Pippa Scott
Actor
Biography
Philippa Scott (November 10, 1935 — May 22, 2025) was an American actress who has appeared in film and television since the 1950s.
Scott was born in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of actress Laura Straub and screenwriter Allan Scott; an uncle was the blacklisted screenwriter Adrian Scott. Scott married Lee Rich, a founding partner of Lorimar Productions, in 1964. They had two children together before they divorced in 1983, though they maintained a friendship until he died in 2012.
In the 1970s, along with steady work acting in television productions, Scott was a student at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where she pursued a degree in landscape architecture.
By the 1990s, Scott had become active in human rights work, such as supporting the Commission of Experts formed under United Nations Security Council Resolution 780 in its research of the "widespread violations of international humanitarian law" committed during the Bosnian genocide.
As Director
Filmography
The Searchers
as Lucy Edwards 1956
Auntie Mame
as Pegeen Ryan 1958
Bad Ronald
as Mrs. Wood 1974
Petulia
as May 1968
Cold Turkey
as Natalie Brooks 1971
My Six Loves
as Dianne Soper 1963
Some Kind of a Nut
as Dr. Sara 1969
Terror on the 40th Floor
as Thelma Overland 1974
Mayerling
as Hanna Vetsera 1957
Quick, Let's Get Married
as Gina 1964
As Young As We Are
as Kim Hutchins 1958
Automotive
as Helen 2013
Footprints
as Genevieve 2011
For Pete's Sake
as Attendant's Wife 1966
Demon and the Mummy
1976
A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and 'The Searchers'
as Self (voice) 1998