Cast & creator
Pippa Scott
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Perry Mason, Perry Mason
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.
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film credits
62
television credits
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1953–2013 · acting roles
6.7
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (83)
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Perry Mason
Gwynn Elston
1957Perry Mason
Ethel Andrews
1957
Columbo
Jean Davis
1971
The Fugitive
Carol Willard
1963
Maverick
1957
Mannix
1967
Love, American Style
Kathy
1969
Ironside
Crystal Mason
1967
Mission: Impossible
Edith Thatcher
1966
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Waltons
Alvira Drummond
1972
Cannon
1971
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Elizabeth Cullus
1961Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Virginian
Molly Wood
1962
The Twilight Zone
Laura Templeton
1959
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Estelle Kamser Proust
1970
Ben Casey
1961Ben Casey
Jeanne Justin
1961
Remington Steele
Emily Dumont
1982
Barnaby Jones
Janice Harley
1973
Medical Center
Nancy Havers
1969
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964
The Rookies
1972
Gunsmoke
Mary Tabor
1955Gunsmoke
Sarah Mather
1955
The Streets of San Francisco
Edith Downing
1972
Thriller
Marcia Elizabeth Hunter
1960
Adventures in Paradise
1959Adventures in Paradise
Amanda Dawson
1959Adventures in Paradise
Judith
1959Adventures in Paradise
Mariah Feather
1959
Family Affair
1966
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Dr. Marianne Scott
1963
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Felony Squad
1966
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Sally Ainsworth
1959
Outlaws
1960
The Tall Man
1960
Lancer
1968
Tarzan
1966
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
F Troop
1965
The Rogues
Jane Tyler
1964
Mr. Lucky
Maggie
1959
The Alaskans
1959
The Rat Patrol
Drucilla
1966
The Searchers
Lucy Edwards
1956
Bus Stop
1961
The Outsider
1968
The Outcasts
1968
Stagecoach West
Susan McLord
1960
The Aquanauts
Oga Danylo
1960
Hong Kong
Peggy Jackson
1960
T.H.E. Cat
Dr. Kathryn DeVrees / Louise Hadley
1966
Matt Helm
Phyllis Hartley
1975
Sarge
Dr. Windsor
1971
Redigo
Patricia Royal
1963
General Electric Theater
Mary
1953
Petulia
May
1968
Auntie Mame
Pegeen Ryan
1958
King Leopold's Ghost
Director
2006King Leopold's Ghost
Producer
2006King Leopold's Ghost
Writer
2006Popi
Mrs. James
1976
Demon and the Mummy
1976
Cold Turkey
Natalie Brooks
1971
Quick, Let's Get Married
Gina
1964
Jigsaw John
Maggie Hearn
1976
Some Kind of a Nut
Dr. Sara
1969
Bad Ronald
Mrs. Wood
1974
Terror on the 40th Floor
Thelma Overland
1974As Young As We Are
Kim Hutchins
1958
The Sound of Murder
Ilene Forbes
1982
Mayerling
Hanna Vetsera
1957
My Six Loves
Dianne Soper
1963
For Pete's Sake
Attendant's Wife
1966
Meet the Hollowheads
Executive Producer
1989
Footprints
Genevieve
2011
Automotive
Helen
2013
A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and 'The Searchers'
Self (voice)
1998