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Wally Cox (1924-1973)

 

Wallace Maynard Cox (December 6, 1924 – February 15, 1973) was an American actor. He began his career as a standup comedian and played the title character of the popular early American television series Mister Peepers from 1952 to 1955. He also appeared as a character actor in over 20 films and dozens of television episodes.^[1] Cox was the voice of the animated canine superhero Underdog in the Underdog TV series.

Early life, education, and career beginnings

Cox was born on December 6, 1924, in Detroit, Michigan.^[1] When he was 10, he moved with his divorced mother (mystery author Eleanor Blake) and a younger sister to Evanston, Illinois, where he became close friends with another child in the neighborhood, Marlon Brando.^[2] His family moved several times, including a move to New York City, and Cox graduated from Denby High School after they returned to Detroit.

During World War II, Cox and his family returned to New York City, where he attended the City College of New York.^[1] He spent four months in the United States Army. According to the accounts of a fellow enlisted soldier, Cox adopted odd behaviors while undergoing basic training at Camp Wolters, Texas, such as putting on a uniform and full pack to pick flowers on Sundays, to receive a discharge from the Army.^[3] After his discharge he attended New York University.^[4] He supported his invalid mother and sister by making and selling jewelry in a small shop, and entertaining at parties doing comedy monologues. These led to regular performances at nightclubs, including the Village Vanguard, beginning in December 1948.^{[citation needed]}

He became Brando's roommate, and his friend encouraged Cox to study acting with Stella Adler.^[2]

Career

Cox on an episode of
Lost in Space (1967)

In 1949, Cox appeared on the CBS network radio show Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, to the great amusement of host Godfrey. The first half of his act was a monologue in a slangy, almost-mumbled punk-kid characterization, telling listeners about his friend Dufo: "What a crazy guy". The gullible oaf Dufo would take any dares and fall for his gang's pranks time after time, and Cox would recount the awful consequences: "Sixteen stitches. What a crazy guy." Just as the studio audience had reached a peak of laughter, Cox suddenly switched gears, changed characters, and sang a high-pitched version of "The Drunkard Song" ("There is a Tavern in the Town"), punctuated by eccentric yodels. "Wallace Cox" earned a big hand that night, but lost by a narrow margin to The Chordettes; yet he made enough of a hit to record his radio routine for an RCA Victor single. The "Dufo" routine ("What a Crazy Guy") was paired with "Tavern in the Town".^[5]

He appeared in Broadway musical reviews, night clubs, and early television comedy-variety programs between 1949 and 1951, including the short-lived (January–April 1949) DuMont series The School House and CBS Television's Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town. He appeared on the Goodyear Television Playhouse in 1951, starring in the comedy episode "The Copper" as the titular policeman. Series producer Fred Coe approached Cox about a starring role in a proposed live television sitcom Mister Peepers, which he accepted. The show ran on NBC television for three years. During this time, he guest-starred on NBC's The Martha Raye Show.

Billboard magazine chronicled Cox's spectacular rise in booking fees: in the late 1940s, it was $75 per week at New York's Village Vanguard, $125 per week at the Blue Angel; $250 per week in Broadway's "Dance Me a Song" revue in 1950, and the Persian Room for $500 per week. The eight-year pact that he signed with NBC in late 1952 paid him $100,000 for 1953.^[6]

In 1953, Cox's comedy sketches were featured in The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, a program that was broadcast live on both NBC and CBS. Cox's four sketches consist of a man trying to improve his physique, an expert on relaxation methods, a man practicing techniques that allow him to change from a wallflower to a social hit, and a man learning to dance. The program attracted an audience of 60 million viewers. Forty years after the broadcast, television critic Tom Shales recalled it as both "a landmark in television" and "a milestone in the cultural life of the '50s".^[7]

In 1959, Cox was featured in the guest-starring title role in "The Vincent Eaglewood Story" on NBC's Western series Wagon Train. He played a prominent supporting role as Preacher Goodman in Spencer's Mountain (1963), a Navy sonar operator in The Bedford Incident (1964), and a drug-addicted doctor opposite Marlon Brando in the World War II suspense film Morituri (1965).

