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Susan Cabot

Acting Born Jul 9, 1927 Boston, Massachusetts, USA 22 credits

Biography

​Susan Cabot (born Harriet Pearl Shapiro; July 9, 1927 – December 10, 1986) was an American film, stage, and television actress. She rose to prominence for her roles in a variety of Western films, including Tomahawk (1951), The Duel at Silver Creek (1952), and Gunsmoke (1953).

After severing her contract with Universal Pictures in the mid-1950s, Cabot returned to performing in theater in New York. She subsequently returned to Hollywood in the later part of the decade, and appeared in a series of films by director Roger Corman, such as Sorority Girl (1957), War of the Satellites, and Machine-Gun Kelly (both 1958). She made her final film appearance in Corman's horror feature, The Wasp Woman (1959).

Cabot had a seven-year affair with King Hussein of Jordan and their only child was born out of wedlock in 1964. She received $1500 in monthly support from Hussein. In 1968, she married her second husband Michael Roman with whom she raised her son, Timothy Scott Roman, before again divorcing in 1983.

Cabot spent the following two decades largely in seclusion, though she did appear in off-Broadway theatre in the early 1960s, and made a 1970 television appearance on the series Bracken's World. By the 1980s, Cabot was suffering from severe mental illness, including depression, suicidal thoughts, and irrational phobias.

On December 10, 1986, Cabot's only child, 22-year-old Timothy Roman, bludgeoned her to death in their Los Angeles home with a weightlifting bar after Cabot purportedly awoke in a panicked state and attacked him. Roman, who had dwarfism and suffered pituitary gland problems, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and was sentenced to three years' probation for his matricide.

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Known for

Have Gun, Will Travel

as Becky Gray Carver

Perry Mason

as Sabra Tanner
Film

The Wasp Woman

as Janice Starlin
Film

Fort Massacre

as Piute Girl
Film

Machine-Gun Kelly

as Florence 'Flo' Becker

The Widow

as Enger

Full filmography

  • Have Gun, Will Travel (1957) as Becky Gray Carver
  • Bracken's World (1969)
  • Kiss of Death (1947) as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
  • Son of Ali Baba (1952) as Tala
  • Sorority Girl (1957) as Sabra Tanner
  • The Wasp Woman (1959) as Janice Starlin
  • The Enforcer (1951) as Nina Lombardo (uncredited)
  • Fort Massacre (1958) as Piute Girl
  • The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951) as (uncredited)
  • Machine-Gun Kelly (1958) as Florence 'Flo' Becker
  • The Duel at Silver Creek (1952) as Jane 'Dusty' Fargo
  • The Battle at Apache Pass (1952) as Nono
  • Tomahawk (1951) as Monahseetah
  • Flame of Araby (1951) as Clio
  • Ride Clear of Diablo (1954) as Laurie Kenyon
  • War of the Satellites (1958) as Sybil Carrington
  • The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957) as Enger
  • Gunsmoke (1953) as Rita Saxon
  • Carnival Rock (1957) as Natalie Cook
  • Surrender - Hell! (1959) as Delia Guerrero
  • On the Isle of Samoa (1950) as Moana
  • Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen (2025) as Herself