Pippa Scott
Pippa Scott | |
|---|---|
 Scott in The Twilight Zone (1960) | |
| Born | Philippa Scott November 10, 1934 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | May 22, 2025 (aged 90) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Education | UCLA, Radcliffe |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1956–1984, 2009–2013 |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Father | Allan Scott |
| Relatives | Adrian Scott (uncle) |
Philippa "Pippa" Scott (November 10, 1934 – May 22, 2025) was an American actress who appeared in film and television from the 1950s.
Early life and education
[edit]Scott was born in Los Angeles, California.[1] She was the daughter of actress Laura Straub and screenwriter Allan Scott; an uncle was the blacklisted screenwriter Adrian Scott.
In the 1970s, Scott was a student at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where she pursued a degree in landscape architecture.[2]
Career
[edit]Acting
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Scott attended Radcliffe and UCLA before studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in England. Shortly after her return to the United States, she won a Theatre World Award for her 1956 Broadway debut in Child of Fortune.[3] Scott then quickly signed a contract with Warner Bros. and made her movie debut that same year as Lucy, a niece of John Wayne's character in John Ford's epic The Searchers.
Scott was cast in the 1958 film As Young as We Are in the role of a new high-school teacher who falls in love with the character Hank Moore, played by Robert Harland, who turns out to be a student.[4] She appeared as Pegeen in the 1958 Warner Bros. film, Auntie Mame.
She appeared as Abigail in the 1959 episode of Maverick titled "Easy Mark" starring Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick. In the 1959–1960 CBS Television series Mr. Lucky, starring John Vivyan and Ross Martin, she had a recurring role as Maggie Shank-Rutherford.[5]: 701 Around this time, she also appeared on the ABC-TV Western series, The Alaskans, starring Roger Moore.[citation needed]
Scott guest-starred on such series as The DuPont Show with June Allyson; The Twilight Zone in "The Trouble with Templeton" starring Brian Aherne and Sydney Pollack (in which she performed a bravura 1920s dance sequence); Thriller; F Troop; Have Gun - Will Travel with Richard Boone; Redigo; The Tall Man with Clu Gulager; The Dick Van Dyke Show; The Rat Patrol; Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.; and Gunsmoke (as a woman, taken by Native Americans during a raid, who during a year of captivity falls in love with a native suitor in the S7E10 “Indian Ford” in 1961).
In 1962–1963, she appeared in the first season of NBC's The Virginian in the recurring role of Molly Wood, publisher, editor, and reporter of The Medicine Bow Banner.[5]: 1143–1144 [6] She made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr. In 1963, she played defendant Gwynn Elston in "The Case of the Bigamous Spouse"; in 1966, she played defendant Ethel Andrews in "The Case of the Fanciful Frail".
In 1964, she guest-starred with Eddie Albert and Claude Rains in the episode "A Time to Be Silent" of The Reporter. She guest-starred in "The Garden House", an episode of ABC's The Fugitive, starring David Janssen. Her last notable film roles were the wife of Dick Van Dyke's character in the comedy Cold Turkey (1971), and as Dabney Coleman's wife in the TV movie Bad Ronald (1974), although she sporadically played minor characters throughout the 1970s and '80s, including a 1971 guest spot in the episode "Didn't You Used to Be ... Wait ... Don't Tell Me" of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.[7]
In 1972, Scott appeared in the educational short film Magical Disappearing Money, where she starred as a grocery consultant advising people about saving money by buying cheaper items, and how they can substitute for expensive items. The short was later featured on the RiffTrax website and YouTube channel.
