Pippa Scott, who performed one in all kidnapped daughters alongside Natalie Wooden in John Ford’s The Searchers and the secretary of Rosalind Russell’s title character in Auntie Mame, has died. She was 90.
Scott died peacefully Might 22 of congenital coronary heart failure at her house in Santa Monica, her daughter Miranda Tollman informed The Hollywood Reporter.
Scott’s movie résumé additionally included Gower Champion’s My Six Loves (1963), Richard Lester’s Petulia (1968), Norman Lear’s Chilly Turkey (1971) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s The Sound of Homicide (1982).
On tv, the redhead portrayed the spouse of a Broadway actor (Brian Aherne) transported again in time within the 1960 Twilight Zone episode “The Hassle With Templeton”; was the spouse of a rabbi serving to Morey Amsterdam’s character together with his very belated bar mitzvah on the 1966 Dick Van Dyke Present installment “Buddy Sorrell: Man and Boy”; and performed a nursery faculty trainer and love curiosity of Jack Warden’s detective on the 1976 NBC drama Jigsaw John.
Scott’s profession bought off to a rousing begin with she portrayed the ill-fated Lucy Edwards, older sister of Wooden’s Debbie Edwards, within the John Wayne-starring The Searchers (1956). And in Auntie Mame, she starred as Pegeen, who winds up falling for Roger Smith’s Patrick Dennis.
Philippa Scott was born in Los Angeles on Nov. 10, 1934. Her mom was stage actress Laura Straub, and her father was Allan Scott, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals High Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936).
Her uncle, writer-producer Adrian Scott, was blacklisted in the course of the McCarthy period as one of many Hollywood Ten. (She would seem in a 1964 movie written by him, The Confession.)
Educated at Radcliffe and UCLA and skilled on the Royal Academy of Dramatic Artwork in London, Scott made her Broadway debut in 1956 in Jed Harris’ Youngster of Fortune, and in 1958, she starred as a trainer who’s kidnapped in As Younger as We Are.
Scott guest-starred on a lot of TV reveals, with appearances on Mr. Fortunate, The Virginian, Maverick, Thriller, Have Gun — Will Journey, Dr. Kildare, The Fugitive, Wagon Practice, Ben Casey, Perry Mason, Wagon Practice, F Troop, I Spy, Household Affair, Medical Heart, Gunsmoke, The Mary Tyler Moore Present, Mission: Not possible, Barnaby Jones, Columbo, The Waltons, Ironside, The Streets of San Francisco, Mannix and Remington Steele.
On stage, she appeared within the New York firm of 1959’s Look Again in Anger and 1984’s Isn’t It Romantic and collaborated with John Houseman at UCLA in a 1973 manufacturing of Three Sisters in preparation for the beginning of the Heart Theatre Group.
In 1964, Scott married Lee Wealthy, producer and founding associate of Lorimar Productions, the corporate behind such acclaimed reveals as The Waltons, Dallas, Falcon Crest, Knots Touchdown, Eight Is Sufficient and The Blue Knight. They divorced in 1983 however reconnected in 1996 and remained collectively till his dying in 2012.
As a toddler whose household skilled the results of persecution, Scott in 1993 based The Worldwide Monitor Institute, a nonprofit that gathered proof to help the prosecution of struggle crimes within the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Congo, Cambodia and Iraq and the systemic use of rape and little one troopers in genocide.
The work of the IMI continues to help struggle crime prosecution to today by the Human Rights division at Duke College.
Scott additionally based Linden Productions to additional illuminate human rights violations, and her work consists of initiatives commissioned by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and the Worldwide Rescue Committee.
In 1998, she produced for PBS’ Frontline the documentary The World’s Most Needed Man, in regards to the hunt for Bosnian Serb chief Radovan Karadzic. And in 2006, she produced one other doc, King Leopold’s Ghost, in regards to the exploitation of the Congo by the king of Belgium.
After 20 years behind the digicam, she made her final appearing look within the indie function Footprints (2009).
Survivors embrace her daughters, Miranda and Jessica, and 5 grandchildren.