Timothy Scott (actor died 1995)

Tom Harmon (1937/38–June 14, 1995), credited as Timothy Scott or Tim Scott, was an American actor. He had a wife Donna Leigh Scott, one stepdaughter Marisa Scott-Windom, and two sons, Scott Harmon and Dean Swope. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, lived in New Mexico, and moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1959 for his acting career. He lived in Woodland Hills and was undergoing treatment for lung cancer. He died of a heart attack in Los Angeles at age 57. Scott was commemorated in Los Angeles and Texas. He was cremated, his ashes scattered at screenwriter Bill Wittliff's ranch, Plum Creek, located between two Texas cities, Luling and Gonzales.

Scott appeared in films and television that are mostly Western-genre. He portrayed Texas Ranger turned cowboy Pea Eye Parker in the miniseries Lonesome Dove and its sequel Return to Lonesome Dove. Scott was replaced by Sam Shepard as Pea Eye in another sequel Streets of Laredo. He also appeared in films, like The Ballad of Josie (1967), The Way West (1967), In the Heat of the Night (1967), The Party (1968), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Vanishing Point (1971), One More Train to Rob (1971), Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (1972), Love Me Deadly (1973), Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973), The Electric Horseman (1979), Eureka (1983), Footloose (1984), Inside Out (1986), Chattahoochee (1989) and Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), and television, like 1966 series Batman and miniseries Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life.

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