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name: "Susan Peters"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 July 1921"
died: "23 October 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T00:50:37.693874+00:00"
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# Susan Peters

Actor. Born 3 July 1921 in Spokane, Washington, USA. Died 23 October 1952.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 July 1921, Spokane, Washington, USA
- **Died:** 23 October 1952
- **Also known as:** Suzanne Carnahan
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Peters, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255800, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0676688/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84635

## Biography

Susan Peters, also credited as Suzanne Carnahan, was an American actress who appeared in more than twenty films during a decade-long career. Born in Spokane, Washington, she began with small, often uncredited roles at Warner Bros. before signing with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1942. That year she had a featured role as Kitty in *Random Harvest*, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Peters went on to star in several MGM productions, including *Young Ideas* (1943), *Assignment in Brittany* (1943), *Song of Russia* (1944) and *Keep Your Powder Dry* (1945). On New Year's Day 1945 she suffered a spinal cord injury from an accidental gunshot wound during a hunting trip, which left her permanently paraplegic. She returned to the screen as a wheelchair-using character in *The Sign of the Ram* (1948).

Peters also worked in theatre, playing Laura Wingfield in a 1949 production of *The Glass Menagerie* and Elizabeth Barrett Browning in *The Barretts of Wimpole Street*. She was married to actor and director Richard Quine from 1943 to 1948. She died in 1952 at the age of 31.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Random Harvest* (1942), Fi1m 76, as Kitty — [page](https://film.one/film/random-harvest.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Huntress* (2000), series, Actor
- *Miss Susan* (1951), series, as Susan Martin
- *The Sign of the Ram* (1948), as Leah St. Aubyn
- *Keep Your Powder Dry* (1945), as Ann Darrison
- *Song of Russia* (1944), as Nadya Stepanova
- *Twenty Years After* (1944), as (archive footage)
- *Young Ideas* (1943), as Susan Evans
- *Assignment in Brittany* (1943), as Anne Pinot
- *Random Harvest* (1942), as Kitty — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/random-harvest.md)
- *Andy Hardy's Double Life* (1942), as Sue
- *Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant* (1942), as Mrs. Howard Allwinn Young
- *Tish* (1942), as Cora Edwards Bowser
- *The Big Shot* (1942), as Ruth Carter
- *Personalities* (1942), as (uncredited)
- *Three Sons o' Guns* (1941), as Mary Tyler
- *Scattergood Pulls the Strings* (1941), as Ruth Savage
- *Here Comes Happiness* (1941), as Miss Brown (uncredited)
- *The Strawberry Blonde* (1941), as Girl (uncredited)
- *Santa Fe Trail* (1940), as Charlotte
- *Always a Bride* (1940), as Girl
- *Money and the Woman* (1940), as Depositor (uncredited)
- *Young America Flies* (1940), as One of Jack's Girlfriends
- *Susan and God* (1940), as Party Guest (uncredited)

## Gallery

- ![Susan Peters](https://film.one/media/person/1233277/gallery-8927d957952e.jpg) Susan Peters — Spalding, Mary M.; for Columbia Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Susan_Peters_-_The_Sign_of_the_Ram_press_photo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Susan Peters](https://film.one/media/person/1233277/gallery-689dfc1d96ea.jpg) Susan Peters — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1943: Best Supporting Actress (nominated), for *Random Harvest*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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