Martha Scott

Biography: Direct from the University of Michigan, actress Martha Scott made her first professional appearance with the Globe Theatre troupe, performing abridged versions of Shakespeare at the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair. Scott then worked extensively in stock and on radio before making her celebrated Broadway bow as Emily Webb in the original 1938 production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town. She repeated the role of Emily in the 1940 film version, earning an Oscar nomination despite the fact that the film's tacked-on happy ending rendered Scott's famous "back from the dead" monologue pointless. Scott's subsequent film assignments, notably Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) and One Foot in Heaven (1941), found her portraying characters far older than herself with total credibility. Having previously played both the wife and the sister of Charlton Heston (nine years her junior) on stage and TV, Scott portrayed Heston's mother on the big screen in The Ten Commandments (1955)Direct from the University of Michigan, actress Martha Scott made her first professional appearance with the Globe Theatre troupe, performing abridged versions of Shakespeare at the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair. Scott then worked extensively in stock and on radio before making her celebrated Broadway bow as Emily Webb in the original 1938 production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town. She repeated the role of Emily in the 1940 film version, earning an Oscar nomination despite the fact that the film's tacked-on happy ending rendered Scott's famous "back from the dead" monologue pointless. Scott's subsequent film assignments, notably Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) and One Foot in Heaven (1941), found her portraying characters far older than herself with total credibility. Having previously played both the wife and the sister of Charlton Heston (nine years her junior) on stage and TV, Scott portrayed Heston's mother on the big screen in The Ten Commandments (1955) and Ben-Hur (1959). Her television resumé includes the 1954 anthology Modern Romance, which she hosted, and the roles of Mrs. Patricia Shepard and Margaret Millington in, respectively, Dallas and Secrets of Midland Heights. Her most intriguing TV assignment was the 1987 Murder She Wrote episode "Strangest of Bargains," wherein, with the help of extensive stock footage, Scott, Jeffrey Lynn and Harry Morgan reprised their roles from the 1949 film Strange Bargain. Dabbling in producing in the 1970s, Scott served as co-producer of the 1978 Broadway play First Monday in October, functioning in the same capacity when the play was turned into a film in 1981. Martha Scott was married for many years to musician Mel Powell. Expand

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tbd General Hospital: Season 43 Apr 1, 2005 Jennifer Talbot (1985-1986) tbd
tbd General Hospital: Season 42 Apr 1, 2004 Jennifer Talbot (1985-1986) tbd
tbd General Hospital: Season 41 Apr 1, 2003 Jennifer Talbot (1985-1986) tbd
tbd General Hospital: Season 40 Apr 1, 2002 Jennifer Talbot (1985-1986) tbd
tbd General Hospital: Season 39 Jan 2, 2002 Jennifer Talbot (1985-1986) tbd
tbd General Hospital: Season 38 Jan 2, 2001 Jennifer Talbot (1985-1986) tbd
tbd General Hospital: Season 37 Jan 3, 2000 Jennifer Talbot (1985-1986) tbd
tbd General Hospital: Season 36 Jan 4, 1999 Jennifer Talbot (1985-1986) tbd
tbd General Hospital: Season 35 Jan 2, 1998 Jennifer Talbot (1985-1986) tbd
tbd General Hospital: Season 34 Mar 4, 1997 Jennifer Talbot (1985-1986) tbd
tbd General Hospital: Season 33 Jan 4, 1996 Jennifer Talbot (1985-1986) tbd
tbd General Hospital: Season 32 Nov 7, 1995 Jennifer Talbot (1985-1986) tbd
tbd General Hospital: Season 31 Apr 22, 1994 Jennifer Talbot (1985-1986) tbd
tbd General Hospital: Season 30 Mar 31, 1993 Jennifer Talbot (1985-1986) tbd
tbd Murder, She Wrote: Season 3 Sep 28, 1986 Georgia Wilson tbd
tbd Highway to Heaven: Season 3 Sep 24, 1986 Laura tbd
tbd Dallas: Season 9 Sep 27, 1985 Patricia Shephard / Patricia tbd
tbd Magnum, P.I.: Season 4 Sep 29, 1983 Jeanie LaSalle tbd
tbd Dallas: Season 3 Sep 21, 1979 Patricia Shephard / Mrs. Shepard tbd
tbd The Love Boat: Season 3 Sep 15, 1979 Janet Latham tbd
tbd Dallas: Season 2 Sep 23, 1978 Mrs. Shepard tbd
tbd The Bob Newhart Show: Season 6 Sep 24, 1977 Martha Hartley / Martha Scott tbd
tbd The Bionic Woman (1976): Season 2 Sep 29, 1976 Helen Elgin / Helen Eligin tbd
tbd The Bob Newhart Show: Season 5 Sep 25, 1976 Martha Hartley / Martha Hartley / Martha Scott tbd
tbd The Bionic Woman (1976): Season 1 Jan 14, 1976 Helen Elgin / Helen Elgin / Helen Eligin tbd
tbd The Bob Newhart Show: Season 4 Sep 13, 1975 Martha Hartley / Martha Hartley / Martha Scott tbd
tbd Columbo: Season 4 Sep 15, 1974 Margaret tbd
tbd The Bob Newhart Show: Season 3 Sep 14, 1974 Mrs. Hartley / Martha Hartley / Martha Scott tbd
tbd The Bob Newhart Show: Season 2 Sep 15, 1973 Martha Hartley / Martha Scott / Mrs. Hartley tbd
tbd The Bob Newhart Show: Season 1 Sep 17, 1972 Martha Hartley (1972-1977) Bob's Busy-Body Mother. / Mrs. Eleanor Hartley / Martha Hartley / Martha Scott tbd