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4 unusual facts about Todd Susman


Judy Susman

After her marriage to Todd Susman she moved to Los Angeles and found work as a dancer on many televisions shows, including Sonny and Cher, The Brady Bunch Hour (as part of The Krofftettes water ballet troupe), the Academy Awards, along with featured dance roles in the movies Grease, Zoot Suit and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Todd Susman

For this role, Susman mentioned he admired James Garner's portrayal in The Rockford Files for getting "into quasi-hero situations but isn't a hero".

In 2012, he appeared in the original cast of the off-Broadway Westside Theatre show, "Old Jews Telling Jokes", in which Jessica Shaw of Entertainment Weekly called his portrayal "the funniest moment...delivered with a Yiddish accent as thick as schmaltz".

In 2013, Susman, along with the Old Jews Telling Jokes cast and The Chew personality Carla Hall appeared at Carnegie Deli to unveil the "OJTJ sandwich", named for the comedy group.


Star of the Family

Adding to his troubles are: his wife runs off with a bellhop; his 17-year-old son (Michael Dudikoff) has more muscles than brains; and his crew at the firehouse are "strange" (Leo Feldman (Todd Susman) tells his mother he is a doctor instead of a fireman, Frank Rosetti (George Deloy) has only sex on the brain and Max Hernandez (Danny Mora), a Hispanic, speaks fractured English).


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