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 Pillsbury
1997
- Cow and Chicken
- I Am Weasel as Madame DeBarge (voice)
- Poison Ivy: The New Seduction as Mrs. B
- Extreme Ghostbusters as Achira (voice)
- 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
- Far from Home as Agnes Reed
- Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood
1988
- The Underachievers as Mrs. Grant
- Tapeheads as Nikki Morton
- Big Top Pee-wee as Midge Montana
1987
- The Chipmunk Adventure as Claudia Furschtien (voice)
- Poker Alice as Mad Mary
- From a Whisper to a Scream as Beth Chandler
1986
- The Christmas Star as Sara
- If Tomorrow Comes as Bertha
- Thompson's Last Run as Pookie
1985
- Avenging Angel as Solly Mosler
- Flesh + Blood as Celine
1983
- The Hitchhiker as Doris
- Fire and Ice as Juliana (voice)
- What's Up, Hideous Sun Demon as Bunny
1982
- Fast-Walking as Evie
- Liar's Moon as Lora Mae Bouvier
1981
- Midnight Lace as Ann Galvin
- Subway Riders as Eleanor Langley
- Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker as Aunt Cheryl
- Be Pretty and Shut Up! as Self
- Tales of Ordinary Madness as Vera
- Document of the Dead as Narrator (voice)
- Open All Night as Gretchen Feester
1980
- Forbidden Zone as Queen Doris of the Sixth Dimension
1979
- Racquet as Miss Baxter
1978
- Flying High
- Lady of the House as Helen
- Loose Shoes as Boobies
1977
- Wizards as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Bad as Mary Aiken
- Islands in the Stream as Lil
- September 30, 1955 as Melba Lou
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden as Lee
- Another Man, Another Chance as Alice
1976
- The Killer Inside Me as Joyce Lakeland
1975
- Starsky & Hutch as Annie / Isabelle Oates
- Baretta
1974
- Zandy's Bride as Marai Cordova
- To Kill the King as Maggie Van Birchard
- Catch My Soul as Emilia
1973
- Kojak as Mary Torino
1972
- Fat City as Oma
1971
- Shoot Out as Alma
- Nichols as Caralee
- Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me as Jack
- The Steagle as Louise
1963
- Mr. Novak as Phyllis Freuchen
- The Patty Duke Show
1959
- Bonanza as Jill Conway