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 instructed the publication.
Born Nov. 10, 1934 to leisure business mother and father 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’ Youngster of Fortune. Her movie profession took flight that very same yr, when John Ford solid her within the John Wayne automobile The Searchers, during 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 facet, she was in episodes of exhibits akin 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 pressure 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 loss of life in 2012.
By the ’90s, Scott turned devoted to human rights work, founding the Worldwide Monitor Institute, a nonprofit that gathered proof to help within the prosecution of warfare crimes within the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides, amongst different crimes in opposition to humanity.
To additional illuminate international injustices, Scott based Linden Productions and labored to supply initiatives 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 concerning the hunt for infamous Bosnian Serb chief Radovan Karadzic who was indicted by The Hague’s Worldwide Prison Courtroom. In 2006, she additionally produced documentary King Leopold’s Ghost, concerning the exploitation of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium.
