Scott Ellsworth Biography
Scott Ellsworth is a radio personality, news anchor, and actor from the United States. Scott’s Place, a jazz radio show that rose to notoriety in the late 1960s, was hosted by him.
Scott Ellsworth Age
He was born Harvey Charles Ellsworth on January 4, 1927, in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Scott is 96 years old as of January 2023.
Scott Ellsworth Education
He graduated from Pompton Lakes High School in 1944. Ellsworth graduated from NYU in 1952 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both psychology and drama.
Scott Ellsworth Family
His father, Harvey Warren Ellsworth, was a “song plugger” who also played the trumpet and inspired Ellsworth to pursue a career in the arts and entertainment. His father was also a vocalist, first for KDKA in Pittsburgh and subsequently for NBC radio, movie theatres, and stage plays in New York City.
Scott Ellsworth Wife- Married
Scott is married to his wife, and the two have six children,
Scott Ellsworth Career
He has worked for Financial News Network, KFI, KCOP-TV, KNX-TV, and KWXY in Cathedral City, California. Ellsworth served in the United States Merchant Marine and saw action in the Pacific Theatre during WWII. Ellsworth came to Montrose, Colorado after graduation to pursue his goal of broadcasting after cutting an audio audition CD for producer Pat Kelly at NBC studios in New York. Ellsworth relocated his family to Montrose, Colorado in 1952, where he worked as a newsreader, programme manager, and announcer for KUBC for $400 per month. They let Ellsworth put some of his station ideas to the test.
In 1955, the owner of KUBC purchased KVOD in Denver and asked Ellsworth to become programme director; he travelled to Denver and worked in radio and television broadcasting for KBTV and KVOD for the following five years. Ellsworth later resigned from KVOD and relocated to Denver’s KLZ station. He would establish popular programmes such as “Active Radio,” which carried live news and events. He quickly returned to KVOD (now KHOW) as operations manager. Ellsworth eventually moved to KALL, an ABC affiliate in Salt Lake City, due to another ownership change and other tough situations with management.
Ellsworth travelled to Los Angeles in search of work and was taping for TV commercials when he visited the KFI studio (an NBC affiliate) and was offered a position after auditioning for KFI station manager Pat Kelly. He was assigned the duties of a staff announcer, travelling from studio to studio doing commercials and station IDs, as well as other on-air duties. Ellsworth was the on-site reporter for KFI during Robert F. Kennedy’s victory speech for the California Democratic Party primary on June 5, 1968.In 1973, he worked for KFI radio and later KCBS-FM. He eventually worked for KCOP-TV for numerous years as a newsreader, sportscaster, writer, announcer, and talk show presenter. Ellsworth developed, wrote, and hosted Daybreak and Who Can I Turn to at KCOP-TV.
He hosted the Noontime lunchtime show on KNX-TV in Los Angeles for two years. Ellsworth contributed to the Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band album Kogun in 1974. On the track Memory, his voice can be heard as part of a narrative and story telling about Japanese folklore. Ellsworth joined the Financial News Network as a news anchor in early 1981. Financial News Network (FNN) launched a 24-hour cable TV feed in 1983. Ellsworth joined FNN as an evening news anchor and interviewer, airing from their Santa Monica facility. Ellsworth returned to becoming a jazz music DJ after FNN was sold to CNBC in 1991, anchoring Scott’s Place on KWXY from 1992 until the station was sold around 2012.
Ellsworth established and presented Scott’s Place on the radio. It was broadcast on KFI-AM 640 in Los Angeles from 1968 to 1974, Monday through Saturday from midnight to 4 a.m. During the 1990s, Ellsworth relocated the show to KWXY near Palm Springs, where it remained for eleven years. When the format of KWXY changed in 2011, he quit. Ellworth continues his online radio programme, which he started in April 2014, from his own studio. Ellsworth began his acting career in the early 1970s. Girls Are for Loving (1973), The F.B.I. (1972-1973), Cannon (1975), The Moneychangers (1976), 79 Park Avenue (1977), The Rockford Files (1977-1978), Grandpa Goes to Washington (1978-1979), H.O.T.S. (1979), H.O.T.S.
He has appeared in plays such as Hostile Witness, The Best Man, Becket, Move Over, Mrs Markham, Social Security, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Ellsworth worked as an adjunct professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He also taught radio and television arts and sciences at the College of the Desert, Santa Monica College, and the Don Martin School of Radio and Television Arts and Sciences.
Scott Ellsworth Net Worth
Scott has an estimated net worth of 800 thousand dollars.
Scott Ellsworth Movies and TV Shows
1971–72 O’Hara
1972–73 The F.B.I.
1973 General Hospital
1975 Cannon four
1976 Days of Our Lives
1977–78 Rockford Files
1978 Lou Grant
1980 Sanford
Beyond Westworld
1985 The A-Team
1971 Dead Men Tell No Tales
1973 Girls Are For Loving
A Christmas Visit
1976 The Moneychangers
1977 79 Park Avenue
Secrets Love Interest
1978 Grandpa Goes to Washington
Loose Change
1979 H.O.T.S. Professor
Anatomy of a Mugging
