Suzanne Pleshette Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Suzanne Pleshette was an American actress and voice actress. After beginning her career in the theatre, she began appearing in films in the early 1960s, such as Rome Adventure and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. She later appeared in various television productions, often in gu...
January 31, 1937, Brooklyn Heights, New York City, New York, United States
Died
January 19, 2008, Los Angeles, California, United States
Place Of Birth
Brooklyn Heights
Height
5 ft 4 in (1.626 m)
Profession
Actor, Voice Actor
Education
High School of Performing Arts, Syracuse University, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Tom Poston (m. 2001–2007), Tommy Gallagher (m. 1968–2000), Troy Donahue (m. 1964–1964)
Parents
Eugene Pleshette, Geraldine Rivers
Nicknames
Плешетт, Сюзанн
Awards
TV Land Icon Award
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie, Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year – Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Pictu...
Movies
The Birds, Rome Adventure, The Geisha Boy, If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, The Ugly Dachshund, A Distant Trumpet, Nevada Smith, A Rage to Live, Blackbeard's Ghost, Spirited Away, Leona Helmsley: The Queen Of Mean, The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin, The Shaggy D.A., Fate Is the Hunter, Suppor...
TV Shows
G.I. Joe: Sigma 6, Good Morning, Miami, The Boys Are Back, Nightingales, The Bob Newhart Show, The Tab Hunter Show, Harbormaster, Bridges to Cross, Maggie Briggs, Channing, NBC Sunday Showcase
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Trademark
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Husky voice
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Quote
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[on David Janssen] Our love for each other grew out of friendship, you know, and then love, and then friendship again, and loving friends.
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David Janssen was one of the great loves of my life.
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[1999 interview] I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.
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[on her "girl next door" image] "When Warren Beatty called a girl up, it was usually to try to get her into the sack. But he called me to find out what kind of bologna I used. I just don't have what it takes, I guess. Raquel Welch has what it takes. She's so sexy and gorgeous, even I want to jump on her!
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I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it until I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing Gunsmoke (1955)".
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Fact
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Gave the eulogy at David Janssen's funeral (Feb. 17, 1980).
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Both she and husband Tom Poston died of the same cause, respiratory failure.
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One time, while on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), she told the story of her near involvement with the movie Palm Springs Weekend (1963). At the time she was a contract performer at Warner Brothers and was cast in the movie. She adamantly refused to do it, fearing that it might hurt her career (a studio executive, annoyed by her attitude, told her that the sign outside read "Warner Brothers" not "Pleshette Brothers"!) She eventually got her way (and was forced to appear in Wall of Noise (1963) instead) and the role went to Stefanie Powers. She jokingly said that Powers was so upset that she had to take her place in the movie that she refused to speak to her for years afterward.
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Started out in theater before moving onto film.
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Both she and Veronica Cartwright appeared together in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963), as well as on episodes of Will & Grace (1998). Each played mothers. Pleshette playing Karen Walker's mom and Cartwright playing Jack's mom.
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Her mother was Geraldine Kaplan (1918-1987) and her father was Eugene Pleshette (1914-1991).
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Is buried in a family plot at Hillside Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California; between her two late husbands, Tom Gallagher and Tom Poston.
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Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, posthumously, on her birthday, January 31, 2008.
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Met her future husband, Tom Poston, when they appeared together in the 1959 Broadway comedy "The Golden Fleecing". However, they didn't marry for more than 40 years.
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In August 2006 she underwent chemotherapy treatment at Los Angeles' Cedar-Sinai Medical Center for lung cancer.
Was the producers' original choice for the role of Catwoman on the Batman (1966) TV show. When negotiations broke down, the part went to Julie Newmar, who made it her own.
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In December 2000 she announced her engagement to Tom Poston, age 79. Each had co-starred on a Bob Newhart show, but different versions--she was in The Bob Newhart Show (1972), he was in Newhart (1982). However, Poston appeared in a recurring role on the '70s version as Bob Hartley's old friend Cliff "The Peeper" Murdock. Pleshette also appeared on the '80s version finale that is one of the best series finales of all time--a segue between the two shows.