Susan Strasberg

Actor

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Also Known As

Susan Elizabeth Strasberg

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

May 22, 1938

Died

January 21, 1999

Cause of Death

Cancer

Biography

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Talented performer in films from the mid-1950s, daughter of famed acting teacher and co-founder of both the Actors Studio and the Group Theater, Lee Strasberg. A slender brunette most often cast as sensitive, vulnerable types, Strasberg has also acted regularly on stage and on TV. Many of her feature films have been offbeat, little-seen films of varying merits, but her more notable credi...

Filmography

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The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

Il Giardino dei Ciliegi (1992)

Schweitzer (1990)

Helene Schweitzer

William Holden: The Golden Boy (1989)

Prime Suspect (1989)

The Delta Force (1986)

Photos & Videos

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Cobweb, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Sometimes A Little Dictatorial

Cobweb, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Phobic

Family & Companions

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Christopher Jones

Husband

Actor. Married in 1965; divorced in 1968.

Richard Burton

Companion

Actor. Appeared together on Broadway in "Time Remembered"; Strasberg suffered a breakdown after the affair with Burton ended.

Bibliography

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"Marilyn and Me, Sisters, Rivals and Friends"

Susan Strasberg, Warner Books (1992)

"Bittersweet"

Susan Strasberg, G.P. Putnam's Sons (1980)

Biography

Talented performer in films from the mid-1950s, daughter of famed acting teacher and co-founder of both the Actors Studio and the Group Theater, Lee Strasberg. A slender brunette most often cast as sensitive, vulnerable types, Strasberg has also acted regularly on stage and on TV. Many of her feature films have been offbeat, little-seen films of varying merits, but her more notable credits have included "Picnic" (1956), "Taste of Fear" (1961), "The Brotherhood" (1968), "Rollercoaster" (1977), "The Delta Force" (1986) and "Prime Suspect" (1989).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

Il Giardino dei Ciliegi (1992)

Schweitzer (1990)

Helene Schweitzer

William Holden: The Golden Boy (1989)

Prime Suspect (1989)

The Delta Force (1986)

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986)

The Returning (1983)

Rona Jaffe's Mazes and Monsters (1982)

Meg--Kate'S Mom

Acting: Lee Strasberg and The Actors Studio (1981)

Bloody Birthday (1981)

Sweet Sixteen (1981)

In Praise of Older Women (1979)

Beggarman, Thief (1979)

The Manitou (1978)

Rollercoaster (1977)

SST -- Death Flight (1977)

The Stronger (1976)

Sammy Somebody (1976)

...And Millions Will Die! (1973)

Who Fears the Devil? (1972)

Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971)

Sweet Hunters (1969)

The Brotherhood (1968)

Psych-Out (1968)

The Name of the Game Is Kill! (1968)

Chubasco (1968)

The Trip (1967)

McGuire, Go Home! (1966)

Disorder (1964)

Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)

Rosanna [Griffi]

Scream of Fear (1961)

Stage Struck (1958)

Gertrude Langerfelder, also known as Eva Lovelace

The Cobweb (1955)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Acting: Lee Strasberg and The Actors Studio (1981)

Cast (Special)

Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (2001)

Lee Strasberg: The Method Man (1998)

Marilyn Monroe: Life After Death (1994)

Unauthorized Biography: Jane Fonda (1988)

Remembering Marilyn (1988)

Misc. Crew (Special)

Marilyn Monroe: Life After Death (1994)

Cast (Short)

Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (1955) (1955)

1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (International) (1955)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

The Immigrants (1978)

Frankenstein (1973)

Elizabeth Aerval

Life Events

Photo Collections

The Trip - Movie Poster

Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for the exploitation picture The Trip (1967). One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.

Psych-Out - Movie Poster

Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for the exploitation picture Psych-Out (1968). One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.

The Trip - Pressbook

Here is the original campaign book (pressbook) for The Trip (1967). Pressbooks were sent to exhibitors and theater owners to aid them in publicizing the film's run in their theater.

Videos

Cobweb, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Sometimes A Little Dictatorial Lively meeting of inmates at the pricey Midwestern psychiatric clinic, chaired by Holcomb (Edgar Stehli), bothered by Oscar Levant, Jan Arvan, Ruth Clifford and Jarma Lewis, Richard Widmark the doctor arriving, Lauren Bacall seems to be on staff, Susan Strasberg and John Kerr backing an initiative, early in Vincente Minnelli’s The Cobweb, 1955.

Cobweb, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Phobic Inmates dining at the Midwestern psychiatric hospital (noted at the time for its resemblance to the Menninger Clinic in Kansas), Stevie (John Kerr) celebrating because he’s been chosen for an art project, and previously stable Susie (Susan Strasberg) rattled by his suggestion, in Vincente Minnelli’s The Cobweb, 1955.

