Fred Scott (actor)

Fred Leedom 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.

[citation needed] He took voice lessons as a child and started acting in community theater at sixteen followed by working with a traveling troupe.

He found work as a cowboy on a cattle ranch and tried to parlay the skills into film roles on horseback.

[1] 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).