Suzan Farmer
Suzan Farmer | |
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Born | Suzan Maxine Farmer 16 June 1942 Maidstone, Kent, England |
Died | 17 September 2017 London, England | (aged 75)
Resting place | Mortlake Cemetery[1] |
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse | |
Relatives | Michael Farmer (brother) |
Suzan Maxine Farmer (16 June 1942 – 17 September 2017) was an English film and television actress. She was regularly cast in movies produced by Hammer Films.
Early life
The daughter of David Farmer, a trader in metals, and Eleanor (née Best), she was born in Maidstone, Kent, although the family later moved to Bray in Berkshire, near the location of
Career
Suzan Farmer had lead roles in several
Another of her horror film roles, this time for a company other than Hammer, was as support in Die, Monster, Die! (aka, Monster of Terror, 1965), starring Boris Karloff as her character's father, but she found Karloff himself rather distant.[5] The thriller Persecution (1974), with Ralph Bates as her husband, was a failure both critically and at the box-office. Other films include the war drama 633 Squadron (1964) as an RAF driver, plus the comedy Doctor in Clover (1966).[6]
A regular performer in British television series, Farmer appeared in an episode of the
Other television appearances were in the 1968 series The Caesars (1968), an episode of the BBC science fiction anthology series Out of the Unknown (1969), an episode of the ATV series Thriller ("Death in Deep Water", 1975) and in the BBC's science fiction series Blake's 7 ("Deliverance", 1978).[9] For a month in 1978, Farmer was a cast member of Coronation Street playing a divorced chiropodist who treated Albert Tatlock, who briefly went out with Ken Barlow's girlfriends.[2][3]
On stage, she was a founding member of
Personal life and death
Farmer was married to the actor Ian McShane from 1965 to 1968. Her acting career had ended by the mid-1980s, and she later became reclusive and suffered from depression and alcoholism.[2][4]
Farmer died of cancer on 17 September 2017, aged 75.[10]
Selected filmography
- The Supreme Secret (1958) – Tess
- The Dawn Killer (1959) – Cathy Hawkes
- The Wild and the Willing (1962) – Susan (uncredited)
- Wings of Mystery (1963) – Worker at English Steel Corporation Ltd. (uncredited)
- 80,000 Suspects (1963) – Carole (uncredited)
- The Scarlet Blade (1963) – Constance Beverley
- The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964) – Angela Smeeton
- 633 Squadron (1964) – WAAF Sgt. Mary Blake / Bissell
- Die, Monster, Die! (1965) – Susan Witley
- Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966) – Diana Kent
- Doctor in Clover (1966) – Nurse Holliday
- Rasputin, the Mad Monk(1966) – Vanessa
- Where the Bullets Fly (1966) – Caron
- The Saint (1966) - Episode (S5,E6) "The Convenient Monster" as Ann Clanraith
- "Il comodo mostro" (1966) episodio 6° stagione 5° Simon Templer (Il Santo)
- Man in a Suitcase (1967) - Episode "Brainwash" - Judy
- UFO (1970) - Episode "Survival" - Tina Duval
- The Persuaders! (1971) - Episode "That's Me Over There" - Ann Summers
- Persecution (1974) – Janie Masters
- Blake's 7 (1978) – Deliverance - Meegat
References
- ^ "Suzan FARMER Obituary (2017) - London Bridge, City of London - The Times". www.legacy.com.
- ^ a b c Hayward, Anthony (4 October 2017). "Suzan Farmer: actress and Hammer scream queen who livened up a series of movies". The Independent. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- ^ a b c d Hadoke, Toby (24 October 2017). "Suzan Farmer obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- ^ a b "Obituary – Suzan Farmer, Hammer star who appeared in Coronation Street". The Herald. Glasgow. 11 October 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- ^ "Suzan Farmer, stalwart of Hammer films – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- ^ "Suzan Farmer". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 March 2017.
- ^ "Obituary: Suzan Farmer". The Times. London. 16 October 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2017. (subscription required)
- ^ "Detective: The Moving Toyshop". 30 March 1964. p. 23 – via BBC Genome.
- ^ "Suzan Farmer". www.aveleyman.com.
- ^ "Suzan Farmer: actress and Hammer scream queen who livened up a series of movies".
External links
- Suzan Farmer at IMDb