Susannah York
Born: 1939-01-09 in Chelsea, London, England, UK
Died: 2011-01-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
Susannah York (9 January 1939 – 15 January 2011) was a British film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film. She won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. In 1991 she was appointed an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Her appearances in various hit films of the 1960s formed the basis of her international reputation,and an obituary in The Telegraph characterised her as "the blue-eyed English rose with the china-white skin and cupid lips who epitomised the sensuality of the swinging Sixties". Description above from the Wikipedia article Susannah York, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2010
- The Calling as The Prioress
2008
- Franklyn as Margaret
- Not Quite Hollywood as Self
2007
2006
- Norfolk Coast
- The Gigolos as Tessa Harrington
- You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman as Self
- The Stoning as Jean Fielding
- A Guest of life as Narrator
2003
- Visitors as Carolyn Perry
2002
- The Book of Eve as May
2000
- Jean
- St. Patrick: The Irish Legend as Concessa
1997
- Loop as Olivia
- Diana & Me as Self
- Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?) as Mike's Mum
1993
- The Higher Mortals as Miss Thorogood
- Pretty Princess as regina Cristina
1992
- Illusions as Dr. Sinclair
1991
- Devices and Desires as Meg Dennison
1990
- Fate
- The Man from the Pru as Amy Wallace
1989
- Melancholia as Catherine Lanham Franck
- Barbablù, Barbablù as Teresa
- After the War
- A Handful of Time as Susanne Walker
1988
- A Summer Story as Mrs. Dora Narracombe
- Just Ask for Diamond as Lauren Bacardi
1987
- The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Liz
- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace as Lara (voice)
- Mio in the Land of Faraway as The Weaver Woman
- Pretty Kill as Toni
- The Animals Roadshow
1986
- Casualty as Helen Grant
1985
- The Ray Bradbury Theater as Nora
- Star Quality as Lorraine Barry
- Daemon as Rachel
1984
- A Christmas Carol as Mrs. Cratchit
1983
- Group Madness as Self
- Montgomery Clift as Self
- Yellowbeard as Lady Churchill
1982
- Alice as Queen of Hearts
- The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' as Self
- We'll Meet Again
1981
- Loophole as Dinah Booker
- Late Flowering Love
1980
- Superman II as Lara
- The Awakening as Jane Turner
- Falling in Love Again as Sue Lewis (Present Day)
- Alphabet: The Story of Writing as Narrator
1979
- The Golden Gate Murders as Sister Benecia
1978
- Superman as Lara
- Long Shot as An Actress
- The Shout as Rachel Fielding
- The Silent Partner as Julie
1976
- Sky Riders as Ellen Bracken
- The Adventures of Eliza Fraser as Eliza Fraser
1975
- That Lucky Touch as Julia Richardson
- Conduct Unbecoming as Marjorie Scarlett
- The Maids as Claire
1974
- Gold as Terry Steyner
- Fallen Angels as Julia Sterroll
1973
- Orson Welles' Great Mysteries as Countess Josephine
- Duhallow Home as Sarah’s words spoken
1972
- The Creditors as Tekla
- Zee and Co. as Stella
- Images as Cathryn
1971
- Happy Birthday, Wanda June as Penelope Ryan
1970
- Jane Eyre as Jane Eyre
- Brotherly Love as Hilary Dow
1969
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Alice LeBlanc
- Battle of Britain as Section Officer Maggie Harvey
- Oh! What a Lovely War as Eleanor
- Lock Up Your Daughters as Hilaret
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Duffy as Segolene
- Sebastian as Rebecca Howard
- The Killing of Sister George as Alice 'Childie' McNaught
1966
- Kaleidoscope as Angel McGinnis
- A Man for All Seasons as Margaret More
- Mystery and Imagination
- The Fall of the House of Usher as Madeleine Usher
1965
- Scruggs as Susan
- Sands of the Kalahari as Grace Munkton
- I Took My Little World Away as Mandy Hope
1964
- Theatre 625 as Jane
- The 7th Dawn as Candace Trumpey
- Scene Nun, Take One as The Actress
- The Importance of Being Earnest
1963
- Tom Jones as Sophie Western
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Freud: The Secret Passion as Cecily Koertner
1961
- The Greengage Summer as Joss Grey
1960
- Tunes of Glory as Morag Sinclair
- There Was a Crooked Man as Ellen