Susan Cabot

Born: 1927-07-09

​Susan Cabot (born Harriet Pearl Shapiro; July 9, 1927 – December 10, 1986) was an American film, stage, and television actress. She rose to prominence for her roles in a variety of Western films, including Tomahawk (1951), The Duel at Silver Creek (1952), and Gunsmoke (1953). After severing her contract with Universal Pictures in the mid-1950s, Cabot returned to performing in theater in New York. She subsequently returned to Hollywood in the later part of the decade, and appeared in a series of films by director Roger Corman, such as Sorority Girl (1957), War of the Satellites, and Machine-Gun Kelly (both 1958). She made her final film appearance in Corman's horror feature, The Wasp Woman (1959). Cabot had a seven-year affair with King Hussein of Jordan and their only child was born out of wedlock in 1964. She received $1500 in monthly support from Hussein. In 1968, she married her second husband Michael Roman with whom she raised her son, Timothy Scott Roman, before again divorcing in 1983. Cabot spent the following two decades largely in seclusion, though she did appear in off-Broadway theatre in the early 1960s, and made a 1970 television appearance on the series Bracken's World. By the 1980s, Cabot was suffering from severe mental illness, including depression, suicidal thoughts, and irrational phobias. On December 10, 1986, Cabot's only child, 22-year-old Timothy Roman, bludgeoned her to death in their Los Angeles home with a weightlifting bar after Cabot purportedly awoke in a panicked state and attacked him. Roman, who had dwarfism and suffered pituitary gland problems, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and was sentenced to three years' probation for his matricide. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susan Cabot,   licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Kiss of Death

as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Released: 1947-08-27

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

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The Enforcer

as Nina Lombardo (uncredited)
Released: 1951-02-24

After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a...

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The Wasp Woman

as Janice Starlin
Released: 1959-10-30

The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from...

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Machine-Gun Kelly

as Florence 'Flo' Becker
Released: 1958-05-01

George Kelly is angry at the world and scared to death of dying. A career bank robber, Kelly...

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The Duel at Silver Creek

as Jane 'Dusty' Fargo
Released: 1952-09-05

When a gang of ruthless claim jumpers brutally murders his miner father, a gunman known as the...

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Son of Ali Baba

as Tala
Released: 1952-08-15

In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet...

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Gunsmoke

as Rita Saxon
Released: 1953-05-04

Kittridge is hired by the villans but turns to defend the rancher Saxon after learning the true...

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Fort Massacre

as Piute Girl
Released: 1958-05-14

New Mexico Territory, August 1879. The few surviving members of a cavalry column, which has been...

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The Prince Who Was a Thief

as (uncredited)
Released: 1951-05-17

An Arabian prince, kidnapped at birth and raised as a thief, plots to regain his throne from his...

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Tomahawk

as Monahseetah
Released: 1951-02-05

In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road...

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Ride Clear of Diablo

as Laurie Kenyon
Released: 1954-02-10

A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and...

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War of the Satellites

as Sybil Carrington
Released: 1958-05-18

An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings...

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The Battle at Apache Pass

as Nono
Released: 1952-05-09

Major Jim Colton is a sympathetic leader who has a working relationship with Apache leader...

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Sorority Girl

as Sabra Tanner
Released: 1957-10-01

A poor-little-rich-girl feels alienated by her mother and enacts a string of revenges on her...

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The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent

as Enger
Released: 1957-12-01

A group of Viking women build a ship and set off across the sea to locate their missing menfolk,...

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Flame of Araby

as Clio
Released: 1951-12-18

An Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite...

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Carnival Rock

as Natalie Cook
Released: 1957-09-01

An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler.

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On the Isle of Samoa

as Moana
Released: 1950-08-03

After committing a robbery, a man is inspired to confess by a lovely native girl he meets on a...

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Surrender - Hell!

as Delia Guerrero
Released: 1959-07-26

Director John Barnwell's 1959 WWII drama stars Keith Andes as an American soldier in the...

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Have Gun, Will Travel

as Becky Gray Carver
First aired: 1957-09-14

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957...

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Bracken's World

as uncredited
First aired: 1969-09-19

Behind the scenes at the fictitious Century Studios in Hollywood, headed by the (initially)...

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