Margaretta Scott (13 February 1912 – 15 April 2005) was an English stage, screen and television actress whose career spanned over seventy years. She is best remembered for playing the eccentric widow Mrs. Pumphrey in the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1990).

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Scott was married to the English composer John Wooldridge, who was killed in a car accident in 1958. Their daughter, Susan Wooldridge, is also an actress and their son, Hugh Wooldridge is a theatre director and producer. Scott died in 2005, aged 93, from natural causes and is buried with her husband, John, at St Lawrence's Church, Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire. A devout Roman Catholic, she belonged to the British Catholic Stage Guild.