Scott Hylands
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Earthquake
1974
as Asst. Caretaker
Enigma
1977
as Andrew Icarus
Knockout
2011
as Grandfather Charlie Putman
Last Chance Cafe
2006
as Charlie Long
Elsewhere
2020
as Mr. Black
Death Hunt
1981
as RCAF Pilot Capt. Hank Tucker
36 Hours to Die
1999
as Stone Face
The Boys in Company C
1978
as Capt. Collins
Beyond the Black Rainbow
2010
as Mercurio Arboria
To Catch a Killer
1992
as Mike Paxton
Anna's Storm
2007
as Clint Corbin
Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale
2008
as Arnie Filmore
The Horses of McBride
2012
as Preston
The Glass House
1972
as Ajax
Earth II
1971
as Jim Capa
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1969
as Kenneth Daly
Ordeal in the Arctic
1993
as Fred Ritchie
Fools
1970
as David Appleton
Just the Way You Are
2015
as Munroe
The Advocate's Devil
1997
as Mr. Cabot