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| Born | Sue Ane Lookhoff (1936-03-08)March 8, 1936 (age 89) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1959–1991 |
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| Awards | Golden Globe Awards (1971) |
Sue Ane Langdon (bornSue Ane Lookhoff on March 8, 1936)[1] is an American actress. She has appeared in dozens of television series and had featured roles in films such asA Guide for the Married Man andThe Cheyenne Social Club, both directed byGene Kelly, as well asThe Rounders oppositeHenry Fonda andGlenn Ford and two films starringElvis Presley,Roustabout andFrankie and Johnny.
Langdon began her performing career atRadio City Music Hall, singing and acting in stage productions.[1] In the mid-1960s, she appeared in the Broadway musicalThe Apple Tree,[2] which starredAlan Alda.
Her co-starring role on the 1970 television seriesArnie won her aGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress-Television.
In 1976, she appeared inHello Dolly atThe Little Theatre on the Square.[3] In 1978, she appeared inChicago forKenley Players inColumbus, Ohio.[4] She was featured mainly in comedies, with an occasional dramatic film.
Langdon was born inNew Jersey, but raised in various locations around the country following the death of her father when she was two years old.[1] She attended the North Texas Teachers College inDenton, Texas, and was also briefly enrolled full-time atIdaho State University.[5]
Langdon's film debut came inThe Great Impostor (1961), starringTony Curtis. Langdon went on to have leading roles in films such asThe Rounders (1965),Hold On! (1966),A Guide for the Married Man (1967),A Man Called Dagger (1967),The Cheyenne Social Club (1970), andA Fine Madness (1966)[6] which led to her posing nude forPlayboy magazine. In 1966,United Artists Pictures releasedFrankie and Johnny in which Langdon co-starred along withElvis Presley,Donna Douglas andHarry Morgan. Her later films includedThe Evictors (1979),Without Warning (1980),Zapped! (1982),UHF (1989) andZapped Again! (1990).
Langdon's first regular role on network series television came as the third actress to play Alice Kramden inJackie Gleason'sThe Honeymooners sketches and shows. Preceded byPert Kelton andAudrey Meadows and followed bySheila MacRae and Meadows again, she shared aLife cover with Gleason promoting his 1962 return to weekly variety television. A premature departure from the role following a brief four-week run left her mark on theAmerican Scene Magazine era of Gleason's career a small one at best. The press reported at the time "incompatible personality differences" between "The Great One" and her. Four years later, MacRae took over the role for the color, hour-long musical versions.[7]
Langdon was more frequently seen on TV in guest roles such as Kitty Marsh during theNBC portion (1959–1961) ofBachelor Father. She appeared twice onRod Cameron'ssyndicatedcrime dramaCoronado 9. In 1961, she made her first of three appearances onPerry Mason as Rowena Leach in "The Case of the Crying Comedian". In 1962, she appeared as nurse Mary Simpson in an episode of CBS'sThe Andy Griffith Show. (Another actress,Julie Adams, also played Nurse Mary on the Griffith show.) In another popular situation comedy, Langdon played a scatter-brained defendant on trial in aDick Van Dyke Show episode called "One Angry Man".
Langdon made her second guest appearance onPerry Mason in 1964 as the murder victim in "The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor". Her thirdPerry Mason appearance was in the 1966 episode "The Case of the Avenging Angel" as Dorothy (Dotty) Merrill. Her other guest appearances on TV programs includedGunsmoke,Tales of Wells Fargo,77 Sunset Strip,Bourbon Street Beat,Room for One More,Shotgun Slade,Mannix,Thriller,Bonanza,Ironside,McHale's Navy,The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,Banacek,The Wild Wild West,Hart to Hart,Three's Company,The Love Boat, andHappy Days, and as herself onRowan and Martin's Laugh In.
In 1970, Langdon co-starred in the CBS sitcomArnie, starringHerschel Bernardi, which aired for two seasons. She portrayed Lillian, the wife of Arnie Nuvo, a loading-dock foreman turned corporate executive. Langdon won aGolden Globe award for her performance.[8]Grandpa Goes to Washington, anNBC hour-long comedy starring veteran actorJack Albertson, featured Langdon as Rosie Kelley, the daughter-in-law of an over-65 maverick United States senator. Premiering in 1978 oppositeHappy Days andLaverne and Shirley, the top-rated block of shows at the time, her third attempt at weekly episodic television lasted for four months. In 1980, a final attempt at her own series came in theABC comedyWhen the Whistle Blows. A mid-season replacement, Langdon played Darlene Ridgeway, the owner of a saloon frequented by local construction workers. Another rare 60-minute comedy, the program lasted 10 weeks.
Langdon married Jack Emrek on April 4, 1959, inLas Vegas, Nevada.[9] The couple remained married until his death on April 27, 2010, inCalabasas, California. Emrek was a motion picture, stage, and television director.[10]
Actress Sue Ane Langdon (3/8/1936- ), appeared in Columbus in the Kenley Players production of Chicago in 1978.
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