Sue Costin

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Sue Costin also Susan Costin (born 1944 in Australia , † April 5, 1971 in Sydney , New South Wales ) was an Australian actress and swimmer . She became known in the late 1960s through the television series SOS - Charter Boat .

life and career

Born in 1944 to the Australian rowing champion Angela Mann and her husband, the Costins moved to Baulkham Hills in 1954 , where Susan and her sister Prudence began active swimming. Susan Costin won her first western Sydney title in 1959. At the 1961 state championships, Susan won both the 110 meters (against Ilsa Konrads) and the 220 meters in the backstroke. In January 1962, as a seventeen-year-old back swimmer, Costin had broken the Australian record over 110 yards several times in a row. Linda Ludgrove and Susan Costin represented the Australian back swimmers at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth in 1962 . When Susan Costin missed the qualification for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964 , she retired from active swimming.

After her active swimming career, her short television career began in 1967 as an actress with a role in the Australian television series Hunter . In 1969 she played the bush kangaroo in an episode of the popular animal series Skippy . For the 26-part Australian series SOS - Charter Boat , produced by the Englishman Ralph Smart , the young swimmer and back record holder was cast from hundreds of actresses for the part of Judy Plenderleith, where she acted in eight episodes alongside her male colleagues Ty Hardin and Jonathan Sweet . After his engagement with SOS - Charter Boat , Costin only made two more television appearances in the early 1970s. She was featured on The Long Arm in 1970 and posthumously on the water-related Australian TV series Barrier Reef in 1972 .

Sue Costin committed suicide in Sydney on April 5, 1971. She died as a result of an overdose.

Filmography

watch TV

  • 1967: Hunter (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1969: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1969: SOS - Charter Boat (TV series, 8 episodes)
  • 1970: The Long Arm (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1972: Barrier Reef (TV series, 1 episode)

literature

  • Sue Costin . in: Vincent Terrace: Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed .. , McFarland, 2008, p. 896

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data of Susan Costin . ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Susan Costin - Australian backstroke champion. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swimming.org.au
  2. ^ Sue Costin . in: Achim Klünder: Lexikon der Fernsehspiele / Encyclopedia of television plays in German speaking Europe. 1978/87. Volume I. , Walter de Gruyter, 1991, p. 301
  3. ^ Sue Costin . in: Sue Costin, World Class Backstroke Swim Hope. , January 8, 1962
  4. ^ Sue Costin . in: Amateur Athletic Union News, Volume 34. , Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, AAU Publications Group, 1963, p. 28
  5. ^ Sue Costin . in: Brody Lorraine: Kevin Kearney: Audio Artist, Sound Designer, Analogue Location Sound Recordist. , iUniverse, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Costin, Sue
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Costin, Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian actress and swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Australia
DATE OF DEATH April 5th 1971
Place of death Sydney , New South Wales , Australia