On April 6, 1960, at the age of 28, Susan Oliver Actress portrayed the character Maggie Hamilton, a spoiled young runaway, who receives a stern spanking from scout Flint McCullough (played by Robert Horton), in the episode “The Maggie Hamilton Story” on NBC’s Wagon Train. On November 9, 1960, she starred as the lead guest in “The Cathy Eckhart Story” on Wagon Train, alongside husband-and-wife actors John Larch and Vivi Janiss, portraying Ben and Sarah Harness.

Susan Oliver Actress appeared in various television shows during the 1960s, including an episode of The Deputy in 1960, where she played the role of the long-lost daughter of Henry Fonda’s late girlfriend. She also featured in an episode of Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre titled “Knife of Hate” as Susan Pittman. In 1961, she portrayed Laurie Evans in the episode “Incident of His Brother’s Keeper” on CBS’s Rawhide, and in 1963, she took on the role of Judy Hall in the episode “Incident at Spider Rock”. Additionally, in 1962, Susan Oliver Actress appeared as Jeanie in the television series Laramie in the episode “Shadows in the Dust”. She made guest appearances in several other popular shows of the era, including Adventures in Paradise, Twilight Zone, Route 66, Dr. Kildare, The Naked City, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Burke’s Law, The Fugitive, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., I Spy, The Virginian, The Name of the Game, Longstreet, and Mannix. She made one-off appearances on The Andy Griffith Show and ABC’s family Western series, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, and also appeared twice in Quinn Martin’s The Invaders on ABC.

One of Susan Oliver Actress notable roles during this period was as the ambitious wife of country music legend Hank Williams (played by George Hamilton) in Your Cheatin’ Heart (1964). She also starred opposite Jerry Lewis in The Disorderly Orderly in the same year and appeared in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965) and The Love-Ins (1967) alongside Richard Todd.

Susan Oliver Actress television film credits include Carter’s Army. She had a recurring role as Ann Howard on ABC’s primetime serial Peyton Place in 1966. Susan Oliver Actress played the female lead guest character Vina in “The Cage” (1964), the first pilot of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek series. Her performance was later reused in the first season’s two-part episode “The Menagerie” (1966). Her portrayal of an “Orion slave girl” in the pilot episode featured her covered in green makeup all over her body and wearing a dark brunette wig. This iconic image of her with green skin has become synonymous with Star Trek, and a documentary about Susan Susan Oliver Actress life titled The Green Girl (2014) was named after it.

In 1970, Oliver appeared as Carole Carson/Alice Barnes on the television Western The Men From Shiloh (rebranded name for The Virginian) in the episode titled “Hannah”.

From 1975 to 1976, Susan Oliver Actress was a regular cast member of the television soap opera Days of Our Lives. In 1976, she earned her only Emmy Award nomination for “Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress” for her portrayal of pioneer aviator Neta Snook in the made-for-TV movie Amelia Earhart, which aired on October 15, 1976, on NBC-TV.

In addition to her television work, Susan Oliver Actress had roles in several theatrical features, including The Gene Krupa Story (1959), BUtterfield 8 (1960), and The Caretakers (1963).