Susan Meredith Finch (Landau; born August 13, 1960) is an American film producer, writer, casting director, and director.[1] She has an independent film company called Wildwell Films, based in Los Angeles. She has been married to Roy Finch since November 28, 1999. They have one daughter born in 2009.
Landau is the daughter of actors Barbara Bain and Martin Landau.[2] Both her parents were Jewish.[3] [4] Her younger sister is American actress, director, producer and ballerina Juliet Landau. The sisters spent their early childhood in West Los Angeles.[5]
As a casting director, she was instrumental in David Cassidy, a well known actor in US television, having a star role in a film, The Spirit of '76. The year of the film's release was the year (1990) that David Cassidy starred in a major motion picture.[6]
| The Spirit of '76 | 1990 | |
| Animals with the Tollkeeper | 1998 | |
| Family Tree | 2003 | |
| Without Rhythm or Reason | 2003 | |
| Wake | 2003 | |
| The Breaks | 2004 | |
| The Passage of Mrs. Calabash | 2004 | |
| Circus Sam | 2019 |
Referring back to work on Spirit of '76 mentioned above in Casting Director, Susan Landau Finch was also the producer of that film. She was the producer as well as the associate or executive producer for a variety of films:
| The Spirit of '76 | Producer | 1990 | |
| Bram Stoker's Dracula | Associate Producer | 1992 | |
| Traveling Light | Producer | 1994 | |
| Stick and Poke | Producer | 2019 | |
| Wake | Producer | 2003 | |
| Fairyland | Executive Producer | 2023 |