He provided the voice of Bashful in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

He left his position with the opera house after it was sold, with the new owners planning to convert the theater into a venue for films.

He started Scotty's Eatable Eats in February 1920, but financial problems led to its closing by the summer of 1922.

Later that year he had a lead comedy role in The Thief of Bagdad for the Douglas Fairbanks Picture Company.

The house he owned in Watertown was sold in July 1925 under a mortgage foreclosure judgment, and financial problems led to his filing a petition for bankruptcy in Los Angeles in the fall of 1926.