Scott-Arthur Allen was a talent manager, actor and acting teacher for more than 40 years.

He founded the Creative Actors Workshop in Los Angeles in 1976 and then moved the business to Springfield, Missouri, in 2002. He taught Sela Ward, Heather Locklear, Tea Leoni and Leslie Hope, among others. As a talent manager he launched Gentle-Force Management, and served as president of the Talent Managers Association.

He also appearanced on television, including small roles in such series as Police Story, Movin’ On, The Bionic Woman, Flamingo Road, CHiPs and six episodes of Emergency!, in which he mostly played paramedics and firemen. His other credits included the miniseries Gemini Man and the telefilm The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch.

In the feature film arena, he played a surfer in the 1981 release S.O.B., directed by Blake Edwards and starring Julie Andrews, William Holden and Marisa Berenson.

Before becoming an actor, Allen was a singer and songwriter who performed at the Troubadour and in a band that shared stages with Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Allen died on March 13, 2015, in Nixa, Missouri. He was 76.