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Pippa Scott is the daughter of noted stage actress Laura Straub and playwright/screenwriter Allan Scott, who wrote the Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire films. She is also the niece of the writer/producer Adrian Scott one of the legendary Hollywood Ten of the Hollywood Blacklist.Educated at Radcliffe and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London, Scott debuted in Jed Harris' last Broadway production, Child of Fortune, based upon Henry James' Wings of the Dove. Her next role was Lucy in John Ford's iconic film The Searchers. The following years had Ms. Scott showcased in movies such as Auntie Mame, Petulia and My Six Loves and on Broadway in Miss Lonelyhearts, Look Back in Anger and Mary, Mary, which she also took on national tour in the United States. Ms. Scott collaborated with John Houseman at UCLA in preparation for the start of the Center Theater Group and performed in scores of episodic television productions in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's.Along with her husband Lee Rich, Ms. Scott was a founding partner of Lorimar Productions, an Emmy-award winning television company and the single largest provider of programming to the networks for two and a half decades. They produced such classics as The Waltons; Dallas; Falcon Crest; Knots Landing; Eight is Enough and the Blue Knight. Lorimar produced many films as well including Moonstruck, A Fish Called Wanda, Sybil and Being There.In the 80's a long-standing concern caused Ms. Scott to focus on humanitarian issues. She founded The International Monitor Institute (IMI), a non-profit dealing with the prosecution of war crimes. IMI was requested by the War Crimes Tribunal to locate, collect and provide visual evidence for prosecutors to use in the trials for the conviction of war criminals. IMI concentrated on the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Congo, Cambodia, Iraq and Child Soldiers. IMI assisted many organizations both nationally and internationally, in the investigation of human rights violations and in documenting the circumstances that produced such conditions. The work of the Institute was intended to help nations remove the impediment which block respect for individual rights, civil society and development. The International Monitor continues to be in use today, residing in the Human Rights department at Duke University.Ms. Scott also began Linden Productions to develop and produce documentaries related to international conflict and human rights violations. Linden has made numerous films for organizations such as the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and the International Rescue Committee to name only a few. A feature documentary, King Leopold's Ghost, based on the bestselling book by Adam Hochschild is about colonial greed and its ravages past and present in the Congo. Scott's film won Best Documentary at seven film festivals and today is playing on Amazon Prime and other online platforms. Another documentary, PBS Frontline's, "The Most Wanted Man, the Hunt for Radovan Karadzic" [a Serbian War Criminal] won at the Berlin Film Festival. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Alison Smythson

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