Then came her first starring role as Rock Hudson's younger supportive wife, Sally McMillan, in the popular, light-hearted crime series, McMillan & Wife (1971–1976), for which she received four Emmy Award nominations.
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She went on to appear in the pilot episode of the western series Alias Smith and Jones (1971). She was featured in four episodes of the series from 1968 to 1970. This led to a recurring role playing a new character, Charlene "Chuck" Brown, Alexander Mundy's fellow thief and "casual" love interest. In 1967, Saint James had a small part in the pilot episode of the Robert Wagner crime-caper series It Takes a Thief.
Saint James as Peggy Maxwell in the television series The Name of the Game, 1969 As well, in the first-season story "Pineapple Rose" (a Gene Barry segment), Saint James was prominently featured when her character was kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity. She appeared in approximately half the episodes, usually in a supporting role, although her Peggy Maxwell was the primary character in the second-season episode "The King of Denmark," alongside Franciosa's "Jeff Dillon". Saint James provided a measure of series continuity by appearing as a research assistant at various times to all three. The series format, set at a large media company, featured rotating lead characters played by Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack – generally only one of their characters seen each week. įrom 1968 to 1971, as a result of her first role in Fame Is the Name of the Game, Saint James had a regular part in the series The Name of the Game, winning an Emmy Award for her role as research assistant Peggy Maxwell in 1969 and establishing her as a popular young actress. She also had a supporting role in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968), the sequel to The Trouble with Angels. Among her other early television appearances were two episodes of the first season of Ironside ("Girl in the Night", December 1967 and two months later, playing a different role in the episode "Something for Nothing").
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Saint James's first screen role was in the TV movie Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966) with Tony Franciosa, launching her career when it became a series two years later. In her younger school years she attended the Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Saint James was raised in Rockford, Illinois, where she began modeling as a teenager. Saint James was born Susan Jane Miller in Los Angeles, California, to a Connecticut family, the daughter of Constance (Geiger) Miller, a teacher, and Charles Daniel Miller, who worked for Mitchell Camera and later became the president of the Testor Corporation. Susan Saint James (born Susan Jane Miller August 14,1946) is an American actress and activist, most widely known for her work in television during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, especially the detective series McMillan & Wife (1971–1976) and the sitcom Kate & Allie (1984–1989).
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