Personal life

Clark was born Nora Golding in Sarnia, Ontario, the daughter of Eleanor Almond (née McNaughton) and George Raymond Golding. Clark grew up in Toronto, Ontario, where she attended Northern Secondary School. She was one of several successful entertainers and many notable persons to have attended this school. She married Alex Karras, who became her Webster co-star, in 1980 and their daughter Katie was born the same year. They met when they costarred in the TV movie, Babe, in which she played Babe Didrikson Zaharias (for which Clark would win an Emmy in 1976), and he played her husband, professional wrestler George Zaharias. Clark and Karras remained married until his death on October 10, 2012.

Career

Clark had leading roles in several films, including Coogan's Bluff with Clint Eastwood in 1968, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here with Robert Redford in 1969, Valdez Is Coming with Burt Lancaster in 1971, Showdown with Dean Martin in 1973, Night Moves with Gene Hackman in 1975, the disaster film Airport 1975, and another disaster film City on Fire with Barry Newman, Leslie Nielsen and Shelley Winters. In 1976, Clark starred in a three-hour made-for-television movie biography of the aviatrix Amelia Earhart, and her marriage to noted publisher G.P. Putnam, for which she received an Emmy nomination for Best Actress. She posed topless for Playboy in the February, 1973 issue, in a pictorial entitled "The Ziegfeld Girls: A dazzling review starring the talking pictures' own Susan Clark".

Clark played Dr. Cleo Markham in the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project, hooker Cherry Forever in Porky's (in which Alex Karras also starred), Elizabeth Murray in Emily of New Moon, Elaine Moore in the television movie Trapped and Muriel Mulligan in the 1994 television movie Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story. She also played murderess Beth Chadwick in the Columbo episode "Lady in Waiting", which co-starred Leslie Nielsen and Jessie Royce Landis.

Most recently, in 2006 Clark appeared at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in the Warehouse production of The Retreat from Moscow, and in the 2007 Mainstage production of The Importance of Being Earnest.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Roles	Notes
1967	Banning	Cynthia Linus
1968	Madigan	Tricia Bentley
1968	Coogan's Bluff	Julie Roth
1968	Something for a Lonely Man	Mary Duren	TV movie
1969	Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here	Dr. Elizabeth Arnold
1970	Challengers, TheThe Challengers	Catherine 'Cat' Burroughs	TV movie
1970	Skullduggery	Dr. Sybil Greame
1970	Colossus: The Forbin Project	Dr. Cleo Markham
1971	Valdez Is Coming	Gay Erin
1971	Skin Game	Ginger
1972	Astronaut, TheThe Astronaut	Gail Randolph	TV movie
1972	Poet Game	Diana Howard	TV movie
1973	Showdown	Kate Jarvis
1973	Trapped	Elaine Moore	TV movie
1974	Double Solitaire	Barbara Potter	TV movie
1974	Midnight Man, TheThe Midnight Man	Linda Thorpe
1974	Airport 1975	Helen Patroni
1975	Night Moves	Ellen Moseby
1975	Apple Dumpling Gang, TheThe Apple Dumpling Gang	Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale
1975	Babe	Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson Zaharias	TV movie
1976	McNaughton's Daughter	Laurel McNaughton	TV movie
1976	Amelia Earhart	Amelia Earhart	TV movie
1979	Murder by Decree	Mary Kelly
1979	North Avenue Irregulars, TheThe North Avenue Irregulars	Anne Woods, the Church Secretary
1979	City on Fire	Diana Brockhurst-Lautrec
1979	Promises in the Dark	Fran Koenig
1980	Double Negative	Paula West
1980	Jimmy B. & André	Stevie	TV movie
1981	Choice, TheThe Choice	Kay Clements	TV movie
1981	Nobody's Perfekt	Carol
1981	Sherlock Holmes	Madge Larrabee	TV movie
1982	Porky's	Cherry Forever
1982	Maid in America	Catherine Abel	TV movie
1994	Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story	Muriel Mulligan	TV movie
1994	Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story	LaVona Harding	TV movie
1995	Butterbox Babies	Lila Young
1996	Toe Tags	Trent's Mother	TV movie

Television

Year	Title	Roles
1963	Sentimental Agent, TheThe Sentimental Agent	Philippa	Episode: "Finishing School"
1967	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Helen Silbey	Episode: "Blind Man's Bluff"
1967	Virginian, TheThe Virginian	Melanie Kohler	Episode: "Melanie"
1967	Run for Your Life	Kathryn Aller	Episode: "Cry Hard, Cry Fast: Part 1" Episode: "Cry Hard, Cry Fast: Part 2"
1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Ruth Ann Adams	Episode: "Hello, Goodbye, Hello"
1971	Bold Ones: The Lawyers, TheThe Bold Ones: The Lawyers	Ellen McKay	Episode: "In Defense of Ellen McKay"
1971	Columbo	Beth Chadwick	Episode: "Lady in Waiting"
1972	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Judy Graham	Episode: "Please Don't Send Flowers"
1972	Bold Ones: The New Doctors, TheThe Bold Ones: The New Doctors	Janice Morrow	Episode: "An Inalienable Right to Die"
1974	Barnaby Jones	Karen Maybury / 'Leila Evanston'	Episode: "Woman in the Shadows"
1983-1989	Webster	Katherine Calder-Young Papadapolis	150 episodes
1991	Murder, She Wrote	Meredith Hellman	Episode: "Moving Violation"
1998-2000	Emily of New Moon	Elizabeth Murray	17 episodes

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