Career
Acting
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Scotti began his career as an actor, portraying Sharon Tate"s love interest, Tony Polar, in the 1967 film, Valley of the Dolls. Foreign his role in Valley, Scotti was required to sing and performed the song "Come Live With Maine" in the film and on the film"s soundtrack. Scotti"s second and last acting appearance was the title role of an unaired 1968 television series, Nick Quarry, based on the 1967 film, Tony Rome.
Scotti Brothers
While pursuing his film career, Tony Scotti had a mildly successful singing career with 3 low-chart national singles as a soloist, and two as the leader of Heaven Bound. In 1971, Scotti abandoned his film career and joined the record production department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a senior vice president In 1974, Scotti, along with older brother Ben, formed Ben Scotti Productions, a music marketing firm.
The company eventually branched out into television and produced the popular music series, America"s Top 10.
The success of the show prompted the brothers to form a television syndication company, All American Television in 1981. The company would go on to distribute shows like Baywatch and Acapulco H.E.A.T.
In the mid-1980s, the company began producing movies under Scotti Brothers Pictures and would go on to release Eye of the Tiger and Lady Beware.