Fred Scott
Biography: 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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 14, 1902
Deathday: December 16, 1991
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Bride of the Storm
1926-02-20
Bride of the Storm
Overview: An American ship is wrecked off the coast of the Dutch East Indies, and little Faith Fitzhugh and her mother have washed ashore on a rocky island that supports only a lighthouse. Faith's mother lives only long enough to inform the three Dutch lighthouse keepers that her daughter is the heiress to a large fortune. Years pass and Faith grows to womanhood. Jacob Kroon and his son, Piet, then conspire to marry Faith to Piet's idiot son, Hans, in order to bring her fortune into the family. Dick Wayne, a sailor on an American cruiser that is repairing a damaged cable in the waters of the lighthouse, learns of Faith's captivity and comes to her rescue. Piet kills Jacob in a fit of jealousy, and Dick then kills Piet in a fight. Hans sets the lighthouse on fire and incinerates himself. Dick and Faith make it back to the cruiser.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-20
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Make a Wish
1937-09-01
Make a Wish
Overview: While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976-05-01
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Overview: A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
Genres: Western Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-01
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The Fighting Deputy
1937-12-05
The Fighting Deputy
Overview: The Sheriff and his deputies are after Scar Adams. Scar is the brother of Alice Denton, the girl Deputy Tom plans to marry, and when the Sheriff is wounded she makes Tom refuse the job of Sheriff. But when Scar kills his father, Tom puts on the badge and takes out after him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-05
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Knight of the Plains
1938-05-07
Knight of the Plains
Overview: Peterson has a plan to obtain all the ranches in the valley. He gives Carson a phony Spanish land grant and has him pose as the Mexican owner. When Fred and Fuzzy have their cattle stolen by Peterson's men, they quickly become involved in the scheme.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-07
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Beyond Victory
1931-04-03
Beyond Victory
Overview: Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-03
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Swing High
1930-05-18
Swing High
Overview: To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, a singing soldier of fortune, sings along with Maryan's act. Ruth, Maryan's partner, quits to get married; and Joe, who is jealous of Garry, replaces her with Trixie, his former assistant. When Garry announces his engagement to Maryan, Trixie persuades him to join a strip poker game in a drunken state and "compromises" him in the presence of his fiancée. Grief-stricken, Maryan falls during her act, and Garry, robbed of circus funds, is arrested. In spite of her injuries, Maryan, learning of Trixie's treachery, performs the act with her and forces a confession by threatening to drop her; Garry is released and is welcomed back to the show.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-18
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The Rangers' Round-Up
1938-02-09
The Rangers' Round-Up
Overview: Working undercover, the Rangers are after Bull and his gang. Ted successfully joins Dr. Aikmans traveling medicine show, but Jim's identity has been exposed and he is in danger.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-09
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Romance Rides the Range
1936-09-01
Romance Rides the Range
Overview: Baritone singer Barry Glendon, completing a successful season in opera, departs for his ranch in the west over the objections of his manager Tony. Arriving there with his double-talking friend Shorty, Barry learns that a parcel of his vast ranch has been fraudulently sold to Carol Marland and her ailing (and tiresome) young brother Johnny. Pretending he is only the foreman, and having his cowhands go along with it,Barry allows Carol and her whining, growing-ever-more-tiresome brother to believe that they are the actual owners in order to give him a free hand in running down the swindlers who victimized Carol who, with a brother like hers, was a victim to begin with.Barry learns that brothers Clem and Jonas Allen are the villains and,through a ruse in which they are led to believe there is a hidden treasure on the land they sold Carol, they try to buy it back bidding against Barry, who forces the price up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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In Old Montana
1939-02-05
In Old Montana
Overview: The Colonel sends Fred Dawson and Doc Flanders to investigate a cattleman sheepman war. Posing as a two man medicine show, they quickly become involved. When Fred tries to bring the two sides together, Joe Allison is shot and Fred blamed. With Fred in jail and a lynch mob on the way, Doc tries to break his friend out.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-05
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Code of the Fearless
1939-01-05
Code of the Fearless
Overview: When it appears that Fred Jamison is a member of Red's gang, he is kicked out of the Rangers. But it's just a plot between Fred and the Ranger Captain. Fred then gets into Red's gang and makes plans that will enable the Rangers to bring them all in. But his message to the Captain is intercepted and the hoax revealed.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-05
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Songs and Bullets
1938-05-14
Songs and Bullets
Overview: Melody arrives looking for the killer of his uncle and at the same time Dumont arrives looking for the murderer of her father. They both suspect Skelton and Dumont finds incriminating evidence in his office. But when Melody finds the murder weapon in Skelton's office he is arrested by Shelton's stooge Sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-14
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Rio Rita
1929-09-15
Rio Rita
Overview: Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita, though he suspects that her brother is the bandit.
