Susan Oliver

Susan Oliver ( born February 13, 1932 in New York as Charlotte Gercke, † 10 May 1990 in Woodland Hills ) was an American film actress and film director, as well as a pilot.

Life

Oliver was born as the daughter of well-known Hollywood astrologer Ruth Hale Oliver and the newspaper seller George Gercke.

Her film debut was in 1956 in an episode of the television series Studio One. More offers followed. She was the first female guest star of the science fiction series Star Trek. In later broadcast pilot The cage should not Captain Kirk, but his predecessor Captain Christopher Pike ( Jeffrey Hunter ), turn the head with her charm, what you failed, however.

As a pilot she won the Powder Puff Derby of 1970. Should be the first woman to fly in a one-person plane from New York to Moscow. But over Denmark ended the trip after the Soviet authorities had banned the overflight of the USSR. The fact that not all of their flights expired so lightly, proved a plane crash of her own Piper Comanche, which she survived in 1966. Oliver published her experiences as a pilot in her memoirs Odyssey.

Susan Oliver died at the age of 58 from lung cancer.

Filmography (selection)

TV series

Movies

As a director

Awards

For her last Broadway role in Patate Susan Oliver won the 1959 Theatre World Award. In 1977 she was nominated for her portrayal of Neta Snook in the film adaptation of the life of Amelia Earhart an Emmy.