Susan Blakely

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Susan Blakely is an American film actress and actress, who has mainly played supporting roles. She is best known for her leading role in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. Blakely also has appeared in films including The Towering Inferno, Report to the Commissioner, Capone, The Concorde ... Airport '79, and Over the Top. Blakely arrived in Hollywood in the early 1970s, and began appearing in supporting roles in films including Savages, The Way We Were, and The Lords of Flatbush. Her first major role was as Patty Simmons in the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno. The following year, she played the female lead roles in films Report to the Commissioner alongside Michael Moriarty, and Capone opposite Ben Gazzara. Blakely gained wide critical acclaim with her leading role in the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw. For her performance, Blakely won that year's Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She earned a second Emmy Award nomination the following year when she reprised her role in Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. After her television success, she played leading roles in two movies in 1979: the disaster film The Concorde ... Airport '79 opposite Alain Delon, and the sport drama Dreamer with Tim Matheson. During 1980s and 1990s, Blakely played leading roles in many made-for-television movies. She portrayed Frances Farmer in the 1982 film based on Farmer's autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning?, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. She played Eva Braun opposite Anthony Hopkins in the Adolf Hitler biographical film The Bunker, and Joan Kennedy in The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story. She appeared in such feature films as Over the Top, My Mom's a Werewolf, and Hate Crime. She recently guest-starred on This Is Us and NCIS and in past years on Hotel, The Twilight Zone, Falcon Crest, Murder, She Wrote, Nip/Tuck, Brothers & Sisters, Southland, and Cougar Town. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susan Blakely, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Leslie Shaber

My Mom's a Werewolf

Vivian

L.A. Twister

Patty

The Towering Inferno

Ada Guthrie

Wildflower

Martha Boyd

Hate Crime

Eva Braun

The Bunker

Maggie Whelan

The Concorde... Airport '79

Patty Butler

Report to the Commissioner

Jeannie Costigan

The Perfect Neighbor

Jane Bradshaw

The Lords of Flatbush

Joan Kennedy

The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story

Unhappy Camper

Grizzly Park

Iris Crawford

Capone

Barbara Esmond

Crash Point Zero

Teri Halbert

Co-ed Call Girl

Donna Mulroney

A Mother's Testimony

Sarah Cooper

April Morning

Gut Feeling

Billie

The Incident

Margaret Carlyle

Race Against Fear

Camilla Meera

Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery

Susan Dennison

Russian Holiday

Layla

Annihilator

Karen Lee

Dreamer

Lucinda

Blackmail

Alex Barnard

Dead Reckoning

Frances Farmer

Will There Really Be a Morning?

Linda Ryan

The Survivalist

Barbi Harris

Hungry Hearts

Clara

The Perfect Boyfriend

Cherry Diamond

Dream a Little Dream

Gail Bugliosi

And the Sea Will Tell

Judianne

The Way We Were

Jeanne Roberts

International Airport

Girl on Street (uncredited)

Shampoo

Joyce Windsor

Make Me an Offer

Patricia Erdain

Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery

Dr. Linda Ryan

Color Me Perfect

Alice Lundgren

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Betty Bennett

Hiroshima Maiden

Marie Farrell

Blood & Orchids

Catherine Coburn

Broken Angel

Kathleen

Remember to Breathe

Lilah Corbett

Ladykillers

Carol Sinclair

Displacement

Cecily, a Debutante

Savages

Jennifer

Torn Between Two Fathers

Beverly Truman

The Genesis Code

Dr. Julia Bruning

The Perfect Nanny

Evelyn Decter

Stingray

Polly Harris

A Cry for Love

Laura Mannhart

Her Married Lover

Sally Jo Purkey

The Oklahoma City Dolls

Andrea Fleming

Secrets

Alice

Tous les jours dimanche

Leslie Abramson

Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders

Vivian Ashe

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2

Christina Hawk

Over the Top

Billie Cobb

Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore

Gert Kiley

Murder Times Seven

Abby's mother

Mating Dance

Peggy Young

No Child of Mine

Theresa

Pride

Meg Danforth

Chain of Command

Angela

To Comfort You