William scott biography

American actor (born )

Seann William Scott (born October 3, ) is an American actor. Films in which Scott has starred have earned $ billion at the global box office as of

In film, Scott is best known for his breakout role as Steve Stifler in the American Piefilm series (–). He also starred in a lead role as Doug Glatt in Goon () and its sequel, Goon: Last of the Enforcers (). His other notable lead film credits include Dude, Where's My Car? (), Road Trip (), Final Destination (), Evolution (), The Rundown (), The Dukes of Hazzard (), Mr. Woodcock (), Role Models (), and The Wrath of Becky (). Scott had a supporting voice role as Crash in the Ice Age film series (–).

In television, Scott was a main cast member on the Fox series Lethal Weapon (–) and Welcome to Flatch (–). He also reprised his film voice role as Crash in two Ice Age television specials: A Mammoth Christmas () and The Great Egg-Scapade ().

Early life

Scott was born and raised in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, the son of Patricia Anne Simons and William Frank Scott. Scott's father died in He is the youngest of his seven siblings. He graduated from Park High School, where he was part of the varsity football and basketball teams. He has attended University of Wisconsin and Glendale Community College. Scott dedicated himself to acting and relocated to Los Angeles.

Career

– Breakthrough with American Pie films

Early in his career, Scott worked at The Home Depot and the Los Angeles Zoo to support himself between acting jobs.

William Scott was born on February 15, at Greencock, Scotland. In William began his art studies at the Belfast School of Art. In he went to London to study at the Royal Academy, at first studying sculpture and then painting, first in London and Cornwall and the abroad. In , he traveled to France and Italy with summers in Brittany where he started a summer painting school. 

In July Scott went to live in a cottage in Hallatrow, Somerset, and, shortly after, started teaching at the Bath Art Academy. In September, he held his first one-man exhibit at the Leger Gallery in Bond Street. Then, for four years he worked as volunteer in the Royal Engineers and therefore could not paint with any consistancy till after his discharge. In he was appointed Painting Professor at the Bath Academy of Art, at Corsham Court. Scott was an excellent teacher, as many of his first students can confirm, and teaching was a great stimulus of his art. In he exhibited at the Hanover Gallery, an excellent connection that continues to this day. His paintings were being shown also outside England, in Sao Paolo, Brazil, in and in New York in at the Martha Jackson Gallery. 

It was his first trip to the United States which, without having been subject to any outside influences, brought about a profound evolution in his painting. There he met and befriended Jackson Pollock and the Willem De Kooning and during a second trip he met many others such as Marc Rothko and Franz Kline. In he held his first exhibition in America and taught in Corsham. 

In Scott won the first prize at the second John Moore's Exhibition in Liverpool. During the next ten-year period, he passed one year in Berlin, /64, teaching at the Hamburg Academy. 

In April and May of his works were exhibited in an anthological show at the Tate Gallery in London, and the next year he travelled in Australia, Mexico, Canada and Singapore. In Scott received an Honorary Doctor's degree at the Royal College of Art in Londo

British artist (–)

For other people named William Scott, see William Scott (disambiguation).

William ScottCBE RA (15 February – 28 December ) was a prominent abstract painter from Northern Ireland, known for his themes of still life, landscape and female nudes. He is the most internationally celebrated of 20th-century Ulster painters. His early life was the subject of the film Every Picture Tells a Story, made by his son James Scott.

William Scott was born in Greenock, Scotland, in In , his family moved to his father's home town of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland where Scott soon began art classes with a local teacher, Kathleen Bridle. In he enrolled at the Belfast School of Art, moving to London three years later to take up a place at the Royal Academy Schools, initially in the sculpture department, later moving to painting. He married fellow student Mary Lucas in May and soon after they travelled to Italy and France, establishing an art school in Pont-Aven with the painter Geoffrey Nelson.

In , Scott exhibited at the Paris Salon d'Automne, and was elected Sociétaire that same year. Days before the outbreak of the Second World War, the Scotts left France, moving firstly to Dublin and then to London before eventually settling in Somerset. Scott joined the army in July , serving firstly with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and then as a lithographic draughtsman with the Royal Engineers. Although not demobilized until January , he continued to paint and to exhibit during the war both in group and solo shows.

On leaving the army, Scott took up the position of Senior Painting Master at the Bath Academy of Art, at Corsham Court, Wiltshire. During the decade in which he taught at Corsham, Scott made frequent trips to Cornwall and became good friends with many of the St Ives Group of artists. He also continued to dedicate much of his time to his own painting, which, at that date, was concerned mainly with

William Scott was born in Greenock, Scotland in but moved to Co.  Fermanagh as a child. He studied at Belfast College of Art from , and from  to at the Royal Academy Schools in London.

He served in the British  Army from to and taught at Bather Academy of Art from to   He died in Somerset in  

Scott's early work concentrated on still-lifes of pots and saucepans, eggs, fishes  and bottles placed on a bare kitchen table: objects that provided contrasting  shapes that could be arranged against simple backgrounds. His work vascillated  between figuration and abstraction, and in the late s he reintroduced  everyday objects (frying pans, saucepans, fruit), juxtaposing them with purely  abstract forms; the picture space was kept deliberately flat and the forms  carefully spaced in floating rows.

In both paintings and prints he sometimes  produced variations of almost identical arrangements of forms in completely  different colours, continuing to use still-life subjects as the starting point for the study of the formal relationships betwen shapes. 

William Scott represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and showed his work with the Hanover Gallery, London; Martha Jackson in New York, Italy,  Switzerland, Germany and France; and the Dawson Gallery, Dublin; among  others.

Retrospectives of his work have been held at the Tate, London ();  the Ulster Museum, Belfast, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin and National Galleries  of Scotland (); IMMA, Dublin () and the Jerwood Gallery ().