Background
Scott was born on February 14, 1902 in Fresno, California, United States.
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 manitoba
He broke into Westerns with a singing part in a Harry Carey film. Foreign 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 First Rate (at Lloyd's) Saint 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.