Susannah York, a 60s chick

[stuart.scot]

Susannah York for me was an actress, who as much as anyone represented the 60s.



She played a 16-year-old in the unusual love story The Greengage Summer, playing oppisite the much older Kenneth More, who also happened to be a jewel thief.



Susannah fell in love with enlisted piper John Fraser, much to the annoyance of her officer father Alec Guiness in Tunes Of Glory, set at Edinburgh Castle.



Susannah was in The 7th Dawn with William Holden, but my own fav York film was when she played the cocky mini-skirted Becky Howard in Sebastian, who falls for her code breaking boss Dirk Bogarde. It was interesting to see her with the older, but still beautiful Lili Palmer and Margaret Johnson



She was Thomas Moore's daughter in A Man For All Seasons and supported Jane Fonda in They Shoot Horses Don't They. She played oppisite Christopher Plummer in The Battle Of Britain.



In the 70s she co-starred with Roger Moore in Gold and That Lucky Touch.



Susannah also had two tv hits Second Chance and We'll Meet Again.



Though she looked great in the soap Trainer, it was a big disappointment. Susannah did Casualty and it's sister show Holby City and while she's no longer in the shows, her screen sister from The greengage Summer, Jane Asher is now a regular member of the cast

[batman]

I had the pleasure to work (very briefly) with Yorkie many years ago. She is an absolutely delightful person and a thoroughly professional actress, this young lad (as was) was very smitten at the time. And she shares my birthday!

[stuart.scot]

I forgot to say that one of the highlights of Sebastian was the scene where the mini-skirted Susannah was walking the London Streets to start her new job with the Civil Service, accompanied by some trendy 60s music. I also liked the scene where she stalks Bogarde, falling him in her car. She said to him 'You don't put me off a bit, you really don't.' to which he replied with the great line 'I haven't gotten into my stride yet,' before walking off.

[Steve Crook]

I forgot to say that one of the highlights of Sebastian was the scene where the mini-skirted Susannah was walking the London Streets to start her new job with the Civil Service, accompanied by some trendy 60s music. I also liked the scene where she stalks Bogarde, falling him in her car. She said to him 'You don't put me off a bit, you really don't.' to which he replied with the great line 'I haven't gotten into my stride yet,' before walking off.

Ah, Sebastian, a very clever and complicated film. To quite an extent it reflects the life of writer Leo Marks. After working for SOE during the war he then worked for the security services. He did have a group of very intelligent young ladies who used to help him crack "undecipherable" codes. Usually those sent by our own agents when they'd made a mistake in the coding so it couldn't be decoded. But he did do some work on breaking other people's codes as well.



I don't think anyone ever spiked his drink with LSD though



In Sebastian, there's also that photo-shoot along the Westway slip road by Paddington where the photographer's hanging out of the side of the Mini Moke



Steve