Sue Lyon

Sue Lyon Headshot

Actress

Birth Date: July 10, 1946

Death Date: December 26, 2019

Birth Place: Davenport, Iowa

This blonde ingenue made a rocky transition to leading lady. Lyon won the controversial role of Dolores Haze, the sexually charged adolescent and the object of an older man's obsessions in Stanley Kubrick's "Lolita" (1962). From the Vladimir Nabokov novel of the same name, Kubrick's "Lolita," although a toned-down version of the story, was nonetheless one of the most notorious films of its day and Lyon rode to fame on its coattails.

She played a similar role in John Huston's "Night of the Iguana" (1964), competing for the affections of Richard Burton's defrocked alcoholic preacher against the likes of Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner, and she played an innocent in John Ford's last film, "Seven Women" (1965). She continued to work in films and television throughout the 1960s and 70s. Sue Lyon died in Los Angeles on December 26, 2019 at the age of 73.

Credits

AlligatorStream

Actor
ABC Newswoman
Movie
1980
86%

Fantasy IslandStream

Guest Star
Series
1978

Fun Girls

Actor
Lynn
Movie
1978

River of Promises

Actor
Caroline
Movie
1978

Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready

Actor
Wendy Sutherland
Movie
1977

End of the World

Actor
Sylvia Boran
Movie
1977

Smash-Up on Interstate 5

Actor
Burnsey
Movie
1976

Crash!

Actor
Kim Denne
Movie
1976

The Astral Factor

Actor
Darlene DeLong
Movie
1976

Una gota de sangre para morir amando

Actor
Ana Vernia
Movie
1973

Autopsy

Actor
Angela
Movie
1973

Evel KnievelStream

Actor
Linda
Movie
1971
40%

Night GalleryStream

Actor
Series
1970

Night GalleryStream

Guest Star
Series
1970

Men From Shiloh

Guest Star
Belinda Ballard
Show
1970

But I Don't Want to Get Married!

Actor
Laura
Movie
1970

Love, American Style

Actor
Barbara Eric
Series
1969

Four Rode Out

Actor
Myra Polsen
Movie
1969

The Flim-Flam Man

Actor
Bonnie Lee Packard
Movie
1967
75%

Tony RomeStream

Actor
Diana Pines
Movie
1967
63%

Seven Women

Actor
Emma Clark
Movie
1966

The Night of the IguanaStream

Actor
Charlotte Goodall
Movie
1964
75%

LolitaStream

Actor
Lolita
Movie
1962
91%

What's My Line?Stream

Guest
Game Show
1950