Susan George Filmography

Castle of Adventure

That Summer of White Roses

Actors: Tom Conti, Susan George, Rod Steiger, Alun Armstrong, John Gill

Synopsis: That Summer of White Roses is a World War II drama about a lifeguard at a Yugoslavian summer resort who falls in love with a woman who fights against the country's Nazi occupation. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Jack the Ripper

Actors: Armand Assante, Ken Bones, Michael Gothard, Richard Morant, Michael Caine

Synopsis: TheTV movie Jack the Ripper endeavors to shed new light on one of the most notorious unsolved cases in history. The Ripper, of course, was the London serial killer who, in 1888, killed and disemboweled five prostitutes. Michael Caine stars not as the Ripper but as a Scotland-Yard inspector who is Read More

Stealing Heaven

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Derek de Lint, Kim Thomson, Denholm Elliott, Bernard Hepton, Kenneth Cranham

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Marion Meade, this costume drama retelling of the doomed 12th century romance of Abelard and Heloise was directed by Clive Donner. Abelard (Derek de Lint) is a philosophy professor at the cathedral school of Notre Dame. Considered the greatest teacher in Paris at a time when Read More

Lightning: The White Stallion

Actors: Isabel Lorca, Mickey Rooney, Susan George, Billy Wesley

Synopsis: In this drama, Barney Ingram (played by Mickey Rooney) is a gambler who's lost his money, only to discover his favorite horse Lightning has been stolen. A young woman with severe vision problems named Stephanie (Isabel Lorca) is the only one able to ride Lightning to a sure victory. A group of Read More

Czech Mate

Synopsis: Czech Mate isn't nearly as clumsy as its title. This British made-for-TVer stars the lovely Susan George as a political naif. In spite of herself, the woman is sucked into a sinister conspiracy (there's another kind?) Patrick Mower co-stars as one of those "whose side is he really on?" types. Read More

The Jigsaw Man

Actors: Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray

Synopsis: This spy film purports to be inspired by the true story of Kim Philby (1912-1988), a British intelligence officer and Soviet spy during the 1940s and '50s who gained international notoriety when he blew his cover and defected to the USSR in 1963. But this fictional, unsophisticated, if not naive Read More

Pajama Tops

Summer Heat

Synopsis: No relation to the 1987 film of the same name, 1983's Summer Heat is an R-rated "con on the run" affair. Bruce Davidson plays a starry-eyed young shepherd who manages to get himself a stiff jail sentence. With the help of girl friend Susan George, Davidson makes his escape. Hot in pursuit of the Read More

Venom

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson, Sarah Miles, Sterling Hayden, Lance Holcomb

Synopsis: A big black mamba snake that has gotten loose in a townhouse slithers through a kidnapping plot in this film. Based on a novel by Alan Scholefield, Venom features a big name British cast that seems to be slumming in a B-movie project. Dr. Marion Stowe (Sarah Miles) is a toxicologist who has Read More

The House Where Evil Dwells

Actors: Edward Albert, Susan George, Doug McClure, Amy Barrett, Mako Hattori

Synopsis: Based on a novel by James Hardiman, this routine haunted-house scenario is enhanced a bit by its lush Eastern setting. The story opens in an elaborate Kyoto abode, wherein a cuckolded samurai brutally murders his wife and her lover before committing ritual seppuku. Their restless spirits remain Read More

Alice: Alice at the Palace

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, Mel (Vic Tayback) agrees to finance a musical revue starring Alice (Linda Lavin). Dropping into the diner at this moment, guest star Joel Grey decides to help Alice out by starring in the revue--but first he must audition with a plaintive rendition of Read More

Alice: Joel Grey Saves the Day

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, guest star Joel Grey has agreed to headline the musical play starring Alice (Linda Lavin) and bankrolled by Mel (Vic Tayback). But Grey ankles the project when Mel transforms the show from a sophisiticated Manhattan revue to a desert "folk opera", repleted Read More

Kiss My Grits

Enter the Ninja

Actors: Franco Nero, Susan George, Sho Kosugi, Alex Courtney, Will Hare

Synopsis: Cannon Productions' first foray into the martial arts milieu, Enter the Ninja stars Franco Nero. While visiting old pal Frank Landers (Alex Courtney) in the Philippines, master ninja Cole (Nero) is approached by villain Charles Venarius (Christopher George). Coveting Lander's plantation, Venarius Read More

