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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... MORE

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. 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 LESS