Susan Tyrrell

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1945-03-18

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Susan Tyrrell

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."

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Acting History

2024
The Life of Sean DeLear as Self (archive footage)
2012
Kid-Thing as Esther
2010
Flexing with Monty as Mrs. Nog (voice)
2008
The Boneyard Collection as High Priestess
2003
Masked and Anonymous as Ella the Fortune Teller
2000
Buddy Boy as Sal
1998
Relax... It's Just Sex as Alicia Pillsbury
1997
Cow and Chicken
1997
Extreme Ghostbusters as Achira (voice)
1997
I Am Weasel as Madame DeBarge (voice)
1997
Pink as the Day She Was Born
1997
Poison Ivy: The New Seduction as Mrs. B
1996
Japan in Paris in L.A.
1995
Powder as Maxine
1995
Digital Man as Mildred
1995
The Demolitionist as Eleanor Grimbaum
1992
Susan Tyrrell: My Rotten Life, a Bitter Operetta as The Woman
1991
Motorama as Bartender
1991
Every Cake, Neil
1990
Wings as Sconset Sal
1990
Cry-Baby as Ramona Rickettes
1990
Rockula as Chuck the Bartender
1989
Far from Home as Agnes Reed
1989
Tales from the Crypt as Mona
1989
Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood
1988
Tapeheads as Nikki Morton
1988
Big Top Pee-wee as Midge Montana
1988
The Underachievers as Mrs. Grant
1987
From a Whisper to a Scream as Beth Chandler
1987
The Chipmunk Adventure as Claudia Furschtien (voice)
1987
Poker Alice as Mad Mary
1986
The Christmas Star as Sara
1986
If Tomorrow Comes as Bertha
1986
Thompson's Last Run as Pookie
1985
Flesh + Blood as Celine
1985
Avenging Angel as Solly Mosler
1984
Angel as Solly Mosler
1984
Jealousy as Dixie
1983
The Hitchhiker as Doris
1983
Fire and Ice as Juliana (voice)
1983
What's Up, Hideous Sun Demon as Bunny
1982
Fast-Walking as Evie
1982
Liar's Moon as Lora Mae Bouvier
1981
Open All Night as Gretchen Feester
1981
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker as Aunt Cheryl
1981
Tales of Ordinary Madness as Vera
1981
Subway Riders as Eleanor Langley
1981
Be Pretty and Shut Up! as Self
1981
Midnight Lace as Ann Galvin
1981
Document of the Dead as Narrator (voice)
1980
Forbidden Zone as Queen Doris of the Sixth Dimension
1979
Racquet as Miss Baxter
1978
Lady of the House as Helen
1978
Flying High
1978
Loose Shoes as Boobies
1977
Another Man, Another Chance as Alice
1977
September 30, 1955 as Melba Lou
1977
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden as Lee
1977
Bad as Mary Aiken
1977
Islands in the Stream as Lil
1977
Wizards as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1976
The Killer Inside Me as Joyce Lakeland
1975
Starsky & Hutch as Annie / Isabelle Oates
1975
Baretta
1974
To Kill the King as Maggie Van Birchard
1974
Zandy's Bride as Marai Cordova
1974
Catch My Soul as Emilia
1973
Kojak as Mary Torino
1972
Fat City as Oma
1971
Nichols as Caralee
1971
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me as Jack
1971
The Steagle as Louise
1971
Shoot Out as Alma
1963
Mr. Novak as Phyllis Freuchen
1963
The Patty Duke Show
1959
Bonanza as Jill Conway