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name: "Terry Burnham"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/terry-burnham"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 August 1949"
died: "7 October 2013"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T22:39:36.303034+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Terry Burnham

Actor. Born 8 August 1949 in Los Angeles. Died 7 October 2013.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 August 1949, Los Angeles
- **Died:** 7 October 2013
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Burnham, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18613228, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122519/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/139599

## Biography

Terry Burnham was an American actress. Born Elizabeth Teresa Burnham in Los Angeles on 8 August 1949, she worked primarily as a child actress in film and television from the mid-1950s until 1971. She died in Long Beach, California, on 7 October 2013.

She is known for her role as the young Susie (6) in the 1959 film *Imitation of Life*, directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Lana Turner. Burnham also appeared as Markie in the *Twilight Zone* episode "Nightmare as a Child", which first aired in 1960. Her other credits include guest roles in series such as *Wagon Train*, *Leave It to Beaver* and *Family Affair*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Imitation of Life* (1959), Fi1m 86, as Susie (6) — [page](https://film.one/film/imitation-of-life.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!* (1966), as Doris Meade
- *For the Love of Willadean* (1964), as Willadean Wills
- *Key Witness* (1960), as Gloria Morrow
- *The Twilight Zone* (1959), series, as Markie — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-twilight-zone.md)
- *Imitation of Life* (1959), as Susie (6) — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/imitation-of-life.md)
- *Hi Grandma!* (1958), Actor
- *Shirley Temple's Storybook* (1958), series, as Princess
- *Wagon Train* (1957), series, as Marguerite Lindstrom

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