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Scott Wilson (born March 29, 1942) is an American film and television actor. Wilson has more than fifty film credits from the 1960s to the 2010s, including In the Heat of the Night, The Great Gatsby, Dead Man Walking, Pearl Harbor , and Junebug. In 1980, Wilson received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his role in The Ninth Configuration. More recently, Wilson joined the second season cast of the AMC television series, The Walking Dead, in 2011. He plays veterinarian and Greene family patriarch, Hershel Greene. Wilson is a native of Atlanta,... MORE

Scott Wilson (born March 29, 1942) is an American film and television actor. Wilson has more than fifty film credits from the 1960s to the 2010s, including In the Heat of the Night, The Great Gatsby, Dead Man Walking, Pearl Harbor , and Junebug. In 1980, Wilson received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his role in The Ninth Configuration. More recently, Wilson joined the second season cast of the AMC television series, The Walking Dead, in 2011. He plays veterinarian and Greene family patriarch, Hershel Greene. Wilson is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He hitchhiked from Atlanta to Los Angeles with a friend in 1961 when he was 19 years old. His friend eventually returned to Georgia, while Wilson enrolled in an acting class and pursued the craft as his profession. In his first film, Wilson played a murder suspect in the 1967's In the Heat of the Night, which starred Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. His follow up was the 1967 film, In Cold Blood, based on the book of the same name by Truman Capote. Wilson portrays real life criminal, Richard Hickock, while Robert Blake plays murderer, Perry Smith. Film director Richard Brooks cast Wilson and Blake LESS