Pippa Scott

Philippa Scott (born November 10, 1935) is an American actress who has appeared in film and television since the 1950s.

Pippa Scott
Scott with Chuck Connors in 1960.
Born
Philippa Scott

(1935-11-10) November 10, 1935
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1956–1984, 2009–present
Spouse(s)
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m. 1964; div. 1983)
Children2
Parent(s)Allan Scott and Laura Straub
RelativesAdrian Scott (uncle)

Personal life

Scott was born in Los Angeles, California.[1] She is the daughter of actress Laura Straub and screenwriter Allan Scott; an uncle was the blacklisted screenwriter Adrian Scott. Scott married Lee Rich, a founding partner of Lorimar Productions, in 1964.[2] They had two children together before they divorced in 1983, though they maintained a friendship until his death in 2012.[3]

In the 1970s, along with steady work acting in television productions, Scott was a student at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where she pursued a degree in landscape architecture.[4]

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.[2]

Acting career

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. Scott then quickly signed a contract with Warner Bros. and made her movie debut that same year with a role 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.[5] She appeared as Pegeen in the 1958 Warner Brothers film, Auntie Mame.

She appeared as Abigail in the 1959 episode of Maverick titled "Easy Mark". In the 1959–1960 CBS Television series Mr. Lucky, starring John Vivyan and Ross Martin, she had a recurring role as Maggie Shank-Rutherford.[6]:701 Around this time, she also appeared on the ABC-TV western series, The Alaskans.[7]

Scott guest starred on such series as The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Twilight Zone, Thriller, F Troop, Have Gun - Will Travel, Redigo, The Tall Man, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Rat Patrol, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., and Gunsmoke.[8]

Pippa Scott in 2006

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.[6]:1143–1144[9] 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 1980s, 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]

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.[6]

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.[10]

Off-screen work in film

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.[11]

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1956The SearchersLucy Edwards
1958As Young as We AreKim Hutchins
1958Auntie MamePegeen Ryan
1960Have Gun, Will Travel – The Uneasy GraveKathy Rousseau[12]
1960The Twilight Zone – The Trouble with TempletonLaura Templeton
1963My Six LovesDianne Soper
1964The ConfessionGina
1964Quick, Let's Get Married
1966For Pete's SakeAttendant's Wife
1968PetuliaMay
1969Some Kind of a NutDoctor Sara
1971Cold TurkeyNatalie Brooks
1974Bad RonaldMrs. WoodTV movie
1982The Sound of MurderIlene Forbes
2011FootprintsGenevieve
2013AutomotiveHelen(final film role)
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References
  1. "War Stories – Vol. 51 No. 14". 19 April 1999. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  2. Hagan, John (2010). Justice in the Balkans: Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal. University of Chicago Press. p. 45. ISBN 9780226312309. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  3. Vitello, Paul (2012-05-30). "Lee Rich Dies at 93; Helped Create Both J.R. and John-Boy". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  4. "Lovely Redhead Is Back". The Times-News. North Carolina, Burlington. 1976-03-27. p. 31. Retrieved 2018-05-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Robert Harland Movies". Reelz Channel. Archived from the original on May 21, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2009.
  6. 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.
  7. Pippa Scott on IMDb
  8. ""The Girl from Paradise", January 13, 1962". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
  9. "Paul Arnold Green, The Virginian (1962–1971)". tvparty.com. Retrieved January 20, 2010.
  10. "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.
  11. Willis, John; Monush, Barry (2010). Screen World 2007. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 217. ISBN 9781557837295. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  12. imdb.com
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