Susan Clark

Susan Clark (born March 8, 1940) is a Canadian actress, known for her movie roles such as Coogan's Bluff and Colossus: The Forbin Project, and for her role as Katherine on the American television sitcom Webster, on which she appeared with her husband, Alex Karras.

Personal life

Clark was born Nora Golding in Sarnia, Ontario, the daughter of Eleanor Almond (née McNaughton) and George Raymond Golding.^[1] Clark grew up in Toronto, where she attended Northern Secondary School. She was one of several successful entertainers and many notable persons to have attended this school. She married Alex Karras, who became her Webster co-star, in 1980, and their daughter Katie was born the same year. They met when they costarred in the TV movie, Babe, in which she played Babe Didrikson Zaharias (for which Clark won an Emmy in 1976), and he played her husband, professional wrestler George Zaharias. Clark and Karras remained married until his death on October 10, 2012.

Career

Clark had leading roles in several films, including Coogan's Bluff with Clint Eastwood in 1968, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here with Robert Redford in 1969, Valdez Is Coming with Burt Lancaster in 1971, Showdown with Dean Martin in 1973, Night Moves with Gene Hackman in 1975, the disaster film Airport 1975, and another disaster film City on Fire with Barry Newman, Leslie Nielsen, and Shelley Winters. In 1976, Clark starred in a three-hour made-for-television movie biography of the aviator Amelia Earhart, and her marriage to noted publisher G.P. Putnam, for which she received an Emmy nomination for Best Actress. She posed topless for Playboy in the February, 1973 issue, in a pictorial entitled "The Ziegfeld Girls: A dazzling review starring the talking pictures' own Susan Clark".

Clark played Dr. Cleo Markham in the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project, hooker Cherry Forever in Porky's (in which Alex Karras also starred), Elizabeth Murray in Emily of New Moon, Elaine Moore in the television movie Trapped, and Muriel Mulligan in the 1994 television movie Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story. She also played murderer Beth Chadwick in the Columbo episode "Lady in Waiting", which co-starred Leslie Nielsen and Jessie Royce Landis.

Most recently, in 2006, Clark appeared at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in the Warehouse production of The Retreat from Moscow, and in the 2007 Mainstage production of The Importance of Being Earnest.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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External links

• Susan Clark at the Internet Movie Database