| Pippa Scott | |
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Scott with Chuck Connors in 1960. |
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| Born | November 10, 1935 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | actress |
| Years active | 1956-1984, 2009-present |
| Spouse | Lee Rich (?-?) |
Pippa Scott (born November 10, 1935) is an American actress who has appeared in movies and television since the 1950s. She was also married to a founding partner of Lorimar Productions, Lee Rich. She is the daughter of screenwriter Allan Scott and the niece of blacklisted screenwriter Adrian Scott.
In 1962-1963, Scott appeared in the first season of NBC's The Virginian, starring James Drury and Doug McClure. She portrayed Molly Wood, the publisher, editor, and reporter of The Medicine Bow Banner, a newspaper which she inherited from her father, as revealed in the episode "The Big Deal". In the Owen Wister novel from which The Virginian was loosely based, Molly Wood was the Virginian's girlfriend and subsequent wife. Scott was the first cast member to leave The Virginian. Ultimately all except Drury and McClure vacated the series or, like Tim Matheson and Lee Majors, joined the cast in its last season or two.[1]
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Scott attended Radcliffe and UCLA before studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in England. Shortly after her return to the 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 with a role in John Ford's epic The Searchers.
Scott was cast in the 1958 film As Young As We Were 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.[2] She also appeared as Pegeen in the 1958 movie Auntie Mame. In 1964 she played Captain Martin in an episode of the series 'Gomer Pyle' titled 'Captain Ironpants'. She appeared as Abigail in the 1959 episode of Maverick titled "Easy Mark". In the CBS television series Mr. Lucky (1959–1960), starring John Vivyan (1915-1983) and Ross Martin (1920-1981), she had a recurring role as Maggie Shank-Rutherford, Lucky's young girlfriend.
About this time, she also guest starred with Chuck Connors in the 1960 episode "Trial by Fear" of CBS's anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. She appeared on NBC's The Outlaws series with Barton MacLane and Don Collier. In 1964, Scott guest starred with Eddie Albert and Claude Rains in the episode "A Time to Be Silent" of the short-lived CBS drama, The Reporter, starring Harry Guardino as a journalist for the fictitious New York Globe. She also guest starred in "The Garden House", an episode of The Fugitive, starring David Janssen.
Her last notable film role was playing the wife of Dick Van Dyke's character in the 1971 comedy Cold Turkey although she sporadically played minor characters throughout the 1970s and 1980s, 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. She also was in an episode of The Waltons in 1974 as an actress in a traveling show.
Scott was married to Lee Rich, a founding partner of Lorimar Productions, an Emmy-winning television company and the single largest provider of programming to the networks for two and a half decades.