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Susan Clark (born March 8, 1940) is a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 actress, known as Katherine Papadapolis in the TV
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 sitcom
Situation comedy

A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
 Webster
Webster (TV series)

Webster is an United States situation comedy that premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 16, 1983, and ran on that network until September 11, 1987, but continued in first-run Television syndication until 1989....
.

k was born Nora Golding in Sarnia, Ontario
Sarnia, Ontario

Sarnia is a city in Western Ontario Ontario, Canada . It is the largest city on Lake Huron and is located where the three upper Great Lakes empty into the St....
, the daughter of Eleanor Almond (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 McNaughton) and George Raymond Golding. Clark grew up in Toronto, Ontario, where she attended Northern Secondary School
Northern Secondary School

Northern Secondary School is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It teaches grades 9 through 12.Northern's Canadian football team, the Red Knights, has won numerous titles in Toronto's high school league ....
. She was one of several successful entertainers and many notable persons to have attended this school.






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Susan Clark (born March 8, 1940) is a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 actress, known as Katherine Papadapolis in the TV
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 sitcom
Situation comedy

A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
 Webster
Webster (TV series)

Webster is an United States situation comedy that premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 16, 1983, and ran on that network until September 11, 1987, but continued in first-run Television syndication until 1989....
.

Biography


Personal life

Clark was born Nora Golding in Sarnia, Ontario
Sarnia, Ontario

Sarnia is a city in Western Ontario Ontario, Canada . It is the largest city on Lake Huron and is located where the three upper Great Lakes empty into the St....
, the daughter of Eleanor Almond (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 McNaughton) and George Raymond Golding. Clark grew up in Toronto, Ontario, where she attended Northern Secondary School
Northern Secondary School

Northern Secondary School is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It teaches grades 9 through 12.Northern's Canadian football team, the Red Knights, has won numerous titles in Toronto's high school league ....
. She was one of several successful entertainers and many notable persons to have attended this school. She is married to her Webster co-star Alex Karras
Alex Karras

Alexander George Karras , nicknamed "The Mad Duck", is a former American football player, professional wrestler, and actor who is best known for playing with the Detroit Lions from 1958-1962 and 1964-1970....
 and has daughter Katie (b. 1980). They met when they costarred in the TV movie
Television movie

A television movie is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network....
, Babe, in which she played Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Babe Zaharias

Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias was an United States athlete named by the Guinness Book of Records, along with Lottie Dod, as the most versatile female competitor of all time....
, and he played her husband, professional wrestler George Zaharias
George Zaharias

Theodore Vetoyanis was an American professional wrestler and sports promoter, known by his ring name George Zaharias, popularly known as "The Crying Greek from Cripple Creek" or "The Greek Hyena" during the 1930s....
.

Career

Clark had leading roles in several films, including Coogan's Bluff
Coogan's Bluff (film)

Coogan's Bluff is a 1968 in film Universal Studios film directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Don Stroud, and Susan Clark....
 with Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
 in 1968, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here is a movie released in 1969 written and directed by the once black-listed Abraham Polonsky. Because of his blacklisting, he had not directed a film since Force of Evil 21 years earlier in 1948....
 with Robert Redford
Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....
 in 1969, Valdez Is Coming
Valdez Is Coming

Valdez Is Coming is a 1971 in film western film starring Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark and Jon Cypher. The film is based on the Elmore Leonard novel of the same name....
 with Burt Lancaster in 1971, Night Moves
Night Moves

Night Moves can refer to:*Night Moves directed by Arthur Penn and starring Gene Hackman.*Night Moves by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band....
 with Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman

Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. He came to fame during the 1970s, after his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection , and continued to appear in Hollywood films playing major roles, including Harry Caul in The Conversation, Norman Dale in Hoosiers, Agent Rupert Anderso...
 in 1975, the disaster film Airport 1975
Airport 1975

