Jacqueline Scott
Jacqueline Sue Scott (born June 25, 1931 in Sikeston , Missouri - † July 23, 2020 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress who has starred in more than 100 films and television series since 1956. In addition to her appearances in dozens of television series, she gained notoriety primarily through roles in Steven Spielberg's debut film Duell and the thriller The Great Coup .
Life
Jacqueline Scott was born on January 1, 1932 in Sikeston, Scott County . She attends a total of 15 different schools because her father often had to move for work. She graduated from high school in Neosho .
Scott began her career as an actress in a small theater company in St. Louis , before moving to New York and performing in larger theaters there. Her first role on Broadway was with The Wooden Dish alongside Louis Calhern . She also played in Inherit the Wind on the side of Paul Muni .
Scott got her first film role in 1958 in Macabre . She had her first appearance in a television series two years earlier. Here they discovered the producers of the film and hired Scott for the role of Polly Baron .
In the following years she played supporting roles in several other film productions, but remained mainly active on television. Scott's appearances there included nine episodes of the western series Smoking Colts from 1959 to 1972, in which she impersonated both Abelia Johnson and Anne Madison . From 1964 to 1967, Scott appeared occasionally as Donna Kimble Taft , sister of the main character Dr. See Richard Kimble in On the Run . Between 1966 and 1973 she worked in a total of four episodes of the crime series FBI . In 1969 she played a supporting role as Laurie Mills in the western Frank Patch - Your hours are numbered at the side of her film partner Jimmy Lydon .
Jacqueline Scott had one of her best-known film appearances in 1971 in Steven Spielberg's debut film Duel , in which she played the role of Mrs. Mann , the wife of the main character David Mann, played by Dennis Weaver . The thriller, which was only intended for television broadcasts, became extremely successful and helped Scott to bigger roles. She was seen as Nadine Varrick in the thriller The Great Coup in 1973 and in the animal horror film In the violence of the giant ants in 1977 . In 1987, Scott played the role of Ruth Wilson in the television series The Rich and Beautiful . Until 2004 she played numerous guest appearances in well-known series and sitcoms. Scott made her last film appearance in 2009 in Sugar Boxx .
Scott had been married to Gene Lesser since 1958. The couple have two children. Even in old age, she appeared for interviews about her acting career, including in the spring of 2018 together with her colleague Jan Shepard in the TV and YouTube series A Word on Western about her roles in Smoking Colts .
Jacqueline Scott died of lung cancer on July 23, 2020 at the age of 89 .
Filmography (selection)
Movies
- 1958: Macabre
- 1962: House of Women
- 1968: The Five Bird Free (Firecreek)
- 1969: Frank Patch - Your hours are numbered (Death of a Gunfighter)
- 1971: Duel (Duel)
- 1973: The Big Coup (Charley Varrick)
- 1973: Outrage (TV movie)
- 1977: In the hands of the giant ants (Empire of the Ants)
- 1977: phone
- 1981: A Matter of Life and Death (TV movie)
- 1982: Bewitched (Jinxed!)
- 2009: Sugar Boxx
TV Shows
Unless otherwise stated, one sequence each
- 1958: 77 Sunset Strip
- 1958–1960: Perry Mason (three episodes)
- 1958–1963: Have Gun - Will Travel (five episodes)
- 1959: Richard Diamond, Private Detective
- 1959–1972: Smoking Colts ( Gunsmoke , nine episodes)
- 1962–1965: Bonanza (three episodes)
- 1962–1963: At the foot of the blue mountains ( Laramie , three episodes)
- 1962: The Shiloh Ranch People (The Virginian)
- 1963, 1964: The Outer Limits (two episodes)
- 1963: Temple Houston
- 1963: The Untouchables (The Untouchables)
- 1964: The Big Adventure (The Great Adventure)
- 1964–1967: On the run ( The Fugitive , five episodes)
- 1966–1973: FBI ( The FBI ; four episodes)
- 1970: Cobra, Take Over (Mission: Impossible)
- 1972: Cannon
- 1972: Owen Marshall - Counselor at Law
- 1972, 1974: The Streets of San Francisco ( The Streets of San Francisco , two episodes)
- 1974: Planet of the Apes
- 1975–1978: Barnaby Jones (three episodes)
- 1976: Starsky & Hutch
- 1978: Make-up and Pistols (Police Woman)
- 1978: CHiPs
- 1981: Trapper John, MD
- 1981: Vegas
- 1984: Trio with four fists (Riptide)
- 1987: Reich und Schön ( The Bold And The Beautiful ; four episodes)
- 1987: LA Law - Star Lawyers, Tricks, Litigation (LA Law)
- 2004: Cold Case - No victim is ever forgotten (Cold Case)
Web links
- Jacqueline Scott in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website of Jacqueline Scott (English)
- Interview with Jacqueline Scott and Jan Shepard on the YouTube page of A Word on Westerns (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Jacqueline Scott: The Classic TV Actress Discusses Raymond Burr, Walter Matthau, and Curly Hair. In: Classic Films and TV Café. March 31, 2016, accessed May 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Mike Barnes: Jacqueline Scott, Actress in 'The Fugitive' and 'Charley Varrick,' Dies at 89. In: The Hollywood Reporter . July 28, 2020, accessed July 29, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Scott, Jacqueline |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scott, Jacqueline Sue (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1931 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sikeston , Missouri , United States |
DATE OF DEATH | 23rd July 2020 |
Place of death | Los Angeles , California , United States |