Overview

• Scott, born Nov. 10, 1934, in Los Angeles to screenwriter Allan Scott and stage actress Laura Straub, launched her career with a 1956 Broadway debut.
• She portrayed Lucy in John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) and interior decorator Pegeen in Auntie Mame (1958) before guest-starring on series including The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason and Columbo.
• In 1964 she married producer Lee Rich, with whom she divorced in 1983 and reunited in 1996, remaining together until his death in 2012.
• Motivated by her uncle Adrian Scott’s blacklist experience, she founded the International Monitor Institute in 1993 to assist war crimes prosecutions in conflicts from the Balkans to Congo.
• She died May 22 at her Santa Monica home of congenital heart failure and is survived by daughters Jessica and Miranda and five grandchildren.