Other roles included the hero of the series The Adventures of Hiram Holliday, based on a series of short stories by Paul Gallico and co-starring Ainslie Pryor. He was a regular occupant of the upper left square on the television game show Hollywood Squares, and voiced the animated cartoon character Underdog.^[8][9] He also was a guest on the game show What's My Line? and on the pilot episodes of Mission: Impossible and It Takes a Thief. Cox made several appearances on Here's Lucy, as well as The Beverly Hillbillies, Lost in Space, I Spy and evening talk shows. He played a pickpocket in an episode of Car 54, Where Are You?. He also appeared on The Twilight Zone, season five, episode number 140, titled "From Agnes—With Love".

He played character roles in more than 20 motion pictures and worked frequently as a guest star in television drama, comedy and variety series in the 1960s and early 1970s. These included a supporting role in 20th Century Fox's unfinished film Something's Got to Give (1962), which is Marilyn Monroe's last film. He was cast as a down-on-his-luck prospector seeking a better life for his family in an episode of Alias Smith and Jones, a Western comedy; and in Up Your Teddy Bear (aka Mother) (1970), he starred with Julie Newmar. His television and screen persona was that of a shy, timid but kind man who wore thick eyeglasses and spoke in a pedantic, high-pitched voice.

Cox wrote a number of books, including Mister Peepers: A Sort of Novel, co-written with William Redfield,^[10] which was created by adapting several scripts from the television series; My Life as a Small Boy, an idealized depiction of his childhood; a parody and update of Horatio Alger in Ralph Makes Good, which was probably originally a screen treatment for an unmade film intended to star Cox; and a children's book, The Tenth Life of Osiris Oakes.

Personal life

In a 1950s article on Cox's series Mister Peepers, Popular Science reported that Cox kept a small workshop in his dressing room. (Cox's Hollywood Squares colleague Peter Marshall recalled in his memoir Backstage with the Original Hollywood Square that Cox installed and maintained all the wiring in his own home.)

While he maintained a meek onscreen persona, TV viewers did get a glimpse of Cox's physicality on an episode of I've Got a Secret, aired on May 11, 1960, in which he and host Garry Moore ran around the stage assembling furniture while the panel was blindfolded. On the May 15, 1974, installment of The Tonight Show, actor Robert Blake spoke of how much he missed his good friend Cox, who was described as being adventurous and athletic.

Cox married three times—to Marilyn Gennaro, Milagros Tirado, and Patricia Tiernan. He was survived by his third wife and his two children.^[2]

Throughout his life, Cox remained close friends with Marlon Brando. Brando appeared unannounced at Cox's wake, and was reported to have kept Cox's ashes in his bedroom, conversing with them nightly.^[2] Their close friendship was the subject of rumors, and Brando once told a journalist: "If Wally had been a woman, I would have married him and we would have lived happily ever after."^[11] Writer-editor Beauregard Houston-Montgomery said that while under the influence of marijuana, Brando told him that Cox had been the love of his life.^[12]

Death

Cox was found dead on February 15, 1973, in his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles; he was 48.^[1][13] According to the autopsy, Cox died of a heart attack caused by a coronary occlusion.^[13] Initial reports indicated that he wished to have no funeral and that his ashes be scattered at sea.^[13] A subsequent report indicated that his ashes were put in with those of Brando and another close friend, Sam Gilman, and scattered in Death Valley and Tahiti.^[2]

Partial filmography

• The Sniper (1952) as Man Pressing Clothes at Dry Cleaners (uncredited)
• The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (1953)
• Wagon Train, "The Vincent Englewood Story" (1959)
• State Fair (1962) as Hipplewaite
• Car 54 Where Are You? - "No More Pickpockets" (1962) as Benny
• Something's Got to Give (unfinished Marilyn Monroe film, 1962) as Shoe Salesman
• Spencer's Mountain (1963) as Preacher Clyde Goodman
• The Twilight Zone – "From Agnes—With Love" (1964) as James Elwood
• Fate is the Hunter (1964) as Ralph Bundy
• Underdog (1964 – 1967) - Underdog (voice)
• The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) as Ferguson
• Invitation to Ohio (1964) co-stars as Doc Hutton
• Morituri (1965) as Dr. Ambach
• The Bedford Incident (1965) as Seaman Merlin Queffle
• "Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)" (1966) as Terry Targo in the series Pilot
• The Dick Van Dyke Show (1966) as Lincoln Goodheart (in S5:E17, "The Making of a Councilman")
• The Beverly Hillbillies (1966) as Professor P. Caspar Biddle
• Lost in Space – "Forbidden World" (1966) as Tiabo
• The Monkees (1967) – Man With "?" Box (uncredited) in S1:E29, "Monkees Get Out More Dirt"
• A Guide for the Married Man (1967) as Technical Adviser (Married 14 years)
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968) as Mr. Wampler
• Quarantined (1970) as Wilbur Mott
• The Young Country (1970) as Aaron Grimes/Ira Greebe
• The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970) as Mr. Bester
• The Boatniks (1970) as Jason
• Up Your Teddy Bear (1970) as Clyde King
• The Barefoot Executive (1971) as Mertons
• The Night Strangler (1973) as Mr. Berry

