
Susanne Benton
Susanne Benton (née Hildur; born February 3, 1948) is a retired Canadian actress known for her film roles as General Dreedle's WAC in Catch-22 (1970) and Quilla June Holmes in A Boy and His Dog (1975). In 1972, she appeared in the Andy Griffith film The Strangers in 7A, credited under her birth name, Susanne Hildur. She also used that name when appearing in an episode of Barnaby Jones a year later in 1973.
Susanne Hildur was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her father, who raised her, was a jazz pianist. Benton's mother left the family after she separated from her husband when Benton was two. She became convinced at the age of six that she would become a major star. However, she also reportedly believed that she would die before she reached her 28th birthday. In adulthood, she was eventually reunited with her mother and lived for a year with her in Canada.
During her early roles, she refused to disrobe for her parts, despite the requests of her Universal Studios bosses. However, she posed nude for a multi-page pictorial in the May 1970 Playboy magazine. She often expressed the need to walk and felt unwell when she couldn't walk due to working on set.
She married James Benton in 1966, which ended in divorce. She later married David Rudich.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.102 |
Birthday | 1948-02-03 |
Place of Birth | United States |
Also Known As | Susanne Hildur, Stanley Susanne Benton, |

1975

A Boy and His Dog
6.272/347
Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by...
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A Boy and His Dog

1969

That Cold Day in the Park
6.7/57
Frances Austen, a young, wealthy spinster, invites a mute teenager into her apartment after finding him freezing in the park next to where she lives....
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That Cold Day in the Park

1975

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
3.5/2
The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when...
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1972

The Strangers in 7A
6.5/4
A building superintendent and his wife are held hostage in their apartment by a sadistic would-be bank robber and his spaced-out accomplices.
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The Strangers in 7A

1968

Jigsaw
6/1
After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.
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Jigsaw

1975

Best Friends
4.8/13
Two young couples taste the "free and easy" life on a cross country motor-home tour until love backfires and tragedy follows.
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1982

The Last Horror Film
5.3/60
A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady's...
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The Last Horror Film

1970

Cover Me Babe
4.6/5
Student filmmaker lets nothing stand in the way of his getting a studio contract.
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Cover Me Babe

2022

The Devonsville Train: Establishing Shots 2
0/0
A series of shots from eleven 1970s and 1980s genre/exploitation films are slowed down to near-still moving images. Second feature-length piece in the...
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The Devonsville Train: Establishing Shots 2

1970

Catch-22
6.7/308
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a craz...
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Catch-22

1968

Prescription: Murder
7.8/29
In Columbo's first outing, a psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart a...
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Prescription: Murder

1973

Guess Who's Sleeping in My Bed?
6/1
A divorcee wakes up one morning to find her penniless ex-husband, his new wife and baby and their big dog camped out on her doorstep, looking for a pl...
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1976

Survival
0/0
Dinner guests of a wealthy millionaire must justify their own existence or face the penalty of death.
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