Entries written by: Boyd D. Cathey

Dr. Boyd D. Cathey is Registrar of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History. He has taught on the university level in Argentina and the United States. He received a doctorate in history from the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain and a Master's Degree in American History (Old South) from the University of Virginia. He has published widely on a variety of topics in such journals as The Southern Partisan, The Wanderer, The Southern Mercury, and The North Carolina Historical Review. He contributed to the volume Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism (Charlottesville, 2003) and edited the collection The Conservative Perspective: The View from North Carolina (Raleigh, 1987).

Randolph Scott (1898-1987) Encyclopedia

From the 1930s until the early 1960s, Randolph Scott was one of Hollywood’s most respected actors, and one of its leading Western stars.   A few years after the release of Scott’s final film in 1962, he seemed like a distant memory, and the America he had portrayed so well in film seemed relegated to the distant past.  But technological access to Scott’s films during the 1980s and 1990s, including via satellite, cablevision, and home videos, and a growing critical re-appreciation of his cinematic oeuvre, have helped reestablish his reputation as one of the film industry’s finest Western actors.  Despite his fame, Scott never forgot his North Carolina roots and often visited the Tar Heel State; his final trip back to Charlotte came in 1987, when he was buried in historic Elmwood Cemetery, with family friend Reverend Billy Graham conducting the service.

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