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Scott Templeton
M. Scott Templeton is a fictional character on the HBO drama "The Wire", played by actor Tom McCarthy. The actor joined the starring cast as the series' fifth season began.
Biography.
Templeton is a young reporter who allows his extreme ambition to lead him to falsify stories. He has previously worked at the "Wichita Eagle" and the "Kansas City Star". Templeton sees his current job as a general assignment reporter at "The Baltimore Sun" as a stepping stone to "
the mind like Oldbuck, rather than indulging a "folie de grandeur" like Wardour's, he would have died a happier man.
Later appearances.
Scott did not wholly put Oldbuck to one side once he had completed the novel. His 1819 work "Ivanhoe" is prefixed by a “Dedicatory Epistle” from the fictional character Laurence Templeton to his friend Dr. Jonas Dryasdust, mentioned in "The Antiquary" as a correspondent of Oldbuck's, in which Templeton points out that a historical novel “might not suit