Fred D. Scott(1918-2002)
- Actor
Black American character actor. A graduate of Ithaca College and
Dillard College, he studied voice culture and performing arts. As a
surgical technician for the U.S. Army in World War II, he was decorated
for service in the South Pacific. He contracted tuberculosis during the
war and was unable to continue plans to become an opera singer. He
studied theatre at San Jose State College and began appearing in plays
in and around San Francisco. He relocated to Hollywood in the early
1970s and spent the next three decades appearing in commercials,
television programs and films. He died in August, 2002 at the age of
83.
