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Susan Cabot

Susan Cabot

Birthday: 1927-07-09 | Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

​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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
1959
Surrender - Hell!

as    Delia Guerrero

1959
The Wasp Woman

as    Janice Starlin

1958
Machine-Gun Kelly

as    Florence 'Flo' Becker

1958
Fort Massacre

as    Piute Girl

1958
War of the Satellites

as    Sybil Carrington

1957
Carnival Rock

as    Natalie Cook

1957
Sorority Girl

as    Sabra Tanner

1954
Ride Clear of Diablo

as    Laurie Kenyon

1953
Gunsmoke

as    Rita Saxon

1952
The Duel at Silver Creek

as    Jane 'Dusty' Fargo

1952
The Battle at Apache Pass

as    Nono

1952
Son of Ali Baba

as    Tala

1951
Flame of Araby

as    Clio

1951
Tomahawk

as    Monahseetah