Scott Wilson (March 29, 1942 – October 6, 2018) was an American film and television actor. Wilson has more than 50 film credits from the 1960s to the 2010s, including In the Heat of the Night, In Cold Blood, 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.From 2011 to 2013, Wilson was a main cast member on the AMC television series, The Walking Dead,in which he played veterinarian and Greene family patriarch Hershel Greene. Wilson was well-known especially for his recurring role on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as casino mogul Sam Braun, the father of investigator Catherine Willows.

Filmography

• 2024The Walking Dead: The Return — Hershel Greene (archive footage)
• 2017Hostiles — Cyrus Lounde
• 2017The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking — Hershel Greene (voice)
• Damien — John Lyons
• The OA — Abel Johnson
• Bosch — Dr. Guyot
• Linkers: Codes Secrets
• 2013Dorfman in Love — Winston Cooke Sr.
• 2013Too Far Gone — Hershel Green
• 2011Five — Bill (Older)
• Justified — Frank Reasoner
• 2010Radio Free Albemuth — President Fremont
• The Walking Dead — Hershel Greene
• 2009For Sale by Owner — Doktor Banks
• 2009Saving Grace B. Jones — Reverend Potter
• 2007Big Stan — Warden Gasque
• 2007The Heartbreak Kid — Boo
• 2006Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon — Eugene
• 2006Come Early Morning — Lowell Fowler
• 2006Open Window — Eddie
• 2006Saving Shiloh — Judd Travers
• 2006The Host — Douglas
• 2006The Sensation of Sight — Tucker
• 2005Junebug — Eugene
• 2003Monster — Horton / Last "John"
• 2003The Last Samurai — Ambassador Swanbeck
• 2002Bark! — Harold
• 2002Coastlines — Pa Mann
• 2002Don't Let Go — Jimmy Ray Stevens
• 2002I Was a Teenage Faust — Minion
• 2001Pearl Harbor — George Marshall
• 2001The Animal — Mayor
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Sam Braun
• 2000South of Heaven, West of Hell
• 2000The Way of the Gun — Hale Chidduck
• 1999Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season — Judd Travers
• 1999The Debtors
• 1999The Jack Bull — Governor
• 1998Clay Pigeons — Sheriff Dan Mooney
• 1998Pride — Joseph Berry Keenan
• 1997G.I. Jane — C.O. Salem
• 1997Our God's Brother — Adam Chmielowski, Brother Albert
• E! True Hollywood Story
• 1996Shiloh — Judd Travers
• 1996The Grass Harp — Eugene Fenwick
• 1995Dead Man Walking — Chaplain Farley
• 1995Judge Dredd — Pa Angel
• 1995Mother — Dr. Chase
• 1995Soul Survivors — Bradley Facemeyer
• 1995Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure — Zeb
• 1993Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story — Vernon Presley
• 1993Flesh and Bone — Elliot
• 1993Geronimo: An American Legend — Redondo
• The X-Files — Rev. Orison
• 1991Femme Fatale — Dr. Beaumont
• 1991Pure Luck — Frank Grimes
• Law & Order — Ben Chaney
• 1990The Cross of Iberia — Johnson
• 1990The Exorcist III — Dr. Temple
• 1990Young Guns II — Governor Lewis Wallace
• 1989Johnny Handsome — Mikey Chalmette
• 1988Jesse — Sam Maloney
• 1988The Tracker — John 'Red Jack' Stillwell
• 1987Malone — Paul Barlow
• 1986Blue City — Perry Kerch
• 1985The Aviator — Jerry Stiller
• The Twilight Zone — (segment "Quarantine")
• 1984A Year of the Quiet Sun — Norman
• 1984On the Line — Mitch
• 1983The Right Stuff — Scott Crossfield
• 1980The Ninth Configuration — Capt. Billy Cutshaw
• 1979The Illegal — Police officer
• 1976The Passover Plot — Judah
• 1974The Great Gatsby — George Wilson
• 1973Lolly-Madonna XXX — Thrush Feather
• 1972The New Centurions — Gus
• 1971The Grissom Gang — Slim Grissom
• 1969Castle Keep — Cpl. Clearboy
• 1969The Gypsy Moths — Malcolm Webson
• 1967In Cold Blood — Richard 'Dick' Hickcock
• 1967In the Heat of the Night — Harvey Oberst

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 1969The Sky Divers — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee