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Birth Name: Charlotte Gercke
Date of Birth: February 13, 1932
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Death: May 10, 1990
Place of Death: Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
Ethnicity: *62.5% German *25% English *12.5% Scottish
Susan Oliver was an American actress, television director, author, and aviator. Her roles include the films The Green-Eyed Blonde , The Gene Krupa Story , BUtterfield 8 , The Caretakers (1963), Looking For Love , Your Cheatin’ Heart , The Disorderly Orderly , Guns of Diablo , The Love-Ins , A Man Called Gannon , Change of Mind , The Monitors , Ginger in the Morning , and Hardly Working , the shows Matinee Theater , Wagon Train , Playhouse 90 , Rawhide , Route 66 , Peyton Place , Star Trek , The Invaders , and Murder, She Wrote ; and the made-for-tv movie Carter’s Army .
She was the daughter of Ruth Hale Oliver, an astrologer, astrology teacher, writer, and actress, and George John Gercke, a political reporter and journalist, for the New York World. Her father was of German descent. Her mother was of one half English, one quarter Scottish, and one quarter German, ancestry.
Susan was raised in California by her mother, who became a well-known celebrity astrologer there.
Susan’s paternal grandfather was George William Gercke (the son of F. Adolph Gercke and Pauline Rose). George was a German emigrant, from Hildesheim, Lower Saxony.
Susan’s paternal grandmother was Minette Catherine Francke (the daughter of Louis Francke and Rosalie Schwartz). Minette was born in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. Louis was born in New York, the son of German parents, Charles F. Francke and Minetta Ziermann. Rosalie was born in Narrowsburg, Sullivan, New York, the daughter of Louis Schwartz, who was German, and of Catherine Boese, who was of German descent.
Susan’s maternal grandfather was Judge Leon Stauffer Oliver (the son of Jesse Hughes Oliver and Fanny Cora Meyers/Myers). Leon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was an attorney. Jesse was born in New Jersey, the son of a father from England, Josiah Oliver, and of a mother, Mary Hughes, from Cape May, New Jersey. Fanny was born in Pennsylvania, the daughter of German parents, with her mother having been named Rosina.
Susan’s maternal grandmother was Margaret Hunter Scott (the daughter of James Wilson Scott and Mary Jane Smart). Margaret was born in England, to a Scottish father and an English mother.
Sources: Genealogy of Susan Oliver – https://www.familysearch.org
Genealogy of Susan Oliver (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com