Susan Tyrrell
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). Her New York Times obituary described her as "a whiskey-voiced character actress (with) talent for playing the downtrodden, outré, and grotesque."
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.12 |
| Birthday | 1945-03-18 |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Susan Tyrell, Susan Jillian Creamer, |
1984
Angel
5.9/98
Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apar...
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Angel
1988
Big Top Pee-wee
4.915/129
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front ya...
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Big Top Pee-wee
2003
Masked and Anonymous
5.2/49
Amidst unrest, organizers put on a benefit concert.
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Masked and Anonymous
1988
Tapeheads
5.2/53
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video produ...
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Tapeheads
1985
Flesh + Blood
6.58/374
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague...
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Flesh + Blood
1990
Cry-Baby
6.5/1478
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
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Cry-Baby
1989
Far from Home
5.6/35
Charlie Cox should have stopped for gas in California. While he's on a cross-country trip with his teenage daughter, Joleen, his car hits empty in a c...
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Far from Home
1986
The Christmas Star
5.7/29
Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting. On the week before Christmas, he escapes from prison dresse...
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The Christmas Star
1976
The Killer Inside Me
4.5/16
Haunted by visions from his abusive childhood, Montana deputy sheriff Lou Ford gradually exhibits the signs of a homicidal schizophrenic.
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The Killer Inside Me
1980
Forbidden Zone
6.3/99
A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through...
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Forbidden Zone
1982
Fast-Walking
5.9/16
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
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Fast-Walking
1972
Fat City
7.042/154
Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.
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Fat City
1977
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
6.2/34
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1987
From a Whisper to a Scream
5.8/80
The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with...
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From a Whisper to a Scream
1977
Bad
6.4/50
Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite,...
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Bad
1985
Avenging Angel
5.1/45
Molly Stewart, now a law student at UCLA, is determined to leave her prostitute past behind. After learning that the detective who helped save her lif...
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Avenging Angel
1997
Poison Ivy: The New Seduction
4.8/96
A sinister seductress vows to destroy a suburban family.
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Poison Ivy: The New Seduction
1991
Motorama
6.6/52
A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America play...
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Motorama
1981
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
6.7/132
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy w...
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Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
1981
Tales of Ordinary Madness
6.1/61
Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depra...
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
1977
September 30, 1955
6.6/7
A young Southerner loses his grip on reality when his favorite movie star James Dean suddenly dies in a car crash.
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September 30, 1955
1977
Islands in the Stream
6.5/19
An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.
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Islands in the Stream
2012
Kid-Thing
6.2/13
On the outskirts of Austin, 10-year-old Annie tears around on her BMX bike, hurls dough at cars, and smashes things up with her baseball bat. Her fath...
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Kid-Thing
1998
Relax... It's Just Sex
6.1/20
A tight-knit group of thirty-somethings -- gay, lesbian and straight -- struggle to live, love and stay friends in modern-day Los Angeles as circumsta...
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Relax... It's Just Sex
1982
Liar's Moon
5.2/14
In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). G...
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Liar's Moon
1991
Every Cake, Neil
0/0
An argument between husband and wife ends with blood spilled.
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Every Cake, Neil
1990
Rockula
4.9/25
Ralph is a sexually frustrated vampire who suffers from a peculiar curse. He's condemned for eternity to watch his one true love, Mona be murdered by...
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Rockula
1971
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
3.5/4
Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
1974
Zandy's Bride
6.3/26
Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they s...
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Zandy's Bride
1971
Shoot Out
6.3/78
Clay Lomax, a bank robber, gets out of jail after an 7 year sentence. He is looking after Sam Foley, the man who betrayed him. Knowing that, Foley hir...
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Shoot Out
1995
The Demolitionist
4.9/32
A murdered police officer is brought back to life by a cold-hearted scientist to serve as "The Demolitionist", the ultimate crime-fighting weapon in a...
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The Demolitionist
2000
Buddy Boy
4.7/11
An introvert relieves the tedium of caring for his invalid mother by spying on his neighbor.
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Buddy Boy
1996
Japan in Paris in L.A.
0/0
Japan in Paris in L.A. centres on Saeki Yuzo, an early twentieth-century Japanese artist who makes a pilgrimage to Paris to seek his artistic fortunes...
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Japan in Paris in L.A.
1977
Another Man, Another Chance
6.3/13
Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates to America. In a small town in the still wild west...
