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Scott Smith King (born February 20, 1962) is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer known for playing complex characters and bad guys with subtle cruelty. In 2012 King was cast as lead villain SS Commandant Moebius by famous horror Director Charles Band. King won 2 Best Actor awards for his portrayal of a young stroke victim on the film Still Me, featured in the Oscar edition of American Cinematographer. Also known as Scott Anthony King he played minor roles throughout the 1980s and 90s and performed regional theater. As a producer King's film Marked received 4 Best Of nominations, and as a screenwriter he was a 2009 Semi Finalist in the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. After playing Moebius on Puppet Master X: Axis Rising, King was cast as the troubled but dark true life Danny Paquette, in the The Biography Channel pilot Deadly Alibi. King also attends horror conventions to connect with fans of the Puppet Master series.

Early life
King was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and raised on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee by two very theatrical parents. The youngest of two boys, his parents divorced at an early age, then remarried in his late teens. His mother was June King (née Smith), an interior designer and homemaker and his father, Bill King fought in George Patton's 3rd Army in World War II retiring with the rank of Major, working his way up to a bank President. King's older brother, Brent King who was a critically acclaimed jazz tenor saxophone musician died at the age of 54. King is of German, Swiss, Northern Italian, and English ancestry as well as Cherokee Nation lineage. One of his maternal great-grandfathers, was Matthias Klotz (1653–1743) a world renown member of the Klotz (violin makers) that flourished in Mittenwald, Germany as early as 1683. A life-size bronze statue of Klotz, stands in tribute to the violin making family in front of Mittenwald's landmark St. Peter and Paul's Church at the mouth of the narrow street leading to the Violin-Making Museum (Geigenbaumuseum).

Education
King attended the University of Tennessee with a major in Art and a minor in Theater and The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute where he studied under Amnon Meskin and Dolores Dorn. He also attended Playhouse West where he studied with Mark Pellegrino and Jeff Goldblum

Personal life
King lives in Los Angeles with wife Sandra King, of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Together they have a son Wolfgang King, a singer/musician who has performed with Slash, and Natalia King, a soccer player.