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Pippa Scott

Birth Place: Los Angeles, CA, USA

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BIO

Scott attended Radcliffe and UCLA before studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in England. Shortly after her return to the United 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 as Lucy, a niece of John Wayne's character in John Ford's epic The Searchers.

Scott was cast in the 1958 film As Young as We Are 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. She appeared as Pegeen in the 1958 Warner Bros. film, Auntie Mame.

She appeared as Abigail in the 1959 episode of Maverick titled "Easy Mark" starring Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick. In the 1959–1960 CBS Television series Mr. Lucky, starring John Vivyan and Ross Martin, she had a recurring role as Maggie Shank-Rutherford.

Scott guest-starred on such series as The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Twilight Zone in "The Trouble with Templeton" starring Brian Aherne and Sydney Pollack (in which she performed a bravura 1920s dance sequence), Thriller, F Troop, Have Gun - Will Travel with Richard Boone, Redigo, The Tall Man with Clu Gulager, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Rat Patrol, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., and Gunsmoke (as a woman, taken by Native Americans during a raid, who during a year of captivity falls in love with a native suitor in the S7E10 “Indian Ford” in 1961).

In 1962–1963, she appeared in the first season of NBC's The Virginian in the recurring role of Molly Wood, publisher, editor, and reporter of The Medicine Bow Banner.: 1143–1144  She made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr. In 1963, she played defendant Gwynn Elston in "The Case of the Bigamous Spouse"; in 1966, she played defendant Ethel Andrews in "The Case of the Fanciful Frail".

In 1964, she guest-starred with Eddie Albert and Claude Rains in the episode "A Time to Be Silent" of The Reporter. She guest-starred in "The Garden House", an episode of ABC's The Fugitive, starring David Janssen. Her last notable film roles were the wife of Dick Van Dyke's character in the comedy Cold Turkey (1971), and as Dabney Coleman's wife in the TV movie Bad Ronald (1974), although she sporadically played minor characters throughout the 1970s and '80s, 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.

In 1972, Scott appeared in the educational short film Magical Disappearing Money, where she starred as a grocery consultant advising people about saving money by buying cheaper items, and how they can substitute for expensive items. The short was later featured on the RiffTrax website and YouTube channel.

She played an actress stranded in Virginia due to money problems in a 1973 episode of The Waltons. In 1973, she played a murder victim in Columbo: Requiem for a Falling Star. Her last regular TV role was as nursery-school teacher Maggie Hearn in the 15-episode 1976 NBC police drama Jigsaw John starring Jack Warden.

She returned to the big screen in 2011's Footprints, for which she was nominated for the Stockholm Krystal Award for Best Supporting Actress at the Method Fest Independent Film Festival.

STAGE CREDITS

[Broadway]
1957
Betty

[Broadway]
1956
Milly Temple


Movies

The Searchers
[ 1956 ] Lucy Edwards
As Young as We Are
[ 1958 ] Kim Hutchins
Auntie Mame
[ 1958 ] Pegeen Ryan
My Six Loves
[ 1963 ] Dianne Soper
Quick, Let's Get Married
[ 1964 ] Gina
For Pete's Sake!
[ 1966 ] Attendant's Wife
Petulia
[ 1968 ] May
Some Kind of a Nut
[ 1969 ] Doctor Sara
Cold Turkey
[ 1971 ] Natalie Brooks
The Sound of Murder
[ 1984 ] Ilene Forbes
Footprints
[ 2009 ] Genevieve
Automotive
[ 2013 ] Helen

TV Shows

Mannix
Wanda Kerts, Barbara Brockway

Awards and Nominations


winner
Theatre World Awards - 1957 - Performance

Pippa Scott, Child of Fortune

News


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THE WALTONS Cast to Reunite at Wilshire Ebell Theatre, 9/29

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of THE WALTONS, one of television's most iconic shows, a cast reunion is scheduled for Saturday, September 29, 2012, at the historic Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. The creator of the series, Mr. Earl Hamner, Jr., along with the cast and many writers, directors and producers of the show, will be honored by celebrities who were guests on the show, as well as by celebrity friends who starred on other classic television shows.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many Broadway shows has Pippa Scott been in?

Pippa Scott has appeared on Broadway in 2 shows.

How many West End shows has Pippa Scott been in?

Pippa Scott has not appeared in the West End.

What awards has Pippa Scott been nominated for?

and Performance (Theatre World Awards) for Child of Fortune.

What awards has Pippa Scott won?

Pippa Scott has won a Theatre World Award for her performance in Child of Fortune.

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