Susan Kohner

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Film & TV

Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA

Susanna "Susan" Kohner (born November 11, 1936) is an American former actress. She is best known for her role as Sarah Jane in Douglas Sirk's drama Imitation of Life (1959), which earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Kohner has also starred in the films The Gene Krupa Story (1959), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising…

Known for

• A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story — Self2022
• Channing — Rena Covic1963
• Freud: The Secret Passion — Martha Freud1962
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self1962
• Going My Way1962
• The Nurses — Terry Collins1962
• By Love Possessed — Helen Detweiler1961
• The Dick Powell Show — Miriam Marks1961
• All the Fine Young Cannibals — Catherine McDowall1960
• In the Presence of Mine Enemies — Rachel Heller1960

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Origin

Boise

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3

Total plays

25

Born as Susanna Kohner in Los Angeles, Kohner is the daughter of Mexican actress Lupita Tovar and Jewish film producer Paul Kohner who was born in Czechoslovakia. Most of Kohner's film roles came during the late 1950s and early 1960s, including co-starring with Sal Mineo in both Dino (1957) and The Gene Krupa Story (1959). In 1959, she was cast as the racially ambiguous Sarah Jane, her most notable role, in the 1959 color remake of Imitation of Life. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Susan+Koh

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. “Mini-mental state”

   · 1975 · cited 68,275x

2. DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

   · 2016 · cited 32,876x

3. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research

   · 1989 · cited 29,197x

4. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,879x

5. phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

   · 2013 · cited 20,030x

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Key facts

Born

Susanna Kohner , ( 1936-11-11 ) November 11, 1936 (age 89) , Los Angeles, California , U.S.

Other name

Susan Weitz

Occupation

Actress

Years active

1955–1964

Known for

Imitation of Life All the Fine Young Cannibals Freud: The Secret Passion

Spouse

John Weitz ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 ; died 2002 ) ​

Children

Paul Weitz Chris Weitz

Parents

Paul Kohner (father) Lupita Tovar (mother)

Awards

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture

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