Susan French Moultrie (January 23, 1912 – April 6, 2003) was an American stage, television, and film actress and puppeteer
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Early years
French was born in 1912 in Los Angeles, and was the daughter of Lloyd Moultrie, a show-business lawyer. She was a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Marlborough School in Los Angeles.
Career
French appeared in two Broadway plays early in her career and worked in radio, as well as a photographic stylist for three national magazines. She and her sister worked as riveters for the Douglas Aircraft Company during World War II, and she helped start a theater group there.
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, Little House on the Prairie, Moonlighting, Quantum Leap, Perfect Strangers, Remington Steele, 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 appeared in Universal's 1980 film Somewhere in Time, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, and 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).
Recognition
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films designated her as the best supporting actress for her performance in Somewhere in Time.
Personal life and death
After her divorce from Donald Richard French, she married Eliot (or Eliott) William Smith in New York City on September 17, 1943. She died in Santa Monica, California, on April 6, 2003, aged 91.
