Susan Tyrrell

ActorWriter Mar 18 (died age 67) San Francisco, California, USA 1959–2024 (65 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

Cry-Baby

Ramona Rickettes

Film

Powder

Maxine

Film

Flesh + Blood

Celine

Film

Fire and Ice

Juliana (voice)

Film

Fat City

Oma

Film

Wizards

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Film

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

Aunt Cheryl

Film

The Chipmunk Adventure

Claudia Furschtien (voice)

Filmography

Acting (76)

Movies (59)

The Life of Sean DeLear

2024

as Self (archive footage)

Kid-Thing

as Esther

Flexing with Monty

as Mrs. Nog (voice)

The Boneyard Collection

2008

as High Priestess

5.3

Masked and Anonymous

2003

as Ella the Fortune Teller

5.1

Buddy Boy

2000

as Sal

4.5

Relax... It's Just Sex

1998

as Alicia Pillsbury

5.6

Pink as the Day She Was Born

1997

Poison Ivy: The New Seduction

1997

as Mrs. B

4.7

Japan in Paris in L.A.

Powder

as Maxine

Digital Man

as Mildred

The Demolitionist

as Eleanor Grimbaum

Susan Tyrrell: My Rotten Life, a Bitter Operetta

1992

as The Woman

Motorama

as Bartender

Every Cake, Neil

Rockula

as Chuck the Bartender

Cry-Baby

as Ramona Rickettes

Far from Home

as Agnes Reed

The Underachievers

as Mrs. Grant

Tapeheads

as Nikki Morton

Big Top Pee-wee

as Midge Montana

The Chipmunk Adventure

1987

as Claudia Furschtien (voice)

6.8

Poker Alice

1987

as Mad Mary

6.3

From a Whisper to a Scream

as Beth Chandler

The Christmas Star

as Sara

Thompson's Last Run

as Pookie

Flesh + Blood

as Celine

Avenging Angel

as Solly Mosler

Angel

as Solly Mosler

Jealousy

as Dixie

Fire and Ice

as Juliana (voice)

What's Up, Hideous Sun Demon

as Bunny

Liar's Moon

as Lora Mae Bouvier

Fast-Walking

as Evie

Document of the Dead

as Narrator (voice)

Midnight Lace

as Ann Galvin

Be Pretty and Shut Up!

1981

as Self

6.1

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

as Aunt Cheryl

Subway Riders

as Eleanor Langley

Tales of Ordinary Madness

1981

as Vera

5.9

Forbidden Zone

1980

as Queen Doris of the Sixth Dimension

Racquet

as Miss Baxter

Loose Shoes

as Boobies

Lady of the House

as Helen

Wizards

1977

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

6.2

Bad

1977

as Mary Aiken

6.3

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

as Lee

September 30, 1955

as Melba Lou

Islands in the Stream

1977

as Lil

6.4

Another Man, Another Chance

as Alice

The Killer Inside Me

as Joyce Lakeland

Catch My Soul

as Emilia

Zandy's Bride

as Marai Cordova

To Kill the King

as Maggie Van Birchard

Fat City

as Oma

Shoot Out

as Alma

The Steagle

as Louise

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

1971

as Jack

2.8

Television (17)

Cow and Chicken

Extreme Ghostbusters

as Achira (voice)

I Am Weasel

as Madame DeBarge (voice)

Wings

as Sconset Sal

Tales from the Crypt

as Mona

Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood

If Tomorrow Comes

as Bertha

The Hitchhiker

as Doris

Open All Night

as Gretchen Feester

Flying High

Starsky & Hutch

as Annie / Isabelle Oates

Baretta

Kojak

as Mary Torino

Nichols

as Caralee

Mr. Novak

as Phyllis Freuchen

The Patty Duke Show

Bonanza

as Jill Conway

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

Susan Tyrrell: My Rotten Life, a Bitter Operetta

1992

Book

Susan Tyrrell: My Rotten Life, a Bitter Operetta

1992

Lyricist

Susan Tyrrell: My Rotten Life, a Bitter Operetta

1992

Writer