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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 18, 1945
Died
June 16, 2012
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also Known As
- Susan Tyrell
- Susan Jillian Creamer
- Сюзан Тайррелл
Susan Tyrrell
0.8 Popularity
Biography
Susan Tyrrell (born Susan Jillian Creamer; March 18, 1945 – June 16, 2012) was an American character actress. Tyrrell's career began in theater in New York City in the 1960s in Broadway and off Broadway productions. Her first film was Shoot Out (1971). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Oma in John Huston's Fat City (1972). In 1978, Tyrrell received the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Andy Warhol's Bad (1977). Her New York Times obituary described her as "a whiskey-voiced character actress (with) talent for playing the downtrodden, outré, and grotesque."
Known For
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Life of Sean DeLear
2024
6.2
Esther
Kid-Thing
2012
3.2
Mrs. Nog (voice)
Flexing with Monty
2010
5.3
High Priestess
The Boneyard Collection
2008
5.0
Ella the Fortune Teller
Masked and Anonymous
2003
4.5
Sal
Buddy Boy
2000
5.6
Alicia Pillsbury
Relax... It's Just Sex
1998
7.1
Cow and Chicken
1997
6.6
Achira (voice)
Extreme Ghostbusters
1997
7.2
Madame DeBarge (voice)
I Am Weasel
1997
Credits
The Life of Sean DeLear
as Self (archive footage)
2024
0.0
Kid-Thing
as Esther
2012
6.2
Flexing with Monty
as Mrs. Nog (voice)
2010
3.2
The Boneyard Collection
as High Priestess
2008
5.3
Masked and Anonymous
as Ella the Fortune Teller
2003
5.0
Buddy Boy
as Sal
2000
4.5
Relax... It's Just Sex
as Alicia Pillsbury
1998
5.6
Cow and Chicken
1997
7.1
Extreme Ghostbusters
as Achira (voice)
1997
6.6
I Am Weasel
as Madame DeBarge (voice)
1997
7.2
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Pink as the Day She Was Born
1997
0.0
Poison Ivy: The New Seduction
as Mrs. B
1997
4.7
Japan in Paris in L.A.
1996
0.0
Powder
as Maxine
1995
7.0
Digital Man
as Mildred
1995
4.7
The Demolitionist
as Eleanor Grimbaum
1995
4.8
Susan Tyrrell: My Rotten Life, a Bitter Operetta
as The Woman
1992
0.0
Motorama
as Bartender
1991
6.5
Every Cake, Neil
1991
0.0
Wings
as Sconset Sal
1990
6.9
Cry-Baby
as Ramona Rickettes
1990
6.5
Rockula
as Chuck the Bartender
1990
4.8
Far from Home
as Agnes Reed
1989
5.4
Tales from the Crypt
as Mona
1989
8.0
Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood
1989
0.0
Tapeheads
as Nikki Morton
1988
5.3
Big Top Pee-wee
as Midge Montana
1988
4.9
The Underachievers
as Mrs. Grant
1988
4.2
From a Whisper to a Scream
as Beth Chandler
1987
5.7
The Chipmunk Adventure
as Claudia Furschtien (voice)
1987
6.8
Poker Alice
as Mad Mary
1987
6.3
The Christmas Star
as Sara
1986
5.6
If Tomorrow Comes
as Bertha
1986
7.2
Thompson's Last Run
as Pookie
1986
0.0
Flesh + Blood
as Celine
1985
6.6
Avenging Angel
as Solly Mosler
1985
5.2
Angel
as Solly Mosler
1984
6.0
Jealousy
as Dixie
1984
2.7
The Hitchhiker
as Doris
1983
6.1
Fire and Ice
as Juliana (voice)
1983
6.7
What's Up, Hideous Sun Demon
as Bunny
1983
5.0
Fast-Walking
as Evie
1982
5.7
Liar's Moon
as Lora Mae Bouvier
1982
5.1
Open All Night
as Gretchen Feester
1981
3.5
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
as Aunt Cheryl
1981
6.6
Tales of Ordinary Madness
as Vera
1981
5.9
Subway Riders
as Eleanor Langley
1981
6.5
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
as Self
1981
6.1
Midnight Lace
as Ann Galvin
1981
6.0
Document of the Dead
as Narrator (voice)
1981
6.5
Forbidden Zone
as Queen Doris of the Sixth Dimension
1980
6.2
Racquet
as Miss Baxter
1979
4.4
Lady of the House
as Helen
1978
0.0
Flying High
1978
4.5
Loose Shoes
as Boobies
1978
3.6
Another Man, Another Chance
as Alice
1977
6.0
September 30, 1955
as Melba Lou
1977
6.4
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
as Lee
1977
5.8
Bad
as Mary Aiken
1977
6.3
Islands in the Stream
as Lil
1977
6.4
Wizards
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1977
6.2
The Killer Inside Me
as Joyce Lakeland
1976
4.3
Starsky & Hutch
as Annie / Isabelle Oates
1975
7.3
Baretta
1975
6.4
To Kill the King
as Maggie Van Birchard
1974
7.0
Zandy's Bride
as Marai Cordova
1974
6.2
Catch My Soul
as Emilia
1974
5.4
Kojak
as Mary Torino
1973
7.0
Fat City
as Oma
1972
7.0
Nichols
as Caralee
1971
5.0
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
as Jack
1971
2.8
The Steagle
as Louise
1971
4.1
Shoot Out
as Alma
1971
6.4
Mr. Novak
as Phyllis Freuchen
1963
6.5
The Patty Duke Show
1963
5.6
Bonanza
as Jill Conway
1959
7.5