Jacqueline Sue Scott was an American actress. For Disney, she played Fran Fitch in Smoke, Mary Thompson in The Boy and the Bronc Buster, and Aunt Louise in The Ghost of Cypress Swamp.
She 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 purchasing right-of-way for roads. She attended 15 grade schools before settling down in Neosho, Missouri, where she graduated from Neosho High School in 1949. She then went to New York and attended Hunter College. At age three, she won a tap dancing contest, which led her to pursue a show business career. Her initial experience on stage came when she traveled with a tent show in Missouri. 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 City to begin her career. There, she studied with Uta Hagen. On Broadway, she portrayed Susan Dennison in The Wooden Dish and Rachel Brown in Inherit the Wind.
Scott made her movie debut in William Castle's Macabre and appeared in other films, such as House of Women, Firecreek, Death of a Gunfighter, Empire of the Ants, Telefon, and Sugar Boxx. However, Scott has numerous television credits, which included Gunsmoke, 77 Sunset Strip, Perry Mason, U.S. Marshal, Have Gun - Will Travel, Bat Masterson, Adventures in Paradise, Lassie, Laramie, Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Outer Limits, The Fugitive, The F.B.I., Insight, Mission: Impossible, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Ironside, The Streets of San Francisco, Planet of the Apes, Barnaby Jones, CHiPs, The Bold and the Beautiful, L.A. Law, and Cold Case.
Scott died on July 23, 2020 at her home in Los Angeles from lung cancer and was cremated.
Roles[]
(Smoke)
(The Boy and the Bronc Buster)