McMillan & WIfe EPISODES

 

This is a list of episodes for the television series McMillan & Wife. For the sixth season, the "Wife" was killed off and the title was shortened to McMillan. The pilot episode was 120 minutes, seasons 1 and 2 were 90-minute episodes, season 3 had both 90- and 120-minute episodes, seasons 4 and 5 were 120-minute episodes, and season 6 had 90-minute episodes.

Episodes

Season 1 (1971–72)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
0	1	"Once Upon a Dead Man"	Leonard Stern	Leonard Stern & Chester Krumholz	September 17, 1971
Series pilot: The wife (Susan Saint James) of a San Francisco police commissioner (Rock Hudson) drags him into a charity auction theft, which leads to a murder. Guest star: Jack Albertson. The pilot was a 120-minute episode. When the series started, the episodes were 90 minutes long including commercial breaks.
1	1	"Murder by the Barrel"	John Astin	Oliver Hailey	September 29, 1971
During the move into the McMillans' new house, Sally is terrified to discover a dead body in one of the barrels delivered by the movers. She calls Mac, but when he and Sgt. Enright arrive, the body is gone. As Sally tries to prove that she didn't imagine it, Mac and Enright investigate the moving company and discover that several people have lost items and have also reported missing persons on the same day. The McMillans' domestic problems continue when an intruder attacks Sally and the unconscious body of a presumed-dead mobster is discovered in their basement. Guest star: Kenneth Mars. First episode with Mildred (Nancy Walker).
2	2	"The Easy Sunday Murder Case"	Barry Shear	Burt Prelutsky	October 20, 1971
After a Saturday breakfast with Sally's mother, a wealthy woman's dog is taken for ransom. And they kidnapped her husband, too. Guest stars: June Havoc, Wally Cox.
3	3	"Husbands, Wives and Killers"	Daniel Petrie	Leonard Stern & Robert Lewin	November 10, 1971
Mac and Sally are entrusted with protection of a valuable necklace. This episode, in which part of the action is at a costume ball, features Rock Hudson in a bunny costume. Guest star: Tyne Daly.[2]
4	4	"Death Is a Seven Point Favorite"	John Astin	Robert Lewin, S.L. Bernard & Adam Edwards	December 8, 1971
Mac and Sally come to the aid of football star Billy Benton, after an attempt is made on his life. Guest star: Don Stroud.
5	5	"The Face of Murder"	Hy Averback	Oliver Hailey	January 5, 1972
Sally becomes the prey of a jewel thief out to dispose of witnesses. Guest star: Claude Akins.
6	6	"'Till Death Do Us Part"	Robert Michael Lewis	Oliver Hailey	February 16, 1972
When Mac investigates a psychotic killer who targets socially prominent people, the killer turns his attention to Mac and Sally by drugging their drinks. He then has a pest-exterminating company enclose the entire McMillan house in a huge airproof and soundproof bag and pump poison gas inside. Guest star: Lawrence Pressman. Mildred doesn't appear in the episode.
7	7	"An Elementary Case of Murder"	Robert Michael Lewis	Paul Mason & Brad Radnitz	March 1, 1972
An old flame of Mac's comes to him for help. Her abusive manager and his girlfriend wind up dead, and she asks for Mac's help. Guest star: Barbara McNair.

