Susan OliverFilmography

International Airport

Synopsis: The fact that this made-for-TV movie is derivation of the megahit Airport is obvious by the presence of novelist Arthur Hailey in the credits. Gil Gerard heads the cast as David Montgomery, manager of a huge and extremely busy airport. As David wrestles with personal problems at home and a crisis Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Armed Response

Synopsis: Involved in a minor accident at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) ends up with a fractured leg. Over her protests, she is whisked off to a nearby hospital for treatment. You guessed it: A murder occurs--the victim is the head of the hospital--and Jessica must spend most of Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Let Me Hear the Music

Synopsis: Country-western singer Lacy Fletcher (Dennis Weaver) hires Magnum (Tom Selleck) to locate five lost love songs, written by the legendary George Lee Jessup just before his fatal plane crash in 1954. The investigation hits a roadblock when Laurie Crane (Susan Oliver), the fabled inspiration for the Read More

Tomorrow's Child

Synopsis: Less than a week after the premiere telecast of the "surrogate mother" drama The Gift of Life, the similarly-themed Tomorrow's Child made its TV debut. Stephanie Zimbalist and her geneticist husband William Atherton agree to participate in a secret lab experiment. Under the aegis of doctors Ed Flanders Read More

M*A*S*H: Hey, Look Me Over

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the opening episode of M*A*S*H's 11th and final season, Margaret (Loretta Swit) drives the nurses of the 4077th mercilessly while her own superior officer, the notoriously severe Colonel Buckholtz (Peggy Seury), conducts an inspection. In the process, Margaret learns to fully appreciate the Read More

Hardly Working

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver, Roger C. Carmel, Deanna Lund, Harold J. Stone

Synopsis: Jerry Lewis' first film in a decade stars the comedian as Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who cannot hold down a job. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Widows' Nest

Actors: Patricia Neal, Valentina Cortese, Susan Oliver, Yvonne Mitchell, Jadwiga Baranska

Synopsis: In this film, the arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores (Valentine Cortese), Carmen (Jadwiga Branska), and Elvira (Yvonne Mitchell) when their presence stirs up unwelcome memories. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Hang Tough

Synopsis: Four months away from retirement, hard-bitten narcotics cop Eddie Boggs (Ned Beatty) oversteps his bounds, brutalizing a drug-dealing stoolie and planting a weapon on the man. In his efforts to cover up his misdeeds, Boggs succeeds only making things worse. Played out against all this intrigue are Read More

Amelia Earhart

Actors: Susan Clark, John Forsythe, Stephen Macht

Synopsis: Susan Clark, the queen of the made-for-TV biopic (in 1976, at least), stars as legendary aviator Amelia Earhart. The story begins in 1921, with Amelia's first biplane flight. In 1928, she becomes the first woman ever to fly the Atlantic, albeit not at the controls. She gains international fame Read More

Ginger in the Morning

Actors: Mark Miller, Susan Oliver, Slim Pickens, Sissy Spacek, Monte Markham

Synopsis: Veteran art director Gordon Wiles occasionally wielded the directorial megaphone in both films and television with mixed results. Ginger in the Morning is an aggressively "small" picture, its success or failure totally reliant on the rapport between its stars. A young Sissy Spacek plays the title Read More

The F.B.I.: Fatal Reunion

Synopsis: After a decade's absense, an affable gent named Hamilton (Ed Nelson) returns to his home town. The locals welcome him effusively, never suspecting that Hamilton is a professional thief--and that he is currently being sought after by the FBI. Inevitably, Hamilton's past catches up to him in a Read More

Company of Killers

Synopsis: In this thriller a police detective must find a renegade assassin who is not only wanted by the cops, he is also wanted by his bosses at Murder, Inc. Conspiracy abounds as the hitman controls other assassin's who keep the police preoccupied by their attempts on the life of a multimillionaire. The Read More

Once Is Never Enough

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a detective must find the poisoned bottle of whiskey that killed an alcoholic. He then begins looking for the man that raped and murdered a woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Do You Take This Stranger?

