Scott Patterson: biography

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Scott Patterson is an American actor and former baseball player. He is remembered for his performance in the horror film Saw.

Former boxer's son

Scott Patterson was born on September 11, 1958. It happened in Philadelphia in the family of a housewife and a former boxer. Father, Frank, worked as an advertising agent.

When Scott was sixteen, his parents separated. The young man began to live in Haddonfield (New Jersey).

Educated at Rutgers University, which is considered one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. Scott never received his diploma. He moved to New York, where he studied at the Actors Studio. Mastery was taught to him by such luminaries of American cinema as Robert Lewis, Paul Newman, Arthur Penn and others.

Patterson's ambitions didn't stop at school. Given the physical data, he decided to try his hand at sports. What came of it?

Playing baseball

From 1980-1986, Scott Patterson played in minor league baseball. The young man was a pitcher, that is, a player who throws the ball towards the house. He was able to reach the highest level of the game. Abovewas only the major league that operates in North America.

The baseball player played in the major league reserve teams. During the player selection process, he was accepted into the Atlanta Braves professional team. His first professional season took place in 1980. The last season ended after only six years.

Acting career

Scott Patterson has been acting in films since 1992. His first job was the role of Al in the film Deadly Intention. Then there were many episodic and minor roles in films and television.

He got the lead role in 2007. It was a painting called Her Best Move. Directed by Norm Hunter.

At one time he worked on the set with such Hollywood stars as Patrick Swayze, Sharon Lawrence and others. In television projects, he often got romantic roles.

Filmography

Actor Scott Patterson has about thirty works on his account.

Most significant roles:

• Mike McGreevy in the 1992 film Little Big League, where the actor was able to use his sports background.
• Billy is a cameo in the 1995 sitcom Seinfeld.
• Tom Swain is a detective in the mini-series Revenge Without Limits, which appeared on screens in 1998.
• John Gregorio - participation in 1999 one of the episodes of the series "Will and Grace".
• Mark Bradley in the 2000 independent film Route 395.
• Luke Danes in Gilmore Girls - aired 2000-2007.
• King Faraday is the voice of the 2005 cartoon character Justice League.
• Finn Kurt is the father of one of the characters in 90210 and appeared in three episodes in 2010.
• Michael Buchanan is a fantasy series about the discovery of aliens in 2010.
• Brandon Dwyer - 2011 episode of Crime Scene Investigation: Miami.

Agent Peter Stram

The film "Saw 4", which was released in 2007, belongs to the horror genre. The plot begins in the morgue. A voice recorder is found in Kramer's body. The entry is addressed to Hoffman. John invites the detective to play.

Stram appears in Saw 4 at the crime scene where Detective Kerry's body was found. He immediately realizes that Amanda Young was incapable of dragging Kerry into a trap. So Jigsaw has a partner. It needs to be discovered. Stram doesn't trust Rigg.

Peter and Lindsay are in the same building where Jigsaw created another trap. As a result, Lindsay Perez is shot with projectiles from Billy's doll. She is dying. Stram interrogates Jill Tuck in a frenzy. After that, it illuminates him. He realizes that his colleagues are in the Gideon building, and this is John's first home, besides, that was the name of his unborn child. Stram enters the building, he kills Jeff, who is out of control. Peter sees the dead bodies of Denlon, Young and Jigsaw.

Jig's assistant turns out to be Hoffman. He locks Stram in a room full of corpses. But the agent hasn't seen Mark, so he doesn't know the whole truth yet.

In Saw 5, Stram heads down a secret corridor to unravel the knot. He is attacked by a masked man and injected with a tranquilizer. He is trapped: his head is in a cube, which began to fill with water. To survive, he performs a tracheostomy on himself with a pen he finds in his pocket. To Hoffman's surprise, the agent survives. He is being taken away in an ambulance.

Mark visits Peter in the hospital. He asks Hoffman inappropriate questions, he leaves and starts a new game. Stram suspects the detective and seeks information about him. As a result, he understands how everything really happened, that Jigsaw and Hoffman are partners. The detective does everything so that suspicion falls on Peter. He succeeds. And yet the agent follows Mark. He is trapped with Hoffman. A struggle ensues between them, the agent pushes the detective into the glass sarcophagus and closes it. At this point, the walls of the room begin to move and Stram realizes he has lost. He dies, but Mark Hoffman survives.

Scott Patterson's films cannot be called mega-successful. But his career does not stop. The most famous actor brought a role in the creation of Darren Boseman.