Susan Clark


Susan Clark is a Canadian actress, known for her movie roles such as Coogan's Bluff and , and for her role as Katherine Papadopolis 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 and George Raymond Golding. Clark grew up in Toronto, where she attended Northern Secondary School.

Marriage

She married American football player turned actor Alex Karras in 1980, and their daughter Katie was born the same year. They met when they co starred in the TV movie, Babe, in which she played multi-sport athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias, and he played her husband, professional wrestler George Zaharias. They also co-starred on the popular primetime sitcom Webster together, portraying husband and wife. Clark and Karras remained married until his death on October 10, 2012.

Career

In the early 1960s Clark travelled to the UK where she appeared in several television series episodes.
She was employed by Universal Pictures from 1967 where she appeared in several television series and made her feature film debut in Universal's Banning.
Clark had leading roles in several Universal 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.
In 1976, she 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 pictorial entitled "The Ziegfeld Girls: A dazzling review starring the talking pictures' own Susan Clark".
Clark played Dr. Cleo Markham in ', hooker Cherry Forever in Porky's, Elizabeth Murray in Emily of New Moon, Elaine Moore in the television movie Trapped, and Muriel Mulligan in the 1994 television movie '. She played murderess Beth Chadwick in the Columbo episode "Lady in Waiting".
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