Synopsis: Devious socialite Gene Barry stands to come into one million dollars. The catch is (and don't ask us why) that he must convince the authorities that he's dead. He arranges to switch identities with Lloyd Bridges, who is terminally ill. Diane Baker plays Barry's wife, who must needs be willing to Read More

The Monitors

Actors: Guy Stockwell, Susan Oliver, Avery Schreiber, Sherry Jackson, Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis: Featuring members of Chicago's distinguished Second City comedy troupe, this way-out sci-fi comedy tells the tale of a failed alien invasion. The basically friendly Monitors have come to Earth to take over and force humans to clean up their acts by forbidding them to engage in politics, violence Read More

A Man Called Gannon

Actors: Anthony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Judi West, Susan Oliver, John Anderson

Synopsis: This routine western finds Gannon (Tony Franciosa) as a lone drifter on the Kansas plains. He never looks for any trouble because trouble always manages to find him. Gannon takes on a young Eastern dude named Jess (Michael Sarrazin) and teaches him the ropes of being a cowboy. The two end up in Read More

Black Brigade

Synopsis: With The Mod Squad sweeping the Tuesday night TV ratings in 1968, producers Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas hoped to get another multiracial adventure series on the air A.S.A.P. Carter's Army was the 72-minute pilot for this project. Set during World War II, the film stars Stephen Boyd as an Army Read More

Change of Mind

Actors: Raymond St. Jacques, Susan Oliver, Janet MacLachlan, Leslie Nielsen, Donnelly Rhodes

Synopsis: A married couple struggles to adjust when the husband's brain is transplanted into the skull of a black man. David Rowe (Raymond St. Jacques) is the white district attorney who must now live life as a black man. His wife Margaret (Susan Oliver) tries to deal with the transformation of her Read More

The Love-Ins

Actors: Richard Todd, James MacArthur, Susan Oliver, Mark Goddard, Marc Cavell

Synopsis: In this dated, satirical drama, a college professor 'drops-out,' 'turns-on' and becomes a hippie guru after two students who publish an underground newspaper are unjustly expelled. The new guru promotes the dropping of LSD to find true enlightenment. After he is kicked out of his pad, the Read More

Star Trek: The Menagerie, Part 1

Synopsis: The starship Enterprise is diverted to Star Base 11 by a message supposedly sent by the ship's former commander, Fleet Captain Christopher Pike, and received by the ship's first officer, Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy). Upon arriving, however, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) discovers that Pike Read More

Star Trek: The Menagerie, Part 2

Synopsis: Spock faces the death penalty for receiving signals from planet Talos IV. With the agreement of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Fleet Captain Pike, the trial continues in closed session and the evidence -- the forbidden transmissions -- continues to be viewed by the trial board, as Kirk Read More

The F.B.I.: Courage of a Conviction

Synopsis: Receiving a tip from a reliable source in St. Louis, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) dispatches his agents to arrest Harry Castle (John Milford) for passing over $500,000 in forged checks. Before long, however, Erskine begins to suspect that Castle is innocent--even though the tip was Read More

Star Trek: The Cage

Synopsis: The pilot episode of the original Star Trek television series, "The Cage" features the familiar starship Enterprise, but under the command Captain Christopher Pike and a substantially different crew. The Enterprise answers a distress signal from the planet Talos IV, and Pike leads a landing party Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Prisoner of Love

Actors: Susan Oliver, Hal Smith

Synopsis: The Mayberry jail plays host to Angela Carroll (Susan Oliver), a suspected jewel thief. Turning on the charm, Angela manages to wrap both Andy and Barney around her little finger. Andy is not so bedazzled that he hasn't caught on to the delectable Ms. Carroll's ulterior motives. This was one of Read More

The Disorderly Orderly

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Glenda Farrell, Everett Sloane, Karen Sharpe, Kathleen Freeman

Synopsis: In this comedy classic, Jerry Lewis plays Jerome Littlefield, an orderly in a mental hospital in this slapstick situation comedy that makes full use of Lewis's patented brand of screwball comedy. Dr. Jean Howard (Glenda Farrell) is the exasperated head of the sanitarium who almost becomes a Read More

Guns of Diablo

Actors: Charles Bronson, Susan Oliver

Synopsis: Guns of Diablo was cobbled together from two episodes of the TV series The Travels of Jamie McPheeters. 14-year-old Kurt Russell plays Jamie, an orphaned boy heading westward with a wagon train. Charles Bronson tops the cast as wagon scout Linc Murdock, who runs into difficulties when he meets old Read More

Looking for Love

Actors: Connie Francis, Jim Hutton, Susan Oliver, Joby Baker, Barbara Nichols, George Hamilton, Paula Prentiss, Danny Thomas, Johnny Carson

