Sue Randall
Randall in 1964
Born	Marion Burnside Randall (1935-10-08)October 8, 1935 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	October 26, 1984(1984-10-26) (aged 49) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Years active	1955–1967
Spouses	Peter Blake Powell James J. McSparron
Children	2

Marion Burnside Randall (October 8, 1935 – October 26, 1984),^[1] who acted under the nameSue Randall, was an American television actress whose entire seventeen-year career (1950 to 1967) was spent in episodes of TV series, and one film (1957). Her best known role was the kindly Miss Alice Landers,Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver's elementary school teacher in theCBS andABC sitcomLeave It to Beaver.

Born inPhiladelphia, Sue Randall was bornMarion Burnside Randall, the younger child of Marion Burnside (née Heist) and Roland Rodrock Randall, a prominent real-estate consultant.^[2][3] She began acting on stage at the age of 10 in a production of the Alden Park Players.^[4]

In 1953, she completed her early education at the Lankenau School for Girls in theGermantown District of Philadelphia and then moved to New York, where she attended theAmerican Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating with honors.^[4][5]

Randall's credited TV debut came in the 1955 episode "Golden Victory" of the seriesStar Tonight.^{[citation needed]} She was one of the actresses who had the role of Diane Emerson in the television version ofValiant Lady (1953-1957).^[6] In 1954, she also portrayed Diane Emerson on the CBS dramaWoman with a Past.^[6]: 1189

Randall appeared in other television productions before portraying Ruthie Saylor, a reference-desk worker, in the 1957 filmDesk Set starringSpencer Tracy andKatharine Hepburn. Randall's recurring role as a teacher onLeave It to Beaver spanned the years 1958 to 1962, when the actress was in her twenties. She appeared in 28 episodes of the popularsitcom after replacingDiane Brewster, who played Miss Canfield during the first season and in the 1980stelevision movies based on the series. Randall's first appearance as Miss Landers was in theLeave It to Beaver episode "Ward's Problem", which originally aired on October 16, 1958.^{[citation needed]}

Primarily, Randall's roles on television were as a featured actor or supporting character, often inWesterns. For example, she was cast as Kathy O'Hara, an aspiring concert pianist, in the episode "The Mysterious Stranger" (February 17, 1959) on the ABC/Warner Brothers seriesSugarfoot. She was cast in "Judgment Day" (October 11, 1959) on the ABC seriesThe Rebel as Elaine, the daughter of a man sentenced tohang.^{[citation needed]}

In the late 1950s, producers cast Randall as a co-star with actress Theodora Davitt in a proposed weekly sitcom titledUp on Cloud Nine.^[7] Apilot for this comedy was completed, but no potential sponsors opted to buy or underwrite the series about "the daffy misadventures" of two airline stewardesses.^[8] In the pilot episode's storyline, described by one later reviewer as "painfully unfunny", Randall and Davitt's characters insult passengers and frighten them while in flight by mistakenly preparing their plane for a crash landing.^[9]

Randall appeared in other series, includingCBS'sThe Twilight Zone,Have Gun – Will Travel,Gunsmoke (as “Laura” in S7E9's “Millie”, and as "Effie Strayhorn" in S6E14's "The Cook"),Bat Masterson,The Aquanauts,Pete and Gladys,Ichabod and Me, andHennesey,NBC'sBonanza andThe Man and the Challenge, and ABC'sThe Real McCoys,The Dakotas,77 Sunset Strip,The Fugitive, andThe Rifleman. In addition, she made three guest appearances onSea Hunt in 1961. That same year she also guest starred as Ellen in the episode "The Secret Life of James Thurber", based on the works of the AmericanhumoristJames Thurber, in the CBSanthology seriesThe DuPont Show with June Allyson. She made two guest appearances onPerry Mason, both times as the defendant: Betty Wilkins in the 1960 episode, "The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker," and Arnell Stiller, alias Amy Scott, in the 1964 episode, "The Case of the Garrulous Go-Between".

Randall appeared also in five episodes of thesyndicated western anthologyDeath Valley Days. Her last performance in that series was in 1966, when she was cast as Carrie Huntington in the episode "The Courtship of Carrie Huntington".

Randall was married to Peter Blake Powell, with whom she had two children. She later married James J. McSparron, to whom she was married at the time of her death.^[2]

Randall retired from acting in 1967 after performing in the episode "Heaven Help Us" on the televisedanthology seriesVacation Playhouse.^[10] Two years later, she left California and returned to Philadelphia, where she soon began working in administrative roles with various charitable organizations.^[2] She participated intelethons and other local events to raise money to support programs and research battlingarthritis,multiple sclerosis, and blindness, and providing poor children with a better education.^[11]

Randall died of lung and larynx cancer atPennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia on October 26, 1984, at age 49.^[4]

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