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Susan Saint James died on October 26, 2026 from pancreatic cancer.\u00a0 She was 80.<\/p>\n
Saint James was born Susan Jane Miller.\u00a0 She began a modeling career as a teenager.\u00a0 When Susan Miller decided on a career in acting she changed her name to Susan Saint James.<\/p>\n
Ms. Jame’s first role was in a television movie called Fame is the Name of the Game<\/em>.\u00a0 Susan Saint James continued to get television guest appearances, and when Fame is the Name of the Game<\/em> was adapted into an on-going series (Name of the Game<\/em>), she was brought back as one of the stars.\u00a0 Her acting as Peggy Maxwell earned Susan Saint James 4 Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Primetime Emmy<\/em> Nominations with one win.<\/p>\n The same year that Name of the Game<\/em> ended, Susan St. James got the co-starring role with Rock Hudson in McMillan and Wife<\/em>.\u00a0 Susan Saint James left the series after five years (and two more Outstanding Lead Actress Primetime Emmy<\/em> niminations) due to a contract dispute.\u00a0 The series ran with a name change (McMillan<\/em>) for a much shortened sixth season.<\/p>\n After leaving McMillan and Wife<\/em>, Susan Saint James began alternating between movie and television roles.\u00a0 In 1984, Ms. James returned to television in a starring role on Kate & Allie<\/em>.\u00a0 The series ran for six seasons and earned Susan Saint James two more Outstanding Lead Actress Primetime Emmy Award<\/em> nominations.<\/p>\n After Katie & Allie<\/em> ended Susan Saint James took retired from acting, only returning for a few special opportunities.<\/p>\n Some of Susan Saint James’s television performances include: Fame is the Name of the Game;\u00a0 Ready and Willing; Ironside<\/em> (2 episodes); It Takes a Thief<\/em> (5 episodes); McCloud; Alias Smith & Jones; The Name of the Game<\/em> (38 episodes); Magic Carpet; McMillan & Wife<\/em> (34 episodes); Sex and the Single Parent; S.O.S. Titanic; MASH; Kate & Allie<\/em> (122 episodes); The Drew Carey Show; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Suits; The Haunting of Bly Manor<\/em> and Upload<\/em> (3 episodes).<\/p>\n Some of Susan Saint James’s feature film appearances include: P.J.; What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?; Outlaw Blues; Love at First Bite; How to Beat the High Cost of Living<\/em> and Carbon Copy.<\/em><\/p>\n My favorite Susan Saint James role was as Peggy Maxwell on Name of the Game<\/em>.\u00a0 Who wouldn’t want her as a secretary\/member of the team?\u00a0 Susan Saint James was the rare actress who was good whether it was a drama or comedy.<\/p>\n Our thoughts and prayers go out to Susan Saint Jame’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Susan Saint James died on October 26, 2026 from pancreatic cancer.\u00a0 She was 80. Saint James was born Susan Jane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43190,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43189\/revisions\/43190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}