Suzanne Pleshette

Suzanne Pleshette (New York, January 31, 1937-Los Angeles, California, January 19, 2008) was an American actress. She was the only daughter of the man who was the director of the Paramount theaters in New York, at the time of the great orchestras. Influenced by her father's profession, Pleshette decided to be an actress as a child, and began studying at the age of 12. years at the New York School of Acting and took her first steps as an actress in a neighborhood theater. She later continued to study at Syracuse University, and at various other institutions dedicated to teaching acting.

For a time he worked in the theater, where he gained the confidence to act. She made her film debut with the film The Geisha Boy (1958) alongside Jerry Lewis. She later signed a long-term contract with Warner Bros., which aimed to make her a star. In 1962 she got the leading role in Rome Adventure alongside Troy Donahue. In Hitchcock's The Birds (1963), she played the sympathetic teacher who falls victim to the birds. Since then Pleshette appeared in numerous films, although in most of it in supporting roles. She did not achieve stardom or be considered a great actress, something that was undoubtedly influenced by the fact that she did not receive job offers commensurate with her acting skills.

Television

Starting in 1950, Pleshette did some work on television, a medium in which she established herself as she saw that her film career was not what she had expected. With the movies and miniseries in which she intervened in this medium, she was more successful, and since 1980 she dedicated herself almost exclusively to television. In 1990 she was nominated for an Emmy.

In 1964, she appeared in the episode All the Scared Rabbits of the series The Fugitive, starring David Janssen, in the role of Peggy, Dean's divorced wife (Liam Sullivan) and mother of Nancy (Debi Storm), who hires the fugitive as a driver to take her to San Diego, California, but during the trip her daughter becomes infected with meningitis from taking a sick rabbit. She also participated in the 2 seasons of the successful series & # 34; The Invaders & # 34; (The invaders). In the third chapter of the first season, she stars as an alien who helps David Vincent and defends him from his own alien kin, dying at their hands. She attracts attention in this chapter, a very sensual dance that she performs in a tavern in the city of Rosario where she would meet the architect David Vincent. Now, in the penultimate chapter of the second season, she again stars as another alien with the characteristic of being the result of a failed experiment that tried to place human feelings in the aliens in order to assimilate and mix with earthlings, however, it only produced a being with terrible outbursts of anger when prevented from carrying out his will to the point of killing people without feeling remorse. He voluntarily offers to give a conference before civil and military authorities of the United States and thus certify with his presence the real existence of beings from another galaxy on Earth in order to seize it, but he dies from a shot without being able to fulfill this important task. aim.

In 1971, she played the character of Helen Stewart in a chapter of the series Columbo (in Spain, Colombo). This is one of the main roles in episode 3 of the first season (S1xE3), titled Dead Weight (in Latin America, Semilla de sospecha, and in Spain, Deadlift). In it, she accidentally witnesses the assassination of a colonel by a United States Army general who, to the disbelief of those who listen to her, also turns out to be the best-known war hero in that country. Her character appears throughout the entire chapter.

The actress also lent her gruff voice to animated films such as The Lion King 2, where she voiced Zira in one of Disney's biggest hit movies.

Family Life

He was married three times. The first time, with the actor Troy Donahue, from whom she divorced less than a year. Her second husband was businessman Tim Gallagher, who died in 2000 after 32 years of marriage, and in 2001 she married Tom Poston, with whom she had had a brief affair forty years earlier. Poston passed away in April 2007.

Death

Pleshette died on January 19, 2008, nearing her 71st birthday from complications of lung cancer at her home in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

• The Geisha Boy (1958)
• 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962)
• Beyond love (Rome Adventure(1962)
• Wall of Noise (1963)
• Birds (The birds(1963)
• Youngblood Hawke (1964)
• Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
• A distant trumpet (A Distant Trumpet(1964)
• A Rage to Live (1965)
• Jim West (The Wild West) - invited actress in "La noche infernal", television series pilot (1965)
• Mister Buddwing (1966)
• Nevada Smithof Henry Hathaway (1966)
• The Ugly Dachshund (1966)
• The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)
• Cimarron Strip (1967), Cap 10 Till The End Of Night
• The invaders (The Invaders), episode "The mutation" ("The mutation"), issued January 24, 1967 (1967)
• The Power (1968)
• My friend the ghost (Blackbeard's Ghost(1968)
• Target: Harry (1969)
• If today is Tuesday, this is Belgium (If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium(1969)
• Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
• Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
• The Legend of Valentino (1975)
• A very hairy candidate (The Shaggy D.A.(1976)
• Hot Stuff (1979)
• Oh, God! Book II (1980)
• Star manufacturer (1981)
• King Lion 2 (1998) - Voice of Zira: dialogues and songs