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INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE HOOKER!
Pat Jankiewicz interviews Suzanne Charny, the vampire lady who put the bite on Kolchak: The Night Stalker!
Suzanne with her vampire fangs; on stage doing ‘The Rich Man’s Frug’ with Lee Roy Reams and Bud Vest in Sweet Charity (1970); “Death Notice” -a 1975 Starsky and Hutch episode
The short lived but highly influential series, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, remains one of TV’s most beloved cult shows and the inspiration for The X-Files. In one of the scariest instalments, ‘The Vampire’ Kolchak has to stop a vampire call girl feeding on Hollywood residents. To his horror, he learns that she was a victim of the vampire he chased in Las Vegas in the original Night Stalker TV movie.
The vampire on the show, a beautiful, snarling creature of the night was played by the beautiful non-snarling Suzanne Charny. In her sprawling Marina Del Rey home, the svelte actress/dancer peels back her full lips to expose a mouthful of voracious fangs.
“They still fit,” the former vampire says with a touch of pride, taking the dental appliance from the show out of her mouth, revealing her (happily normal) teeth.
“I loved these great fangs and happily kept them,” she states. “I wore them every Halloween, and once to play a prank on my dentist! They put cement in my mouth to cast my fangs and it accidentally hardened -I was worried that I would wind up with a cemented mouth!”
Being a blood-drinking member of the undead was a unique experience.