Susannah York
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Susannah Yolande Fletcher (9 January 1939 – January 15, 2011), also known as Susannah York, was an English actress.
She appeared in many films of the 1960s, including Tom Jones (1963) and They Shoot Horses, Why Should They? (1969) The mother of her international fame emerged from her work.
"The blue-eyed English rose with the crisp white skin and cupid lips that epitomized the sensuality of the swinging sixties," she later said "proved that she was a genuine actor of extraordinary emotional range."
They Shoot Horses, she went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She has also received the Best Actress for Images award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972.
Sands of the Kalahari (1965), The Killing of Sister George (1968), Battle of Britain (1969), Jane Eyre (1970), Zee and Co.
(1972), Gold (1974), The Maids (1975), Conduct Unbecoming (1975), Eliza Fraser (1978), The Shout (1978), and Superman (1978).
In 1991, she was designated an Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Early life
York was born in Chelsea, London, in 1939, the younger brother of Simon William Peel Fletcher (1910–2002), a merchant banker and steel magnate, and his first wife, Joan Nita Mary Bowring. They married in 1935 and divorced before 1943. Walter Andrew Bowring, CBE, a British diplomat who served as Administrator of Dominica (1933-1935), was a great-granddaughter of political economist Sir John Bowring, CBE. Eugene Xavier Peel Fletcher, a half-brother from her father's second marriage to Pauline de Bearnez de Morton de La Chapelle, had an elder sister and aunt.
Her mother married Adam M. Hamilton, a Scottish businessman, in early 1943 and moved to Scotland with her daughter. York began Marr College in Troon, Ayrshire, at the age of 11, an honor. She later became a boarder at Wispers School in Midhurst, Sussex, where she later became a boarder. She was banned from Wispers after admitting to a nude midnight swim in the school pool and moved to East Haddon Hall in Northamptonshire at 13 years old.
York was intrigued by her peers' acting experience (she had been playing an ugly sister in Cinderella at the age of nine), but then, when her mother separated from her stepfather and moved to London, she auditioned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. When she first started attending RADA, she included Peter O'Toole, Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, and future Beatles boss Brian Epstein.
Personal life
York married Michael Wells, with whom she had two children: daughter Sasha (born May 1972) and son Orlando (born June 1973). In 1976, the two couples divorced. Mrs. Cratchit and both of her children co-starred as Cratchit offspring in the 1984 television adaptation of A Christmas Carol. In 2007, York's first grandchild by way of Orlando was born.
Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli dissident who announced Israel's nuclear program, was left-leaning and publicly supported Mordechai Vanunu. When performing The Loves of Shakespeare's Women at the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv in June 2007, York dedicated the show to Vanunu, eliciting both applause and mockery from the audience.
Career
Her film career began with Tunes of Glory (1960), co-starring Alec Guinness and John Mills. She appeared in The Greengage Summer, which co-starred Kenneth More and Danielle Darrieux in 1961. She appeared in Freud: The Secret Passion with Montgomery Clift in the title role in 1962.
In the Oscar-winning Best Film Tom Jones (1963), Sophie Western was opposite Albert Finney opposite Albert Finney. She had turned the part down three times before but only agreed to attend because she was determined not to accept her resignation over a disastrous dinner for director Tony Richardson. She appeared in The 7th Dawn (1964), A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Killing of Sister George (1968) and Battle of Britain (1969). In 1970, she co-starred with George C. Scott (as Edward Rochester), appeared in an American television movie starring Jane Eyre, and appeared in Country Dance opposite Peter O'Toole.
They Shoot Horses, not York. They were nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for They Shoot Horses, wasn't they? (1969). When she was notified of her nomination, she snubbed the Academy and said it offended her to be nominated without being asked. She was praised for her performance, but she said, "I don't think much of the film or myself in it." She attended the service but she missed out on Goldie Hawn for her work in Cactus Flower, but she was disqualified from it.
In 1972, she received the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her contribution to Images. In Superman (1978) and its sequels, Lara on the doomed planet Krypton, she played Superman's mother Lara on the doomed planet Krypton, as well as Superman II (1980) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987). York made extensive appearances in British television series including Prince Regent (1979), as Maria Fitzherbert, the clandestine wife of the future George IV, and We'll Meet Again (1982).
Mrs. Cratchit of A Christmas Carol (1984), based on Charles Dickens' novel, appeared in 1984. Anne Walters co-starred with George C. Scott (as Ebenezer Scrooge), David Warner (Bob Cratchit), Frank Finlay (Jacob Marley), Angela Pleasence (The Ghost of Christmas Past), and Anthony Walters (Tiny Tim).
She appeared in 1992 as a member of the jury at Berlin's 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2003, York appeared as hospital manager Helen Grant in BBC1 television drama series Holby City. In two episodes of Holby City's sister series Casualty, she reprised her role in May 2004. The Calling was her last film, which was released in the United Kingdom in 2010.
She was a member of the Children's Film Unit and appeared in several of their films.
In 1978, York appeared in The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, directed by French director Simone Benmussa. This was the first of ten projects she coproduced with producer Richard Jackson. In a Henry James' play Appearances: Appearances with Sami Frey, she appeared in Paris the following year. Benmussa directed the play once more.
York appeared in For No Good Reason, a tribute to George Moore's short story in the 1980s, with Susan Hampshire. In 1985, she appeared in Fatal Attraction at the Theatre Royal Haymarket by Bernard Slade. Mary Boothe's The Women at the Old Vic, a 1986-1987 film that starred Maria Aitken, Diana Quick, and Georgina Hale.
She appeared in The Wings of the Dove in the United Kingdom and then appeared in The Loves of Shakespeare's Women, a well-deserved solo performance. She appeared in the Doctor Who audio play Valhalla in 2007 as well. In 2008, she appeared in Nelly in a Wuthering Heights tribute by April De Angelis.
York had been invited for a narrated role on the band's next full-length album Triumph or Agony, according to the website of Italian symphonic metal band Rhapsody of Fire (previously known as Rhapsody). She appeared in the Tennessee Williams season at the New End Theatre, London, in 2009, where she gained critical acclaim.
In August 2010, at the Oxford Playhouse, Jean Harwood's Quartet was the last stage appearance in York.
In the 1970s, York wrote two children's fantasy books, In Search of Unicorns (1973, 1984), which was excerpted from the film Images, and Lark's Castle (1976, revised 1986).
She appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4's I Had The Misery Thursday, a tribute to film actor Montgomery Clift's death that aired in 1986. York co-starred with him in Freud: The Unconfessional Passion, John Huston's 1962 film biography of the psychoanalyst.