As an actress, Susan Rubes has enjoyed a Broadway career where she won the Donaldson Award for best supporting actress in 1946. Breaking into American TV she played the character "Kathy" for 10 years on the daytime drama, Guiding Light (1952). Moving to Canada with her actor husband, Jan Rubes, she continued her acting career and also found time ...
In 2001 she and her family helped to establish The Christopher J. Rubes Center For EMS Studies, named after her physician son who died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1996.
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Was pregnant three times (in real-life) during her stint on Guiding Light. Producers choose to hide her pregnancies, rather than write them in the storyline.
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Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Eye on Science Fiction" (McFarland & Co., 2003).
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She was awarded the C.M. (Member of the Order of Canada) on June 25, 1975 for her services to Children's Theater in Canada.
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Founded the Young People's Theatre in Toronto in 1966
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Black and Blue
1999
TV Movie
Mrs. Levin (as Susan Rubes)
Due South
1997
TV Series
Ruth Henry
Boozecan
1994
Braston's Mum
Street Legal
1993
TV Series
Dr. Rosenberg
Max Glick
1990
TV Series
Bryna Glick
The Last Best Year
1990
TV Movie
Mrs. Zagorski
The Thriller
1990
TV Movie
Hazel Levinson
Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop
1989
TV Series
Something About Love
1988
Doctor
The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
1988
Bryna Glick
Haunted by Her Past
1987
TV Movie
Karen's Mother
Adderly
1987
TV Series
Janice
The Edison Twins
1986
TV Series
Dorothy Haines
Jen's Place
1982
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
1974
TV Series
Grace Fletcher
Norman Corwin Presents
1972
TV Series
Winter Comes Early
1971
Mrs. Hunter
Targets
1968
Other at the Drive-In (as Susan Douglas)
Seaway
1966
TV Series
Lorna Fischer
R.C.M.P.
1959-1960
TV Series
Jean Standing / Mabel Bullmeyer
The Unforeseen
1959-1960
TV Series
Doris
Encounter
1959
TV Series
Dora Sanborn
Campbell Summer Soundstage
1953
TV Series
Noli
Studio One in Hollywood
1948-1953
TV Series
Guiding Light
1952-1953
TV Series
Kathy Roberts / Kathy Grant
Lights Out
1952
TV Series
Cosmopolitan Theatre
1951
TV Series
Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre
1951
TV Series
Somerset Maugham TV Theatre
1951
TV Series
Five
1951
Roseanne Rogers (as Susan Douglas)
Forbidden Journey
1950
Mary Sherritt (as Susan Douglas)
Starlight Theatre
1950
TV Series
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
TV Series
Pila
Actor's Studio
1950
TV Series
Suspense
1950
TV Series
Zita Bradford
Theatre of Romance
1949
TV Series
Lost Boundaries
1949
Shelly Carter (as Susan Douglas)
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
Suzanne Walter (as Susan Douglas)
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Never Too Late
1996
associate producer - as Susan Douglas
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Suspense
1950
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1989
Genie
Genie Awards
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988)
Known for movies
Five (1951) as Roseanne Rogers
Lost Boundaries (1949) as Shelly Carter
The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988) as Bryna Glick
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947) as Suzanne Walter
$20 Million
