Pippa Scott, the veteran actress who appeared in such movies like 1958’s six-time Oscar-nominated Auntie Mame and 1956’s The Searchers, has died on the age of 90.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, she died Could 22 of congenital coronary heart failure at her Santa Monica house, her daughter Miranda Tollman advised the publication.
Born Nov. 10, 1934 to leisure trade dad and mom in Los Angeles — mom Laura Straub, a stage actress, and father Allan Scott, Oscar-nominated for his screenplay for 1943’s So Proudly We Hail! — Scott studied at Radcliffe and UCLA, later coaching on the Royal Academy of Dramatic Artwork in London. She made her Broadway debut in 1956 in Jed Harris’ Little one of Fortune. Her movie profession took flight that very same yr, when John Ford solid her within the John Wayne automobile The Searchers, through which her character, Wayne’s niece Lucy Edwards, is kidnapped. (Her uncle, Adrian Scott, was a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten.)
Her different movie credit embrace As Younger as We Are (1958), My Six Loves (1963), Petulia (1968), Chilly Turkey (1971) and The Sound of Homicide (1980).
On the TV aspect, she was in episodes of reveals equivalent to The Twilight Zone, Outlaws, Dr. Kildare, The Dick Van Dyke Present, Perry Mason, The Mary Tyler Moore Present, Gunsmoke, Mission: Not possible, The Waltons, Columbo, The Streets of San Francisco and Jigsaw John (the place she had an prolonged episodic arc).
In 1964, she wed Lee Wealthy, the inventive power behind Lorimar Productions, the studio that spawned each of TV’s most enduring households in The Waltons and Dallas. Although the pair later divorced, the 2 remained shut till his demise in 2012.
By the ’90s, Scott grew to become devoted to human rights work, founding the Worldwide Monitor Institute, a nonprofit that gathered proof to help within the prosecution of struggle crimes within the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides, amongst different crimes in opposition to humanity.
To additional illuminate world injustices, Scott based Linden Productions and labored to supply tasks commissioned by organizations just like the United Nations and Human Rights Watch. For PBS’ Frontine, she produced “The World’s Most Wished Man,” an episode in regards to the hunt for infamous Bosnian Serb chief Radovan Karadzic who was indicted by The Hague’s Worldwide Legal Court docket. In 2006, she additionally produced documentary King Leopold’s Ghost, in regards to the exploitation of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium.
