Susan Oliver

Susan Oliver was an American actress who also worked as a television director, aviator and author. Born in New York City in 1932, she made her Broadway debut in Small War on Murray Hill, took over from Mary Ure in the Broadway production of Look Back in Anger, and won a Theatre World Award for Patate. She then moved to Hollywood and became a frequent guest star in Westerns and dramas, with film roles in BUtterfield 8 (1960) and The Disorderly Orderly (1964). On television she was Vina in The Cage, the first Star Trek pilot, later reused in The Menagerie, and she received an Emmy nomination for playing the aviator Neta Snook in Amelia Earhart. She later directed television episodes, including a season premiere of a military comedy, and wrote and directed the short Cowboysan. In 1967 she flew a single-engined plane solo across the Atlantic, the fourth woman to do so, and she wrote an autobiography, Odyssey.