Susan Oliver

Acting

Susan Oliver

Born 1932-02-13 · New York City, New York, USA

A fascinating aura of mystery seemed to surround the characters portrayed by blue-eyed blonde actress Susan Oliver, whose trademark high cheekbones, rosebud lips and heart-shaped face kept audiences intrigued for nearly three decades. She left a fine legacy of work in theater, motion pictures and television.

Acting credits

The Disorderly Orderly poster
6.3

Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!

The Disorderly Orderly

1964

BUtterfield 8 poster
6.3

Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into money.

BUtterfield 8

1960

Guns of Diablo poster
5.2

14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson is a wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs into difficulties when he meets old flame Maria, who is now married to corrupt lawman Rance Macklin. The jealous Macklin has Murdock arrested, but Maria frees him, permitting Murdock and Jamie to embark on a new adventure involving a "lost" gold mine. Edited from TV series, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

Guns of Diablo

1964

The Picture of Dorian Gray poster
NR

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1961

Hardly Working poster
4.5

In Jerry Lewis's first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can't seem to hold down a job. The film opens with a brief montage of clips from past Lewis movies. He then moves into a succession of jobs that he gets himself fired from including a gas station attendant and a mailman - all with disastrous results.

Hardly Working

1980

Carter's Army poster
4.5

A racist officer is put in charge of an all-black squad of troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro-dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies' advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war.

Carter's Army

1975

A Man Called Gannon poster
4.9

A seasoned cowboy takes a young tender-foot under his wing. They become embroiled in a range war, and end up on opposite sides.

A Man Called Gannon

1968

Looking for Love poster
5.8

An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.

Looking for Love

1964

Star Trek: The Cage poster
6.0

Led by Captain Christopher Pike, the crew of the starship Enterprise investigates of a far-off planet which was the site of a shipwreck eighteen years earlier. They encounter telepathic aliens who seek a human male specimen for their menagerie.

Star Trek: The Cage

1965

Your Cheatin' Heart poster
6.5

The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.

Your Cheatin' Heart

1964

The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next poster
2.5

This special is hosted by Patrick Stewart and traced the history of Star Trek from its inception with "The Cage" through to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It also showed brief previews of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and TNG's second season. Also it was principally a container for the premiere of a full color print of "The Cage" which had, according to the special, recently been recovered from Paramount's studio archives.

The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next

1988

Amelia Earhart poster
NR

Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in 1937.

Amelia Earhart

1976

The Love-Ins poster
4.8

A college professor falls in with the counterculture crowd in San Francisco after resigning from his position in solidarity with two expelled hippie students.

The Love-Ins

1967

The Green Girl poster
5.8

A feature-length documentary about Star Trek's iconic original Green Girl, Susan Oliver: Prolific actress of the '50s - '80s, original member of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women, record-setting female aviator; Tragically taken by cancer in 1990. With over 120 major acting credits in film and television, Susan Oliver was literally a household name in the 1960's. She set a number of world records as a pilot and was one of the only women directing major TV shows in the 1980's. And yet many people don't even remember her name today. It's time to remember Susan Oliver...

The Green Girl

2014

The Monitors poster
4.5

Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.

The Monitors

1969

International Airport poster
6.0

Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.

International Airport

1985

Widows' Nest poster
7.0

The arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores, Carmen and Elvira, as their presence stirs up unwelcome memories.

Widows' Nest

1977

Death in Space poster
10.0

The commander of a spaceship orbiting 250 miles above Earth disappears through the airlock and is ejected into space. Although at first it appears to have been an accident, some of the crew come to suspect that it may have actually been a murder.

Death in Space

1974

Dan August: Once Is Never Enough poster
5.7

Lt. Dan August is a homicide detective in his hometown of Santa Luisa, California. In this reediting of two episodes of Burt Reynolds' "Dan August" TV series, August and his partner Wilentz investigate the slayings of two winos who died after drinking poisoned whiskey and the rape and murder of a young woman.

Dan August: Once Is Never Enough

1980

The Green-Eyed Blonde poster
6.1

Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (working under the pseudonym “Sally Stubblefield”) tells a rough-edged tale of life inside a 1950s women’s reformatory. Set in the Martha Washington School for Girls—an institute for wayward teenagers and unwed mothers—THE GREEN-EYED BLONDE tackles a range of topical social issues as the inmates band together to help out one of their own when she refuses to give up her child.

The Green-Eyed Blonde

1957

Ginger in the Morning poster
5.4

A recently divorced Santa Fe architect is surprised to find himself falling in love with a free-spirited young hitchhiker.

Ginger in the Morning

1974

Tomorrow's Child poster
4.3

The wife of a research geneticist agrees to the experimental procedure of a 'test-tube baby' by having her fetus brought to full term in a glass jar in a laboratory.

Tomorrow's Child

1982

Do You Take This Stranger? poster
6.0

A social climber/con artist schemes to inherit one million dollars by trading identities with a dying man.

Do You Take This Stranger?

1971

The Gene Krupa Story poster
7.1

The story of legendary jazz drummer, Gene Krupa. Since his youth, all Gene ever wanted to do is play the drums and make music. This is something his parents would not approve of- they want him to be a priest. When Gene's father dies he promises to enter the priesthood. He soon realizes that he doesn't belong there and leaves to join his friend, Eddie's band. Ethel, Eddie's girlfriend, convinces Gene to go to New York and make it big. The 3 of them head to New York. Here Ethel and Gene soon fall in love and Gene makes a name for himself. Gene starts to live in the fast lane, with drugs, alcohol, women and parties. Ethel, unhappy with Gene's lifestyle, leaves him. Gene soon "hits rock bottom" where he has to face reality and choose where to take his life.

The Gene Krupa Story

1959