Tomorrow Never Comes

Actors: Oliver Reed, Susan George, Raymond Burr, John Ireland, Stephen McHattie

Synopsis: This police melodrama is set in a coastal resort where a young man becomes insanely jealous after learning that his girl has been with another. He takes her hostage in the town hotel and threatens to kill her. Now a hot-tempered police chief and his peace-loving lieutenant must somehow team-up to Read More

Tintorera

Synopsis: Essentially a gory knock-off of Jaws, this watery horror outing follows the exploits of two adventuresome shark hunters vying for the love of several bathing beauties. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Computercide

Actors: Joe Cortese, Susan George

Synopsis: The Final Eye began life as the pilot for a futuristic TV series. Joe Cortese stars as Mike Stringer, who in the year 1996 is the last private eye left on earth. Stringer is hired by Lisa Korter (Susan George), the daughter of a mysterious financier (Liam Sullivan). Twenty years earlier, the Read More

Mission: Monte Carlo

Synopsis: Mission: Monte Carlo is a "movie" comprised of two episodes from the 1971 British/US TV series The Persuaders - which accounts for the presence of Basil Dearden, who died that year. The only element that the two hour-long episodes truly have in common is their setting: Southern France's Cote Read More

A Small Town in Texas

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Susan George, Bo Hopkins, Art Hindle, John Karlen

Synopsis: This by-the-numbers action-revenge drama that plays like several other similarly-plotted, good ol' boy pulp flicks of its era, such as Billy Jack (1971) and Walking Tall (1973). Timothy Bottoms stars as Poke Jackson, a convict who's just been released from prison after a stint for drug Read More

Mandingo

Actors: James Mason, Susan George, Brenda Sykes

Synopsis: Richard Fleischer directed this lurid historical drama based on the novel by Kyle Onstott. The story begins on a run-down plantation lorded over by Warren Maxwell (James Mason) and his son Hammond (Perry King). Hammond travels to New Orleans where he buys a top-of-the-line slave, Mede (Ken Read More

Out of Season

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Robertson, Susan George, Edward Evans, Frank Jarvis

Synopsis: In this tense story of an unusual romantic triangle, middle-aged Ann (Vanessa Redgrave) and her teenage daughter Joanna (Susan George) manage a failing hotel on an island off the British coast. One day, the hotel receives an unexpected guest, a man named Joe (Cliff Robertson). Joe and Ann had an Read More

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry

Actors: Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Vic Morrow, Kenneth Tobey

Synopsis: Three outlaws hit the road until the road hits back in this supercharged action thriller. Larry (Peter Fonda) is a stock car driver whose reckless nature has caused him a long run of bad luck. Larry and his friend and mechanic Deke (Adam Roarke) need money if they're to get a new car and get back Read More

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Actors: Kirk Douglas

Synopsis: This made-for-TV musical adaptation of the oft-filmed Robert Louis Stevenson tale is a curious novelty -- not only because it predated the Tony award-nominated Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical by nearly 25 years, but also because the musical numbers (by Lionel Bart and Irwin Kostal) are tackled by some Read More

J. and S. - storia criminale del far west

Actors: Susan George, Tomas Milian

Synopsis: Jed (Tomas Milian) is an unlikely hero in this Italian western. As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, he nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When Sonny (Susan George) decides he should be Read More

Straw Dogs

Actors: Cherina Mann, Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna, David Warner, Colin Welland

Synopsis: Sam Peckinpah examines the instinctual capacity for violence in his controversial 1971 film, loosely based on the novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm. To avoid the Vietnam-era social chaos in the U.S., American mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) moves with his British wife Amy (Susan George Read More

Fright

Actors: Tara Collinson

Synopsis: In this violent, grim thriller, a baby-sitter's routine job turns out to be anything but when she and her young charge are terrorized by an escaped mental patient who bursts in and holds them hostage. He claims to be the three-year-old boy's father and has come to murder his ex-wife. Meanwhile to Read More

