Acting

Su Cruickshank

Born 1946-08-31 · Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Susan "Su" Cruikshank (31 August 1946 – 8 December 2009) was an Australian jazz singer, actress and writer.

Acting credits

Young Einstein poster
5.2

Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.

Young Einstein

1988

Jindalee Lady poster
9.0

Jindalee Lady tells the story of a young Aboriginal woman sets out to build a career in the fashion industry. It is an urban love triangle involving an Aboriginal fashion designer, her white music executive husband and an Aboriginal cinematographer. It is considered the first feature film ever directed by an indigenous person in Australia.

Jindalee Lady

1992

Playing Beatie Bow poster
4.9

Abigail Kirk was an ordinary enough sixteen year old growing up in todays Sydney. An intriguing chain of events finds Abigail, through some eerie time shift, transported back one hundred years after watching some children playing a scary game called Beatie Bow.

Playing Beatie Bow

1986

The Girl From Moonooloo poster
NR

Set in the 1940s, the story of a post office clerk and part-time pianist (Jacki Weaver) who inadvertently becomes the star of a national radio serial. Featuring 12 Australian songs from that period.

The Girl From Moonooloo

1983

Those Dear Departed poster
6.0

A disturbed woman murders her husband, and others, so that she can be haunted by their "wronged" spirits.

Those Dear Departed

1987

Somewhere in the Darkness poster
9.3

In this Australian drama, a department store collapses, trapping an old man (Barry Jenkins) and a young boy (Rowan Whitt) underneath. In hopes of keeping the child calm, the man tells him a series of folk tales which teach a moral lesson while they entertain. Somewhere In The Darkness received its world premier at the 1999 Slamdance Film Festival in the United States; it was later screened at Australia's Sydney Film Festival the same year. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Somewhere in the Darkness

1999

Barracuda poster
7.0

Currently Unavailable

Barracuda

1988