Editing George C. Scott (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:George C. Scott grave at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Brentwood, California.JPG|upright|thumb|Scott's grave]]
Scott was married five times:
# Carolyn Hughes (m. 1951–1955); one daughter, Victoria (b. December 19, 1952).
# Patricia Reed (m. 1955–1960); two children, Matthew (b. May 27, 1957) and actress [[Devon Scott]] (b. November 29, 1958).<ref name="nytimes/2020/06/02/patricia-reed-scott">{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=Patricia Reed Scott, Who Cast New York as Hollywood East, Dies at 86 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/nyregion/patricia-reed-scott-who-cast-new-york-as-hollywood-east-dies-at-86.html |access-date=27 February 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=2 June 2020}}</ref>
# [[Colleen Dewhurst]] (m. 1960–1965); two sons, writer Alexander Scott (b. August 1960), and actor [[Campbell Scott]] (b. July 19, 1961). Dewhurst nicknamed her husband "G.C."
# Colleen Dewhurst (remarried July 4, 1967 – divorced for a second time on February 2, 1972).
# [[Trish Van Devere]] (m. September 4, 1972), with whom he starred in several films, including the supernatural thriller ''[[The Changeling (film)|The Changeling]]'' (1980). Scott met Van Devere while shooting ''[[The Last Run]]'' (1971), which also featured his ex-wife Dewhurst. Scott adopted Van Devere's nephew, George Dressell, and resided in Malibu. They remained married until his death in 1999.

He had a daughter, Michelle (b. 1954),{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} with Karen Truesdell.

===Politics===
In 1982, Scott appeared in a [[1982 United States Senate elections|campaign]] commercial for moderate [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] U.S. Senator [[Lowell Weicker]] of [[Connecticut]].<ref name="ravo">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/02/nyregion/a-snoozing-bear-upsets-courtly-connecticut-politics.html| title=A Snoozing Bear Upsets Courtly Connecticut Politics| author=Nick Ravo|work=The New York Times| date=November 2, 1988|access-date=2011-12-23}}</ref> Like Weicker, Scott was, at that time, a resident of [[Greenwich, Connecticut]]. Scott identified politically as a [[Moderate conservatism|moderate conservative]] and supported the [[Capital punishment|death penalty]].<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/YDI-Zrasi2c Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20180417124727/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDI-Zrasi2c Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|title=George C. Scott: Patton, Drinking, telling the Academy Awards to lose his number!|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDI-Zrasi2c|website=Eileen Prose| date=May 2, 2017 |publisher=YouTube|access-date=January 29, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===Illness and death===
Scott suffered a series of heart attacks in the 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1991/01/04/burt-lancaster-making-gains-in-stroke-therapy/ |title=Burt Lancaster Making Gains In Stroke Therapy |date=January 4, 1991 |access-date=January 3, 2014 |archive-date=January 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104040630/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1991-01-04/news/9101040639_1_burt-lancaster-therapy-stroke |url-status=live }}</ref> He died on September 22, 1999, one month before his 72nd birthday,  of a ruptured [[abdominal aortic aneurysm]].<ref name="obit"/> He was interred in the [[Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery]] in [[Westwood, Los Angeles, California|Westwood, California]].<ref>{{cite news |last=King |first=Susan |title=Classic Hollywood: Cemeteries of the stars |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-oct-27-la-et-classic-hollywood-20101027-story.html |access-date=April 7, 2020 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=October 27, 2010}}</ref>