Scott Wilson

Scott Wilson (March 29, 1942 – October 6, 2018) was an American film and television actor. Wilson had more than 50 film credits spanning 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, he 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.