Savage Land is the story of the Prides, a pioneer family homesteading in 19th century Kansas. Barry Sullivan and Kathryn Hays play the mother and father of the Pride brood, with Andrew Prine and Brenda Scott as the oldest children (Prine and Scott had been married and divorced before the Read More

The Savage Land