Fred Scott

Born: 1902-02-14

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 acowboy 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." 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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Thundering Hoofs

as Dave Armstrong
Released: 1942-07-24

Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take...

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Make a Wish

as Minstrel
Released: 1937-09-01

While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer...

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Rio Rita

as Singing Texas Ranger
Released: 1929-09-15

Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love...

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Knight of the Plains

as Fred
Released: 1938-05-07

Peterson has a plan to obtain all the ranches in the valley. He gives Carson a phony Spanish...

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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

as (archive footage)
Released: 1976-05-01

A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.

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Swing High

as Garry
Released: 1930-05-18

To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a...

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Moonlight on the Range

as Jeff Peters / Tom Killer Dane
Released: 1937-06-10

Tom "Killer" Dane kills Jeff's friend, who then pursues him. Jeff and Dane are look-alike half...

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Romance Rides the Range

as Barry Glendon
Released: 1936-09-01

Baritone singer Barry Glendon, completing a successful season in opera, departs for his ranch in...

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Code of the Fearless

as Fred Jamison
Released: 1939-01-05

When it appears that Fred Jamison is a member of Red's gang, he is kicked out of the Rangers....

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The Last Outlaw

as Larry Dixon - Movie Singing Cowboy
Released: 1936-06-19

After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his...

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Beyond Victory

as Fred
Released: 1931-04-03

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

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The Singing Buckaroo

as Grant Gordon
Released: 1937-01-15

Barbara Evans has $25,000 and Gifford is after it. When his henchman fail to get it he refuses...

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The Grand Parade

as Kelly
Released: 1930-02-02

No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen...

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In Old Montana

as Fred Dawson
Released: 1939-02-05

The Colonel sends Fred Dawson and Doc Flanders to investigate a cattleman sheepman war. Posing...

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The Rangers' Round-Up

as Ranger Tex Duncan
Released: 1938-02-09

Working undercover, the Rangers are after Bull and his gang. Ted successfully joins Dr. Aikmans...

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The Fighting Deputy

as Tom Bentley
Released: 1937-12-05

The Sheriff and his deputies are after Scar Adams. Scar is the brother of Alice Denton, the girl...

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Bride of the Storm

as Spike Mulligan
Released: 1926-02-20

An American ship is wrecked off the coast of the Dutch East Indies, and little Faith Fitzhugh...

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Songs and Bullets

as Melody Hardy
Released: 1938-05-14

Melody arrives looking for the killer of his uncle and at the same time Dumont arrives looking...

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Melody of the Plains

as Steve Condon
Released: 1937-04-01

The fourth of 12 singing Westerns starring the "Silvery-Voiced Baritone," Fred Scott, Melody of...

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Ridin' the Trail

as Fred Martin
Released: 1940-07-27

With the Government Remount Service unable to meet it's quota of horses, Marshal Fred Martin...

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Two Gun Troubador

as Fred Dean Jr
Released: 1939-03-05

Twenty-two years earlier Kirk Dean murdered his brother Fred Dean Sr. Now Fred Dean Jr. is...

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Corner Gas

as Player 1
First aired: 2004-01-22

Following the adventures of a bunch of nobodies who get up to a whole lot of nothing in the...

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