Fred Leedon Scott
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.[1] 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.[2]
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." He made nearly two dozen films with comedy sidekick Al St. John, and some of his films were produced by Stan Laurel.[2]
Scott retired from film in the late 1940s and managed his own rental properties. He died on December 16, 1991 in Riverside, California.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Fred Scott" IMDb. Retrieved Dec 2, 2011.
- 1 2 Robert W. Phillips. Singing Cowboy Stars. Gibbs-Smith Publishers, Salt Lake City, 1994.