Sue Lyon
This blonde ingenue made a rocky transition to leading lady. Lyon won the controversial role of Dolores Haze, the sexually charged adolescent and the object of an older man's obsessions in Stanley Kubrick's "Lolita" (1962). From the Vladimir Nabokov novel of the same name, Kubrick's "Lolita," although a toned-down version of the story, was nonetheless one of the most notorious films of its day and Lyon rode to fame on its coattails. She played a similar role in John Huston's "Night of the Iguana" (1964), competing for the affections of Richard Burton's defrocked alcoholic preacher against the likes of Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner, and she played an innocent in John Ford's last film, "Seven Women" (1965). She continued to work in films and television throughout the 1960s and 70s. Sue Lyon died in Los Angeles on December 26, 2019 at the age of 73.
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Sue Lyon
Filmography
Movies
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87% |
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Alligator | ABC Newswoman (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fun Girls | Lynn (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | River of Promises | Caroline (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet |
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End of the World | Sylvia Boran (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready | Wendy Sutherland (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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Smash-Up on Interstate 5 | Burnsey (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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Invisible Strangler | Darlene DeLong (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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Crash! | Kim Denne (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Autopsy | Angela (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | To Love, Perhaps to Die | Ana Vernia (Character) | - | 1973 |
40% |
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Evel Knievel | Linda (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | But I Don't Want to Get Married! | Laura (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet |
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Four Rode Out | Myra Polsen (Character) | - | 1969 |
63% |
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Tony Rome | Diana Pines (Character) | - | 1967 |
75% |
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The Flim Flam Man | Bonnie Lee Packard (Character) | - | 1967 |
83% |
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Seven Women | Emma Clark (Character) | - | 1966 |
75% |
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The Night of the Iguana | Charlotte Goodall (Character) | - | 1964 |
91% |
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Lolita | Lolita (Character) | - | 1962 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Night Gallery | Unknown (Character) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Belinda Ballard (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1964 |