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 Scott was born in Los Angeles, California. 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.
Career Acting
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 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. 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. Around this time, she also appeared on the ABC-TV Western series, The Alaskans, starring Roger Moore.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Personal life and death Scott married Lee Rich, a founding partner of Lorimar Productions, in 1964. They had two children together before they divorced in 1983, though they reconnected in 1996 and maintained a relationship until his death in 2012.
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.
Scott died of heart failure at her home in Santa Monica, California, on May 22, 2025, at the age of 90.
Partial filmography Year Title Role Notes1956 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 Year Title Role Notes1955Your Play TimeVickyEpisode: "Speaking to Hannah"1956Camera ThreeEpisode: "The Victorian Era: Part 2"1957Producers' ShowcaseHannah VesteraEpisode: "Mayerling"1959General Electric TheaterMaryEpisode: "Robbie and His Mary"Maverick Abigail HamiltonEpisode: "Easy Mark"1959-60 Mr Lucky Maggie 8 episodes 1959-1962Adventures in ParadiseVarious4 episodes1960The DuPont Show with June AllysonSally AinsworthEpisode: "Trial by Fear"The AlaskansRuth ColemanEpisode: "Sign of the Kodiak"The AquanautsOga DanyloEpisode: "The Stowaway" The Twilight Zone Laura Templeton Episode: "The Trouble with Templeton"Hong Kong Peggy JacksonEpisode: "When Strangers Meet"1960-1961Outlaws Donna Pringle/Janet Holbrook3 episodes1961Stagecoach West Susan McLordEpisode: "Object: Patrimony"ThrillerMarcia Elizabeth HunterEpisode: "Parasite Mansion" Have Gun - Will Travel Kathy Rousseau Episode: "Uneasy Grave"1961, 1971GunsmokeMary Tabor/Sarah Mather2 episodes1962The Tall ManAnne DrakeEpisode: "The Girl from Paradise"Dr. KildareDr. Elizabeth CullusEpisode: "The Search"Bus Stop Betty SloaneEpisode: "Door Without a Key"Follow the Sun Amy RamseyEpisode: "Run, Clown, Run"The United States Steel Hour2 episodes The Virginian Molly Wood 6 episodes1963-1966 Perry Mason Ethel AndrewsGwen Elston 3 episodes1964The FugitiveCarol WillardEpisode: "The Garden House"Wagon TrainDorthea GillfordEpisode: "The Link Cheney Story" Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Captain "Iron Pants" Martin Episode: "Captain Ironpants"The ReporterJoan CannonEpisode: "A Time to Be Silent"1964-1965Ben CaseyVarious3 episodes1965The Rogues Jane TylerEpisode: "The Golden Ocean"Kraft Suspense TheatreDr. Marianne ScottEpisode: "Nobody Will Ever Know"1966The Dick Van Dyke ShowDorothyEpisode: "Buddy Sorrell: Man and Boy"Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler TheatreMartha Harris/Catherine Rogers2 episodesThe Felony SquadElena CarterEpisode: "Flame Out"Insight Jacqueline SuttonEpisode: "Trial by Fire"1967TarzanDiana GraysonEpisode: "Track of the Dinosaur"F TroopMrs. Molly WalkerEpisode: "The Sergeant and the Kid"T.H.E. CatEpisode: "The Turn the Other Cheek Brief"The Rat PatrolDrucillaEpisode: "The Death Do Us Part Raid"I Spy BobbieEpisode: "Apollo"1968Judd, for the DefenseJean MerrittEpisode: "The Worst of Both Worlds"Family Affair Eileen MoranEpisode: "Family Portrait"1969The Outsider Virginia KirkEpisode: "The Secret of Mareno Bay"The Outcasts Augusta BarnesEpisode: "The Town That Wouldn't"1970LancerRebecca BrownEpisode: "Lamp in the Wilderness"1971Medical CenterNancy HaversEpisode: "The Corrupted"Sarge Dr. WindsorEpisode: "Identity Crisis"ArnieEpisode: "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blew" The Mary Tyler Moore ShowEstelle Kamsen ProustEpisode: "Didn't You Used to Be...Wait...Don't Tell Me"Love, American StyleKathySegment: "Love and the Black Limousine"LongstreetJulia WoodleyEpisode: "There Was a Crooked Man"1971, 1975MannixBarbara Brockway/Wanda Kerts2 episodes1972Owen Marshall, Counselor at LawJoan PriceEpisode: "The Color of Respect" Mission: Impossible Edith Thatcher Episode: "Leona"The RookiesClaudia WyattEpisode: "A Very Special Piece of Ground"1973 The Waltons Alvira Drummond Episode: "The Actress" Columbo Jean Davis Episode: "Requiem for a Falling Star"Barnaby JonesJanice HarleyEpisode: "Fatal Flight"1974Cannon Miriam EckworthEpisode: "Bobby Loved Me"The Cowboys Kate TatumEpisode: "A Matter of Honor"Ironside Crystal Mason2 episodesThe Streets of San FranciscoEdith DowningEpisode: "Once Chance to Live" Bad Ronald Mrs Wood TV movie1975 Kolchak: The Night Stalker Tillie Jones Episode: "Legacy of Terror"Matt HelmPhylis HartleyEpisode: "Double Jeopardy"This Is the Life StephanieEpisode: "Jeremy"1976PopiMrs. JamesEpisode: "Man's Best Amigo" Jigsaw John Maggie Hearn 1977The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew MysteriesJanet MusanteEpisode: "A Haunting We Will Go"1984Remington SteeleEmily DumontEpisode: "Molten Steele"
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