Susan Gordon, who as a child actress sang with Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong in 1959’s The Five Pennies and starred in a memorable episode of TV’s The Twilight Zone, died Dec. 11 of cancer in Teaneck, N.J. She was 62.
The golden-haired Gordon also starred in a live NBC version of Miracle on 34th Street on Thanksgiving weekend in 1959 opposite Ed Wynn as Kris Kringle and in episodes of such shows as Gunsmoke, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Donna Reed Show and My Three Sons (as four different characters).
At age 8, Gordon made her acting debut in the sci-fi classic Attack of the Puppet People (1958), directed by her father, Bert I. Gordon, when she substituted for another little girl who became ill. She also appeared in two other films directed by her father, Tormented (1960) and Picture Mommy Dead (1966) with Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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In the 1962 Twilight Zone episode "The Fugitive," Gordon’s character, wearing a leg brace, befriends the grandfatherly ruler of a planet (J. Pat O’Malley) who is hiding out on Earth.
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