Susan George (actress)



Susan Melody George (born 26 July 1950) is an English film and television actress, film producer and Arabian horse breeder.



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[hide]  *1 Biography  ==Biography[edit] == She has recalled many holidays at the caravan park in Font-y-Gary in South Wales as a child.[1]  She trained at the Stage School, Corona Theatre School and has acted since the age of four, appearing on both television and film. Her most notable roles include those of "Amy Sumner" in Straw Dogs (1971) with Dustin Hoffman, and as "Mary Coombs" in Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry(1974), with Peter Fonda. When asked in a 2013 interview about working with Hoffman and director Sam Peckinpah in Straw Dogs, George said: I had a love-hate relationship with Sam, but he was a brilliant director and a genius of his time. Dustin was a generous actor to work with, who could be intense at times but had a great personality and an incredibly mischievous sense of humour. Making the film was a fantastic experience and one that I cherish to this day.[2] In the early 1970s George came to be associated with rather provocative, sometimes (as in Straw Dogs) controversial, roles and became quite type-cast. Cinema writer Leslie Halliwell's rather terse summary of her career was: "British leading lady, former child actress; usually typed as sexpot"[3]
 * 2 Personal life
 * 3 Filmography
 * 3.1 As actress
 * 3.2 As executive producer
 * 3.3 As miscellaneous crew
 * 4 Equestrian interest
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links

Her lighter side was apparent in some of her TV appearances, such as in an episode (The Gold Napoleon) of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persuaders! The Persuaders] (1971) with Roger Moore and Tony Curtis. In 1988, George marked her film producing debut with Stealing Heaven. She was one of the guest presenters of BBC Radio 1's Star Choice in 1979, then a one-off show for BBC Radio 2 in 1982 and was also a guest castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 1987. ==Personal life[edit] == Susan George was married to British actor Simon MacCorkindale from 5 October 1984 until his death from cancer on 14 October 2010.[4] [5] [6]  They had no children.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-mirror_7-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == ===As actress<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === ===As executive producer<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === ===As miscellaneous crew<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === ==Equestrian interest<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">George breeds Arabian horses and has a stud farm called Georgian Arabians.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  In 2007, she was featured in Horse & Hound magazine, in the "Talk Yourself Horse" page.
 * Stealing Heaven (1988)
 * Djavolji raj (1989)
 * The House That Mary Bought (1995) (TV)
 * Jackie Brown (1997) (very special thanks)