She played an actress stranded in Virginia due to money problems in a 1973 episode of The Waltons. In 1973, she played a murder victim in Columbo: Requiem for a Falling Star. Her last regular TV role was as nursery-school teacher Maggie Hearn in the 15-episode 1976 NBC police drama Jigsaw John starring Jack Warden.[5]
She returned to the big screen in 2011's Footprints, for which she was nominated for the Stockholm Krystal Award for Best Supporting Actress at the Method Fest Independent Film Festival.[8]
Off-screen work in film
[edit]Scott produced, wrote the screenplay for, and directed King Leopold's Ghost (2006), a film based on the book of the same name by Adam Hochschild.[9]
Personal life and death
[edit]Scott married Lee Rich, a founding partner of Lorimar Productions, in 1964.[10] They had two children together before they divorced in 1983, though they reconnected in 1996[11] and maintained a relationship until his death in 2012.[12]
By the 1990s, Scott had become active in human-rights work, such as supporting the Commission of Experts formed under United Nations Security Council Resolution 780 in its research of the "widespread violations of international humanitarian law" committed during the Bosnian genocide.[10]
Scott died of heart failure at her home in Santa Monica, California, on May 22, 2025, at the age of 90.[11]
Partial filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | The Searchers | Lucy Edwards | |
| 1958 | As Young as We Are | Kim Hutchins | |
| Auntie Mame | Pegeen Ryan | ||
| 1963 | My Six Loves | Dianne Soper | |
| 1964 | Quick, Let's Get Married | Gina | Original title: "The Confession" |
| 1966 | For Pete's Sake | Attendant's Wife | |
| 1968 | Petulia | May | |
| 1969 | Some Kind of a Nut | Doctor Sara | |
| 1971 | Cold Turkey | Natalie Brooks | |
| 1972 | Magical Disappearing Money | Grocery Witch | Educational short |
| 1984 | The Sound of Murder | Ilene Forbes | |
| 2011 | Footprints | Genevieve | |
| 2013 | Automotive | Helen |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Your Play Time | Vicky | Episode: "Speaking to Hannah" |
| 1956 | Camera Three | Episode: "The Victorian Era: Part 2" | |
| 1957 | Producers' Showcase | Hannah Vestera | Episode: "Mayerling" |
| 1959 | General Electric Theater | Mary | Episode: "Robbie and His Mary" |
| Maverick | Abigail Hamilton | Episode: "Easy Mark" | |
| 1959-60 | Mr Lucky | Maggie | 8 episodes |
| 1959-1962 | Adventures in Paradise | Various | 4 episodes |
| 1960 | The DuPont Show with June Allyson | Sally Ainsworth | Episode: "Trial by Fear" |
| The Alaskans | Ruth Coleman | Episode: "Sign of the Kodiak" | |
| The Aquanauts | Oga Danylo | Episode: "The Stowaway" | |
| The Twilight Zone | Laura Templeton | Episode: "The Trouble with Templeton" | |
| Hong Kong | Peggy Jackson | Episode: "When Strangers Meet" | |
| 1960-1961 | Outlaws | Donna Pringle/Janet Holbrook | 3 episodes |
| 1961 | Stagecoach West | Susan McLord | Episode: "Object: Patrimony" |
| Thriller | Marcia Elizabeth Hunter | Episode: "Parasite Mansion" | |
| Have Gun - Will Travel | Kathy Rousseau | Episode: "Uneasy Grave" | |
| 1961, 1971 | Gunsmoke | Mary Tabor/Sarah Mather | 2 episodes |
| 1962 | The Tall Man | Anne Drake | Episode: "The Girl from Paradise" |
| Dr. Kildare | Dr. Elizabeth Cullus | Episode: "The Search" | |
| Bus Stop | Betty Sloane | Episode: "Door Without a Key" | |
| Follow the Sun | Amy Ramsey | Episode: "Run, Clown, Run" | |
| The United States Steel Hour | 2 episodes | ||
| The Virginian | Molly Wood | 6 episodes | |
| 1963-1966 | Perry Mason | Ethel AndrewsGwen Elston | 3 episodes |
| 1964 | The Fugitive | Carol Willard | Episode: "The Garden House" |
| Wagon Train | Dorthea Gillford | Episode: "The Link Cheney Story" | |
| Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | Captain "Iron Pants" Martin | Episode: "Captain Ironpants" | |
| The Reporter | Joan Cannon | Episode: "A Time to Be Silent" | |
| 1964-1965 | Ben Casey | Various | 3 episodes |
| 1965 | The Rogues | Jane Tyler | Episode: "The Golden Ocean" |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | Dr. Marianne Scott | Episode: "Nobody Will Ever Know" | |
| 1966 | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Dorothy | Episode: "Buddy Sorrell: Man and Boy" |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Martha Harris/Catherine Rogers | 2 episodes | |
| The Felony Squad | Elena Carter | Episode: "Flame Out" | |
| Insight | Jacqueline Sutton | Episode: "Trial by Fire" | |
| 1967 | Tarzan | Diana Grayson | Episode: "Track of the Dinosaur" |
| F Troop | Mrs. Molly Walker | Episode: "The Sergeant and the Kid" | |
| T.H.E. Cat | Episode: "The Turn the Other Cheek Brief" | ||
| The Rat Patrol | Drucilla | Episode: "The Death Do Us Part Raid" | |
