Susan Tyrrell
Born: 1945-03-18 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 2012-06-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
Susan Tyrrell (born Susan Jillian Creamer; March 18, 1945 – June 16, 2012) was an American character actress. Tyrrell's career began in theater in New York City in the 1960s in Broadway and off Broadway productions. Her first film was Shoot Out (1971). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Oma in John Huston's Fat City (1972). In 1978, Tyrrell received the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Andy Warhol's Bad (1977). Her New York Times obituary described her as "a whiskey-voiced character actress (with) talent for playing the downtrodden, outré, and grotesque."
Filmography
2024
- The Life of Sean DeLear as Self (archive footage)
2012
- Kid-Thing as Esther
2010
- Flexing with Monty as Mrs. Nog (voice)
2008
- The Boneyard Collection as High Priestess
2003
- Masked and Anonymous as Ella the Fortune Teller
2000
- Buddy Boy as Sal
1998
- Relax... It's Just Sex as Alicia
1997
- Cow and Chicken as Madame DeBarge (voice)
- I Am Weasel as Madame DeBarge (voice)
- Extreme Ghostbusters as Achira (voice)
- Poison Ivy: The New Seduction as Mrs. B
- Pink as the Day She Was Born
1995
- Powder as Maxine
- Digital Man as Mildred
- The Demolitionist as Eleanor Grimbaum
1992
- Susan Tyrrell: My Rotten Life, a Bitter Operetta as The Woman
1991
- Motorama as Bartender
- Every Cake, Neil
1989
- Tales from the Crypt as Mona
- Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood
- Far from Home as Agnes Reed
1988
- Big Top Pee-wee as Midge Montana
- Tapeheads as Nikki Morton
- The Underachievers as Mrs. Grant
1987
- The Chipmunk Adventure as Claudia Furschtien (voice)
- From a Whisper to a Scream as Beth Chandler
- Poker Alice as Mad Mary
1986
- If Tomorrow Comes as Bertha
- The Christmas Star as Sara
- Thompson's Last Run as Pookie
1985
- Flesh + Blood as Celine
- Avenging Angel as Solly Mosler
1983
- The Hitchhiker as Doris
- Fire and Ice as Juliana (voice)
- What's Up, Hideous Sun Demon as Bunny
1982
- Forbidden Zone as Queen Doris of the Sixth Dimension
- Liar's Moon as Lora Mae Bouvier
- Fast-Walking as Evie
1981
- Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker as Aunt Cheryl
- Open All Night as Gretchen Feester
- Tales of Ordinary Madness as Vera
- Subway Riders as Eleanor Langley
- Be Pretty and Shut Up! as Self
- Document of the Dead as Narrator (voice)
- Midnight Lace as Ann Galvin
1979
- Racquet as Miss Baxter
1978
- Flying High
- Loose Shoes as Boobies
- Lady of the House as Helen
1977
- Bad as Mary Aiken
- Wizards as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden as Lee
- Islands in the Stream as Lil
- Another Man, Another Chance as Alice
- September 30, 1955 as Melba Lou
1976
- The Killer Inside Me as Joyce Lakeland
1975
- Starsky & Hutch as Annie / Isabelle Oates
- Baretta
1974
- Zandy's Bride as Marai Cordova
- Catch My Soul as Emilia
- To Kill the King as Maggie Van Birchard
1973
- Kojak as Mary Torino
1972
- Fat City as Oma
1971
- Nichols as Caralee
- Shoot Out as Alma
- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me as Jack
- The Steagle as Louise
1963
- The Patty Duke Show
- Mr. Novak as Phyllis Freuchen
1959
- Bonanza as Jill Conway