Susan Kohner

Person · Open Library

Born

1936-11-11

Works

1

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA

Susanna "Susan" Kohner (born November 11, 1936) is an American former actress. She is best known for her role as Sarah Jane in Douglas Sirk's drama Imitation of Life (1959), which earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Kohner has also starred in the films The Gene Krupa Story (1959), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising…

Known for

• A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story — Self2022
• Channing — Rena Covic1963
• Freud: The Secret Passion — Martha Freud1962
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self1962
• Going My Way1962
• The Nurses — Terry Collins1962
• By Love Possessed — Helen Detweiler1961
• The Dick Powell Show — Miriam Marks1961
• All the Fine Young Cannibals — Catherine McDowall1960
• In the Presence of Mine Enemies — Rachel Heller1960

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3

Total plays

25

Born as Susanna Kohner in Los Angeles, Kohner is the daughter of Mexican actress Lupita Tovar and Jewish film producer Paul Kohner who was born in Czechoslovakia. Most of Kohner's film roles came during the late 1950s and early 1960s, including co-starring with Sal Mineo in both Dino (1957) and The Gene Krupa Story (1959). In 1959, she was cast as the racially ambiguous Sarah Jane, her most notable role, in the 1959 color remake of Imitation of Life. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Susan+Koh

via Last.fm · Susan Kohner

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. “Mini-mental state”

   · 1975 · cited 67,641x

2. DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

   · 2016 · cited 31,374x

3. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research

   · 1989 · cited 28,318x

4. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 19,828x

5. phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

   · 2013 · cited 19,290x

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Key dates

Born

11 November 1936

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Susan

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Los Angeles

Spouse

John Weitz

Child

Chris Weitz

Father

Paul Kohner

Mother

Lupita Tovar

Occupation

film actor