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George C. Scott
George Campbell Scott
(October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an
American
stage and film
actor
,
director
, and
producer
. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General
George S. Patton
in the film
Patton
, as General
Buck Turgidson
in
Stanley Kubrick
's
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
, and as
Ebenezer Scrooge
in
Clive Donner
's 1984 film
A Christmas Carol
. He was the first actor to refuse the Academy Award for Best Actor (for
Patton
in 1970), having warned the Academy beforehand that he would refuse it on philosophical grounds.
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