Season 2 (1972–73)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
8	1	"Night of the Wizard"	Robert Michael Lewis	Steve Fisher	September 24, 1972
A man is done in by his wife, but he's not done yet. Evidently his ghost is not quiet. Guest star: Eileen Brennan.
9	2	"Blues for Sally M."	Robert Michael Lewis	Oliver Hailey & Alfred Brenner	October 22, 1972
Buzz Simms, a concert pianist of great promise and a friend of Sally's, is nearly strangled in his apartment. Guest stars: Keir Dullea, Edie Adams.
10	3	"Cop of the Year"	Robert Michael Lewis	Paul Mason, Edward D. Hoch & Oliver Hailey	November 19, 1972
Sgt. Enright receives a medal as "Cop of the Year," and then he is set up for murdering his ex-wife. The frame is beautiful, and the real mystery is how (and why) it was done. Guest star: Edmond O'Brien.
11	4	"Terror Times Two"	Ron Winston	Gloria Goldsmith	December 13, 1972
It's The Comedy of Errors when the mob abducts Mac and replaces him with Claudio Manton, a surgically altered lookalike to liquidate a squealer in a tightly guarded secret location. Meanwhile, Enright grows suspicious of the lookalike's behavior and starts investigating while the real Mac is gagged and tied up. Guest star: Andrew Duggan. The idea of the two Macs was used again in episode 21, "Cross & Double Cross."
12	5	"No Hearts, No Flowers"	Gary Nelson	Steve Fisher	January 14, 1973
Sally's next on a maniac's agenda; a psychiatrist assists. Guest star: Sheree North.
13	6	"The Fine Art of Staying Alive"	Edward M. Abroms	Ted Leighton, Paul Mason & Oliver Hailey	March 11, 1973
Sally is kidnapped at an art gallery. The ransom is a Rembrandt painting, and she gives Mac clues which lead back to where they got engaged. Guest stars: Henry Jones, Alan Hale, Jr.
14	7	"Two Dollars on Trouble to Win"	Gary Nelson	Burt Prelutsky & Leonard Stern	April 1, 1973
Strange accidents around a thoroughbred stable suggest the owner, an old friend of Mac and Sally, is a target. Guest star: William Demarest.

Season 3 (1973–74)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
15	1	"Death of a Monster...Birth of a Legend"	Daniel Petrie	Gordon Cotler (fr)[3] & Don M. Mankiewicz	September 30, 1973
The McMillans are vacation-bound to Scotland at Mac's ancestral home. He has just discovered the murdered body of his beloved uncle and his vacation turns into a whodunit. Guest star: Roddy McDowall.
16	2	"The Devil, You Say"	Alex March	Steve Fisher	October 21, 1973
Mildred thinks she's witnessed a murder, and Sally receives a strange gift in the mail: film of a satanic ritual. More gifts reveal someone has it in for Mildred and a yen for Sally. Guest stars: Keenan Wynn, Werner Klemperer.
17	3	"Freefall to Terror"	Alf Kjellin	Oliver Hailey & Edward D. Hoch	November 11, 1973
In this bizarre case, Mac's former law partner takes a suicide leap from a skyscraper window and his body never reaches the ground. Guest stars: Barbara Feldon, Tom Bosley.
18	4	"The Man Without a Face"	Lee H. Katzin	Paul Mason, Gordon Cotler & Don M. Mankiewicz	January 6, 1974
A traitorous double agent known only as Venice has killed an old friend from Mac's CIA days; Venice is a master of disguise, and Mac has never seen his real face. Guest star: Steve Forrest, Dana Wynter. One of two 120-minute episodes in season 3.
19	5	"Reunion in Terror"	Mel Ferber	Oliver Hailey & Henry Slesar	January 27, 1974
Mac's old college football team's reunion is coming up, but a killer is eliminating the team, one by one. Guest stars: Buddy Hackett, Roosevelt Grier.
20	6	"Cross & Double Cross"	Alex March	Paul Mason & Oliver Hailey	February 17, 1974
Mac switches places with Claudio Manton, a hood with a striking resemblance to him, to intercept stolen gold trans-shipped from France via Portugal and Mexico. Guest stars: Rhonda Fleming, Dabney Coleman. One of two 120-minute episodes in season 3.

Season 4 (1974–75)

