Jacqueline Scott

Jacqueline Scott (born 1935) is an American actress who has appeared in several films and television programs as well as guest starring in over one hundred television shows. A TV Guide article once referred to Jacqueline as “The Youngest Old-Timer in the Business,” because she played opposite most of the leading men of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

Biography

Scott was born in Sikeston, Missouri, and spent a good part of her childhood moving from town to town following her father, who worked for the state buying up right-of-way for roads. She attended fifteen grade schools before settling down in Neosho to attend high school there.

At age three, she won a tap dancing contest, which lead her to pursue a show business career. As training, she saw every movie she could, learning how to mouth the actors' lines. Eventually she moved to St. Louis, where she worked for a small theatre company, and soon afterwards left for New York to begin her career in earnest. There she studied with Uta Hagen. Her first major role on Broadway was as the ingenue lead in The Wooden Dish, which starred Louis Calhern. This was followed by the ingenue lead in Inherit the Wind, which starred Paul Muni. She started her career in television by playing opposite such stars as Helen Hayes on live television.

In the TV series The Fugitive, Scott played the sister of Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) in five episodes telecast between 1964 and 1967, including the two-part finale that at the time became the highest-rated program in television history.

Selected filmography

• Firecreek (1968)
• Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
• Duel (1971)
• Charley Varrick (1973)
• Telefon (1977)

Television appearances

• State Trooper
• Johnny Midnight (1960)
• Dante (1961)
• The Eleventh Hour as Florence Green in "Fear Begins at Forty" (1962)
• The Twilight Zone episode "The Parallel" (1963)
• Bonanza (TV series)"The Hostage" (1964)
• Channing
• Temple Houston (1963)
• Laramie
• CHiPs
• Cold Case
• Gunsmoke (Eight episodes, several as the Widow Abelia)
• Marcus Welby, M.D.
• Mission: Impossible
• Perry Mason
• Planet of the Apes
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
• The Fugitive (Five episodes as Donna Kimble Taft)
• The Jamie Kennedy Experiment
• The Twilight Zone
• Walt Disney Presents
• Outer Limits "The Galaxy Being", "Counterweight".
• Have Gun Will Travel
• Richard Diamond, Private Detective
• The Untouchables

External links

• Official website
• Jacqueline Scott at the Internet Movie Database