Synopsis: Popular singer Connie Francis stars in this romantic musical-comedy as Libby Caruso, an aspiring young entertainer who yearns for the attention of handsom Paul Davis (Jim Hutton). Though at first Paul is not interested in her, Libby soon wins him over. Upon catching him, however, Libby changes her Read More

Your Cheatin' Heart

Actors: George Hamilton, Susan Oliver, Red Buttons, Arthur O'Connell, Shary Marshall

Synopsis: Perhaps the most popular and influential songwriter in the history of country music, Hank Williams Sr. didn't have a long recording career (only four years), but after passing away on New Year's Day, 1953, at the age of 29, he became a legend of American music practically overnight, and this Read More

The Caretakers

Actors: Robert Stack, Polly Bergen, Joan Crawford, Janis Paige, Diane McBain

Synopsis: A "bad movie" with a fervent fan following, The Caretakers is set in a bleak mental institution. Joan Crawford plays the hard-bitten head nurse (we first see her taking a karate lesson!) who is dead set against the progressive theories of new doctor Robert Stack. After a few minutes' exposure to Read More

The Fugitive: Never Wave Goodbye, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Richard Kimble (David Janssen), alias Jeff Cooper, arrives in Santa Barbara. Here the fugitive gives serious consideration to giving up his flight from the law--and his search for the one-armed man who murdered his wife--when he falls in love with Karen Read More

The Fugitive: Never Wave Goodbye, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part strory, the death of Lars Christian has drawn his niece Karen even closer to fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen). At the same time, Karen's spiteful half-brother Eric (Robert Duvall) has let slip Kimble's whereabouts to his relentless pursuer Lt. Gerard (Barry Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Annabel

Synopsis: Inasmuch as this episode was scripted by Robert Bloch, one shouldn't be surprised by its echoes of Bloch's suspense classic Psycho. The titular Annabel (Susan Oliver) is the former girlfriend of nerdy chemist David Kelsey (Dean Stockwell), who obsesses over the girl day and night. Having spent a Read More

The Untouchables: The Organization

Synopsis: Though set in the 1930s, this episode is clearly based on the infamous Appalachin Mafia conference of 1957. Gangsters Al Seeger (Richard Conte) and Joe "The Teacher" Kulak (Oscar Beregi) call a summit meeting to establish a consolidation of all organized crime in the U.S., the better to take over Read More

The Twilight Zone: People are Alike All Over

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Paul Comi, Susan Oliver, Byron Morrow, Vic Perrin

Synopsis: Having scoffed at his colleague Warren Marcusson's (Paul Comi) assertion that "People are alike all over the universe," Astronaut Sam Conrad (Roddy McDowall) is given the opportunity to find out if Marcusson was telling the truth when his spaceship crash-lands on Mars. Though Marcusson is killed Read More

Bonanza: The Outcast

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Jack Lord

Synopsis: The townspeople of Virginia City turn against Leta Malvet (Susan Oliver when her father and brother are hanged for murder. With nowhere else to turn, Leta latches on to the only person to show her any kindness: Clay Renton (Jack Lord), a "retired" outlaw. Also appearing are Edward C. Platt as Read More

Butterfield 8

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock

Synopsis: A woman who has long been short on feelings falls in love with a married man in this emotional drama. Gloria Wondrous (Elizabeth Taylor) is a model and party girl who lives for pleasure and is willing to take men for what she can get from them. Gloria bounces from man to man, but feels that she Read More

The Gene Krupa Story

Actors: Gene Krupa, Sal Mineo, Susan Kohner, James Darren, Susan Oliver, Yvonne Craig, Shelly Manne, Buddy Lester

Synopsis: Sal Mineo, who'd previously registered well as the lead in the TV drama Drummer Man, essays a strikingly similar role in The Gene Krupa Story. The film details Krupa's troubled home life: (he wanted to be a musician; his father wanted him to become a priest), his rise to fame as drummer for the Benny Goodman Read More

End of the Rope

Synopsis: A vengeful lynch mob confronts the condemned man. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Green-Eyed Blonde

Actors: Susan Oliver, Beverly Long, Norma Jean Nilsson, Tommie Moore

Synopsis: This drama is set inside a girl's reformatory. When one of the teens has a baby, the other girls rally together to conceal and care for the infant. The troubled young women soon become as a family until the guards discover the child and take it away. This angers the inmates who begin rioting and Read More