Acting career photos from Scott's Career

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Scott Ellison Ebright 

by Tom Beckwith, PR rep

I first met Scott Ebright at his office on Sunset Blvd in Beverly Hills. It was late in August of 1977 and Elvis had just died 2 weeks prior. I was contracted by the three man team of Chet Actis (ICA Talent), Dick Clark (Dick Clark Productions) and Scott Ebright (Ebright Entertainment Enterprises) to promote their new act: Alan: A tribute to Elvis.

This was the first, ever Elvis tribute act, and that means FIRST EVER TRIBUTE ACT IN THE WORLD!    My stock in trade was PR and I had grown up in LA during the revolution of entertainment in the early 1970's. I became adept at delivering what I promised to my clients.  This included the launch of massive PR campaigns in the news media of 4,000 TV, Radio and print media outlets across the world. My clients were celebrities, actors, corporations and recording artists. 

Audiences raved over Alan's uncanny speaking and singing impersonation of  Elvis from across the world:  England, Germany, France, Israel, Africa, Japan and Australia. His live show record LP sold over 500,000 copies worldwide on his own independent label. From that first Elvis period, Scott Scott Ebright diversified his career directions, from consulting with investors to build chains of successful theme nightclubs, to running his talent agency for that booked and managed the careers of many top show bands, music tributes, and actors. 

For the next 38 years, Scott and I stayed in touch by phone. Our phone calls were always marathon chats with subjects that ranged from the ridiculous to the sublime.

In 2019, Scott wanted to encapsulate a historical retrospective of his entire career into a single website on the internet. It was going to be a Herculean task: How cold I possibly cram 12 different career fields into an organized presentation. And this task was compounded by Scott's request to incorporate the best of thousands of photos, videos and press articles into this same, concise anthology.  

Finally, he cajoled me, hoodwinked me and then he pulled an ace out of his sleeve when he resorted to shameless flattery inconvincing me to take on his project.  He said something like this....."T.B., How could I possibly entrust anyone but YOU to make sense out of all my helter-skelter career directions? You are the only person that knows moast parts of my whole story!"  Then we both laughed  and the slow project began to take form. 

I gave Scott a rehearsed speech: "You know, this type of website may never reach completion. Should we consider getting "completion insurance" for this project like movie production companies? Knowing you like I do, you'll never sit still and say you are finished with your career. And no sooner did I say this, when Scott hit me withthe news that he is through fighting to maintain websites....completely!    

Look out...here comes another curve ball!

Just as I was completing the website project about Scott's entertainment career (www.scottebright.com) he dropped a bombshell on me two months ago (Oct 2024): he said he will IMMEDIATELY CANCEL this entire website!  He gave me his reason:  

"I love all that you've produced so far, TB, so don't worry, I want to download and save all the formatted pages, photos, videos and written text you've done so far. And this will live on as we turn this animal of photos and text into a an informative and fun video documentary." 

Tom Beckwith, PR rep