Chubasco (1968) -- (Movie Clip) TV Trailer Television trailer for the action-melodrama Chubasco, 1968, starring the enigmatic James Dean-lookalike Christopher Jones and his then-wife, Susan Strasberg, with Richard Egan, Ann Southern and Audrey Totter.

Kapo (1960) -- (Movie Clip) You'll Forget Everything French teenager Edith (Susan Strasberg), now posing as a common thief so her Nazi captors won't realize she's Jewish, is comforted by fellow prisoners Sofia (Didi Perego) and Terese (Emmanuelle Riva), en route to a concentration camp, in Gillo Pontecorvo's Kapo, 1960.

Kapo (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Your Name Is Now Nicole Smuggled by fellow prisoners to a helpful infirmary doctor somewhere in Nazi Germany, French Jewish teenager Edith (Susan Strasberg) adopts the identity of a deceased thief, early in Gillo Pontecorvo's Kapo, 1960.

Kapo (1960) -- (Movie Clip) It's No Use Being Healthy In a concentration camp for political prisoners and criminals, women prepare for examination by Nazi officials, hoping to appear healthy enough to be worth saving, Susan Strasberg as French teen Edith, whose captors don't know she's Jewish, in Gillo Pontecorvo's Kapo, 1960.

Kapo (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Nothing Can Happen To Us Opening Jewish Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo's second feature, Paris the setting early in the Nazi occupation, American Susan Strasberg as Jewish teen Edith, seeing her parents captured by German guards, in Kapo, 1960.

Manitou, The (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Not Do The Cards San Francisco working psychic Harry (Tony Curtis), who doesn't buy his own product, is mostly pleased that his ex-girlfriend Karen (Susan Strasberg), who has a strange, swelling growth on her back, has asked to see him, early in The Manitou, 1978.

Stage Struck (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Did I Play Juliet? Aspiring actress Eva (Susan Strasberg) wakes up in producer Lewis Easton's (Henry Fonda) apartment with a vague memory of performing Shakespeare in Stage Struck, the 1958 remake of "Morning Glory," (1933).

Stage Struck (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Mr. Easton Aspiring actress Eva Lovelace (Susan Strasberg) imposes herself upon Broadway producer Lewis Easton (Henry Fonda) and friends in director Sidney Lumet's Stage Struck, 1958.

Bloody Birthday (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Make Yourself Useful After school, Curtis (Billy Jacoby) sneaks up on Miss Davis (Susan Strasberg), pals Debbie (Elizabeth Hoy) and Steve (Andy Freeman) helping, when innocent Joyce (Lori Lethin) and kid brother Timmy (K.C. Martel) arrive, in Bloody Birthday, 1980.

Bloody Birthday (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Not Like On TV Joyce (Lori Lethin) rushing to class where Sheriff Brody (Bert Kramer, related to the chief from Amity Island?) chats up elementary school kids about murder, Miss Davis (Susan Strasberg) instructing, in Bloody Birthday, 1980.

Stage Struck (1958) -- (Original Trailer) A young actress makes all the wrong moves trying to break in on Broadway in STAGE STRUCK (1958) starring Susan Strasberg and Henry Fonda, directed by Sidney Lumet.

Rollercoaster - (Original Trailer) A terrorist spreads a climate of fear by attacking amusement parks across the U.S. in Rollercoaster (1977).

Trip, The - (Original Trailer) A commercial director (Peter Fonda) tries to get over a painful divorce with a dose of L.S.D. in Roger Corman's The Trip (1967).

Picnic - (Original Trailer) A drifter interrupts peaceful small-town life during the Labor Day weekend in Picnic (1955), starring William Holden & Kim Novak.

Scream of Fear - (Original Trailer) A wheelchair-bound heiress (Susan Strasberg) doubts her sanity when she sees her dead father's body around the family estate in Scream of Fear (1961).

Family

Paula Strasberg

Mother

Founder, director of Actors Studio.

Lee Strasberg

Father

Acting teacher, actor. A founder and later president of the Actors Studio.

John Strasberg

Brother

David Strasberg

Half-Brother

Mother, Anna Strasberg.

Adam Strasberg

Half-Brother

Mother, Anna Strasberg.

Jennifer Jones

Daughter

Father, Christopher Jones.

Companions

Christopher Jones

Husband

Actor. Married in 1965; divorced in 1968.

Richard Burton

Companion

Actor. Appeared together on Broadway in "Time Remembered"; Strasberg suffered a breakdown after the affair with Burton ended.

Bibliography

"Marilyn and Me, Sisters, Rivals and Friends"

Susan Strasberg, Warner Books (1992)

"Bittersweet"

Susan Strasberg, G.P. Putnam's Sons (1980)

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