Pippa Scott, who played one of the girls kidnapped alongside Natalie Wood in John Ford Researchers and the secretary of the character title of Rosalind Russell in Aunt Mameis dead. She was 90 years old.
Scott died peacefully on May 2 of congenital heart failure at his home in Santa Monica, said his daughter Miranda Tollman The Hollywood Reporter.
Scott’s film’s curriculum vitae also included My six loves (1963), Richard Lester Petilia (1968), Norman Lear Cold turkey (1971) and Michael Lindsay-Hogg The noise of murder (1982).
On television, the redhead depicted the wife of a Broadway actor (Brian Aherne) transported over time in 1960 Twilight Episode “The Disorder With Templeton”; The wife of a rabbi helped the character of Morey Amsterdam with his very late bar in 1966 Dick Van Dyke Show Episode “Buddy Sorrell: Man and Boy”; And played the romantic interest in Jack Warden’s detective on the 1976 NBC drama Jigsaw John.
Scott’s career has experienced a stimulating departure with her described the unhappy Lucy Edwards, the older sister of Debbie Edwards de Wood, in the John Wayne featuring Researchers (1956). And in Aunt MameShe played the role of Pegeen, who ends up falling in love with Patrick Dennis from Roger Smith.
Scott was born in Los Angeles on November 10, 1934. His mother was the actress of stage Laura Straub, and her father was Allan Scott, the screenwriter nominated for the Oscars behind the musicals Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Top hat (1935) and Swing time (1936).
His uncle, a writer-producer Adrian Scott, was put on black list during the McCarthy era as one of the Hollywood Ten. (She would appear in a 1964 film written by himThe confession.)
Generated in Radcliffe and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Scott made his debut in Broadway in 1956 in Jed Harris’ Child of fortuneAnd in 1958, she played as a teacher who was kidnapped As young as we are.
Scott guest has played in many television shows, with appearances on Mr. Lucky,, The Virginian,, Maladder,, Thriller,, Have a pistol – will travel,, Dr Kildare,, The fugitive,, Wagon train,, Ben Casey,, Perry Mason,, Wagon train,, Troop,, I espionne,, Family affair,, Medical center,, Manure,, The Mary Tyler Moore To show,, Mission: Impossible,, Barnaby Jones,, Colon,, Waltons,, Ironic,, The streets of San Francisco,, Mannix And Remington Steele.
On stage, she appeared in the New York Company of the years 1959 Look back in anger and 1984 Isn’t that romantic and collaborated with John Houseman at the UCLA in a 1973 production of Three sisters In preparation for the start of the Center Theater Group.
In 1964, Scott married Lee Rich, producer and founding partner of Lorimar Productions, the company behind renowned programs Waltons,, Dallas,, Hawk,, Palisade,, Eight is enough And The Blue Knight. They divorced in 1983 but reconnected in 1996 and stayed together until his death in 2012.
As a child whose family experienced the consequences of persecution, Scott in 1993 founded the International Monitor Institute, a non -profit organization that has collected evidence to help the pursuit of war crimes in the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Congo, Cambodia and Iraq and the systemic use of violin soldiers and children in the genocide.
IMI’s work continues to help the prosecution by war crime through the Department of Human Rights at the Duke University to date.
Scott also founded Linden Productions to further inform human rights violations, and his work includes projects commissioned by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and the International Rescue Committee.
In 1998, she produced for PBS ‘ Front line the documentary The most sought after man in the worldAbout the hunt for the Bosnian Serbian chief Radovan Karadzic. And in 2006, she produced another doc, The ghost of King LeopoldAbout the exploitation of the Congo by the King of Belgium.
After two decades behind the camera, she made her last appearance of an actor in the independent functionality Footprints (2009).
The survivors include her daughters, Miranda and Jessica, and five grandchildren.
