Fred Leedon Scott (February 14, 1902 - December 16, 1991) was an
American actor best known as a singing cowboy star in Westerns during
the 1930s and 1940s.Scott was born on February 14, 1902 in Fresno,
California, United States. He took voice lessons as a child and
started acting in community theater at sixteen followed by working
with a traveling troupe. Scott's family moved to Llano del Rio. He
found work as a cowboy on a cattle ranch and tried to parlay the
skills into film roles on horseback. He spent three years at Pathé as
Helen Twelvetrees leading man. He broke into Westerns with a singing
part in a Harry Carey film.For a while, Scott did opera and stage
performances before returning to Hollywood and becoming a leading man
in many musical Westerns produced by Spectrum Pictures earning him the
nickname "The Silvery-Voiced Buckaroo." His first starring role as a
singing cowboy was 1936's Romance Rides the Range, and he subsequently
starred in The Singing Buckaroo and Melody of the Plains (both 1937),
Songs and Bullets (1938) and Two Gun Troubador (1939). He made nearly
two dozen films with comedy sidekick Al St. John, and some of his
films were produced by Stan Laurel.Scott retired from film in the late
1940s and managed his own rental properties. He died on December 16,
1991 in Riverside, California.
American actor best known as a singing cowboy star in Westerns during
the 1930s and 1940s.Scott was born on February 14, 1902 in Fresno,
California, United States. He took voice lessons as a child and
started acting in community theater at sixteen followed by working
with a traveling troupe. Scott's family moved to Llano del Rio. He
found work as a cowboy on a cattle ranch and tried to parlay the
skills into film roles on horseback. He spent three years at Pathé as
Helen Twelvetrees leading man. He broke into Westerns with a singing
part in a Harry Carey film.For a while, Scott did opera and stage
performances before returning to Hollywood and becoming a leading man
in many musical Westerns produced by Spectrum Pictures earning him the
nickname "The Silvery-Voiced Buckaroo." His first starring role as a
singing cowboy was 1936's Romance Rides the Range, and he subsequently
starred in The Singing Buckaroo and Melody of the Plains (both 1937),
Songs and Bullets (1938) and Two Gun Troubador (1939). He made nearly
two dozen films with comedy sidekick Al St. John, and some of his
films were produced by Stan Laurel.Scott retired from film in the late
1940s and managed his own rental properties. He died on December 16,
1991 in Riverside, California.
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