Series moves to 120-minute episodes.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
21	1	"Downshift to Danger"	Lou Antonio	Peter S. Fischer	September 29, 1974
The grand prize of the 20th Annual Golden State Rally in Monterey is an antique car collection willed by Max, the late eccentric millionaire. Mischief develops into mishaps and worse, until an entrant is killed. Guest stars: Van Johnson, Alex Karras.
22	2	"The Game of Survival"	Harry Falk	William Driskill	October 20, 1974
A temperamental tennis champion is suspected of murdering a newspaper magnate who had him suspended. Bobby Riggs appears as himself. Guest stars: Stefanie Powers, George Maharis.
23	3	"Buried Alive"	James Sheldon	Howard Berk	November 10, 1974
A World War II intelligence colleague, long since thought to be dead, turns up and is murdered. Guest stars: Barry Sullivan, Donna Mills.
24	4	"Guilt by Association"	Harry Falk	Steven Bochco	December 8, 1974
Mildred is accosted while serving on a sequestered jury, then another juror is murdered in his locked room. Guest stars: Susan Strasberg, David Soul.
25	5	"Night Train to L.A."	Leonard Horn	David P. Lewis, Booker Bradshaw & Richard Danus	January 19, 1975
With a very pregnant Sally at home, Mac heads south to a police convention on a train filled with officers, Mildred, and the author of Cops and Other Crooks, who is murdered en route. Guest star: Linda Evans.
26	6	"Love, Honor and Swindle"	Lou Antonio	Peter S. Fischer	February 16, 1975
Mac's sister Megan seems to be engaged to a confidence man out to swindle a mining company. Guest stars: Gretchen Corbett, David Birney. First episode after the baby is born.

Season 5 (1975–76)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
27	1	"The Deadly Inheritance"	Lou Antonio	Peter S. Fischer	September 28, 1975
Mac's eccentric mother insists on helping the police as they search for the man who tried to murder her friend and who is trying to murder her now. Guest stars: Jack Gilford, Mildred Natwick.
28	2	"Requiem for a Bride"	E.W. Swackhamer	Howard Berk	October 26, 1975
Commissioner McMillan celebrates an old friend's wedding, but the honeymoon ends when the bride is murdered. Guest stars: Susan Sullivan, Henry Darrow, Lynn Borden, Lew Ayres.
29	3	"Aftershock"	Harry Falk	Richard Bluel & Pat Fielder	November 9, 1975
Unusual interest is shown in the McMillans' house when Sally thinks of selling it. Then an earthquake reveals a body behind the brickwork. Guest stars: Julie Newmar, Robert Loggia, Richard Dawson.
30	4	"Secrets for Sale"	Bob Finkel	Bill Driskill	December 7, 1975
During an election, the city is beset by a fiscal crisis. Politicians are being blackmailed, and Sgt. Enright leaves the force to marry an heiress and work for a private detective agency. Guest stars: Meredith Baxter, John Vernon.
31	5	"The Deadly Cure"	James Sheldon	Richard Danus	January 18, 1976
Mac is wounded in a failed drug raid and sent to the hospital, where he sees a patient smothered, and slowly unravels the case. Guest stars: Lola Albright, Dick Sargent.
32	6	"Greed"	Bob Finkel	Virginia Aldridge	February 15, 1976
Mildred and Agatha (Martha Raye) are named in a will. Heirs start dying, and next to inherit is Agatha, whose investigation runs parallel to McMillan's. Guest stars: Slim Pickens, Tab Hunter.
33	7	"Point of Law"	Lou Antonio	Howard Berk	March 7, 1976
A naval lieutenant facing a court-martial on a murder charge is appointed counsel in the person of Commander McMillan, USNR. This was the last official episode of McMillan & Wife. Guest stars: William Daniels, Susan Anspach. Last appearance of Sally and Mildred.

Season 6 (1976–77)

Series returns to 90-minute episodes and retitled McMillan.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
34	1	"All Bets Off"	Jackie Cooper	Robert Swanson	December 5, 1976
Mac, now a widower, falls for a tennis pro whose stepson is being held ransom for a valuable diamond necklace on a vacation in Las Vegas. This is the first of six "girlfriend-of-the-week" episodes, which characterized Season 6. Guest star: Jessica Walter. First appearance of Sergeant Steve DiMaggio (Richard Gilliland).
35	2	"Dark Sunrise"	Bob Finkel	Jerry McNeely	January 2, 1977
Mac returns from a fishing trip to find himself presumed dead, apparent victim of an assassination plot. Guest stars: Karen Valentine, Kim Basinger.
36	3	"Philip's Game"	Lou Antonio	Don M. Mankiewicz, Gordon Cotler & Leonard Stern	January 23, 1977
McMillan is wined and dined by an elegant hit man (Tony Roberts) who commits murder in imaginative ways. Guest star: Shirley Jones.
37	4	"Coffee, Tea, or Cyanide?"	James Sheldon	Richard Bluel, Pat Fielder & Steven Bochco	January 30, 1977
While Mac takes a flight to Hawaii, a passenger is poisoned — and then the poisoner is stabbed. Guest star: Julie Sommars.
38	5	"Affair of the Heart"	Jackie Cooper	Steven Bochco	March 20, 1977
Mac's dentist finds a local TV-news anchorman, his wife's lover, dead from a heart attack. Frantic, he tries to make it look like the man had died in a car crash, but it turns out he had been poisoned. Guest stars: Stefanie Powers, Larry Hagman, Barbara Babcock. This is the only episode in which the character Charles Enright doesn't appear.
39	6	"Have You Heard About Vanessa?"	James Sheldon	Leonard Kantor	April 24, 1977
Vanessa Vale, a glamor model, apparently jumps from the balcony of her 15th-story apartment to her death. But Mac investigates and finds signs of a struggle — she was pushed off. Then it turns out that she wasn't really Vanessa. Guest stars: Joan Van Ark. Joanna Cameron, Martha Raye, Trisha Noble, Natalie Schafer.

