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Scott Hylands
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.
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Elsewhere
Just the Way You Are
A Ring by Spring
Tom, Dick and Harriet
The Horses of McBride
Becoming Redwood
Knockout
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale
Ba'al
Anna's Storm
Cleaverville
Time and Again
The Accidental Witness
Larry Kent: The Man Who Shot Horses with Green Tails
Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage
Last Chance Cafe
The Hamster Cage
Black River
36 Hours to Die
Moonlight Becomes You
Convictions
The Advocate's Devil
The Halfback of Notre Dame
Have You Seen My Son
Decoy
Freefall: Flight 174
Ordeal in the Arctic
Miracle on Interstate 880
To Catch a Killer