
Susannah York
Acting
- Born:
- 1939-01-09
- Died:
- 2011-01-15
- Place of birth:
- Chelsea, London, England, UK
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.
Known For
Filmography

The Calling

Franklyn

Not Quite Hollywood

Rhapsody of Fire - Visions from the Enchanted Lands

You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman

The Stoning

The Gigolos

Norfolk Coast

A Guest of life

The Divine Michelangelo

Visitors

The Book of Eve

Jean

St. Patrick: The Irish Legend

Diana & Me
Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)

Loop

Pretty Princess

The Higher Mortals

Illusions

Trainer

Devices and Desires
The Man from the Pru

Fate

Barbablù, Barbablù

A Handful of Time

After the War

Melancholia

Just Ask for Diamond

A Summer Story

Mio in the Land of Faraway

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
The Animals Roadshow

Pretty Kill

The Struggles for Poland

Casualty

Daemon

Star Quality

The Ray Bradbury Theater

Screen Two

A Christmas Carol

Yellowbeard

Group Madness

Montgomery Clift

Alice

We'll Meet Again

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

Loophole

Late Flowering Love
Second Chance

Superman II

Falling in Love Again

The Awakening

Alphabet: The Story of Writing

The Golden Gate Murders

Superman

Long Shot

The Silent Partner

The Shout

The Adventures of Eliza Fraser

Sky Riders

Conduct Unbecoming

That Lucky Touch

The Maids

Fallen Angels

Gold

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

Duhallow Home

Images

The Creditors

Zee and Co.

Happy Birthday, Wanda June

Jane Eyre

Brotherly Love

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Battle of Britain

Lock Up Your Daughters

Oh! What a Lovely War

Duffy

The Killing of Sister George

The Dick Cavett Show

Sebastian

ITV Playhouse

A Man for All Seasons

Hollywood Squares

Kaleidoscope

The Fall of the House of Usher

Mystery and Imagination

Sands of the Kalahari
I Took My Little World Away
Scruggs
The Importance of Being Earnest
Thursday Theatre

The 7th Dawn

Scene Nun, Take One

Theatre 625

Tom Jones

Freud: The Secret Passion

The Merv Griffin Show

The Greengage Summer

Tunes of Glory

There Was a Crooked Man

Armchair Theatre