Airport 1975 is a 1974 in film disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 in film hit Airport . The movie is one among many of a class of Disaster films that became a movie-going craze during the 1970s....
, and another disaster film City on Fire
City on Fire (1979 film)

City on Fire is a 1979 in film disaster film directed by Alvin Rakoff and featuring an ?All-star,? as was the custom for that time. The film?s plot revolves around a disgruntled civil servant who sets fire to an oil refinery, setting off a blaze which engulfs an entire city....
 with Barry Newman
Barry Newman

Barry Foster Newman , is an United States actor perhaps best known for the character "Kowalski" in the cult classic film Vanishing Point in which he plays a pill-popping outlaw/hero driving a white 1970 Dodge Challenger....
, Leslie Nielson and Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters

Shelley Winters was an Academy Award-winning American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television....
.

Clark played Dr. Cleo Markham in the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project
Colossus: The Forbin Project

Colossus: The Forbin Project is a science fiction movie based upon the novel Colossus , by Dennis Feltham Jones, about a massive, eponymous American defense computer`s becoming Sentience and deciding to assume control of the world....
, hooker Cherry Forever in Porky's
Porky's

Porky's is a comedy film about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach high school in Florida in 1954. It was released in the United States in 1982, and spawned two sequels: Porky's II: The Next Day and Porky's Revenge and influenced many writers in the teen film genre....
 (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
Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story

Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story is a television movie that was released in 1994.Snowbound is based on a true story. Jim and Jennifer Stolpa and their infant son Clayton are 500 miles from their home in Castro Valley, California, when they lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow in northern Neva...
. She also played murderer Beth Chadwick in the Columbo episode "Lady in Waiting", which co-starred Leslie Nielsen
Leslie Nielsen

Leslie William Nielsen Order of Canada is a Canadian American comedian and actor. Although Nielsen's acting career crossed a variety of genres in both television and films, he has achieved his greatest film success in comedies, including Airplane! and The Naked Gun series of films....
 and Jessie Royce Landis
Jessie Royce Landis

Jessie Royce Landis was an United States Actor.She was born Jessie Royce Medbury in Chicago, Illinois. Landis was a stage actress for much of her career....
. Earlier in her career, she appeared in a 1965 episode of The Benny Hill Show
Benny Hill

Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill , was an England comedian, actor and singer, best known for his television programme The Benny Hill Show....
 during the comedian's run with the British Broadcasting Corporation
BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation, almost always referred to by its abbreviation "the BBC", is the world's largest broadcasting.Incorporated in the United Kingdom by government charter, it employs 28,500 people in the country alone and has an annual budget of more than ?4 billion....
.

In 2006, she appeared at the Manitoba Theatre Centre
Manitoba Theatre Centre

Manitoba Theatre Centre is Canada's oldest English-language regional theatre. Next to the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, MTC has a higher annual attendance than any other theatre in the country....
 in the Warehouse production of The Retreat from Moscow
The Retreat from Moscow

The Retreat from Moscow is a play written by William Nicholson about the end of a three-decade marriage and the subsequent emotional fallout....
, and in 2007 in the Mainstage production of The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde. It premiered on 14 February 1895 at the St. James's Theatre in London.Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining pseudonym to escape unwelcome social obligations....
.

Filmography

  • Banning
    Banning (film)

    Starring Robert Wagner and Jill St. John with a supporting cast that includes Gene Hackman as a washed up, alcoholic golfer, Banning, set in an extremely exclusive Arizona country club involves love, denial, avarice and gambling....
     (1967)
  • Madigan
    Madigan

    Madigan is a 1968 in film American crime-drama film directed by Don Siegel and starring Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda. The screenplay, originally titled Friday, Saturday, Sunday, was adapted by two writers who had been blacklisted in the 1950s: Abraham Polonsky and Howard Rodman , which was based on his novel titled The C...
     (1968)
  • Coogan's Bluff
    Coogan's Bluff (film)

