Scott Hylands
Born: 1943-01-01 in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Known For: Acting
Biography
Scott Hylands is a Canadian stage, film and television actor, best known for playing Detective Kevin 'O. B.' O'Brien on the television police drama series Night Heat from 1985 to 1989. He's a graduate with a BA in Theatre and English from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in 1964. After moving to the USA, he became one of the original company members of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, California, appearing in over 20 productions. Over the next 15 years, he accumulated an impressive and long list of credits in Los Angeles based film and television as well as a strong profile in the theatre community, appearing often at the Mark Taper Forum, the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival, and Theatricum Bottanicum. He returned to Canada in 1981, kept working in theatres across Canada, and appeared in innumerable film and television projects.
Filmography
2020
- Elsewhere as Mr. Black
2016
- Wynonna Earp as Wyatt Earp
2015
- The Returned as George Goddard
- Just the Way You Are as Munroe
2014
- Fargo as Ennis Stussy
- A Ring by Spring as Harry
2013
- Tom, Dick and Harriet as Randall Cafter
2012
- Becoming Redwood as Earl Potter
- The Horses of McBride as Preston
2011
- Once Upon a Time as Captain
- Knockout as Grandfather Charlie Putman
2010
- Beyond the Black Rainbow as Mercurio Arboria
2009
- V as Father Travis
2008
- Ba'al as Stanford
- Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale as Arnie Filmore
- The Guard
2007
- Cleaverville as Ned
- Anna's Storm as Clint Corbin
- Time and Again as Sheriff
2006
- Eureka as Andre Sandrov
- Last Chance Cafe as Charlie Long
- The Accidental Witness as Detective Bill Malone
- Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage as Frank / Carny (voice)
- Larry Kent: The Man Who Shot Horses with Green Tails
2005
- Supernatural as Juge Tye Mortimer
- The Hamster Cage as Stan
2002
- The Dead Zone as Senator
- The Twilight Zone as Admiral Munro
2001
- Mutant X as Clay Preston
- Black River as Richard Crunch
- MythQuest as King Arthur
1999
- 36 Hours to Die as Stone Face
1998
- Moonlight Becomes You as Dr. Weston Lane
1997
- Stargate SG-1 as Timothy Harlow
- The Advocate's Devil as Mr. Cabot
- Convictions as Matt Parker
1996
- FX: The Series as Sen. Ronald Roper
- Titanic as John Jacob Astor
- The Halfback of Notre Dame as Coach Les Modeau
- Have You Seen My Son as Solomon John
1995
- The Outer Limits as Dr. Howard Sarrazin
- Decoy as Jenner
- Freefall: Flight 174 as Maurice Quintal
1994
- Due South as Gen. Bowman
1993
- The X-Files as Gen. Benjamin Bloch
- Kung Fu: The Legend Continues as Gant
- Miracle on Interstate 880 as Frank Stewart
- Ordeal in the Arctic as Fred Ritchie
1992
- To Catch a Killer as Mike Paxton
- To Catch a Killer as Paxton
1991
1990
- Counterstrike as Colonel Northan
1985
- Night Heat as Kevin O'Brien
1984
- Airwolf as Mitchell Bruck
- Isaac Littlefeathers as Jesse Armstrong
- Blue Thunder as Peter Anson
- The Oasis as Jake
1982
- Shock-Trauma as Dr. "Tex" Goodnight
- Cassie & Co.
1981
- Death Hunt as RCAF Pilot Capt. Hank Tucker
1980
- Coming Out Alive as Jocko
- When the Whistle Blows
1979
- Hart to Hart
- Jennifer: A Woman’s Story as Lee Devlin
1978
- The Boys in Company C as Capt. Collins
- With This Ring as Tom Burkhardt
- The Winds of Kitty Hawk as Glenn Curtiss
1977
- For The Record
- Enigma as Andrew Icarus
1976
- Bittersweet Love as Michael
1975
- Baretta
- Wonder Woman as Paul Bjornsen
- The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant as Dr. Chris Durant
- Medical Story
- Song of the Succubus as Alan Greene
1974
- Police Woman
- Harry O
- Earthquake as Asst. Caretaker
- The Visitor
- The Lady's Not for Burning as Humphrey Devize
1973
- Slipstream as Terry
- Police Story
- The Magician as Hal Millotson
- Terror on the Beach as Jerry
- Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John as Captain Melech Ben Zvi
1972
- The Waltons
- The Streets of San Francisco
- The Sixth Sense as Jason
- The Glass House as Ajax
- Kung Fu as Saunders
- Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death as Jason
1970
- Fools as David Appleton
- Operation Snafu as Reginald Wollington
1969
- Medical Center
- Daddy's Gone A-Hunting as Kenneth Daly