Where Are They Now - October 10, 2014

Hello fans,

Thanks for joining me this week! Let's catch up with actress Susan Clark this week. She is best known for her role on the television sitcom Webster, but she has also appeared in a number of other productions both on film and TV over the years...

Take care,
Melissa

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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":

Dana Plato: Starred as Kimberly in the TV series "Diff'rent Strokes

Sylvia Kristel: Dutch actress who starred in the movie "Emmanuelle" and some of its many sequels

Marni Nixon: She did the singing for Audrey Hepburn in the movie "My Fair Lady", for Natalie Wood in the movie "West Side Story", and for Deborah Kerr in the movie "The King and I"

(Answer at the bottom)
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Susan Clark
Learn More About Susan Clark on Celebrity Nooz

BIRTH DATE: March 8, 1940, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

CLAIM TO FAME: She is best known for her role as Katherine on the American television sitcom Webster.

FAMILY LIFE: She was married to writer and producer Robert L. Joseph from 1970-73 (divorced). She married Alex Karras, who became her Webster co-star, in 1980 and their daughter Katie was born the same year. They remained married until his death on October 10, 2012.

INFO: Clark starred in a number of films over the years, 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, 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, she received an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Amelia Earhart in the made-for-television biography. She 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.

TRIVIA: Attended Northern Secondary School.

Studied at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

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".

WHERE IS SHE NOW: 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.

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CREDITS:

1998-1999 Emily of New Moon (TV Series)...Aunt Elizabeth Murray / Ada Pickett

1996 Toe Tags (TV Movie)...Trent's Mother

1995 Butterbox Babies...Lila Young

1994 Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story (TV Movie)...LaVona Harding

1994 Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story (TV Movie)...Muriel Mulligan

1991 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)...Meredith Hellman
- Moving Violation (1991)

1983-1989 Webster (TV Series)...Katherine Calder-Young Papadapolis

1982 Maid in America (TV Movie)...Catherine Abel

1982 Porky's...Cherry Forever

1981 Double Negative...Paula West

1981 Standing Room Only (TV Series)...Madge Larrabee
- Sherlock Holmes (1981)

1981 Nobody's Perfekt...Carol

1981 The Choice (TV Movie)...Kay Clements

1980 Jimmy B. & André (TV Movie)...Stevie

1979 Promises in the Dark...Fran Koenig

1979 City on Fire...Diana Brockhurst-Lautrec

1979 The North Avenue Irregulars...Anne

1979 Murder by Decree...Mary Kelly

1978 Hedda Gabler (TV Movie)...Hedda Gabler

1976 Amelia Earhart (TV Movie)...Amelia Earhart

1976 McNaughton's Daughter (TV Movie)...Laurel McNaughton

1975 Babe (TV Movie)...Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson Zaharias

1975 The Apple Dumpling Gang...Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale

1975 Night Moves...Ellen Moseby

1974 Airport 1975...Helen Patroni

1974 Barnaby Jones (TV Series)...Karen Maybury / 'Leila Evanston'
- Woman in the Shadows (1974) ... Karen Maybury / 'Leila Evanston'

1974 The Midnight Man...Linda Thorpe

1974 Double Solitaire (TV Movie)...Barbara Potter

1973 Trapped (TV Movie)...Elaine Moore

1973 Showdown...Kate Jarvis

1972 The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (TV Series)...Janice Morrow
- An Inalienable Right to Die (1972) ... Janice Morrow

1969-1972 Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series)...Judy Graham / Ruth Ann Adams
- Please Don't Send Flowers (1972) ... Judy Graham
- Hello, Goodbye, Hello (1969) ... Ruth Ann Adams

1972 Poet Game (TV Movie)...Diana Howard

1972 The Astronaut (TV Movie)...Gail Randolph

1971 Columbo (TV Series)...Beth Chadwick
- Lady in Waiting (1971) ... Beth Chadwick

1971 The Bold Ones: The Lawyers (TV Series)...Ellen McKay
- In Defense of Ellen McKay (1971) ... Ellen McKay

1971 Skin Game...Ginger

1971 Valdez Is Coming...Gay Erin

1970 Colossus: The Forbin Project...Dr. Cleo Markham

1970 Skullduggery...Dr. Sybil Greame

1970 The Challengers (TV Movie)...Catherine 'Cat' Burroughs

1969 Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here...Dr. Elizabeth Arnold

1968 Something for a Lonely Man (TV Movie)...Mary Duren

1968 Coogan's Bluff...Julie Roth

1968 Madigan...Tricia Bentley

1967 Run for Your Life (TV Series)...Kathryn Aller
- Cry Hard, Cry Fast: Part 2 (1967) ... Kathryn Aller
- Cry Hard, Cry Fast: Part 1 (1967) ... Kathryn Aller

1967 Banning...Cynthia Linus

1967 The Virginian (TV Series)...Melanie Kohler
- Melanie (1967) ... Melanie Kohler

1967 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series)...Helen Silbey
- Blind Man's Bluff (1967) ... Helen Silbey

1963 The Sentimental Agent (TV Series)...Philippa
- Finishing School (1963) ... Philippa

To see Then & Now pictures of Susan Clark, visit: Celebrity Nooz

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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--
Dana Plato - DEAD (Suicide)
Born: 11/07/1964 Died: 05/08/1999

Sylvia Kristel - DEAD
Born: 09/28/1952 Died: 10/17/2012

Marni Nixon - ALIVE
Born: 02/22/1930

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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
10/7
Walter Bockmayer, 66, German writer and film director.
Siegfried Lenz, 88, German writer.

