Scott Wilson dies, Hershel in 'The Walking Dead', at 76 | TV

On Saturday afternoon the producers of The Walking Dead announced in the Comic-Con of New York the return of one of its iconic characters, the farmer Hershel Greene, to dismiss the protagonist Andrew Lincoln in the ninth season. Only hours later Scott Wilson, an actor who played it, died at the age of 76 after a leukemia. The role he has made known to a new generation of this interpreter with 50 years of experience, and native of Atlanta where the series of zombies is rolled, will be his last work after a life dedicated to getting into the skin and giving soul to that classic American of the deep America, of always pitiful look.

Scott Wilson (Atlanta, 1942) was a very active secondary in both television and film during his long career, although his early years were not so ideal. He left his university studies in the early sixties to pursue his dream of being an actor and traveling by hitchhiking from Georgia to Los Angeles. In California came five years of bankruptcy followed by a debut in 1967 in two of the most important films of the year. It was the murder suspect Harvey Oberst in the Oscar winner In the heat of the night (Norman Jewison) and the killer and pedophile, who dazzled in real life Truman Capote, Dick Hickock, whom he physically resembled, in Cold-blooded (Richard Brooks) "All the actors wanted the roles, from Paul Newman to Steve McQueen, but Brooks hired strangers because he wanted to keep it that way, we were treated like real murderers who had to fight," Wilson recalled in a 1996 interview to Los Angeles Times. Those two roles would make him the perfect choice to play the afflicted murderer of the protagonist in The Great Gatsby (Jack Clayton, 1974).