Actor
Susan Hayward
June 30, 1917 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an American actress.
After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone With the Wind (1939). Although she was not selected, she secured a film contract, and played several small supporting roles over the next few years. By the late 1940s the quality of her film roles had improved, and she achieved recognition for her dramatic abilities with the first of five Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performance as an alcoholic in Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947). Her career continued successfully through the 1950s and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of death row inmate Barbara Graham in I Want to Live! (1958).
Often works with
Fred Aldrich
3 titles together
House of Strangers, The Conqueror, Deadline at Dawn
John Wayne
3 titles together
Reap the Wild Wind, The Conqueror, The Fighting Seabees
Charles Bates
2 titles together
I Married a Witch, The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Brooks Benedict
2 titles together
I Married a Witch, They Won't Believe Me
Al Bridge
2 titles together
I Married a Witch, Deadline at Dawn
Gary Cooper
2 titles together
Beau Geste, Garden of Evil
Full filmography · 67
Filme Algarve
as Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
2025
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
2006
The Dish on Dolls
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
2006
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
as Dr. Maggie Cole
1972
The Revengers
as Elizabeth Reilly
19725.7
Heat of Anger
as Jessie Fitzgerald
1972
Valley of the Dolls
as Helen Lawson
19676
The Honey Pot
as Mrs. Sheridan
19676.4
Uncertain Verification
as (archive footage)
1965
Where Love Has Gone
as Valerie Hayden Miller
19646.1
Stolen Hours
as Laura Pember
1963
I Thank a Fool
as Christine Allison
1962