- Several family members also died within a year of his passing. His mother died at age 76 one week after what would have been Scotty's 39th birthday on October 11, 1968. Ex-wife Sunny Vickers passed away one month shy of her 40th birthday on November 27, 1968. And his brother James died on January 18, 1969, at the age of 49.
- Was in five films nominated for Best Picture Oscars: Anthony Adverse (1936), Love Affair (1939), Kings Row (1942), Heaven Can Wait (1943), and Battleground (1949).
- His father, Ralph Beckett, passed away when Scotty was only 4 years old.
- Sang "Shuffle off to Buffalo" and "In the Good Old Summertime" (in pig Latin) for Walter Lang while he was visiting his father in the hospital. Impressed by the boy, Lang gave him a toy dog.
- He played Louis-Charles, Dauphin of France (the titular King Louis XVII), in both The King Without a Crown (1937) and Marie Antoinette (1938).
- He was not an original member of Hal Roach Studios "Our Gang" series. "Our Gang" started in 1922, before Beckett was born, but he was a member of "Our Gang" in the mid-1930s.
- His son, Scott H. Beckett Jr., was born on November 6, 1951.
- He had a serious accident in 1959 in which he crashed his car into a tree. In The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936), Beckett, playing a six-year old boy, crashed his kiddie-car into a tree.
- Buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery,Mission Hills, Los Angeles County, California. Plot Section B, Block 3, Lot 1099.
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