Susan Saint James (1946-)

 

Susan Saint James (born August 14, 1946) is an American former actress. She is most widely known for the detective series McMillan & Wife (1971–1976) and the sitcom Kate & Allie (1984–1989).

Early life

Saint James was born Susan Jane Miller on August 14, 1946 in Los Angeles, the daughter of Constance (née Geiger), a teacher, and Charles Daniel Miller, who worked for Mitchell Camera and later became the president of the Testor Corporation.^[1][2][3] Saint James was raised in Rockford, Illinois, where she began modeling as a teenager.^[4] In her younger school years she attended the Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest, Illinois. She later attended Connecticut College.^[4]

Career

Saint James's first screen role was in the TV movie Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) with Tony Franciosa, launching her career when it became a series two years later. Among her other early television appearances were two episodes of the first season of Ironside ("Girl in the Night", December 1967 and two months later, playing a different role in the episode "Something for Nothing"). She also had a supporting role in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968), the sequel to The Trouble with Angels.

From 1968 to 1971, as a result of her first role in Fame Is the Name of the Game, Saint James had a regular part in the series The Name of the Game, winning an Emmy Award for her role as research assistant Peggy Maxwell in 1969 and establishing her as a popular young actress. The series format, set at a large media company, featured rotating lead characters played by Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack—generally only one of their characters seen each week. Saint James provided a measure of series continuity by appearing as a research assistant at various times to all three. She appeared in approximately half the episodes, usually in a supporting role, although her Peggy Maxwell was the primary character in the second-season episode "The King of Denmark," alongside Franciosa's "Jeff Dillon". As well, in the first-season story "Pineapple Rose" (a Gene Barry segment), Saint James was prominently featured when her character was kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity.

Saint James as Peggy Maxwell in the television series The Name of the Game, 1969.

In 1967, Saint James had a small part in the pilot episode of the crime-caper series It Takes a Thief, starring Robert Wagner. This led to a recurring role playing a new character, Charlene "Chuck" Brown, Alexander Mundy's fellow thief and "casual" love interest. She was featured in four episodes of the series from 1968 to 1970. She went on to appear in the pilot episode of the western series Alias Smith and Jones (1971).

Then came her first starring role as Rock Hudson's younger supportive wife, Sally McMillan, in the popular, lighthearted crime series, McMillan & Wife (1971–1976), for which she received four Emmy Award nominations.

Saint James left the show due to a contract dispute but went on to further her career as an actress in feature films, such as co-starring with Peter Fonda in the film Outlaw Blues (1977). She achieved significant success in the vampire comedy Love at First Bite (1979) and followed up with a role in the comedy How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980), co-starring Jessica Lange and Jane Curtin. Between films, she made a guest appearance in the March 3, 1980, episode of M*A*S*H (episode 192: "War Co-Respondent"). After other film ventures failed to establish her, she returned to television, starring in the comedy series Kate & Allie opposite Jane Curtin from 1984 until 1989. She received two more Emmy Award nominations for this role.

Saint James was a celebrity guest commentator for the World Wrestling Federation's WrestleMania 2 event in 1986 along with Vince McMahon.

Susan Saint James's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star.

