Susan Clark (born Nora Golding; March 8, 1943) is a retired Canadian actress. She made her big screen debut in the 1967 drama film Banning and the following year played the female lead in the crime thriller Coogan's Bluff. She later starred in films Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969), Colossus: The Forbin Project (1971), Valdez Is Coming (1971), Skin Game (1971), Showdown (1973), The Midnight Man (1974), Airport 1975 (1975), Night Moves (1975), The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975), Murder by Decree (1979), Promises in the Dark (1979) and Porky's (1981).
Clark received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for playing Babe Didrikson Zaharias in the 1975 television film Babe, and another Emmy Award nomination for playing Amelia Earhart in the 1976 television film Amelia Earhart. From 1983 to 1989, she starred as Katherine Papadopolis in the American sitcom Webster, on which she appeared with her husband, Alex Karras, receiving a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy nomination in 1985.
Early life
Clark was born as Nora Golding in Sarnia, Ontario and raised in Toronto, where she attended Northern Secondary School. She made her professional debut at the age of 15 on stage in the musical Silk Stockings, which starred Don Ameche. She studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, England and two years later acted in a number of classical and modern plays. Clark had leading roles in several Universal films, including Coogan's Bluff In 1976, she starred in a three-hour made-for-television movie biography of the aviator Amelia Earhart which also covered her marriage to noted publisher G. P. Putnam; 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 Colossus: The Forbin Project, hooker Cherry Forever in Porky's (in which 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. She played murderess Beth Chadwick in the Columbo episode "Lady in Waiting".
She and Karras played husband and wife together on the sitcom Webster for six years in the 1980s.
Filmography
Film
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
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|1967
|Banning
|Cynthia Linus
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|1968
|Madigan
|Tricia Bentley
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|1968
|Coogan's Bluff
|Julie Roth
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|1969
|Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
|Dr. Elizabeth Arnold
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|1970
|Skullduggery
|Dr. Sybil Greame
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|-
|1970
|Colossus: The Forbin Project
|Dr. Cleo Markham
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|-
|1971
|Valdez Is Coming
|Gay Erin
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|-
|1971
|Skin Game
|Ginger / Miss Abigail Blodgett
|Nominated — NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
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|1973
|Showdown
|Kate Jarvis
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|-
|1974
|'
|Linda Thorpe
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|-
|1974
|Airport 1975
|Helen Patroni
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|-
|1975
|Night Moves
|Ellen Moseby
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|-
|1975
|'
|Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale
|Nominated — Golden Apple Award for Female New Star of the Year
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|1979
|Murder by Decree
|Mary Jane Kelly
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|-
|1979
|'
|Anne Woods
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|-
|1979
|City on Fire
|Diana Brockhurst-Lautrec
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|-
|1979
|Promises in the Dark
|Fran Koenig
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|-
|1980
|Deadly Companion
|Paula West
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|-
|1981
|Nobody's Perfekt
|Carol
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|-
|1981
|Porky's
|Cherry Forever
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|}
Television
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
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|1963
|'
|Janet
|"A Good Night's Work"
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|1963
|Emergency – Ward 10
|Phyllis Armour
|"1.637", "1.639"
|-
|1963
|'
|Philippa
|"Finishing School"
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|1965
|'
|Various
|"Police: Friend or Foe?"
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|1965
|Festival
|Cathy / Heloise
|"Horror of Darkness", "Heloise and Abelard"
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|1966
|Festival
|Mabel Chiltern
|"An Ideal Husband"
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|1966
|Seaway
|Kate Lynch
|"Trial by Fire"
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|1967
|Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
|Helen Silbey
|"Blind Man's Bluff"
|-
|1967
|'
|Melanie Kohler
|"Melanie"
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|1967
|Run for Your Life
|Kathryn Aller
|"Cry Hard, Cry Fast: Parts 1 & 2"
|-
|1968
|Something for a Lonely Man
|Mary Duren
|TV film
|-
|1969
|Marcus Welby, M.D.
|Ruth Ann Adams
|"Hello, Goodbye, Hello"
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|1970
|'
|Catherine "Cat" Burroughs
|TV film
|-
|1971
|'
|Ellen McKay
|"In Defense of Ellen McKay"
|-
|1971
|Columbo
|Beth Chadwick
|"Lady in Waiting"
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|1972
|'
|Gail Randolph
|TV film
|-
|1972
|Poet Game
|Diana Howard
|TV film
|-
|1972
|Marcus Welby, M.D.
|Judy Graham
|"Please Don't Send Flowers"
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|1972
|'
|Janice Morrow
|"An Inalienable Right to Die"
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|1973
|Trapped
|Elaine Moore
|TV film
|-
|1974
|Double Solitaire
|Barbara Potter
|TV film
|-
|1974
|Barnaby Jones
|Karen Maybury / "Leila Evanston"
|"Woman in the Shadows"
|-
|1975
|Babe
|Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
|TV film<br>Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
|-
|1976
|McNaughton's Daughter
|Laurel McNaughton
|TV miniseries
|-
|1976
|Amelia Earhart
|Amelia Earhart
|TV film<br>Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
|-
|1978
|Hedda Gabler
|Hedda Gabler
|TV film
|-
|1980
|Jimmy B. & André
|Stevie
|TV film
|-
|1981
|'
|Kay Clements
|TV film
|-
|1981
|Standing Room Only
|Madge Larrabee
|"Sherlock Holmes"
|-
|1982
|Maid in America
|Catherine Abel
|TV film
|-
|1983–89
|Webster
|Katherine Calder-Young Papadapolis
|150 episodes<br>Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy (1985)
|-
|1991
|Murder, She Wrote
|Meredith Hellman
|"Moving Violation"
|-
|1994
|Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story
|Muriel Mulligan
|TV film
|-
|1994
|Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story
|LaVona Harding
|TV film
|-
|1995
|Butterbox Babies
|Lila Young
|TV filmGemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series
|-
|1996
|Toe Tags
|Trent's Mother
|TV film
|-
|1998–99
|Emily of New Moon
|Aunt Elizabeth Murray
|43 episodes
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