Suzan Farmer

[wellendcanons]

Excellent screencaps Billy. Just watched her Persuaders! episode.

wec

[billy farmer]

A TV Times listing from February 13th 1978.

[billy farmer]

A screencap of Suzan Farmer as Constance Beverley in The Scarlet Blade (1963) also featuring Clifford Elkin as Philip Beverley.

[didi-5]

I hear that Suzan Farmer has had a rough time of things for many years (if you can believe second-hand gossip), but she was a very good actress and I wish her well.

[billy farmer]

A TV Times feature about Suzan Farmer from the February 18th - 24th 1978 issue of TV Times.

[dissolute]

A screencap of Suzan Farmer as Constance Beverley in The Scarlet Blade (1963) also featuring Clifford Elkin as Philip Beverley.

You have made my day! I've been trying to get a good picture of Clifford for a while.
Where did you get a copy of The Scarlet Blade? I can't find it anywhere.

[billy farmer]

You have made my day! I've been trying to get a good picture of Clifford for a while.
Where did you get a copy of The Scarlet Blade? I can't find it anywhere.

I got my copy of The Scarlet Blade from a very kind Brit Movie Member, the above screencap is from the same copy.

[cornershop15]

I hear that Suzan Farmer has had a rough time of things for many years (if you can believe second-hand gossip), but she was a very good actress and I wish her well.

This is very worrying, didi. I have thought about your post all week, without knowing what it is you've heard. Can you elaborate? I read, in an old post from Smudge, that her contemporary Rachel Herbert, also rarely mentioned these days, had been ill a while back but have no further information. I wish both of them well - and all the other surviving actors who keep my spirits up through their past work.

Colour publicity stills for 'The Saint'

These are from The Sign of the Claw (1965), in which Suzan played, aptly enough, Farmer's daughter Jean Morland:

Supposedly in Malaya!

With Roger Moore as Simon Templar, of course :

She was his leading lady in three other episodes of The Saint and one of The Persuaders.

Playing her father, Don Morland, in The Sign of the Claw was Peter Copley:

Within the last year, I've discovered that Suzan is just two days older than Paul McCartney (they would have made an attractive couple at the time). But within the last week, I learned that another British actress from that era was born a few days before them. Still trying to think who it was. Someone I watched recently ... Not Julia Foster, or Jane Merrow, or Rita Tushingham. I'm too tired now but I keep a note of my daily viewing and will no doubt find out sooner rather than later.

[wellendcanons]

This is very worrying, didi. I have thought about your post all week, without knowing what it is you've heard. Can you elaborate? I read, in an old post from Smudge, that her contemporary Rachel Herbert, also rarely mentioned these days, had been ill a while back but have no further information. I wish both of them well - and all the other surviving actors who keep my spirits up through their past work.

Colour publicity stills for 'The Saint'

These are from The Sign of the Claw (1965), in which Suzan played, aptly enough, Farmer's daughter Jean Morland:

Supposedly in Malaya!

With Roger Moore as Simon Templar, of course :

She was his leading lady in three other episodes of The Saint and one of The Persuaders.

Playing her father, Don Morland, in The Sign of the Claw was Peter Copley:

Within the last year, I've discovered that Suzan is just two days older than Paul McCartney (they would have made an attractive couple at the time). But within the last week, I learned that another British actress from that era was born a few days before them. Still trying to think who it was. Someone I watched recently ... Not Julia Foster, or Jane Merrow, or Rita Tushingham. I'm too tired now but I keep a note of my daily viewing and will no doubt find out sooner rather than later.

It might be worthwhile Cornershop to log in daily for the next week to wearysloth's marvellous Aveleyman site and check the birthday list.

wec

[billy farmer]

Thank you for the wonderful post Cornershop, some great colour publicity stills from The Saint featuring Suzan Farmer, i do hope Suzan is well, she has always been one of my favourite Actresses, below are the trailers for two films in which Suzan appeared - The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964) and Dracula, Prince Of Darkness (1966).

[didi-5]

cornershop and billy - I was told by someone who claims they knew Suzan well that she has a long history of alcohol problems and, sadly, suicide threats. However I cannot be totally clear on whether this is true or simply exaggerated. I too hope she is well and if she has had to face these demons, that she is now in a happier place.

[cornershop15]

Extremely worrying news, didi, if true. I don't think she's well-known enough for us now to learn any more details and we may have to rely on friends and relatives, like we did with John Nightingale's son (and that was bad news as well). We can but hope for something positive.

The actress I was trying to think of in my previous post is Patricia Brake. I did say I'd 'seen' the mystery lady recently, but this was on a TVTimes cover promoting forgotten Soap Home Tonight, not a TV show I'd been watching. I knew it was a recent sighting. I posted the document at her thread.

Another thing I got wrong is thinking she was born a few days before the stars I mentioned. For the record:

Suzan Farmer was born 16th June 1942, Paul McCartney on the 18th, and Patricia Brake exactly one week later on the 25th.

Off to watch Please Sir!, which Suzan herself appeared in 'a few weeks ago' (on DVD). A disappointingly brief cameo but she still look beautiful.

Try and remember to click Reply rather than 'With Quote', wellend (said in the tone of Joan Sanderson). It looks as if you posted those pictures!

[wellendcanons]

I hope too that Suzan is well and has managed to conquer her demons, providing of course the rumours are true. Thanks Didi for sharing that information.

wec

[billy farmer]

A TV Times listing from August 1st 1966.



A picture of Suzan Farmer and John D. Collins in An Experience of Evil - Play of
the Week, from page 4 of the same issue of TV Times as the above listing
(July 30th - August 5th 1966)


A feature about the Play of the Week
episode, from the same page of TV Times
as the above picture

[wellendcanons]

Many Happy Returns Suzan.

wec

[billy farmer]

A screencap of Suzan Farmer as WAAF Sergeant Mary Blake / Bissell in 633 Squadron (1964).

[billy farmer]

Please Sir - series 2, episode 6 - X Certificate (first shown on ITV on October 25th 1969) guest starring Suzan Farmer as Judith Howard.

[billy farmer]

A photograph of Suzan Farmer on the set of the Hammer Swashbuckler film The Devil-Ship Pirates.

[cully]

A photograph of Suzan Farmer on the set of the Hammer Swashbuckler film The Devil-Ship Pirates.

Now THAT is a good pic of Suzan! Love the 50s hairstyle!

[billy farmer]

Thriller - series 6, episode 7 - Death in Deep Water (first shown on ITV on May 22nd 1976) guest starring Suzan Farmer as Gilly.