Scott Bryson

Scott Bryson was first exposed to show business as a child accompanying his father, photojournalist John Bryson, on movie & television sets such as Gunsmoke and The King and I. He later assisted his father on many shoots, among others - Dirty Harry, Planet of the Apes, Little Orphan Annie and King Kong. Scott helped produce his father's writer/director debut for the screenplay The Long Loud Silence--a promising anti-war film co-written with Richard Condon but dropped in pre-production during the big studio crash of the early 70s, after having scouted locations across the South, including a bridge to be demolished in the finale. Working around actors Robert Mitchum, Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Yul Brynner & directors John Huston, John Frankenheimer and Sam Peckinpah influenced Bryson to take a shot at acting. He studied with Meisner alumni Charles Conrad, Tracy Roberts and the Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute. His first acting job was in an industrial film produced by cos