Scott Hylands
Acting
- Born:
- 1943-01-01
- Died:
- 2026-07-29
- Place of birth:
- Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Biography
Scott Hylands was 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.
Known For
Filmography
Elsewhere
Wynonna Earp
Just the Way You Are
The Returned
Fargo
A Ring by Spring
Tom, Dick and Harriet
The Horses of McBride
Becoming Redwood
Once Upon a Time
Knockout
Beyond the Black Rainbow
V
Ba'al
The Guard
Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale
Anna's Storm
Time and Again
Cleaverville
Last Chance Cafe
Larry Kent: The Man Who Shot Horses with Green Tails
Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage
Eureka
The Accidental Witness
Supernatural
The Hamster Cage
The Twilight Zone
The Dead Zone
Mutant X
MythQuest
Black River
36 Hours to Die
Moonlight Becomes You
Convictions
The Advocate's Devil
Stargate SG-1
Titanic
FX: The Series
The Halfback of Notre Dame
Have You Seen My Son
Decoy
The Surrogate
Freefall: Flight 174
The Outer Limits
Due South
The X-Files
Miracle on Interstate 880
Ordeal in the Arctic
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
To Catch a Killer
To Catch a Killer
Palace Guard
Counterstrike
Night Heat
Isaac Littlefeathers
Airwolf
Blue Thunder
The Oasis
Shock-Trauma
Cassie & Co.
Death Hunt
Coming Out Alive
When the Whistle Blows
Hart to Hart
Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
The Winds of Kitty Hawk
With This Ring
The Boys in Company C
Enigma
Bittersweet Love
For the Record
Wonder Woman
Medical Story
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
Song of the Succubus
Baretta
The Lady's Not for Burning
Earthquake
Police Woman
Harry O
The Visitor
The Magician
Terror on the Beach
Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John
Police Story
Slipstream
Kung Fu
Dear Joan: We're Going to Scare You to Death
The Streets of San Francisco
The Waltons
The Glass House
The Sixth Sense
Earth II
Cannon
Fools
Operation Snafu
Medical Center
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Ironside