| I Spy | Bobbie | Episode: "Apollo" | |
| 1968 | Judd, for the Defense | Jean Merritt | Episode: "The Worst of Both Worlds" |
| Family Affair | Eileen Moran | Episode: "Family Portrait" | |
| 1969 | The Outsider | Virginia Kirk | Episode: "The Secret of Mareno Bay" |
| The Outcasts | Augusta Barnes | Episode: "The Town That Wouldn't" | |
| 1970 | Lancer | Rebecca Brown | Episode: "Lamp in the Wilderness" |
| 1971 | Medical Center | Nancy Havers | Episode: "The Corrupted" |
| Sarge | Dr. Windsor | Episode: "Identity Crisis" | |
| Arnie | Episode: "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blew" | ||
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Estelle Kamsen Proust | Episode: "Didn't You Used to Be...Wait...Don't Tell Me" | |
| Love, American Style | Kathy | Segment: "Love and the Black Limousine" | |
| Longstreet | Julia Woodley | Episode: "There Was a Crooked Man" | |
| 1971, 1975 | Mannix | Barbara Brockway/Wanda Kerts | 2 episodes |
| 1972 | Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law | Joan Price | Episode: "The Color of Respect" |
| Mission: Impossible | Edith Thatcher | Episode: "Leona" | |
| The Rookies | Claudia Wyatt | Episode: "A Very Special Piece of Ground" | |
| 1973 | The Waltons | Alvira Drummond | Episode: "The Actress" |
| Columbo | Jean Davis | Episode: "Requiem for a Falling Star" | |
| Barnaby Jones | Janice Harley | Episode: "Fatal Flight" | |
| 1974 | Cannon | Miriam Eckworth | Episode: "Bobby Loved Me" |
| The Cowboys | Kate Tatum | Episode: "A Matter of Honor" | |
| Ironside | Crystal Mason | 2 episodes | |
| The Streets of San Francisco | Edith Downing | Episode: "Once Chance to Live" | |
| Bad Ronald | Mrs Wood | TV movie | |
| 1975 | Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Tillie Jones | Episode: "Legacy of Terror" |
| Matt Helm | Phylis Hartley | Episode: "Double Jeopardy" | |
| This Is the Life | Stephanie | Episode: "Jeremy" | |
| 1976 | Popi | Mrs. James | Episode: "Man's Best Amigo" |
| Jigsaw John | Maggie Hearn | ||
| 1977 | The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Janet Musante | Episode: "A Haunting We Will Go" |
| 1984 | Remington Steele | Emily Dumont | Episode: "Molten Steele" |
References
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- ^ "Pippa Scott (Performer)". Playbill. Retrieved March 16, 2023.
- ^ "Lovely Redhead Is Back". The Times-News. North Carolina, Burlington. March 27, 1976. p. 31. Retrieved May 23, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Staff. "Theater World Award Recipients". Theater World Awards. Theater World Awards, Inc. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
- ^ "Robert Harland Movies". Reelz Channel. Archived from the original on May 21, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2009.
- ^ a b c Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 533. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
- ^ "Paul Arnold Green, The Virginian (1962–1971)". tvparty.com. Retrieved January 20, 2010.
- ^ Sandrich, Jay (October 30, 1971), "Didn't You Used to Be... Wait... Don't Tell Me", The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary Tyler Moore, Edward Asner, Valerie Harper, retrieved June 9, 2025
- ^ "NOMINEES ANNOUNCED FOR THE 12TH ANNUAL THE METHOD FEST INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL AWARD CEREMONY TO TAKE PLACE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31". Method Film Festival. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ^ Willis, John; Monush, Barry (2010). Screen World 2007. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 217. ISBN 9781557837295. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ^ a b Hagan, John (2010). Justice in the Balkans: Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal. University of Chicago Press. p. 45. ISBN 9780226312309. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
- ^ a b Barnes, Mike (June 8, 2025). "Pippa Scott, Actress in 'The Searchers' and 'Auntie Mame,' Dies at 90". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
- ^ Vitello, Paul (May 30, 2012). "Lee Rich Dies at 93; Helped Create Both J.R. and John-Boy". The New York Times. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
External links
[edit]- Pippa Scott at IMDb
- Pippa Scott at the TCM Movie Database
- Pippa Scott at the Internet Broadway Database
- Pippa Scott at the Internet Off-Broadway Database (archived)
| International | |
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| National | |
| People | |
| Other | |
- 1934 births
- 2025 deaths
- American film actresses
- American television actresses
- Actresses from New York City
- Actresses from Los Angeles
- Radcliffe College alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- Warner Bros. contract players