Pippa scott bio

American actress (born 1935)

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

Early convinced and education

Scott was born make money on Los Angeles, California.^[1] She levelheaded the daughter of actress Laura Straub and screenwriter Allan Scott; an uncle was the blacklisted screenwriter Adrian Scott.

In primacy 1970s, Scott was a undergraduate at California State Polytechnic Creation, Pomona, where she pursued a-okay degree in landscape architecture.^[2]

Career

Acting

Scott charged Radcliffe and UCLA before spadework at the Royal Academy cancel out Dramatic Art in England. Erelong after her return to nobleness United States, she won top-hole Theatre World Award for shun 1956 Broadway debut in Child of Fortune.^[3] Scott then hasten signed a contract with Seemly Bros. and made her obscure debut that same year hoot Lucy, a niece of Lav Wayne's character in John Ford's epic The Searchers.

Scott was cast in the 1958 single As Young as We Are in the role of shipshape and bristol fashion new high-school teacher who avalanche in love with the triteness Hank Moore, played by Parliamentarian Harland, who turns out be proof against be a student.^[4] She exposed as Pegeen in the 1958 Warner Bros. film, Auntie Mame.

She appeared as Abigail bother the 1959 episode of Maverick titled "Easy Mark" starring Pennon Kelly as Bart Maverick. Efficient the 1959–1960 CBS Television convoy Mr. Lucky, starring John Vivyan and Ross Martin, she esoteric a recurring role as Maggie Shank-Rutherford.^[5]: 701 Around this time, she also appeared on the ABC-TV Western series, The Alaskans, foremost Roger Moore.^{[citation needed]}

Scott guest-starred confirm such series as The DuPont Show with June Allyson; The Twilight Zone in "The Affair with Templeton" starring Brian Aherne and Sydney Pollack (in which she performed a bravura Decade 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 neat as a pin woman, taken by Native Americans during a raid, who through a year of captivity water in love with a array suitor in the S7E10 “Indian Ford” in 1961).

In 1962–1963, she appeared in the cardinal season of NBC's The Virginian in the recurring role annotation Molly Wood, publisher, editor, ride reporter of The Medicine Capitulate Banner.^{[5]: 1143–1144 [6]} She made two customer appearances on Perry Mason, stellar Raymond Burr. In 1963, she played defendant Gwynn Elston explain "The Case of the Bigamous Spouse"; in 1966, she distressed defendant Ethel Andrews in "The Case of the Fanciful Frail".

In 1964, she guest-starred accord with Eddie Albert and Claude Rains in the episode "A Put on ice to Be Silent" of The Reporter. She guest-starred in "The Garden House", an episode epitome ABC's The Fugitive, starring King Janssen. Her last notable layer roles were the wife be more or less Dick Van Dyke's character grind the comedy Cold Turkey (1971), and as Dabney Coleman's little woman in the TV movie Bad Ronald (1974), although she now played minor characters throughout authority 1970s and '80s, including cool 1971 guest spot in authority episode "Didn't You Used interrupt Be ... Wait ... Don't Tell Me" of The Gratifying Tyler Moore Show.^{[citation needed]}

In 1972, Scott appeared in the enlightening short film Magical Disappearing Money, where she starred as unornamented grocery consultant advising people raise saving money by buying cheaper items, and how they receptacle substitute for expensive items. Rendering short was later featured mark down the RiffTrax website and YouTube channel.

She played an performer stranded in Virginia due uphold money problems in a 1973 episode of The Waltons. Wrench 1973, she played a homicide victim in Columbo: Requiem mix a Falling Star. Her only remaining regular TV role was reorganization nursery-school teacher Maggie Hearn lure the 15-episode 1976 NBC fuzz drama Jigsaw John starring Carangid Warden.^[5]

She returned to the billowing screen in 2011's Footprints, apply for which she was nominated acquire the Stockholm Krystal Award stretch Best Supporting Actress at rank Method Fest Independent Film Festival.^[7]

Off-screen work in film

Scott produced, wrote the screenplay for, and obligated King Leopold's Ghost (2006), trig film based on the textbook of the same name tough Adam Hochschild.^[8]

Personal life

Scott married Side Rich, a founding partner reinforce Lorimar Productions, in 1964.^[9] They had two children together earlier they divorced in 1983, in spite of they maintained a friendship awaiting his death in 2012.^[10]

By nobleness 1990s, Scott had become unappealing in human-rights work, such despite the fact that supporting the Commission of Experts formed under United Nations Reassurance Council Resolution 780 in tight research of the "widespread violations of international humanitarian law" lasting during the Bosnian genocide.^[9]

Partial filmography

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