    Coogan's Bluff is a 1968 in film Universal Studios film directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Don Stroud, and Susan Clark....
     (1968)
  • Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
    Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

    Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here is a movie released in 1969 written and directed by the once black-listed Abraham Polonsky. Because of his blacklisting, he had not directed a film since Force of Evil 21 years earlier in 1948....
     (1969)
  • Skullduggery
    Skullduggery (film)

    Skullduggery is a 1970 in film science fiction film starring Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark and Edward Fox .The screenplay is based on the French novel Les Animaux d?natur?s by Jean Bruller....
     (1970)
  • Colossus: The Forbin Project
    Colossus: The Forbin Project

    Colossus: The Forbin Project is a science fiction movie based upon the novel Colossus , by Dennis Feltham Jones, about a massive, eponymous American defense computer`s becoming Sentience and deciding to assume control of the world....
     (1970)
  • Valdez Is Coming
    Valdez Is Coming

    Valdez Is Coming is a 1971 in film western film starring Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark and Jon Cypher. The film is based on the Elmore Leonard novel of the same name....
     (1971)
  • Skin Game
    Skin Game

    Skin Game is a 1971 movie comedy starring James Garner and Louis Gossett, Jr....
     (1971)
  • Showdown
    Showdown (1973 film)

    Showdown is a 1973 USA Western film directed by George Seaton and starring Rock Hudson, Dean Martin and Susan Clark....
     (1973)
  • The Midnight Man
    The Midnight Man (1974 film)

    The Midnight Man is a 1974 in film detective film starring Burt Lancaster and Susan Clark....
     (1974)
  • Airport 1975
    Airport 1975

    Airport 1975 is a 1974 in film disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 in film hit Airport . The movie is one among many of a class of Disaster films that became a movie-going craze during the 1970s....
     (1975)
  • Night Moves
    Night Moves (1975 film)

    Night Moves is a 1975 in film film directed by Arthur Penn, and starring Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren and Susan Clark. It features very early career appearances by Melanie Griffith and James Woods....
     (1975)
  • The Apple Dumpling Gang
    The Apple Dumpling Gang

    This article is about the book. For the Disney movie see The Apple Dumpling Gang .The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1971 novel by Jack Bickham, about a group of orphaned children during the California gold rush....
     (1975)
  • Murder by Decree
    Murder by Decree

    Murder by Decree is a 1979 in film Anglo-Canadian film involving Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in the case of the serial murderer Jack the Ripper....
     (1979)
  • The North Avenue Irregulars
    The North Avenue Irregulars

    The North Avenue Irregulars is a 1979 The Walt Disney Company film starring Edward Hermann. It was based on original work by Albert Fay Hill, as adapted by Don Tait....
     (1979)
  • City on Fire
    City on Fire (1979 film)

    City on Fire is a 1979 in film disaster film directed by Alvin Rakoff and featuring an ?All-star,? as was the custom for that time. The film?s plot revolves around a disgruntled civil servant who sets fire to an oil refinery, setting off a blaze which engulfs an entire city....
     (1979)
  • Promises in the Dark (1979)
  • Double Negative (1980)
  • Nobody's Perfekt
    Nobody's Perfekt

    Nobody's Perfekt is a 1981 in film comedy film, adapted from Tony Kenrick's novel Two For the Price of One; Kenrick wrote the screenplay for this film....
     (1981)
  • Porky's
    Porky's

    Porky's is a comedy film about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach high school in Florida in 1954. It was released in the United States in 1982, and spawned two sequels: Porky's II: The Next Day and Porky's Revenge and influenced many writers in the teen film genre....
     (1982)
  • Butterbox Babies
    Butterbox Babies

    Butterbox Babies is a 1992 book by Bette L. Cahill describing life in the 1930s at the Ideal Maternity Home in East Chester , Nova Scotia, Canada....
     (1995)


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