Scott King(VI)

Scott King is an award winning American actor, screenwriter and producer who was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and raised on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee by two very theatrical parents. The youngest of two boys, his parents divorced at an early age then remarried in his late teens. His mother, June King was a professional model and his father, Bill King, almost 40 years old at Scott's birth, fought in Patton's 3rd Army in WWII retiring with the rank of Major. Scott had an older brother, Brent King who was a critically acclaimed jazz tenor saxophone musician. Scott is of English, German, Scottish, French, Norwegian, Irish, Italian (from his paternal grandmother) and Welsh ancestry.

Attending Lookout Mountain Christian School, this sensitive youngster known as the class clown often acted out characters, once impersonating his absent British Latin teacher over a multi-school radio network so convincingly that he called roll for ten minutes until the real teacher arrived. Scott spent his childhood filming movies with friends around Lookout Mountain National Park using his father's camera.

He attended the University of Tennessee where he majored in Art with a minor in Theater. Scott moved to Los Angeles at age 22 to attend The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute where he studied under Amnon Meskin and Dolores Dorn. He also attended Playhouse West where he studied with Jeff Goldblum and Mark Pellegrino . Scott also trained with UCLA Film Studies and the Martin Donovan Intensive Study. Scott's acting career was interrupted many times due to his fierce devotion and love for his family, often leaving Hollywood to be close to his parents during illness and death.

Chosen by Martha De Laurentiis as a Day Player on King Kong II (1986), Scott earned his SAG card guarding "Lady Kong" and chasing Linda Hamilton with an M-16. Scott played minor roles throughout the 1980s and 90s working with notable actors and directors such as Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith and John Guillermin and performed in regional theater throughout the 1990s and 2000s. He was nominated for the film Marked (2007) (2007) and won multiple best actor awards for his portrayal of a young stroke victim in Still Me (2008) (2008). Known for playing bad guys with subtle cruelty and multi-layered characters, Scott played lead villain SS Commandant Heinrich Moebius, in Puppet Master X: Axis Rising (2012) (2012) and Jake, in the multi award winning Indy film Intersection (2015) (2015). As a screenwriter, Scott was nominated as Quarter Finalist and Semi Finalist in the Motion Picture Academy's The Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.

Scott is married to Sandra King formerly with Warner Bros, The Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox, parent company for 20th Century Fox. They have two children, Wolfgang King, former lead singer and guitarist in the band Melted Vinyl and Natalia King with Fox Sports. In 2012, Scott created a production company, Lion Crest Pictures and Lionheart Entertainment to develop independent films.