Susan Shaw(1929-1978)
- Actress
The lovely blonde actress, Susan Shaw, was groomed by the Rank
Organisation in England for a career in film in the 40s and 50s. She
was born on August 29, 1929 in West Norwood, England. Susan was at her
best when cast in a role as a pretty young slip of a girl with her nose
in the air. After a marriage to actor Albert Lieven, with whom she had a
daughter, Susan married the American actor Bonar Colleano, known for his roles
as the wisecracking Yank in British films. The two made a handsome
couple, Susan with her petite blondeness and Bonar with his loud mouth
and dark good looks. They had a child together, actor Mark Colleano, in 1955,
before her husband suddenly died in a tragic road accident in 1958.
After Bonar died, she was never the same and spent most of her life
battling a drinking problem until her death in 1978. Her husband's
mother became the legal guardian of her little boy and groomed him for
an acting career. As a child star, Mark went on to star opposite
Rock Hudson in "Hornets' Nest", as a 14-year-old Italian
youth.