Spring and Port Wine

Actors: James Mason, Susan George, Diana Coupland, Rodney Bewes, Hannah Gordon

Synopsis: A Lancashire lass refuses to eat the meal her mother has prepared for her. Her thick-eared father (James Mason) insists that she ingest every bite. This seemingly minor incident snowballs into big trouble for everyone concerned. Hard to believe, but this was based on a very popular stage play by Bill Naughton Read More

Eyewitness

Actors: Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George, Tony Bonner, Jeremy Kemp

Synopsis: Ziggy (Mark Lester) is the young boy who witnesses the murder of a visiting black official by the police. Much like the boy who cried wolf, Ziggy has been known to stretch the truth and exaggerate. He is unable to convince the adults that he witnessed the killing. The murderous cops are soon on Read More

Die Screaming, Marianne

Actors: Susan George

Synopsis: The first horror film from notorious British director Pete Walker, this is a brutal but rather pedestrian pulp thriller about a fetching young go-go dancer (Susan George, in her first starring role) who is stalked in and around an isolated house by ruthless assassins determined to prevent her from Read More

Child Bride

Synopsis: Child Bride was the original release title for the British Charles Bronson vehicle Lola (which in some areas bore a third title, Twinky). Bronson plays a middle-aged author who falls in love with 16-year-old Susan George. Their subsequent marriage causes such friction with George's family that she Read More

Lola

Actors: Charles Bronson, Susan George, Trevor Howard, Michael Craig, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: A couple tries to hold their relationship together despite the twenty-three year gap in their ages in this romantic comedy/drama. Scott Wardman (Charles Bronson) is an 39-year-old American author living in England who supports himself by writing pornographic novels. Scott meets Twinky (Susan Read More

The Looking Glass War

Actors: Robert Urquhart, Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Ralph Richardson, Paul Rogers, Anthony Hopkins, Susan George

Synopsis: In this Cold War espionage-thriller, adapted from the novel of John Le Carre, two veteran British intelligence operatives, Leclerc (Ralph Richardson) and Haldane (Paul Rogers), recruit a young Polish defector (Christopher Jones) to check on some missiles in East Germany. Avery (Anthony Hopkins) is Read More

All Neat in Black Stockings

Actors: Victor Henry, Susan George, Jack Shepherd, Claire Kelly, Anna Cropper

Synopsis: In the hip and swingin' London of the '60s, a young window washer, Ginger (Victor Henry) divides his time between picking up the cleaning rag and picking up women in the hip London pubs. One girl he meets is the pretty and demure Jill (Susan George), who his best friend Dwyer (Jack Shephard) takes Read More

The Strange Affair

Actors: Michael York, Jeremy Kemp, Susan George, Jack Watson, George A. Cooper, David Glaisyer

Synopsis: The Strange Affair is a fragmentary "'60s" interpretation of a straightforward Bernard Toms novel. Michael York plays a rookie London policeman, appalled at the corruption surrounding him. He does not find comfort in the fact that his own superior (Jeremy Kemp) is just as crooked as the crooks. Susan George Read More

Up the Junction

Actors: Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Adrienne Posta, Maureen Lipman, Michael Gothard

Synopsis: Based on a popular British novel by Nell Dunn, Up the Junction was a made-for-TV movie in 1965 before being remade for theatrical release in 1968. It features Suzy Kendall as Polly, an upper-class Chelsea girl who decides to relieve her boredom by slumming in a working-class section of London Read More

Billion Dollar Brain

Actors: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Françoise Dorléac, Oscar Homolka, Ed Begley, Sr.

Synopsis: Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), the reluctant secret agent from The Ipcress File (1965) and Funeral in Berlin (1966) -- both (like the source for this movie) based on novels by Len Deighton -- is back again in Ken Russell's Billion Dollar Brain. Having left Britain's espionage service, Palmer is Read More

The Sorcerers

Actors: Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Ian Ogilvy, Elizabeth Ercy, Victor Henry, Susan George

Synopsis: Made by the then 23-year-old director Michael Reeves, who died after making only one more movie, the notable Witchfinder General (1968), this is an unusual horror film concerning an elderly couple who conduct experiments with mind control, hoping to experience the lost excitements of youth through Read More

Cup Fever

Synopsis: In this children's sports drama the police team up with a local soccer league help a children's team thwart the evil plans of a local leader. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More