Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Female

Birthday

1912-09-22

Deathday

2003-05-28 (90 years old)

Place of Birth

Jamesport, Missouri, USA

Martha Scott

Biography

Martha Ellen Scott (1912–2003) was an American actress best known for her roles as mother of the lead character in numerous films and television shows.

Known For

7.9%

Ben-Hur

Nov 18, 1959

7.8%

The Ten Commandments

Oct 5, 1956

8.1%

Columbo

Sep 15, 1971

7.2%

The Six Million Dollar Man

Jan 18, 1974

7.3%

Magnum, P.I.

Dec 11, 1980

7.5%

Murder, She Wrote

Sep 30, 1984

6.8%

Charlotte's Web

Mar 1, 1973

5.7%

Airport 1975

Oct 18, 1974

7.0%

The Bionic Woman

Jan 14, 1976

6.8%

Dallas

Apr 2, 1978

6.8%

Dallas

Apr 2, 1978

6.3%

The Love Boat

Sep 24, 1977

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Acting

2003

The Making of The Ten Commandments as Self (archive footage)

1995

Charlton Heston: For All Seasons as Self

1990

Daughter of the Streets as Sarah

1989		William Holden: The Golden Boy as Self
1989		Love and Betrayal as Ginger

1988

Doin' Time on Planet Earth as Virginia Camalier

1986

Adam: His Song Continues as Gram Walsh

1984		Murder, She Wrote as Georgia Wilson
1984		Highway to Heaven

1983		Adam as Gram Walsh
1983		Summer Girl as Martina Shelburne

1982		Hotel
1982		Hotel as Estelle

1980		Magnum, P.I. as Jeanie LaSalle
1980		Secrets of Midland Heights
1980		Father Figure as Hilda Wollman
1980		Beulah Land as Penelope Pennington

1979		Married: The First Year
1979		Charleston as Mrs. Farrell (Aunt Louisa)

1978		The Word as Sarah Randall
1978		Dallas as Mrs. Shepard
1978		Dallas as Patricia Shepard

1977		The Turning Point as Adelaide
1977		The Love Boat as Janet Latham

1976

The Bionic Woman

1975		The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond as Mumsie
1975		The Bionic Woman as Helen Elgin
1975		The Abduction of Saint Anne as Mother Michael

1974		Airport 1975 as Sister Beatrice
1974		Police Woman
1974		Murder in the First Person Singular as Mrs. Emerson
1974		Thursday's Game as Mrs. Reynolds
1974		The Man from Independence as Mamma Truman
1974		Sorority Kill as House Mother
1974		The Six Million Dollar Man as Helen Elgin

1973		Police Story
1973		Charlotte's Web as Mrs. Arable (voice)
1973		The Devil's Daughter as Mrs. Stone

1972		The Sandy Duncan Show
1972		The Bob Newhart Show

1971		Lemonade as Mabel
1971		Columbo as Margaret Meadis

1969		Marcus Welby, M.D. as Mrs. Loring
1969		The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Grandmother

1968

The Mod Squad as Belle Fuller

1967

Cimarron Strip

1965

The F.B.I. as Katharine Lamberth

1963

The Greatest Show on Earth as Claire Kyle

1960

Route 66

1959

Ben-Hur as Miriam

1957		Sayonara as Mrs. Webster
1957		Eighteen and Anxious as Lottie Graham

1956

The Ten Commandments as Yochabel

1955		The Desperate Hours as Eleanor 'Ellie' Hilliard
1955		Hollywood Preview as Self

1954

Modern Romances

1953

Revlon Mirror Theatre

1951

When I Grow Up as Mother Reed

1950		Lux Video Theatre as Esmerelda
1950		The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
1950		Your Show of Shows
1950		Robert Montgomery Presents as Ellen Scott
1950		Robert Montgomery Presents as Julia Brougham
1950		Robert Montgomery Presents
1950		Robert Montgomery Presents as Marietta Jackson

1949		Strange Bargain as Georgia Wilson
1949		Lights Out
1949		Suspense

1948

The Ed Sullivan Show as Self

1947

So Well Remembered as Olivia

1943		In Old Oklahoma as Catherine Elizabeth Allen
1943		Hi Diddle Diddle as Janie Prescott
1943		Stage Door Canteen as Martha Scott

1941		One Foot in Heaven as Hope Morris Spence
1941		They Dare Not Love as Marta Keller
1941		Cheers for Miss Bishop as Ella Bishop

1940		The Howards of Virginia as Jane Peyton-Howard
1940		Our Town as Emily Webb