Genres: Romance Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-15
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The Singing Buckaroo
1937-01-15
The Singing Buckaroo
Overview: Barbara Evans has $25,000 and Gifford is after it. When his henchman fail to get it he refuses to pay them. They then decide to double cross him and get the money for themselves. Gordon is trying to protect Barbara and he must not only take care of the two henchmen, but also Gifford and his phony Sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-15
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Thundering Hoofs
1942-07-24
Thundering Hoofs
Overview: Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father's stage line.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-24
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The Grand Parade
1930-02-02
The Grand Parade
Overview: No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the sweetheart of minstrel-show performer Jack Kelly. Rising to the top of his profession, Kelly plummets to the bottom thanks to his fondness for intoxicating beverages. Molly nurses and coddles Kelly back to health, giving nary a thought for her own comfort or happiness.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-02
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The Roaming Cowboy
1937-01-04
The Roaming Cowboy
Overview: Two cowboys come upon a boy whose father has just been murdered. They promise to help find his killers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-04
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Ridin' the Trail
1940-07-27
Ridin' the Trail
Overview: With the Government Remount Service unable to meet it's quota of horses, Marshal Fred Martin arrives to try and find the rustlers. Apparently just a singing cowhand dressed in white, he becomes the masked Two Gun Troubador dressed in black when he goes after the outlaws. He quickly learns Tex Walters is the leader of the gang but he must find out who is the big boss that gives Walters his orders.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-27
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Melody of the Plains
1937-04-01
Melody of the Plains
Overview: The fourth of 12 singing Westerns starring the "Silvery-Voiced Baritone," Fred Scott, Melody of the Plains begins peacefully enough with Scott, as cowboy Steve Condon, warbling Don Swander and June Hershey's "Albuquerque." The story quickly takes a rather grim turn when one of Steve's colleagues is shot and killed after selling out to a gang of rustlers. Mistakenly believing he fired the deadly shot, a dejected Steve, along with sidekick Fuzzy, goes to work for Bud's father, a rancher nearly forced into bankruptcy by a crooked land developer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-01
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Moonlight on the Range
1937-06-10
Moonlight on the Range
Overview: Tom "Killer" Dane kills Jeff's friend, who then pursues him. Jeff and Dane are look-alike half brothers, which allows Dane to make a raid dressed like Jeff. Jeff is arrested, but before Dane's henchman can organize a lynch mob, Fuzzy breaks him out and Jeff heads after Dane again.
Genres: Action Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-10
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The Last Outlaw
1936-06-19
The Last Outlaw
Overview: After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his daughter, Sally, who is unaware he is her father. He befriends Cal Yates, the now semi-retired assistant sheriff who originally caught him, and Chuck Wilson, a young rancher who has eyes for Sally. Wanted criminal Al Goss holds up the local bank and makes his getaway, taking Sally hostage. Showing he still has what it takes, Payton, along with Yates and Wilson, take off into the hills on horseback to try to track Goss down. - Written by Doug Sederberg
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-19
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Two Gun Troubador
1939-03-05
Two Gun Troubador
Overview: Twenty-two years earlier Kirk Dean murdered his brother Fred Dean Sr. Now Fred Dean Jr. is looking for his father's killer. Unknown to Fred, Bill Barton who now works for Kirk, witnessed the murder.
Genres: Western Action Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-05
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Rodeo Rhythm
1942-03-13
Rodeo Rhythm
Overview: Fred Scott tries to keep crooks from taking over his sister's orphanage.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-13
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