Scott Hylands
Biography
Scott Hylands is a Canadian stage, film and television actor, best known for playing Detective Kevin 'O. B.' O'Brien on the television police drama series Night Heat from 1985 to 1989. He's a graduate with a BA in Theatre and English from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in 1964. After moving to the USA, he became one of the original company members of the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, California, appearing in over 20 productions. Over the next 15 years, he accumulated an impressive and long list of credits in Los Angeles based film and television as well as a strong profile in the theatre community, appearing often at the Mark Taper Forum, the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival, and Theatricum Bottanicum. He returned to Canada in 1981, kept working in theatres across Canada, and appeared in innumerable film and television projects.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Decoy
as Jenner
1995
Ordeal in the Arctic
as Fred Ritchie
1993
Death Hunt
as RCAF Pilot Capt. Hank Tucker
1981
Just the Way You Are
as Munroe
2015
The Boys in Company C
as Capt. Collins
1978
Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale
as Arnie Filmore
2008
The Visitor
1974
Ba'al
as Stanford
2008
Beyond the Black Rainbow
as Mercurio Arboria
2010
To Catch a Killer
as Mike Paxton
1992
Anna's Storm
as Clint Corbin
2007
Freefall: Flight 174
as Maurice Quintal
1995
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
as Kenneth Daly
1969
The Accidental Witness
as Detective Bill Malone
2006
Earth II
as Jim Capa
1971
Isaac Littlefeathers
as Jesse Armstrong
1984
Cleaverville
as Ned
2007
Time and Again
as Sheriff
2007
The Hamster Cage
as Stan
2005
Terror on the Beach
as Jerry
1973