10/6
Vic Braden, 85, American tennis player and instructor (University of Toledo), heart attack.
Feridun Bugeker, 81, Turkish football player.
Bill Campbell, 91, American sportscaster.
Andrew Kerr, 80, British festival organizer (Glastonbury Festival).
Johnny Midnight, 73, Filipino radio and television host, prostate cancer.
Igor Mitoraj, 70, Polish sculptor.
Marian Seldes, 86, American actress (A Delicate Balance, Affliction, August Rush).
Apiwan Wiriyachai, 65, Thai politician, lung cancer.
Serhiy Zakarlyuka, 38, Ukrainian football player (Dnipro, national team) and manager, traffic collision.

10/5
John Best, 74, American soccer player, coach and manager, lung infection.
Al Bruno, 87, American CFL player (Toronto Argonauts) and coach (Hamilton Tiger-Cats), heart failure.
David Chavchavadze, 90, British-born American author and CIA officer.
Andrea de Cesaris, 55, Italian racing driver (Formula One), traffic collision.
Jimmy Feix, 83, American football player and coach.
Anna Maria Gherardi, 74, Italian actress and voice actress (Lost Love, Petomaniac).
Vivi Haug (no), 77, Norwegian actress (Lange Flate Baller 2).
Geoffrey Holder, 84, Trinidadian choreographer (The Cosby Show) and actor (Annie, Live and Let Die), pneumonia.
Milan Kozelka (cs), 65, Czech poet.
Yuri Lyubimov, 97, Russian stage actor and director, founder of the Taganka Theatre.
Anna Przybylska, 35, Polish actress, pancreatic cancer.
Tsai Wan-tsai, 85, Taiwanese financier.

10/4
Konrad Boehmer, 73, German-born Dutch composer and writer, stroke.
Hugo Carvana, 77, Brazilian actor (Entranced Earth, Antonio das Mortes) and director (Casa da Mãe Joana).
Fyodor Cherenkov, 55, Russian footballer (FC Spartak Moscow, Soviet national team).
Jean-Claude Duvalier, 63, Haitian politician, President (1971-1986), heart attack.
John J. Lloyd, 92, American art director and production designer (Animal House, The Blues Brothers, The Thing).
Gholamali Pouratayi, 73, Iranian musician.
Paul Revere, 76, American musician (Paul Revere & the Raiders).
William Shija, 67, Tanzanian politician, Secretary General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (since 2007).
Arnis Zalkalns, 41, Latvian convicted murderer, suspect in the death of Alice Gross, suicide by hanging.

10/3
Peer Augustinski, 74, German actor.
Ewen Gilmour, 51, New Zealand comedian.
Benedict Groeschel, 81, American Roman Catholic priest, author and television host, a founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.
Alan Henning, 47, British humanitarian aid worker and ISIS hostage, beheading.
Peter Knecht, 78, American defense attorney, cancer.
Jean-Jacques Marcel, 83, French footballer (Olympique de Marseille).
Kevin Metheny, 60, American radio executive (WNBC (AM), WGN (AM)), suspected heart attack.
Ward Ruyslinck, 85, Belgian author, Alzheimer's disease.
Lori Sandri, 65, Brazilian football manager, brain tumor.
Rob Skipper, 28, British rock musician (The Holloways).
Christopher van Wyk, 57, South African writer.

10/2
Fyodor Bogdanovsky, 84, Russian weightlifter, Olympic champion (1956).
Andre Buffiere, 91, French Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952).
Robert Flower, 59, Australian Hall of Fame VFL footballer (Melbourne).
Michael Goldberg, 55, American screenwriter (Cool Runnings, Snow Dogs), brain and sinus cancer.
Eduardo Kucharski (es), 89, Spanish basketball player and coach.
Vaughn O. Lang, 86, American Army lieutenant general.
Carlos Lopez, 26, American stunt performer (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), fall.
N. Mahalingam, 91, Indian businessman.
Pedro Pena, 88, Spanish actor (Medico de familia), Alzheimer's disease.
Yoshikazu Sakamoto (ja), 87, Japanese political scientist, heart failure.
Frederic Tamler Sommers, 91, American philosopher.