Obituary: Martha Scott

Actress, died aged 90.

Martha Scott was nominated for a best actress Oscar for her role as the doomed Emily in the Our Town, a role she had created on the stage. Scott, who died in California, appeared in more than 20 films, including The Howards of Virginia with Cary Grant, The Desperate Hours with Humphrey Bogart, and The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, both with Charlton Heston.

"I played his mother twice and his wife twice," Scott said of Heston in a 1986 interview. Scott appeared in a number of television shows, including playing Sue Ellen Ewing's mother on Dallas and a mysterious grandmother in the soap opera

General Hospital. "There are very few parts for, shall we say, older women," Scott said in 1986.