In her mid-40s, Saint James retired after Kate & Allie ended.^[4][5] In addition to motherhood (her second-youngest son was born during the fourth season of Kate & Allie), she has been an active volunteer with the Special Olympics (an organization she began actively supporting in 1972).^[6][7] She has served on the Special Olympics board^[5] and was Civitan International's celebrity chairperson for their Special Olympics involvement.^[8] She also is a board member of the Telluride Foundation.^[9]

In 1998, Saint James, her sister Mercedes Dewey and friend Barrie Johnson founded "Seedling and Pip", a baby gift basket business. Saint James occasionally has emerged from retirement to appear in television series guest roles, such as the mother of (her real-life niece) Christa Miller in the first season of The Drew Carey Show, and ten years later, as a defense attorney on the February 28, 2006, episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She also starred in a Warner Theatre (Torrington, Connecticut) 1999 production of The Miracle Worker.^[5] On June 11, 2008, Saint James was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[10]

Personal life

Saint James in 1970.

Saint James married aspiring writer-director Richard Neubert in 1967, but the marriage lasted only a year. She was married a second time in 1971, to Thomas Lucas, a makeup artist. They had a daughter, Sunshine Lucas (born 1972), and a son, Harmony Lucas (born 1974). They divorced in 1977.

While guest-hosting Saturday Night Live in 1981, Saint James met the SNL executive producer Dick Ebersol. They married within the year and had three sons: Charles (born 1982), William (born 1986) and Teddy (born 1990). In March 2002, Saint James filed for divorce from Ebersol, but the couple reconciled later that summer.^[5]

On November 28, 2004, a private plane carrying Dick, Charles, and Teddy crashed during an attempted takeoff from Montrose Regional Airport in Colorado. Dick and son Charles survived, but son Teddy, age 14, died, as did pilot Luis Alberto Polanco Espaillet and flight attendant Warren T. Richardson III.^[11]

She is a vegetarian.^[12]

She holds honorary degrees from six Connecticut institutions: the University of Connecticut, the University of Bridgeport, Southern Connecticut State University, Albertus Magnus College, the University of New Haven,^[4] and Goodwin College.^[13] She was a featured speaker at The Women's Conference in 2007, at a session called "Beyond Courage: Overcoming the Unimaginable."^[7]

Filmography

Susan Saint James in a Civitan International public service announcement in 1986.

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1968	P.J.	Linette Orbison
1968	Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows	Rosabelle
1968	What's So Bad About Feeling Good?	Aida
1968	Jigsaw	Ida
1970	The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County	Mrs. Martha Kid
1977	Outlaw Blues	Tina Waters
1979	Love at First Bite	Cindy Sondheim	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
1980	How to Beat the High Cost of Living	Jane
1981	Carbon Copy	Vivian Whitney
1982	Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder	Katherine Cross

Television films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1966	Fame Is the Name of the Game	Peggy Chan
1972	Magic Carpet	Timothea Lamb
1974	Ready and Willing	Julia Preston	Unsold CBS pilot[14]
1976	Scott Free	Holly
1978	Night Cries	Jeannie Haskins
1978	Desperate Women	Esther Winters
1979	The Girls in the Office	Rita Massaro
1979	Sex and the Single Parent	Sally
1979	S.O.S. Titanic	Leigh Goodwin
1982	The Kid from Nowhere	Samantha 'Sam' Kandal
1983	I Take These Men	Carol Sherwood
1983	After George	Susan Roberts

Television series

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1967	Ironside	Elaine Moreau	Episode: "Girl in the Night"
1968	Ironside	Verna Cusack	Episode: "Something for Nothing"
1968	It Takes a Thief	Stewardess Anne Edwards	Episode: "A Thief Is a Thief"
1968–70	It Takes a Thief	Charlene "Charlie" Brown	4 episodes
1968–71	The Name of the Game	Peggy Maxwell	36 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (1970–71)
1970	McCloud	Officer Keach	Episode: "Walk in the Dark"
1971	Alias Smith and Jones	Miss Porter	Episode: "Alias Smith and Jones"
1971–76	McMillan & Wife	Sally McMillan	34 episodes Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama (1972–74) Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (1972–73) Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
1980	M*A*S*H	Aggie O'Shea	Episode: "War Co-Respondent"
1984–89	Kate & Allie	Katherine "Kate" McArdle	122 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (1983–84)
1989	Tattingers	Susan	Episode: "Broken Windows"
1996	The Drew Carey Show	Lynn O'Brien	Episode: "Drew and Kate and Kate's Mom"
2006	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Monica Bradshaw	Episode: "Gone"
2011	Suits	Joy McAfferty	Episode: "Bail Out"