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. ==Filmography==