Scott Hylands
Acting • Born 1943-01-01
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
101 credits
Decoy
Movie • 1995
Jenner
Ordeal in the Arctic
Movie • 1993
Fred Ritchie
Death Hunt
Movie • 1981
RCAF Pilot Capt. Hank Tucker
Just the Way You Are
Movie • 2015
Munroe
The Boys in Company C
Movie • 1978
Capt. Collins
Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale
Movie • 2008
Arnie Filmore
The Visitor
Movie • 1974
Ba'al
Movie • 2008
Stanford
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Movie • 2010
Mercurio Arboria
To Catch a Killer
Movie • 1992
Mike Paxton
Anna's Storm
Movie • 2007
Clint Corbin
Freefall: Flight 174
Movie • 1995
Maurice Quintal
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Movie • 1969
Kenneth Daly
The Accidental Witness
Movie • 2006
Detective Bill Malone
Earth II
Movie • 1971
Jim Capa
Isaac Littlefeathers
Movie • 1984
Jesse Armstrong
Cleaverville
Movie • 2007
Ned
Time and Again
Movie • 2007
Sheriff
The Hamster Cage
Movie • 2005
Stan
Terror on the Beach
Movie • 1973
Jerry
Bittersweet Love
Movie • 1976
Michael
Coming Out Alive
Movie • 1980
Jocko
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
Movie • 1975
Dr. Chris Durant
The Horses of McBride
Movie • 2012
Preston
Fools
Movie • 1970
David Appleton
The Oasis
Movie • 1984
Jake
Tom, Dick and Harriet
Movie • 2013
Randall Cafter
Operation Snafu
Movie • 1970
Reginald Wollington
Black River
Movie • 2001
Richard Crunch
The Halfback of Notre Dame
Movie • 1996
Coach Les Modeau
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
Movie • 1978
Glenn Curtiss
Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death
Movie • 1972
Jason
Shock-Trauma
Movie • 1982
Dr. "Tex" Goodnight
With This Ring
Movie • 1978
Tom Burkhardt
The Lady's Not for Burning
Movie • 1974
Humphrey Devize
Miracle on Interstate 880
Movie • 1993
Frank Stewart
Moonlight Becomes You
Movie • 1998
Dr. Weston Lane
Larry Kent: The Man Who Shot Horses with Green Tails
Movie • 2006
The Glass House
Movie • 1972
Ajax
Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John
Movie • 1973
Captain Melech Ben Zvi
36 Hours to Die
Movie • 1999
Stone Face
Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage
Movie • 2006
Frank / Carny (voice)
Last Chance Cafe
Movie • 2006
Charlie Long
Convictions
Movie • 1997
Matt Parker
Have You Seen My Son
Movie • 1996
Solomon John
Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
Movie • 1979
Lee Devlin
Elsewhere
Movie • 2020
Mr. Black
A Ring by Spring
Movie • 2014
Harry
Earthquake
Movie • 1974
Asst. Caretaker
Slipstream
Movie • 1973
Terry
Song of the Succubus
Movie • 1975
Alan Greene
Becoming Redwood
Movie • 2012
Earl Potter
The Advocate's Devil
Movie • 1997
Mr. Cabot
Knockout
Movie • 2011
Grandfather Charlie Putman
Enigma
Movie • 1977
Andrew Icarus
Mutant X
TV • 2001
Clay Preston
Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Saunders
The Dead Zone
TV • 2002
Senator
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Baretta
TV • 1975
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
Night Heat
TV • 1985
Kevin O'Brien
The X-Files
TV • 1993
Gen. Benjamin Bloch
Wonder Woman
TV • 1975
Paul Bjornsen
Cannon
TV • 1971
Stargate SG-1
TV • 1997
Timothy Harlow
Ironside
TV • 1967
The Waltons
TV • 1972
Harry O
TV • 1974
Police Woman
TV • 1974
Police Story
TV • 1973
Blue Thunder
TV • 1984
Peter Anson
FX: The Series
TV • 1996
Sen. Ronald Roper
Counterstrike
TV • 1990
Colonel Northan
The Sixth Sense
TV • 1972
Jason
Medical Story
TV • 1975
The Guard
TV • 2008
V
TV • 2009
Father Travis
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Dr. Howard Sarrazin
When the Whistle Blows
TV • 1980
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
TV • 1993
Gant
The Twilight Zone
TV • 2002
Admiral Munro
The Magician
TV • 1973
Hal Millotson
Palace Guard
TV • 1991
Eureka
TV • 2006
Andre Sandrov
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Governor Oleaga
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Col. Roger Tennent
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Wayne
MythQuest
TV • 2001
King Arthur
Supernatural
TV • 2005
Juge Tye Mortimer
Fargo
TV • 2014
Ennis Stussy
Titanic
TV • 1996
John Jacob Astor
For the Record
TV • 1976
Airwolf
TV • 1984
Mitchell Bruck
The Returned
TV • 2015
George Goddard
Due South
TV • 1994
Gen. Bowman
Once Upon a Time
TV • 2011
Captain
To Catch a Killer
TV • 1992
Paxton
Wynonna Earp
TV • 2016
Wyatt Earp
Cassie & Co.
TV • 1982
Mark Janis