Susan French

Susan French
Susan French
Born	Susan French Moultrie; January 23, 1912; Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	April 6, 2003 (aged 91); Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Stage, television, film actress and puppeteer
Years active	1965-1997

Susan French Moultrie^[1] (January 23, 1912 – April 6, 2003) was an American stage, television, and film actress.

Early years

Born in Los Angeles, French was the daughter of Lloyd Moultrie, a show-business lawyer. She was a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.^[2]

Career

Early in her career, French appeared in two Broadway plays, worked in radio, and was a photographic stylist for three national magazines. She and her sister worked as riveters for Douglas Aircraft during World War II, and she helped start a theater group there.^[1]

French appeared in the TV movie People Like Us (1990). She also played the roles of Mrs. Shaw in the 1979 TV movie Captain America II: Death Too Soon, and Bessie Gilmore in The Executioner's Song (1982). French acted in the soap opera Bare Essence (1982–1983) and appeared in episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Dallas, Falcon Crest, The Colbys, L.A. Law, Moonlighting, Quantum Leap, Perfect Strangers< and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Her final television appearance was in an episode of Picket Fences. In addition, she had a recurring role on the CBS TV series Cagney & Lacey as Mrs. Skimmins.

French also appeared in Universal's 1980 film Somewhere in Time, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Her other film credits include The Impossible Years (1968), Jaws 2 (1978), House (1985), The Verne Miller Story (1987), Flatliners (1990) and Younger and Younger (1993). Her last film role was in the live-action version of Fist of the North Star (1995). She also played the main character in a Remington Steele episode.

She had for many years a puppet theater in her home in Santa Monica, California and in 1964 published a book about making marionettes, Presenting Marionettes published by Art Horizons in hardcover.

Death

French died in 2003 of natural causes in Santa Monica, California, aged 91. Half of her ashes were buried on Catalina Island while the other half were buried on Mackinac Island, Michigan between the "Is It You" trees near the "Somewhere In Time" Memorial Plaque.^{[citation needed]}