Overview

• Pippa Scott died peacefully on May 22 at her Santa Monica home from congenital heart failure, her daughter Miranda Tollman said.
• She rose to prominence with roles in John Ford’s The Searchers and Auntie Mame before appearing on television series such as The Twilight Zone and Columbo.
• Born in Los Angeles in 1934 to screenwriter Allan Scott and actress Laura Straub, she was influenced by her uncle Adrian Scott’s blacklisting during the McCarthy era.
• In 1993 she established a nonprofit that provided evidence for war crimes prosecutions in the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Iraq.
• She is survived by her daughters, Miranda and Jessica, and five grandchildren, and her human rights work continues through Duke University’s Human Rights department.