12 Facts About Susan Shaw

Susan Shaw was signed to a term contract and trained at the organisation's 'charm school'.

Susan Shaw had a small part in the musical London Town and a larger one in another musical, Walking on Air.

Susan Shaw had small roles in The Upturned Glass and Jassy, and was then in Holiday Camp, which introduced the Huggett family, although at this stage she wasn't a family member.

Susan Shaw had a role in one of the segments of Quartet and, when Sydney Box decided to make a film series out of the Huggett family with Jack Warner in the lead, Shaw was cast as Susan Huggett.

Susan Shaw was by now one of the busiest young actresses in Britain.

Susan Shaw began to appear on television in One Man's Family and in a BBC version of The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse.

Susan Shaw was the female lead in some B movies, too: There Is Another Sun, Wide Boy, A Killer Walks, The Large Rope, and Small Town Story.

Susan Shaw supported in some A films, such as The Intruder, The Good Die Young and Time is My Enemy, and played leads in Stolen Time ; Stock Car, Fire Maidens from Outer Space, Davy, The Diplomatic Corpse and Chain of Events, as well as in the TV play You Can't Have Everything.

Susan Shaw appeared in Carry on Nurse and The Big Day, and in episodes of All Aboard, Suspense, Richard the Lionheart and No Hiding Place.

Badly affected by Colleano's death, Susan Shaw began to drink heavily.

The marriage ended officially in November 1960, Rowson claiming that Susan Shaw had been unfaithful to him with writer Stanley Mann, less than two months into their marriage.

Susan Shaw died in Middlesex on 27 November 1978, of cirrhosis of the liver, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, north London.