Susan Beaumont

{{Short description|English actress (1936–2020)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | name = Susan Beaumont | birth_date = 26 February 1936 | birth_place = London, England | death_date = 25 February 2020 (aged 83) | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Film actress | years_active = 1955–1959 }}

'''Susan Beaumont''' (26 February 1936 – 25 February 2020<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.retroboy.co.uk/susan-beaumont|title = Susan Beaumont (1936 - 2020)}}</ref>) was an English film actress who enjoyed a relatively brief film career.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/21409|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115062416/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/21409|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 January 2009|title=Susan Beaumont|work=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0064635/|title=Susan Beaumont|work=IMDb}}</ref>

== Family == Susan Beaumont was born (as Susan Anna Black) in London. She was the daughter of musical comedy actress Roma Beaumont and producer/impresario Alfred Black, as well as the granddaughter of the producer/impresario George Black).

== Career == Beaumont attended RADA, but after only one term she left and found a job in a pantomime. She went on to dance for Norman Wisdom at the London Palladium and in the musical ''Limelight''. She became a Rank contractee at nineteen and starred as a leading lady<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/british-leading-lady-susan-beaumont-who-was-contracted-to-j-news-photo/3308228|title=British leading lady Susan Beaumont who was contracted to J Arthur...|author=Kurt Hutton|work=Getty Images}}</ref> in several films between 1956 and 1959, including ''Eyewitness'', ''The Spaniard's Curse'', ''No Safety Ahead'' and ''Man of the Moment''. She appeared in ''Carry On Nurse'' as Nurse Frances James.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.carryon.org.uk/irregularly_b.htm|title=Carry On Irregularly B|work=carryon.org.uk}}</ref>

== Selected filmography == * ''Simon and Laura'' (1955) * ''Jumping for Joy'' (1956) * ''Eyewitness'' (1956) * ''High Tide at Noon'' (1957) * ''Innocent Sinners'' (1958) * ''The Spaniard's Curse'' (1958) * ''On the Run'' (1958) * ''The Man Who Liked Funerals'' (1959) * ''Carry On Nurse'' (1959) * ''Web of Suspicion'' (1959) * ''No Safety Ahead'' (1959)

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links == * {{IMDb name|0064635}} *Cannes Film Festival, 1956-Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters):<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//RTV/1956/05/10/BGU502060024/?s=*|title=CANNES: FESTIVAL TIME WITH THE STARS|work=itnsource.com}}</ref>

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