Margaretta Scott
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Margaretta Scott (February 13, 1912 – April 15, 2005) was an English actress.
Born in London, she is best remembered for playing the wealthy and eccentric widow Mrs Pumphrey (who was based largely on Miss Marjory Warner of Sowerby and her Pekingese Bambi) in the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1990).
However, she had a long acting career of over seventy years, and was the last surviving signatory of the document that established Equity, the British actors' trade union, in 1934.
She played at the Old Vic in 1934, in George Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion and in 1958 played at the Bristol Old Vic in Hamlet.
During the 1930s, Scott starred in several screen versions of Shakespeare plays. Her film roles included Things to Come (1936), Girl in the News (1941), and Fanny by Gaslight (1941). She continued to appear in British films throughout the 1950s, and in the 1960s and 1970s appeared extensively on television, her roles including that of Catherine de Medici in Elizabeth R.
She was married to composer John Wooldridge, who was killed in a car accident in 1958. Their daughter, Susan Wooldridge, is also a well-known actress.