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Pippa Scott

Acting

Born November 10, 1935 · New York City, New York, USA

Died May 22, 2025

Biography

Philippa Scott (November 10, 1935 — May 22, 2025) was an American actress who has appeared in film and television since the 1950s. Scott was born in Los Angeles, California. 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. They had two children together before they divorced in 1983, though they maintained a friendship until he died in 2012. 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. 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.

Awards & recognition

  • Theatre World Award · 1957

Filmography35 titles

The Twilight Zone

1959as Laura Templeton

Columbo

1971as Jean Davis

King Leopold's Ghost

2006Director, Producer, Writer

Perry Mason

1957as Gwynn Elston

The Searchers

1956as Lucy Edwards

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

1974

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

1970as Estelle Kamser Proust

Mission: Impossible

1966as Edith Thatcher

For Pete's Sake

1966as Attendant's Wife

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962as Self

The Fugitive

1963as Carol Willard

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957

The Waltons

1972as Alvira Drummond

The Rat Patrol

1966as Drucilla

Remington Steele

1982as Emily Dumont

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

1977

Barnaby Jones

1973as Janice Harley

The Streets of San Francisco

1972as Edith Downing

Auntie Mame

1958as Pegeen Ryan

The Rookies

1972

Ironside

1967as Crystal Mason

Maverick

1957

Mannix

1967

Family Affair

1966

Thriller

1960as Marcia Elizabeth Hunter

Gunsmoke

1955as Sarah Mather

Mr. Lucky

as Maggie

The Virginian

1962as Molly Wood

Bad Ronald

1974as Mrs. Wood

Cold Turkey

1971as Natalie Brooks

F Troop

1965

Petulia

1968as May

My Six Loves

1963as Dianne Soper

Some Kind of a Nut

1969as Dr. Sara

Footprints

2011as Genevieve