Susan Oliver
Stunning blonde Susan Oliver's career as a character actress on such TV shows as "Peyton Place" and "Carter's Army" was punctuated by appearances on the stage and, surprisingly, as an aviator. She began her long career appearing in prime-time television shows in 1956, working on several series until landing her one lead, as the title character in the pregnancy drama "The Green-Eyed Blonde." This didn't help get her much work, but in 1960 she did win a supporting part opposite Elizabeth Taylor in the model/call-girl classic "Butterfield 8." Working consistently on the stage, Oliver carried on with television and occasional film work--memorably as Audrey Williams in the Hank Williams biopic "Your Cheatin' Heart"--until playing the part of Ann Howard on the suburban drama "Peyton Place" in 1966; her character caused a bit of controversy when she was murdered after two seasons. Meanwhile, Oliver chased aviation records as an ace pilot and was named Pilot of the Year in 1970. That year she also played Anna Renvic in Aaron Spelling's TV movie "Carter's Army," about black World War II troops taking a bridge from the Nazis, and in 1974 she played Sugar in the May-December romance "Ginger in the Morning," with Sissy Spacek. A TV veteran by this point, Oliver worked continuously until her retirement in 1988.
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Susan Oliver
Filmography
Movies
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9% |
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Hardly Working | Claire Trent (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Widows' Nest | Isabel (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Amelia Earhart | Neta Snook "Snookie" (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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Ginger in the Morning | Sugar (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death in Space | Carla Burke (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Once Is Never Enough | Leona Serling (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Double Jeopardy | Unknown (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Do You Take This Stranger? | Mildred Crandall (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet |
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Black Brigade | Anna Renvic (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
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The Monitors | Barbara (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
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A Man Called Gannon | Unknown (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Change of Mind | Margaret Rowe (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
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The Love-Ins | Patricia Cross (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Looking for Love | Jan McNair (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet |
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The Disorderly Orderly | Susan Andrews (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet |
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Your Cheatin' Heart | Audrey Williams (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet |
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Guns of Diablo | Maria Macklin (Character) | - | 1964 |
47% |
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Butterfield 8 | Norma (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
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The Gene Krupa Story | Dorissa Dinell (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | End of the Rope | Unknown (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Green-Eyed Blonde | Phyllis "Greeneyes" (Character) | - | 1957 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Nurse Marge Horton (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Director | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Gracie Boggs (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Story | Unknown (Character) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Petrocelli | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Story | Virginia Madison (Character) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Jill Thorson (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Sarah Elkins (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Night Gallery | Unknown (Character) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Longstreet | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dan August | Leona Serling (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian |
Carole Carson/ |
1965 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | Linda Jordan (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Valley | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Wild, Wild West | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tarzan | Peggy Dean (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Three Sons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | Julie Myers (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Man Called Shenandoah | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 1965 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Tina Khaskova (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | 88% | The Andy Griffith Show | Prisoner (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Karen Christian (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Kristine Seaver (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Route 66 | Willow (Guest Star) | 1961-1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Judy Rossiter (Guest Star) | 1957 1960 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cain's Hundred | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laramie | Jean Lavelle (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1960-1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thriller | Unknown (Character) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deputy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Teenya (Character) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Staccato | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trackdown | Rebecca Ford (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Father Knows Best | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |