Susan Clark
Clark in 1983
Born	Nora Golding (1943-03-08)March 8, 1943 (age 82) Sarnia,Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1963–2007
Spouses	Bob Joseph ​ ​ (m. 1970; div. 1973)​ Alex Karras ​ ​ (m. 1980; died 2012)​
Children	1

Susan Clark (bornNora Golding; March 8, 1943)^[1] is aCanadian actress. She made her big screen debut in the 1967 drama filmBanning and the following year played the female lead in the crime thrillerCoogan's Bluff. She later starred in filmsTell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969),Colossus: The Forbin Project (1971),Valdez Is Coming (1971),Skin Game (1971),Showdown (1973),The Midnight Man (1974),Airport 1975 (1975),Night Moves (1975),The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975),Murder by Decree (1979),Promises in the Dark (1979) andPorky's (1981).

Clark received aPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for playingBabe Didrikson Zaharias in the 1975 television filmBabe, and another Emmy Award nomination for playingAmelia Earhart in the 1976 television filmAmelia Earhart.^[2] From 1983 to 1989, she starred as Katherine Papadopolis in the American sitcomWebster, on which she appeared with her husband,Alex Karras, receiving aGolden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy nomination in 1985.^[3]

Clark was born as Nora Golding inSarnia,Ontario and raised inToronto, where she attendedNorthern Secondary School. She made her professional debut at the age of 15 on stage in the musicalSilk Stockings, which starredDon Ameche.^[4] She studied acting at theRoyal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, England and two years later acted in a number of classical and modern plays.^[4]

In the early 1960s, Clark while living in London began appearing on British television, including guest appearances onThe Plane Makers,The Sentimental Agent andThe Benny Hill Show. She made her debut on the London stage inPoor Bitos. The play and Clark received good reviews but news from home about her father, who had fallen ill, led her back to Canada.^[4] She returned to Canada in 1965, when she appeared in a number of episodes of the anthology seriesFestival.

She was employed byUniversal Pictures from 1967 where she appeared in several television series and made her feature film debut in the drama filmBanning.^[5] Clark had leading roles in several Universal films, includingCoogan's Bluff^[5] withClint Eastwood in 1968,Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here withRobert Redford in 1969,Valdez Is Coming withBurt Lancaster in 1971,Showdown withDean Martin in 1973,Night Moves withGene Hackman in 1975, the disaster filmAirport 1975,The Apple Dumpling Gang withBill Bixby in 1975, and another disaster film,City on Fire, in 1979.

Clark starred in the 1975 television movie,Babe, playing multi-sport athleteBabe Didrikson Zaharias. Her performance won heran Emmy in 1976.^[6] In 1976, she starred in a three-hour made-for-television movie biography of the aviatorAmelia Earhart which also covered her marriage to noted publisherG. P. Putnam; she received an Emmy nomination for Best Actress. She posed topless forPlayboy in the February 1973 issue pictorial entitled "The Ziegfeld Girls: A dazzling review starring the talking pictures' own Susan Clark".

Clark played Dr. Cleo Markham inColossus: The Forbin Project, hooker Cherry Forever inPorky's (in which Karras also starred), Elizabeth Murray inEmily of New Moon, Elaine Moore in the television movieTrapped, and Muriel Mulligan in the 1994 television movieSnowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story. She played murderessBeth Chadwick in theColumbo episode "Lady in Waiting".She and Karras played husband and wife together on the sitcomWebster for six years in the 1980s.^[5]

In 2006, Clark appeared at theManitoba Theatre Centre in the Warehouse production ofThe Retreat from Moscow, and in the 2007 Mainstage production ofThe Importance of Being Earnest.

She married American football player turned actorAlex Karras in 1980. They met when they co-starred inBabe (and he played her husband,^[6] professional wrestlerGeorge Zaharias). They later co-starred on the popular primetime sitcomWebster together, portraying husband and wife. Their daughter Katie was born in 1980.

Clark and Karras remained married for 32 years until his death on October 10, 2012.^[7]

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