Reports are coming in that Oscar nominee and Saturn Award winner Susan Tyrrell has passed away at the age of 67. Although a cause of death is unknown, friends have reported she died at her home in Texas. Susan Tyrrell was diagnosed with a type of bone marrow disease in 2002, and this could have contributed to her death on June 19, 2012.
Susan’s horror filmography is follows: The Killer Inside Me (1976), Night Warning (1983), What’s Up, Hideous Sun Demon (1983), The Killers (1984), The Offspring (1987), “Tales From The Crypt,” The Demolitionist (1995), Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997), “Extreme Ghostbusters,” The Devil’s Due At Midnight (2004), and The Boneyard Collection (2006).
Her other, probably most noteworthy work include Oscar nominated Fat City (1972), Cry-Baby (1990), and Powder (1995).
R.I.P. Susan Tyrrell – 1945 to 2012