Susan Clark

Susan Clark (born Nora Golding; March 8, 1943) is a Canadian actress and producer. 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 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 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 went to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, England and two years later acted in a number of classical and modern plays. Career In the early 1960s, Clark while lived in London began appearing on British television, including guest appearances on The Plane Makers, The Sentimental Agent and The Benny Hill Show. She made her debut on the London stage in Poor Bitos. The play and Clark received good reviews but news from home about her father, who had fallen ill, led her back to Canada. She returned to Canada in 1965, when appeared in an number of episodes of anthology series, Festival.