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Another Man, Another Chance
1987
Poker Alice
6.3/6
She's a New Orleans gambler with a poker face no man can resist. And when she unwittingly wins a "house of ill repute" in a high-stakes card game, thi...
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Poker Alice
1981
Subway Riders
6.5/4
A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
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Subway Riders
1988
The Underachievers
4.8/4
Danny Warren is a former minor-league shortstop that becomes a narc to uncover drug dealing in this situation comedy. Investigating at a high-school a...
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The Underachievers
1974
Catch My Soul
5.4/5
Screenwriter John Good's rock & roll adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello who is a wandering evangelist who happens onto Iago's remote commune. There h...
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Catch My Soul
1997
Pink as the Day She Was Born
0/0
A rock-n-roll sex comedy about a young girl who will do anything to become a rock star, working in an LA domination parlor to support herself.
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1979
Racquet
4.4/7
Centred around a former tennis champ who swings with the girls and volleying straight sets with the rich and famous while set on owning his own tennis...
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Racquet
1981
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
6.4/19
The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which...
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Be Pretty and Shut Up!
2010
Flexing with Monty
3.4/14
Monty is a bodybuilder. His gym is the very heart of his existence. He is aggressively male, outrageously narcissistic and a bigot. Sharing this stran...
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1978
Lady of the House
0/0
A dramatization of the life of Sally Stanford, who operated a bordello in the northern California town of Sausalito, and eventually went on to be elec...
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Lady of the House
2024
The Life of Sean DeLear
0/0
The Life of Sean DeLear is a vibrantly multi-faceted, buoyantly propulsive documentary portrait of this irresistibly charismatic one-off — sketched in...
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The Life of Sean DeLear
1992
Susan Tyrrell: My Rotten Life, a Bitter Operetta
0/0
"It's a little raw and crude right now, but I want this to be 'My Rotten Life' as a dessert, not as a liver pill." Cult film actress Susan Tyrrell (Fa...
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1995
Digital Man
4.8/20
An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers are sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the member...
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Digital Man
1983
What's Up, Hideous Sun Demon
5/1
Z-grade horror flick "The Hideous Sun Demon" re-dubbed and re-edited into a monster-movie spoof about a suntan lotion that works from the inside out (...
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What's Up, Hideous Sun Demon
1987
The Chipmunk Adventure
6.8/102
The Chipmunks and the Chipettes go head to head in a hot air balloon race, and the winner gets $10,000. Unbeknownst to the participants, the "race" is...
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The Chipmunk Adventure
1981
Document of the Dead
6.8/25
A documentary about George A. Romero's films, with a behind scenes look at Dawn of the Dead.
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Document of the Dead
1995
Powder
6.984/640
Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as "Powder" struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when...
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Powder
1974
To Kill the King
7/1
Lance Henriksen is a successful restauranteur who is having a hot n' heavy affair with the wife (Susan Tyrell) of a Presidential Adviser. During one r...
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To Kill the King
1986
Thompson's Last Run
0/0
A hardened con being transferred from a federal penitentiary to a Texas institution to finish a life sentence as a habitual criminal is freed at gunpo...
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Thompson's Last Run
1971
The Steagle
4.8/3
In the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, a mild-mannered professor decides to live out all of his daydreams, travelling across the country and adopti...
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The Steagle
1978
Loose Shoes
3.5/11
Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from...
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Loose Shoes
1977
Wizards
6.1/202
After the death of his mother, the evil mutant wizard Blackwolf discovers some long-lost military technologies. Full of ego and ambition, Blackwolf cl...
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Wizards
2008
The Boneyard Collection
5.4/8
A quirky anthology, consisting of four separate short films connected by host segments. The first one, BOOGIE WITH THE UNDEAD, has an all girl rock ba...
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The Boneyard Collection
1983
Fire and Ice
6.689/291
In this animated tale, a tiny village is destroyed by a surging glacier, which serves as the deadly domain for the evil Ice Lord, Nekron. The only sur...
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Fire and Ice
1984
Jealousy
2.7/3
In this made-for-TV drama, Angie Dickinson stars in three separate vignettes as a woman whose life is dramatically affected by the emotion that gives...
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Jealousy
1981
Midnight Lace
6/1
A TV reporter is mercilessly stalked by a mysterious assassin in this remake of the 1960 Doris Day thriller.
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