Scott Scurlock (March 5, 1955 – November 28, 1996) born William Scott Scurlock in Fairfax County, Virginia was the son of a minister. He was nicknamed the Hollywood Bandit (or simply Hollywood). He got this nickname from his involvement in bank robberies in the Seattle area during the 1990s during which he used acting makeup and disguises. Using Hollywood quality make-up he successfully robbed 17 banks. His last attempt ended in a police shootout with Scurlock escaping the scene. His two accomplices were captured and one gave Scurlock up. He eventually shot himself in the head as FBI agents waited outside a trailer he was held up in and called out to him to surrender.
1970s and 1980s
In 1974, Scurlock moved to Hawaii from Virginia and reunited with his friend Kevin Meyers, who went to the University of Hawaii on a full pole-vault scholarship. After Meyers's pole vault scholarship ended, Meyers and Scurlock moved to the North Shore of Oahu, and lived on a five-acre tomato farm. They worked in Honolulu for a company called Hawaii Plant Life and Privacy Fences four days a week and the rest they spent out on the North Shore. In 1976, while hiking, Scurlock and Meyers came across a small marijuana farm. Scurlock and Meyers went back and took a number of marijuana plants which Scott subsequently sold. Scurlock hadn't planned on being involved in the drug trade after that but, liking the easy money he made, planted his own marijuana plants hidden on the tomato farm. When their landlord at the tomato farm found out, Scott was kicked off the property and Meyers moved to Banff National Park, Canada soon thereafter. Scurlock left Hawaii and moved to Olympia, Washington.
In 1978, Scott enrolled at Evergreen State College dreaming of becoming a doctor. He excelled in college, including chemistry classes. As a result, Scurlock began sneaking into the school chemistry lab at night through the ceilings to make methamphetamines, which he subsequently sold. With the money he made by dealing meth, he was able to buy twenty acres of secluded land near Olympia that had a small house on it. He used the house for meth production and built a three-story treehouse on the property. Scott bragged that he and others built the tree house in only two weeks, working day and night "due to being high on meth." The treehouse included an extra-large fireplace, outdoor bathtub, and an emergency escape using rope lines to zip through the woods.
Scurlock, who bore a striking resemblance to Mel Gibson, was popular with friends that he referred to as "his tribe," who would do almost anything for him. Scurlock hired Steve Meyers — Kevin's brother, a successful sculptor who was struggling after a bitter divorce — to come to Washington and do work on his treehouse. Steve Meyers transformed it and said that when he arrived, "there was nothing in the house that was conscientiously designed, that's very much what Scott was like ..." Scurlock had an open and free demeanor and is videotaped extensively in the buff. He traveled extensively, had no shortage of girlfriends, and enjoyed the finest restaurants and champagne; he was known by local waitresses to always leave a $100 tip.
Scurlock dropped out of school due to the money the drug business was making for him. That ended in 1989 when Scurlock's main distributor was murdered. As a result, Scurlock decided that the drug business was too dangerous and quit immediately. When asked by a friend about his (Scurlock's) biggest priority being money, he replied, "No, no. All that does is let you live life a little easier." However, Scurlock had to have an income so he needed to come up with another solution.
Bank robbery
According to Steve Meyers, Scurlock had told him that he always had dreams, even as a child, of robbing banks, in a Robin Hood type of fashion kind of like re-appropriating money. It was with this kind of mindset that Scurlock looked up someone that he trusted, an old college friend named Mark Biggins. Biggins was having severe financial problems and was trying to support a family. Scurlock had previously hired Biggins to work on his property to help Biggins financially. As a result, when Scurlock asked Biggins to rob banks with him, Biggins felt obligated.